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Is that a V11 with a sissybar? 🤔 New Zealand certainly does their own thing...

Accents are the most intriguing components of any languages. Take the US for example; you can identify state origin simply from the flow and growl. To the foreign ear, the challenge is different. Those of us coming from Europe have been taught English by teachers with British accents or, the foreign accent of their country of citizenship. This is never a good preparation when meeting a pure bred Texan for the first time. Scholar English never prepares you for North Sea Scottish roughnecks and rustabouts. Studies have demonstrated that unless you learned it from scratch an spoke it with a native, you will never lose your primary accent. This is the reason why people foreign born and migrating keep speaking with a very defining accent. Usually Latin languages are easily identifiable. Closer to us, I would bet that everyone can tell if you are from United Kingdom, the USA. Australia, New Zealand. Canadian French is also difficult to understand on first hand. Anyway, the only way to keep your languages to efficiency level, is to use them more often than not, and to find people who have a greater command at them than you, so you can enrich your vocabulary. The key to success though, is to use writing and speaking. Reading is not enough.

I'm guessing that is a Ventura rack on your bike. Dold Industries (manufacturer of Ventura Luggage Racks) is in Hamilton, just down the road from you. You could get their Grab Handle (GH14/16/B) that is designed to fit when that big pack rack is removed. Moto Guzzi 1100 V11 Sport (00-02) – Dold Industries

Some languages are better suited at describing emotions than others; however, having been an expatriate since 1980, each language has its pros and cons. Having worked in English with many non native speakers, with very Cambridge and Oxford engineers, ivy league Americans, I noticed that everyone resorted to very basic English to enable the best communication. Non native speakers are supposed to have a limited vocabulary, and keep using made up sentences over and over again. I used to be extremely fluent in many languages, including my native one, and I find myself looking for words more often than not, for the lack of having erudite conversations. Like everything else, a language needs to be written, spoken and read often to be kept at the same quality level. This is why learning a language at school does not take you much further than the very basics. In 82, I got an assignment for Texaco in Germany, and stayed in a village where absolutely nobody spoke anything but German. This is to me the best way to improve your language skills in very little time. Today, no matter where you go, even the most remote places, you are bound to find someone who can speak very basic English. It is not as much fun as it used to be. I remember my first job in Italy. I landed in Milano, had a rental car reserved, got the rental company map, and nothing else to find a drilling rig site in the middle of nowhere. People always think that Latin languages are so related that you are able to get by. Not! Learning anything written in Roman characters is relatively easy. If you cannot read the language, it becomes a lot more challenging.... today, places have information shown in multiple languages, including Chinese, Japanese and so on. My first job in Greece was interesting, but I was lucky because there were so many Germans....

Collected the silver V11 from Twiggers in Loughborough today, new Diablo Rosso II rear tyre & throttle bodies balanced. It’s a national holiday here today in the UK, so spent part of the afternoon giving the Rosso Corsa & Silver Sport a good clean,

The worn threads were short of the nut plate, and the pivot bushing was riding on them. I'm not surprised it killed the bushing, but a bit surprised it killed the bolt threads. But it was the second lever to wear on it, ~35k miles.

I have a '97 1100 Sport-i, which has the 5 speed transmission. I don't think you have the same ends on the linkage; the rubbers on mine simply push over a ring on the pivot housing. As a technical point, the shift lever bushes come out like a debutante with a 1/8" pipe tap. I really should have taken another picture...the new bushes protruded from the shifter ends a mm or so, and instead of trimming them I fitted a 10mm viton sealing washer to each end as a spacer and seal to keep the grease in. proud of myself like a 4th grader.

After this highly entertaining and educative interlude where we learned about the virtues of multilingualism, the pitfalls of ear twisting accents and the benefits of immersion when trying to master a foreign language, we will resume our scheduled programming... The forum pages are again loading normally, it must have been a temporary glitch, nothing to worry about. Carry on

Fascinating. This helps explain why my German from my very earliest youth in Bavaria, three years of "school French," ordering MexFood in Spanish, and keeping my Sport's service records in Italian have me no closer to even remote fluency. On the other hand, I have developed a repertoire of very bad accents in several languages.

I didnt like the look of the rack when not in use so removed it. I need to buy the short connector pipe that links the uprights for use when not carrying luggage.

I bought a tailpiece on eBay just to get the pillion cover, and that it was yellow matching my bike. I paid too much for just the pillion, but figured I'd have the spare tail on the shelf. I thought the tailpiece was the accessory flat-sided tail, but now I think it's from a Daytona. Can anyone confirm, and would anyone like it as a spare? I'll just shelf it. As for the pillion cover, I'm going to take it to the local boatbuilders and see if I can get someone to reproduce it in high-quality fiberglass and perhaps fit it a little more closely to reduce the big gaps they apparently all have.

Low mileage example, 11,430. https://www.cycletrader.com/listing/2003-Moto+Guzzi-V11+SPORT-5020573308

Ha ha I struggle with my native New Zealand English..... Cheers Guzzler

눈빛만으로 알 수가 있지 어떤 세상을 살아왔는지

I’m telling the truth, very, slowly 내가 다가갈게 천천히, 아주 천천히 손짓만으로 알 수가 있지 너가 얼마나 착한 애인지

Better sounding video for reference...

I found the bolt threaded too much on my bike as well. The lever inner bush was riding on threads, so was quite worn. I fitted a new bolt with more plain shank. Also the previous owner had added a grease nipple, which I thought was a good idea. https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?/topic/19580-lucky-phil-extender-mod/&do=findComment&comment=212829 I'd like to know more about the rubbers you mention. I'd like to see what was done so I can do that too.

You might need to wait until you have them apart docc and measure them up. Forks are a PITA because although certain forks are used across certain manufacturers at the time they aren't necessarily identical. Guzzi V11 forks for example are quite a bit longer in overall length to say Ducati forks and the V11 Sport triple clamps are around 10-15mm wider than most bikes so using a different front wheel from a Ducati for example or Aprilia is difficult because although the wheel size and brake disks and mount holes are identical the width of the front hub on a Guzzi is a lot wider so disk spacing for the callipers is too narrow. Ciao

This is the short link pipe on my ST

The attendance has been a mixed bag, some rounds of MotoGP having attendance up while others have been down. I imagine the costs play a large part in that, I heard the French round had reasonable ticket prices while other rounds have had high ticket prices. It will be interesting to see if Marc Marquez can come back from this surgery and return to the front. Or it could be the beginning of the end for him. I hope not. I am very happy Aprilia is going to have a second team. But I am dumbfounded as to why they signed Vinales for two more years. It will be interesting to see who they sign to ride the other two bikes. There is certainly no shortage of top level riders with no ride after Suzuki has bailed and Jack Miller is likely to be out at Ducati. We may get Rins and Miller on the other two Aprilia's. I am not sure why people are so excited to see Mir at Honda. The Honda doesn't seem that far off of the front, but I really don't know if Mir is the guy to get that last little bit out of it. Mir doesn't seem like the kind of racer who is worth that little bit extra, he is usually more the consistent guy who only won one race on his way to the title. Rins seems to have more speed than Mir, you just need to get Rins to stop crashing so much. Easier to teach the faster guy to crash less than teach the slower guy to go faster.

Today at our LunchSpot, a fellow asked twice about the year of the Sport, then twice more about the miles. Then, there was some comment about VooDoo. I glanced at his woman, sidewise, and thought, "I don't want her knitting a yarn doll of me." Out come the red pins and, well, you know: VooDoo !

Mine's not going anywhere either.

Can’t speak for worldwide sales, but here in the UK there are just 328 Griso 1200 8V’s left. I would have thought by now that everyone who has a 1200 8V flattie understands the need for rollerisation, but unrollerised examples still come up for sale. Personally I’m never selling mine and hopefully I’ve still got a good few years left riding before the grim reaper calls !

Well a motorcycle is a packaging problem but at the end of the day I think the designers and engineers do an absolutely amazing job in that regard these days. Look at latest hyper sports bikes technical data, incredible engineering and packaging. BTW my latest bike is a Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor. Air cooled 270 deg crank, OHC 4 valve, fuel injected, balance shaft, efi and anti lock brake equipped bike for under $10,000aud on the road. Should do me while all the "Must have the latest" crowd do the R&D on the new Guzzi over the next 2 years before I slide in like a shithouse rat and buy the refined and sorted version. Ciao Old V2 Panagale. A packaging masterpiece. Interceptor 650, classic packaging.

Old Hi-Cam and New Hi Cam are very different beasts. One of the major differences is that the newer engine has a separate cooling circuit fed by a separate pump and that circuit, (Nor the lubrication circuit.) run a thermostat. The lubrication circuit remains very similar to the older 2V motors with the filtered oil being delivered to the main bearings and big ends but from there things change a bit. After the mains the front feed splits and some oil goes to the under piston spray nozzles and the rest goes up the front inner studs to the front cam bearing and cam end rocker pivots. The rear main feed then goes up the rear outer stud and lubricates the outer rocker pivots. Cam lobes and tappets are splash fed from oil spilt into a weir by the cam bearings. The cooling circuit is completely separate. Oil is delivered, unfiltered but pressure regulated to the cooler and thence to the cooling circuits in the head by external hoses. On the 1200's the oil goes directly to the heads. On the 1400's it is delivered to a large gallery in the wall of the cylinder and then flows around large, cast in, galleries in the heads. The 1200 and 1400 cooling systems are completely dissimilar and is one of the reasons building a 1400 motor to put in a 1200 bike is not a task of simply bolting on the bigger cylinders and pistons. It is this lack of thermostat that is the main contributor to the gross over cooling the new 8V's suffer from. In anything other than 30*C+ ambient temperatures it's actually quite difficult to get the oil hot enough to sublime water out of it! At least it is unless you are stuck in traffic or thrashing the bejasus out of it! I can't remember offhand if the Bellagio has an oil cooler but if it does it, along with the other 2V bikes of the period, does have a thermostat. In reality it is unlikely that any big block Guzzi, with the exception of 'Old' Hi-Cams maybe, is going to cook itself in traffic. Let's face it the engine was originally designed to sit idling in summer traffic in Milan with a fat copper sitting on top of it. The cylinders are grotesquely over finned but that doesn't mean getting so hot is good for it and clearances for things like piston to bore and ring to piston have to be a lot sloppier than they would be with acliquid cooled motor. As for the bike Phil referenced? That was an 8V Griso that belonged to a customer who had started the bike and then left it to 'Warm up', truly an unnecessary thing, and claimed he had been 'Distracted', (I think by his missus asking for a length of the 'Veal Dagger!') and by the time he got back to it it had stopped and wouldn't re-start. The tank vent wasn't working and when he opened the tank it blew five litres of fuel over the red hot engine and garage! It was lucky his house didn't go up! When I got it to the workshop and lifted the tank I found that the pressurised tank had swollen so much it had pressed the spigot of the fuel pump against the reservoir cover for the cam chain tensioner on the right hand cylinder and melted it to a blob, it must of been seconds away from bursting when the engine stopped and it only stopped because the phase sensor expired from overheating! If it had burst the engine would of stopped but the pump would of kept running for four seconds! Quite enough to spew enough fuel out onto the superheated engine to cause a calamity! There was a shit-tonne of good luck involved there. The bike was in his garage under his roofline. It could of got very nasty! When I stripped the engine I was actually amazed by how little damage I found! Everything was still within spec! From memory it got rings and a set of valve guide oil seals. That was pretty much it! It's now living in Townsville and continues to run like a freight train. They really are very hard to kill!

Nope. It is a completely new design. Gone is any semblance of a familial construction with generational change. The only thing it has in common with the old powerplant is the fact it is a V twin, it's not even a 90* twin I don't think? It'll be running balance shafts or weights of some sort I'm pretty sure. The clutch no longer resides behind the crank and in front of the gearbox, the cylinders are cast into the upper crankcase so it no longer has barrels per se. It utilises double overhead cams and downdraft induction. The list of dis-similarities is almost endless, it bears no resemblance to any previous Guzzi twin. At the end of the day the fact that muppets and dingbats insisted, probably still do, on sticking Cali 1400 motors into Tonti frames with all of the inadequate transmission componentry right through to the back wheel and then throw carburettors on these pieces of munt and can get away with it clearly indicates a familial timeline. With the V100 that lineage is irrevocably severed. if you look at the Hi Cams, both 'Old' and 'New' you will see that the two to one reduction for the cam drive is achieved by simply repurposing what was the camshaft in early motors before running a 1 to 1 drive from the dummy shaft to the camshafts. Even the MGS-01 utilises a truncated version of this drive to allow for stroking of the crank, (And one assumes a minor weight saving?). What the V100 uses I'm not sure but it will either be a single chain to double tooth sprockets on the cams or a 1 to 1 chain to idler shaft with 1/2 speed gearing to the cams. Both systems completely different to anything previously used. Nope. The 'Big Block' as we knew it is gone. Get out your handkerchiefs and wave it off into the sunset of its well earned retirement. The V100 starts a brand new, but much shorter, chapter for Guzzi under the stewardship of Piaggio. I just hope the wait was worth it and the direction they are heading is worth going in.

Bellagio is probably the best 2 valve engine built but the 8V is without a doubt superior in every way apart from fuel economy and perhaps smoothness. Having said that the 1400 motors are ridiculously smooth! While it has been done putting the 8V into the quasi Tonti frame of the Bellagio would be a foolish move. In the same way that some people insist on bolting an old five speed onto the 8V and sticking it in a Tonti frame the simple fact is the frame isn't designed to handle the output of the motor. A decent Bellagio makes about 70RWHP, a V11 makes about 76. An 8V 1200, even with the stock factory mapping which is far too rich at the top end, makes 96 and with a decent map will make 'About 100' with a big boost in torque all the way through the rev range. Once rollerised all the 1200's are effectively the same motor and despite their differences in intake and exhaust designs can all be made to make the same figures or close to. Whether one prefers the Griso, Sport, Norge or Stelvio they are all much of a muchness in terms of performance. In my opinion the 1200 8V was the pinnacle of the engine's development. What machine it's in isn't really an issue. Others will probably choose to differ. I'm not going to argue. Oh, and Chris? Next time you're up take the Green Horror out for a flog. Gearing it down, even a tiny bit, has improved it even more IMO. Even with my gargantuan carcass on it I keep lofting the front wheel unintentionally pulling away from the lights! Not bad for something with the wheelbase of a supertanker with what resembles a hippopotamus riding it!

probably because I can't have it ... but.. I want it

The previous owner of my bike added a grease nipple to the shift lever. I thought that this was a good idea for others to do at the same time as fitting the extended lever, so posted this picture. Also, I had slop on the inner bush of my shift lever, where I found that the pivot bolt was threaded too much, so the inner bush sat on threads instead of plain shank. The bush had grooves worn in it, and the threads were worn flat. I got a new bolt with less thread on it, and made new bushes. This improved shift lever action a little.

Shirley a robot wouldn't pick up 59.Chuck at Gmail dot com? Send me your contact info and I'll get em out as soon as they come off the presses. I'll send Lucky Phil one, but it'll be red. Everyone else gets zinc chromate primer. I'll check with the post office tomorrow for US delivery charge. I have enough stock to make 14. My guess is that will be the first and probably only run of them.

When I look at the threads, thread pitch mismatch comes to mind.