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I've had two doses of AZ, no side effects apart from the penis falling off thing but I managed to stick it back on with gaffer tape and blu-tac. It doesn't get much use nowadays anyway. Annoying side effects of the magnetism, I ended up dangling off the diff housing of a Land Cruiser on a hoist by my head at work and they had to pry me off with a crowbar......

I got a v11 Sport in Burgundy purple in 2010, imported from the UK. In 2013 i was offered a hd late shovel and couldn't resist it. But it was like a rodeo to me. For more commuting i switched to a Norge, which was a good bike. Next up was a Cali Stone, when the need to commute was gone. But main thing: every time my buddy drove behind me he just said:" it's just not the same . I miss the deep sound.". I knew he was right and in the back of my mind a little voice kept yelling: " come on, i know you want to....". The voice won.

Excellent choice of machine. Went on a ride out around Derbyshire today with some friends, I was on my Griso 8V, seen here parked next to a friends fabulous MK1 Le Mans, whilst we were stopped for tea & bacon butties

I'm torn on the V100, it is clear to see that it is a clean sheet of paper approach, only keeping the engine layout the same. Engine layout would be more ST1100/1300 than VFR, although the style is slightly more VFR1200. I think the engine layout has always made perfect sense in the air-cooled world, not sure it makes as much sense in the liquid cooled world, but would it be a Guzzi if any other layout was used? I see the Quota style in it that someone mentioned, but the tires make it seem more a Sport or Sport Touring bike. Hard saddle bags might balance the style of the bike out front to rear because it seems bigger/heavier at the front.

And the new (for 2020) Ford 7.3L "Godzilla" engine is basically an old-school hot rod OHV motor with actual pushrods. I have that engine in my F250. Supposedly, they built it that way to reduce total cost of ownership for fleet operators. But wow, it is a beast and deserves the Godzilla name.

Mine was generous enough that it wasn't an issue, but what I'd do is take a round jeweler's file and open the small hole as necessary.

GM just recalled every Bolt ever made because of fire risk, so there must be something to electric vehicle fires. I have always heard the US power grid is archaic and inefficient and adding to the strain seems a bad idea. I like vehicles/bikes with character, I am starting to drive the older cars in my fleet more and more, I like to call them analog cars, they have throttle cables, clutches, no abs, no driver aids at all. As far as the demise of the ohv engine, I have two letters for you, LS. Not a Chevy fan, but respect what they have done. Air cooled ohv may be a different story.

I had a thought, whilst I was scraping gasket of my middle sump plate, the big kickstand bolt (which is huge) is now a Roper plate further away from the smaller allen head bolt that centres the kickstand. I had a job getting it back in, and the bolt must now be at a slight angle, which would technically be forcing that corner up towards the upper bolt. That could be a culprit for opening the gap up where the lower sump meets it, making the gap the gasket has to fill slightly bigger there? What did other people do?

From my cold, dead hands. They have been saying gasoline would run out since when my father was a teen...in the 1950s. Oh, it will run out, but we have a very long way to go, and the electrical grid can't take 100-300 million cars/bikes charging daily. Most of that power is from dirty coal. You forgot the destruction and costs of rare earth metals. One of the largest mines is in...Afghanistan. Another is in...China. These are unrealized costs. It is not about hate, but choice. It is not an ICE or E-BIKE only thing. But, they do nothing for me. 100% torque at zero RPM is a bit dull. I need noise, vibration, drama, passion. It is like reaching orgasm with no buildup, no foreplay. I prefer to be astride a living, breathing, belching, smoking, vibrating motorcycle. Something with a manual transmission, where I can feel the gears move under my foot when I shift, not some twist-and-go nearly silent, soulless appliance. Full disclosure, I have never rode an electric motorcycle, but I've watched enough YT reviews, and watched enough "Guzzi tunnel run" videos to know which I will select. "Guzzi tunnel run" videos are why I started taking a look at the V11 and will shortly add one to my stable of other fine European machines. Electric bikes? Leave that to the vegans. I will eat steak and ride a Ducati/Guzzi. I wish people with electrics all the best, truly, but no thank you. Electric cars/bikes are coming, no doubt about that, but I will not hasten the death of ICE cars/bikes. I can't freakin' wait to get a V11.

I believe the problem is that the Mac version of GuzziDiag is 32bit. Catalina is the first version of OSX to cut 32bit support and only run 64bit programs. I've got an old MacBook Pro running High Sierra that I keep around to run older programs with. I've been successfully running GuzziDiag on that for a few years with no problems. However, I've never been able to get GuzziDiag to run on my newer USB-C style MacBook Pro.

Just a heads up: I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread. Things can escalate quite fast. Expressing your opinion and/or experiences is okay, but no discussion please. This is not the right place for that. FWIW: I've had my two Pfizer shots and apart from a day of muscle ache, no side effects whatsoever.

RGIT (Robert Gordon Institute of Technology, just for those wondering what language we're speaking). Aberdeen or "Eberdeen" as the locals say...........and you think us Weegies are hard to understand The Doric is a different language. Here's an Aberdeen joke that few will get. Latest designer drug doing the rounds up in Aberdeen "Kin Vit a Mean" Perhaps not, apologies!! Caithness is beautiful in a stark way, just about everywhere up north is. I'm more a fan of the West Coast but the contrast of the rugged West Coast to the flat boggy beauty of the Flow country is amazing and all pact into a pretty small area. Them Umerikans have states bigger than the whole of my wee country and then some John

Whoever came up with that POS design should be banned from Italy The crossover is complete crap and the sorry excuse for gaskets just as bad I will wait for a clean set of headers with NO crossover instead of installing that garbage There... i feel better

As usual the devil is in the detail as is the corporate mentality and philosophy. I'll keep my powder dry on this new bike until I see the specific finer details of the engine. The latest small blocks use a single piece rod with a slipper bearing and a pressed up crank with the cam drive sprocket integral to the crank. That tells me it's basically a disposable engine. Any significant issues and it's total replacement of major components which might be ok now but in years to come forget it. Distract everyone with the shiny stuff while you are making the stuff you can't see as cheap and cheerful and easy to make and cost effective for the manufacturer as possible. It's a design and corporate philosophy I don't like. Ciao

Interesting. I also saw my old VFR in that photo. It was an awesome bike that I rode 22,000 miles in two years. Just never could connect with it. It didn’t want my wrenches on it, either. (Everything was so hard to get to, it was just not enjoyable to work on.) Vanilla is alright. Right up until the garlic and hot sauce comes along… 🌶

Took 9 weeks, but Harpers came through with shiny new hoses. Good to go !

Well, I would try to find a thin plain washer with the approximal inner and outher diameter + loctite on the peg-nut. It should work without the washer of some kind - but I would be happier with a plain washer.

Totally agree. VFRs were the best motorcycles Honda ever made. Good taste.

Tony, check your IM.

The Guzzi world is really pretty small. I just PMed Will's email addy to him.

Join the cue Ciao

Let's say that I have spent a lot of time in Scotland; my father thought it maybe useful to learn English, and he had that silly idea to make me spend my summer vacations in Ayr, a long time before I could even ride a mopped. The father of my host family was running a distillery, so as I was learning English, I also discovered the virtues of Scottish Whisky. A lot later, I spent time at the RGIT, and toured Scotland on my off time; I maybe one of the few non native Scottish who likes Haggis and Burn nights.... As I was working offshore Aberdeen, I hit it off with a guy from Caithness. Good memories. And you guys from Glasgow are difficult to understand.... lol...

Anybody remember this talking of side exhausts

It's been ages ago since i sold my v11 Sport, but after some HD, a Norge and a Cali i finally got a V11 Lemans 03 and hope to put on a lot of km's .

Do you mean the V85TT? The Stelvio was discontinued. I think last year of production was 2017, which is the year I have. And mine is a fine machine. Today, it passed through Pauma Valley via a couple dirt roads. Then filled up with 25 pounds of oranges, 20 pounds of ruby red grapefruit, Mexican mangos, Reed Avocados, passion fruit, and a bit of ginger. All that in the saddlebags and top case with room to spare. So I had a back road, fruit stand adventure.

Please don't misunderstand, alternatives are fine with me. I know it's coming. I don't deny progress or inevitability. Doesn't mean I have to like it, endorse it, welcome it, want it, or wish it. "bring on the E bikes?" ok, so the E bikes are here and I'll watch them fail, fail, and fail in sales... until governments prop them up, younger people buy them, and people like me are gone. A friend once said to me, while watching a very bad movie "just because they make a movie, doesn't mean you have to watch it" ...drunk, but wise. There is a bigger conversation to be had about "the environment" and personalities, for one answer "why shite to that"...and that would be a but welcome conversation. People (enthusiasts) my age have the unfortunate advantage of watching the demise of ICE's. Those who welcome/encourage it I would say, don't understand the motorcycle experience the way I do. That's fine too, ... you do you , I do me,.. liberte'. I'm just an end user and don't give a crap about tech or green. All visceral, no pretense. I like to think that's why I'm here.

wouldn't matter if they did the "competitive" guys will stay with whatever they perceive as the competitive edge... and that will always stay in front of Guzzi money. me too shite to that. And our grandchildren? they'll view us as lucky fools no matter what we do.

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I totally agree with all your points and the same for the other posters as well. All great arguments and valid positions. I just don't think it's an "all or nothing" equation and as typically happens the pendulum will hopefully swing back to the null position at some point. So I'm hoping for a future mix of vehicles where electric is used where it's most efficient and the ICE still remains for certain roles and for those that enjoy them. That would be a win all round for the ICE fans and the environmentalists and reduce the consumption of oil so it lasts longer . It won't be a "perfect" solution but maybe good enough until a new and better energy source is found. The down side is that petrol will become bespoke and expensive if the balance goes too much towards electric. Ciao

Let me throw some kindling around the conversation. 1. These are motorcycles. In no universe can either electric or ICE be construed as "Good for the environment". It's an argument of degree and scale, not + or -. 2. ICE and electric are not mutually exclusive. They both exist to serve your leisure. So does your pool, and your pool table, and lawn mower. There is no philosophical difference. 3. The debate about the origins of the electricity do not encompass any place in the positive end of 'good for the environment'. Only the degree of the negative end. That said, I would not trade any one of my ICE bikes for any electric, regardless of the economic stupidity of that statement. But given the right circumstances, I'd absolutely add one to the stable.

That, good sir, is someone else's problem. As long as the source is in Cali - where everything causes cancer, no problem.

My response will be to add two additional Fiamm horns to blast them out of the way.

You have to give the silver ones away. I can have my shipper there Tuesday….

Well yes, and no. The thing is that to tackle it you really need to split the case. Then you need a special peg socket to remove the seal holder and then another peg socket to remove the nut after biffing down the tang on the lock washer. Then you have to replace the lockwasher, apply Loctite to the pinion threads and re-torque the nut to its very low torque figure and lock it. After which you reassemble the CARC. Is it difficult? Not really, but the consequences of getting it wrong will be horribly expensive and there is no published torque figure, (That I know of.) so I just use the industry standard for these sorts of applications. If you don't know what they are and don't have prior experience it can all be a bit fraught and daunting. Put it this way. If you feel you are technically competent and would have no qualms about tackling a major engine or gearbox rebuild then I'd say probably yes, you could safely do it, (Cue someone to say their four year old does them in his cot at night!). If though you find yourself stressed by doing your valve clearances and changing brake pads? I'd probably advise against trying it. Remember, Piaggio won't sell some parts even to their shops, and suggest that the reactive bridge is 'Non Rebuildable' which would seem to indicate that they think that rebuilding one is beyond the Ken of the average shaved ape employed in a 'Box Shop' dealership. Certainly if anybody does undertake it they do so entirely at their own risk and if the whole thing goes 'Udders Skywards' afterwards they have to be willing to wear the consequences of their own actions.