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I would love to get back to the Alps. I had the opportunity once and made these videos. I was riding a BMW GS, so I thought it appropriate to use Scorpions songs instead of the GS sounds.

Uhh, you only have to live a very long time. Pete admonished me one time that I'd forgotten to age. "People will realize you are a witch one of these days.." I've been working on that..

My stomping grounds..Me and my friends rode it at least 3 days a week for many years

not a song, but some history. I watched "Muscle Shoals" again tonight. It's free on Amazon Prime Video at the moment. A must see for music lovers. If the link doesn't work just go there and find it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00FGM2OEW/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_SkHqOH_brws_6_4

Have a cool beer, peanuts and watch/listen to the Guzzi-music:)

Stelvio Pass is one the best rides I have ever done...awesome...

No, that is from Scud. 33 is almost deserted, many sweepers.. but.. some technical stuff too. Believe me, I have *lots* of pix in the Santa Monica mountains. I've been all over the country, and those roads are hard to beat. I can be there in about an hour (of lane splitting) so that is where I normally ride. This is the overlook at the top of The Snake on Mulholland..

Sadly, the increasingly popular centerstand license frame is incongruous.

'those days' are coming .. and soon

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!

This is my 2021 new year's eve at the Albert Ice House Texas. I recorded Rio and elected it my favorite song. Rio is a horse's name. It perfectly incarnates my V11 Le Mans. Kyle gave me his pick, and I also learned what a "buckle bunny" meant that night.....

Finally found a guy who would agree to material blast my blistered (clear coat) greenie tank. I then cleaned it up with some careful wet sanding, and it’s my painters shop now, along with the “recipe” from House of Kolor off this forum from years ago, but most likely they’ll just use their star-trek style camera analyzer deal to create some paint match samples. Also got the fly screen from Italy, Stucchi, so it’s slowly coming together. This greenie only has a little over 1000 original miles, but it was a rough 1000 miles, including bad storage. So cosmetic work is the obvious thing that needs attention in this case, then will go through the mechanical stuff, “decent tune up”, though it actually runs pretty well so hopefully there won’t be any “whammies” discovered in that process. Red is up on the stand, awaiting time for me to go through her, for her annual “check up”. Time is always the issue. Every year I figure “I have all winter, easy.” But then late January I haven’t even started the work, which is the needed panic and motivation I need…

Yeah, it's awesome. I have to ride through the city of the angles to get there, though.. so I don't do it often.

Precisely these symptoms when my starter failed.

Yikes! Wind that sucker out man - it’s virtually lugging - I almost had to look away. Don’t be afraid to wring it’s scruffy neck! Mountains, mountains, mountains! Aah!

When you press start does the starter clunk in then just refuse to turn i.e. can't generate enough torque. Try scraping the battery terminals and especially where the main ground connects to the gearbox. Measure the Voltage at the starter to chassis while its trying to turn, anything over 9.5 should spin it over. Or do you just get a quiet click from the relay? The lights going dim indicate low Voltage, possibly lost across the ignition switch., Measure the Voltage on the spade connector relative to chassis while you press start, if the starter is not cranking you should see 12 Volts. Keep in mind the solenoid is designed to draw 50 Amps while it engages the starter and it's not even turning yet. As Guzzi feed it through the ignition switch you are lucky to get even half the design current so why be surprised when it doesn't work? Finally try hot wiring the solenoid from the spade connector to the battery positive, thats how it is supposed to engage the starter, with a loud clunk. Thats the most direct way of operating the starter, if it doesn't engage and crank its a starter or battery problem (including bad connections) I posted a sketch here https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=113795.0

Thank you buckets, hope to see you on the roads this spring

It's quite lonely being only 1 of 2 willing to buy here, at least I have 3 other Guzzis to play with in the meantime! But hey, that means fewer people to wade thru to get one when it finally is released in 2025! No butting in line guys!

One of the many Santa Monica mountain runs? Man........... I miss those days when we were free and could ride those fantastic roads.

@Kiwi_Roy I want to post a video rather than discussing my intermittent issue, but I am unable to do that at present. I have a computer issue which I am trying to solve. My problem is very similar to that of a solenoid malfunction, such as those I had with my cars in the 70's. I push the starter button, the oil pressure light dims, the neutral too but not as much, no crank. After several starter button pushes, spaced of a few seconds to avoid blowing the 15 Amps fuse, the starter cranks. This only happens when the engine is cold. When I mean cold, when the ambient temperature is like today, 45 degrees F. Once the starter has cranked once, the problem vanishes; until another cold stacking. Starter cranks at each attempt. In brief, multiple starter button pushes without doing anything else, eventually gets the starter to crank. May I also specify the crank is healthy. Not that of a weak battery. I have not done much to rid myself of the issue, now that I know how to start it. This problem never occurred as long as the outside temperature was hot as it usually is in Texas. I discovered it during the trip I described in my initial post. Once I fix my computer, I should be able to upload the video.

I hope @p6x sees this as I believe his V11 is still giving this trouble. Thanks, again, @Kiwi_Roy !

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.

Thanks for the offer, @Randown! Just a note that Randown has been a member here since 2009. Nice Ballabio! Rare to see them in grey . . .