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My wife and I rode the Indian down to Tellico Plains TN and rode the Cherohala Skyway last weekend. Out of nowhere the temps rose over 85 degrees, but overall the weather was nice w no rain showers. We stayed at the Farmhouse Inn, can't say enough about Kyle and Laura's hospitality from a motorcycle riders perspective. Kyle is a Adventure rider, MotoGP & Nicky Hayden super fan. He also GPS logs trails around Tellico for adventure riding, with a Youtube Channel Tellico Adventure Trail. He and Laura ride two up all the time on his 950 Ducati Multistrada. Laura made home made breakfast and the whole INN was spotlessly clean, can't say enough, 6 stars out of 5. As for the ride, we rode over to Tapoco Lodge for lunch, where TVA was letting out extra water, so the atmosphere was wonderful watching kayakers hit the currents right in front of our tables, literally. Nicole and I met with Mark/Tina who we haven't seen since before COVID, they rode up from North GA, very nice lunch. We also seemed to leap frog a large group of Porsche's on the skyway who later ate at the Lodge for lunch.

Bumped into a "911" enthusiast while my car was at the Doctor's, and he absolutely wanted me to enroll into their club. They have reunions every Saturdays, and a lot of outings. I lost him when I said I was a V11 enthusiast and all my free time accounted for. I think he did not understand what could be better than driving a Porsche 911. I told him have you ever ridden a V11? crickets.... there you go!

Hi, FWIW, I installed a "high current" starter relay as described here previously. I got a relay & harness assembly from Greg Bender (This Old Tractor) that was basically "plug and play". His assembly comes with a relay base that piggy backs on to the existing relay bank, a 30/87 harness runs down to the starter solenoid (one lead plugs into starter, the other plugs into existing 87 from OE start relay) and a fused batt Pos lead to HC relay term 30. It works great. On another note, I checked solenoid draw. With the engine cold, jumping from bat Pos to the solenoid terminal on the starter my intial draw was 7amps and as the starter engaged and began cranking the draw dropped to 4amps. On my 2nd attempt the intial draw was 4amps and remained at 4 amps. I didn't try a 3rd time. Oh...this was on my '03 Lemans. PS - I also posted this at Starter Interuptus thread.

P6X, That's very thoughtful but I have one question Since none of the Guzzi schematics show that there are two solenoid coils and the factory only provide a 15 Amp fuse to protect a circuit that can pull up to 60 Amps can you really say they were designed? I put it to you that the factory engineers don't know there are two coils and they measured the current at the solenoid spade terminal with a multimeter, 10 Amps so lets put a 15 Amp fuse to protect the circuit. I have measured 60 Amps there but only for a split second. If its not wired right the current is throttled and as a consequence the solenoid only develops a fraction of the pull its capable of and you get the dreaded click. I also see evidence of the factory thrashing around adding extra relays to try and solve the problem as for example in the later model Griso and Norge 1200s, if they would only draw the coils correctly a light bulb might turn on. Cheers Roy

@docc correction 92 Octanes. The first fuel stop 40.8 for 123 miles was mixed highway/city with traffic. The second stop, 43.0 for 160 miles was Waller-Hearne-Navasota-Waller; almost exclusively 4 to 5000 rpm. I could have easily added 35 miles to get home, with fuel to spare. As I hinted before, the V11 runs almost perfectly, none of the usual injection problems around the 3 to 3.5 k; it is a lot smoother even if I get a small hesitation from time to time always below 2000 when maintaining low speed, but they are few and far between. I am definitively going to continue with Ethanol Free Gas, as much as I can.

Yes, yes! This very V11! A very special "metticio" . . . And with this very interesting exhaust. @v11_meticcio

I know folks that have been involved with that rally over the years. There is some great riding along the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Don't miss the Turkey Neck Bend Ferry over the Cumberland River. I love taking mySport on ferries . . . http://www.monroecountykytourism.com/cumberland-river-ferry.html

Francesco Bagnaia seems to have found his old self again? at least he kept Fabio Quartararo at bay during the length of the GP. This is the first victory of the GP22, so Ducati must have had a sigh of relief. From pole too. I personally think that if Fabio Quartararo had managed to be ahead on the first curve, he may not have gone away. We will never know. It seemed that Marc Marquez did better than expected too. Not yet fighting for first podium, but improved. That elbow save was him, 100%. Personally, seeing Aleix on the podium again was very pleasing.

@Kiwi_Roy I have absolutely no idea on what were the requirements to get the V11 family together in Guzzi under Aprilia's Beggio. We know that Aprilia was in financial difficulty that resulted in the Piaggio Group's take over. Before Aprilia, De Tomaso was running the show. The Moto Guzzi design bureau had a budget, and the sustaining engineer (if there was one), another to solve whatever issues that came after the industrialization. This would have been typical. What we know, only the show stopper problems were remediated. I would propose they were trying to get by with minimal or skeleton budget. Even today, we do not hear anything about the V100 Mandello. We are in May now, and no pre-series bikes have been released, there is no schedule and no information about it. I only found one obscure Italian journalist who said the V100 will come out at the end of 2022, for a 2023 release. He did not say where he got the information. The fact that Guzzi/Piaggio are not saying anything is actually very edifying. But you are correct fuse wise. Before the surgery, my V11 would consume 15 Amps fuses like there was no tomorrow. Like there was a fault.

Kyle rides all type of off road bikes including a Husky Svartpilen 401, Husaberg and KTM's.

I just came back from 6 weeks holiday, (central Nth island), unfortunately the computer I had wouldn't access this site. If you are still having a problem we should be able to sort it out fairly quickly. You should have been able to get the switch apart, as far as I know they are all the same, the root cause is probably dried out lube inside

Sixth stop: #49 Camp Hearne in Hearne Texas; 228 miles return trip. Houston, Waller (fuel top-up at Buc-ee's), Hearne, Navasota, Waller (Fuel top-up at Buc-ee's), Houston. Very educative as I had an incredible full briefing of Camp Hearne by the custodian of the Camp. If you are interested in history, Camp Hearne was a POW camp set up there mainly for Germans of the Afrika Korps who surrendered. US applied the guidelines of the Geneva convention to the letter. Because the Africa Korps operated in the desert, then the camp had to be set up in a warm region in the USA. Texas was the ideal candidate. Camp Hearne was like Club Med. The Germans (few Italians and few Japanese) had access to anything they requested. Including art, music, theater, movies what not.... The photo below shows a small part of the camp, since the land was reclaimed after the camp was closed. The trip was uneventful if excepted for a run on FM 362, from Waller to the 6th North. I have now understood why FM means "Farm to Market"; it means that on these FM roads, you can find tractors going at 20 mph when you are testing your Michelin Road 5. No comment!

I'm working off my pad of eyes Docc. I just poke around on the screen, no mouse. I've got a heap more pics of stripped and buggered gears as well. Some of them are pretty gruesome. The only ones I'd use are Joes.

Delete everything in your your link address before "https" . . . Also, simply "right click" on the hosted image and select "Copy Image Link" and paste into the reply.

http://<a href="https://flic.kr/p/e3gPFS" title="More crappy gears by -convertpervert-"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8505/8558358076_3572d56784_o.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="More crappy gears"></a> buggered if I can work out how to post pics here.

So, this happened about five years/ 25,000 miles ago. The aluminum threads pulled out of the motor side when I was doing up the fastener. I used a "Recoil" repair kit from my local Fastenal store. Thanks for the recommendation, @gstallons!

https://www.moto.it/news/nico-cereghini-il-museo-guzzi-sara-bellissimo.htmlTranslation by Google:Nico Cereghini: "Will the Guzzi museum be beautiful?"November 2, 2020 - The Piaggio Group Board of Directors approved theredevelopment project of the Moto Guzzi museum and the entire productionarea of Mandello. It will be a famous archistar to take care of it.Even if there is no other news for now, fans rejoiceHello everyone! At the end of September, when I anticipated that MotoGuzzi's 100th birthday would be celebrated in 2021 (read the article),many of you raised the theme of the Mandello museum. It is tooneglected, several comments criticized, "it's a shame!" some directlyaccused. Well, I want to give you some good news: even the president andtop management of the Piaggio Group realize that the museum is not up topar. And now the board of directors has approved the redevelopment project.There are no precise figures or times, but the resolution is a fact: itwas decided that the works will begin next year and will cover theentire area of the Mandello Lario plant, from production to theoffices and halls of the museum. It is also known that the project wasentrusted to Greg Lynn, American architect and designer, member of theUnited States Artists, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in2008 and many other international awards; and who is also CEO of PiaggioFast Forward, the team of innovators “which aims to build lightweightmobility platforms that offer innovative solutions for the movement ofpeople and goods”. In short, a beautiful head already involved in the group.What matters is that, although times are not exactly ideal, those whohave the fate of Guzzi in their hands seem determined to invest millionsof euros in the prestige of the brand. Even the mayor of MandelloRiccardo Fasoli, on the pages of Corriere della Sera, is delighted withthe good news, rumors have been circulating for months and theratification of the board of directors is the expected turning point.For Mandello it is a panacea, the museum has always attracted Italianand foreign enthusiasts, but above all we understand that such aninvestment means that the company will remain here, on the lake where itwas born a century ago and where the history of motorcycles was made.I believe, and I am certainly not the only one, that no museum in theworld could come close to that of the Moto Guzzi, once it has beenrethought and recreated. There are other even older houses - Gilera isfrom 1919, the first Harley is even from 1903 - but the eagle house hasan absolutely unique history. It is enough to mention a symbol such asthe famous wind tunnel: here in Mandello technical innovation andcreativity have been breathed, the most extraordinary successes ininternational races have been built before world-wide. Men of enormoustalent met on the shore of the Lario, names like Omobono Tenni, BrunoRuffo or Giulio Cesare Carcano with his incredible Otto cylinders: noother brand has reached this high.I don't know this Greg Lynn, one of the ten most influential architectsin the world for Forbes magazine. But I already envy him. If he has abit of passion for motorcycles, imagining and designing the Moto Guzzimuseum will be a magnificent adventure for him. --

Fuoco ai cilindri!

Aproved with plates the way this bike is without any S problems is great up here. Yes l do like the Dynotech.de engines. The guy who did the mapping, yes please. Have l been looking for a anything odd in the 3000 area, nothing ,superb. Only about 300miles now, added new relays and better grounding to regulator, rest tlc winther hobby. What a fun push rod engine. IPA time, yes. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-A525F via Tapatalk

Technology Livecycle Management: Reliability Engineering: Maintenance programs are largely provided by the Sustaining organization and are best described as a hybrid of assembly/disassembly guidelines, used initially by Manufacturing. For some which are more reliant on 3rd party equipment, the programs are based on OEM maintenance manuals and recommendations. Over time, maintenance programs are supplemented with sporadic best practices, lessons learned and technical alerts (all usually triggered by Maintenance observations). Owners made progress in using RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) to improve the maintenance programs for several technologies and focus less on time-based maintenance. The selection of RCM initiatives and other Sustaining priorities is largely subjective, and a methodical data-driven set of rules does not exist. Outcomes of the failure and investigation process are reasonable with high visibility (C, M) failures when considering the links to root causes and required actions, as there is usually a suitably strong investigation team assigned for the duration needed. However, the business lacks a holistic prioritization process for reliability investigations, appropriately trained people (especially in the current DIY Maintenance mindset) , and necessary data access to drive concrete failure analysis efficiently for lower visibility (and often more frequent) failures. Finally, visibility on TCO is exceptionally poor for most technologies. Thoughts: Most of the recurrent issues that affect our motorcycles (any brand and model) are described and recorded in the forums. There is no Motorcycle manufacturer effort to drive the process. Their involvement seem to stop after they have designed the bike, industrialized it, and sold it.