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Thanks to @scud I am halfway there!! Put my old lock in the new fuel filler, now all I need to do is un-hinge the filler cap and put it on the bike!

If you have any Guzzi that refuses to crank first of all clean and grease the battery terminals and the ground connection. Then test the battery and starter by hot wiring the starter solenoid direct to the battery, use a wire about 3 ft long with a spade connector on one end, touch the other end on battery positive (caution make sure its in neutral). You dont need the key On for this, you are just doing a crank test, if it cranks over you know that the battery and starter are both fine. If the engine cranks over with the hot wire but not via the normal starter circuit chances are you have Startus Interuptus. It's not so straight forward to fix on a VII Sport as the normally closed start relay contact feeds the headlight. An easy way around this is to add a relay fed direct from the battery or hot terminal of the solenoid with the contact feeding the solenoid. The new relay coil can be triggered by the existing solenoid trigger wire with a ground wire on the other coil terminal of course.

How does Chuck find time to build AP's, travel, wrench & ride? Is there two of you?

Setting sag correctly (assuming you have the right springs) makes a big difference. Now that it's set, you may as well ride the hell out of it till it sells. I recommend highway 33 out of Ojai... Best wishes for sorting out the other issues.

Here is @Craig's "How To . . ." thread on the fairing installation. Craig last dropped in a couple years ago, so maybe this will invite him back for a visit . . .

For Texas riders within a reasonable radius of Donie, Texas (south of Dallas, north of Houston, north east of Austin), here's a fun event and a good excuse for a ride. I'll ride up from Houston on the backroads, easy couple of hours. If anyone else wants to tag along, let me know and we'll convoy up. https://www.facebook.com/events/2963816537263102?ref=newsfeed

Well that would have been equally entertaining too! Nothing like a good slide guitar to accompany the songs.

I must have been moving fast yesterday. Kept reading that as "Texas slide" . . .

Upcoming Docc!! Event is in March!

I've said this before, but . . .

Thats sleeve Scud will be an interference/shrink fit in the wheel. Just leave it and mask it off or get the PC to mask it off with his high temp masking tape. Ciao

Thanks Scud, in my mind the V11's are special - they're nice to look at while on a kickstand but with a rider onboard both are elevated next level. The result is greater than the sum. Kinda like the Beatles. The lines + the slightly longer WB visually proportion well. Even the most harshest critics, adolescents, have remarked out of a car window. Millenial SOA types on HDs love it. I guess I don't need to tell you.

It's just the spacer for the bottom screw, stops you reefing on the screw until the glass breaks.

I think I can help. PM sent.

@scud has a broken cap too but just the ring. who knows maybe two broke will make one good one.

...and here's another weird one. The fuel door ring was cracked. Never seen that before. But it looks better in black anyway. It's a little tricky to get the thing properly seated and aligned, and I suppose you could crack it by tightening one of the four bolts that actually does something before fully seating it. (3 of the top bolts are just for looks). Maybe it could have gotten cracked with some extreme force backward against the open fuel door.

For me horsepower isn't the limiting factor regarding how fast I might ride on the Skyway or other fast and treacherous roads. Excluding the human factor, stability, braking, feel and handling are prime. But yeah, my skill set and courage are the human factors.

posted by @80CX100 . . .

The Greenie’s no quicker / better to ride than the other short framed V11’s but I cannot think of a cooler looking motorcycle, it oozes class I’ve also got an early silver V11; it got me thinking, I see a few Greenies around, the occasional silver one - they seem to be rarer, but cannot remember the last time I saw a black short (red) framed V11. The black ones must be the rarest

Kudos to author Robert Smith for getting the origins of the Moto Guzzi big twin right in this December, 2020, article on an interesting Eldorado for Motorcycle Classics magazine: https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-italian-motorcycles/zm0z21jfzols/ "(That the V7 engine was developed from Guzzi’s “mechanical mule” military project is now refuted by most authoritative sources, including marque specialist Greg Field in his book Moto Guzzi Big Twins.)"

Just because.

So . . . *nope!* . . . this is NOT where the Moto Guzzi V-Twin motorcycle engine came from. But, it is a mighty cool machine! http://motos-of-war.ru/en/motorcycles/moto-guzzi-mulo-meccanico/