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Autonomous vehicle ride sharing is in use now. Those "cars" will obey traffic regulations. GM has plans to sell personal AV's this decade. Those cars will obey. Many existing autos are already equipped with enough tech to automatically generate violations. Coming digital human ID's could easily be used to deal with old and dirty vehicles. Some people are eager for AI to take over any aspect of human function. Being a Boomer has never felt better.

At least lot's of good memorys. Yes, hearing is damaged. Basic Interweb music now, Aardvark blues from Houston or Spotify. Scaled-down, Altec Lansing mod 19, Mark Levinson 23.5, Musical Fidelity, Marantz cd. Still have records. But go a little bananas and get an Aurender or Mark Levinson dac +,. Plays very well. Oops already 9 years since most of the heavy Fidelity went to my son. Yes music is stil important. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-A525F via Tapatalk

Back to basics: http://v2guzzi.blogspot.com/2015/01/well-here-we-are-well-and-truly-into.html

I think they stopped bringing over the 701 to the US in 2020, but I the Vitpilen 701 in Blue and White is the best color combo. I also like the Norden 901 that has just been released. Upon further investigation though, I learned that the Norden 901 is made by CFMoto (800 MT) with J.Jaun brakes, the Vitpilin is possibly made in India. Because of the this, I chose to buy another Italian bike.

Add Pennsylvania to intent. Timing is far from ideal for me, but gonna make every effort....

Hi Frey, Hey, maybe someday we'll see you rumble into a MG rally on your new V11 Lemans like Terry used to......with Maggie on the back dressed in black leather head to toe. I don't think any of us would expect you to bring Maggie. Anyway, great to know who got the V11, good for you, enjoy it! Art

I guess the thing is.. if you have never heard real hi fi all your life, it is an eye opener. My hearing is only as good any more as my hearing aides, but his eyes were as big as saucers.

So there's an official WP service center about 20 minutes from home- the local KTM/Husqvarna/GasGas dealer. I was going to call, but drove over instead; asked 'hey can you do these old WP forks?' he says, 'sure, what are they from? Bring them in' So I bring them in to the counter, he looks weirdly at them and asks again what they're from. I tell him, '97 Moto Guzzi. He says, 'you won't believe this but I have forks and shock apart on the bench in back from a '97 Moto Guzzi.' So is there a forum member from Miami who brought their stuff up to Stuart? $125 plus parts for the forks, $150 plus parts for the shock (later) He asks, 'You want these cleaned up? We can vapor blast the feet and they'll look like new' Well, surely. Glad I didn't fool with them on my own, anyway. ...and while waiting, the kid fell for and bought a Svartpilen 401 lol

Will a few bucks solve that ? Still better than many stations, and you can go and get a beer Cheers Tom.

Like mentioned, scaled-down. Thats my friday beer ( IPA ) cave, about 40 square m. The old Altec's are capable of moving a lot of air, power is overkill, but way better with to much, than to little in the speaker world. Marantz SA- 11 S2, good piece cd in that range. DAC, Musical Fidelity M6. Pre amp, Krell KRC HR. Info for those with a touch of Hi Fi sickness . Started the sickness early, mid 80' with Clipsch horn, 104db with 1 watt power. They were tested in the desert in Arizona. 3 amps and equalizer, 3 way system, LOUD. Mirage M1 si, and and. Quiet at night, no houses or sounds in 1/2 a mile, GOOD memorys Yes had my share in heavy Fidelity sickness. Cheers Tom. Cheers Tom. Infinity IRS Epsilon, speakers, needed 2 amps. Krell KSA 300 S, 185pound each, and 16amp power cord to each directly from fuse box .

I had a pair of Dahlquist DQ10s when Dorcia and I first married, but they took up the whole living room in the log cabin. They were awesome, though..

I knew about the cars but not the motorcycles. As I understand it initially you'll be able to switch it off but it will reset to default "Enabled" everytime the vehicle is started, I think we can all see the thin end of the wedge here. Along with Euro 5, where the baffles are welded in and the ECUs locked (although there will be some "genius" somewhere that will figure ways I'm sure to get around that) motorcycles and combustion engines in general are gradually going to be subject to more onerous legislation. Despite leaving the EU the UK is 99% certain to follow these rules too. Add that to the low emissions zones being proposed in centres of population, which councils here in the UK are keen on to bolster their "Green" credentials but more importantly use as a cash cow to milk the motorists teets dry (the bad evil people that they are poisoning us all and ruining the planet). Then we get to the latest wheeze where Paris is introducing noise "cameras" and anything greater than an arbitary decibel level gets a ticket. This will get taken up probably next by London followed by other major population centres. Where I am a low emissions zone has ben announced, although what it entails and what the charges are I'm yet to find out. The thing that gets my goat about it all is it's introduced retrospectively, it's not new vehicles but all vehicles that will be subject to these increasing draconian measures and things like "low emission zones" will charge people living within the zone. Currently I think London gives people living within the zone a discount, but they are still charged. I find the whole thing pretty disgusting due its retrospective nature. When the IC engine only belongs to a small minority government are going to go after EVs, nothing is surer as there won't be enough IC engined vehicles to bleed white. Probably road pricing is on the cards, with those GPS systems installed it should be easy to track where you've went and when. I'm not a fan of this brave new world, where we're gradually being smothered by safety regulations and zero road deaths as a target is just bloody stupid. Then again I don't live in the rarified atmosphere of Brussels, Westminster or our own parliament here in Edinburgh I'm just left to quietly despair and thankful that soon it won't matter to me, in the meantime I intend to RIDE!!

In any case, this will not get implemented on our V11s. This is for the future motorcycles coming with onboard GPS, power delivery mappings and all the wizardry those difficult to source chips are enabling.

My goodness Tomchri, your sound room must be as big as an airplane hanger! That's a lot of sound. I don't even know what some of those other boxes are or what they do. That's an incredible system.

The forks were originally Black. The bike has a slightly checked history, apparently it was a Lemans and the owner removed the fairing so it was a naked when i got it. 2001 yr

Well, I revalved the rear shock on the DR 350, while I assume you are referring to the front forks on the Guzzi. The shock was made to be easily opened up and revalved. Where as cartridge forks can be harder to open up as at least some of them aren't made to be revalved. In some cases the cartridge is crimped together, and that can be tricky to open up and close when done. The cartridge works much like a shock, it has a piston that moves up and down through it with valving stacks to regulate dampening. The cartridge on the wife's red frame V11 (early forks) had two bypass holes in the cartridge that allowed oil to bypass the valving in the piston. All I did to the forks on the wife's V11 was close off one of the two bypass holes so that more oil was forced to go through the valving stack. That was actually enough. Not only did it increase dampening, it made the adjuster useful as you can now feel a difference when you turn the adjuster. Before the mod the adjuster only made a difference in the last inch or so of travel, after the piston had gone past the first bypass hole. But if I could buy a replacement cartridge I would do that. Right now I am busy doing a number of things, including acquiring the required parts to set the TPS and run GuzziDiag (we have made it this far with that bike without needing either, but it seems I should finally bite the bullet). Maybe when that is done I will dig deeper into the forks, but it is hard to justify when they actually work pretty well with the bypass mod. On a side note, anyone feel like helping an old fart learn new tricks? Free Beer....

Awesome set-up.

Geauga County is 3.5 hours away, so not an unreasonable ride, and I have fam in Cook Forest on the way there. I'll keep a lookout for NE Ohio MG activity. Cheers, @guzziart. Frey

That Husky 401 is a seriously fun and crisp-handling thumper. I rode one on a demo day recently.

Still prompting our Ohio brothers to come south in September . . . Looking like Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia have "intent" . . .

( I'm trying to fill in for @p6x while he is off to Alaska . . . ) Davida for the thread save . . .

I am counting on @p6x to flood this thread with images to bury this last post. I'm getting burned out having my photographic memory erased after this sort of thing . . .

I hope both your bikes are bound for the Eighteenth South'n SpineRaid !! So fortunate on the local WP service!

Front end day

"Runnin' down the street [Rollin'] at the top of his [song]. All I want in this life-of-mine is some good clean fun. All I want in this life-and-time is some hit-and-run"

So far as this board, BTDT.

Actually I can't think of any retro styled new bikes that I would actually purchase. I suppose that Kaw cafe racer is sorta neat, the Bonneville and Speed Triple Sport, OK but not my money. Those "classic" styled Ducatis from 20 years ago were cool but they're 20 years old, so aren't they retro-retro bikes? About the same age as my V11 Sport which I'm not afraid to ride everyday. There are lots of nice bikes more than 30 years old that are the genuine article that have been pampered, reliable to ride and won't break the bank <Guzzi content>.

I've had my Trail 90 for 50 years, probably will last another 50..

A good friend , loyal Guzzista and One of our founding members.....awesome Mike!!

I’m holding three aces and I’ll lead with a V11

The UE is always inventive when it comes to imposing all kind of restrictions to vehicles. In 2019, they came up with the idea the smart cars should be able to know what is the posted speed limit on a road, and subdue your car to respect it. The system would take input from the GPS and whatever driving assistance installed. But any new car to be registered onward of July 6th should have it. At this point, it can be disabled to compensate for likely malfunctions and errors. I think we can be certain that once the system works reasonably well, you wont be able to disable it. When that idea came about in 2019, motorcycles were included. Motorcycle organizations quickly intervened and convinced the European Commission that on a motorcycle, interfering with the pilots ability to control the power of his bike would be dangerous and create a hazard. The commission accepted the plea. They changed their opinion, and want to have all motorcycles using the system by 2030, in order to reach the 2050 objective to have zero death on the European roads. Combined with all the other announced restrictions, such as cities closing access to non EV, removal of parking spaces, interdiction to transit certain axes during week-ends, I think the times when we enjoyed taking to the road may soon only reside in our vanishing memories.... at this time, only in Europe. I don't see anything like this happening in the USA, or maybe only in cities with a dense public transportation. Such as Manhattan and the 5 Burroughs. Houston does not have any viable public transportation system to cover much more than the city center. It is spread so much, that it is simply unrealistic to have anything efficient organized. Just to add to all the gloom happening at the moment.