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(Sigh.) While it is quite possible to improve the fuelling above and beyond the factory mapping adding any of these *Magical* widgets is an utter waste of time and money. The 15M and 15M RC ECU's have been an open book for well over a decade and modifying the maps is a far more accurate and useful way of going about things than adding some shitty little resistor to deliberately screw up sensor inputs. Just say no to hocus-pocus! You know it makes sense!

Changes are coming. So far, I have only invested in electric bicycles, which are nice way to do some short trips. My wife and I go out to dinner on them, and occasional trips to the store for small purchases. Almost bought a hybrid Subaru a while back, but it just seemed stupid to pay so much more to have two motors and a battery to maintain, coupled with the reduced the cargo space and eliminated spare tire (all to make room for the battery and such). I just took delivery on what will likely be my last gas-powered car (I assume gas-powered motorcycles will continue to "cycle" through the garage for a while.) I put my $100 deposit down on a Ford Bronco almost two years ago, and waited through all the production delays for all the options I wanted. It's rated at 17MPG, with a 2.7L turbo. That's only marginally better than the MPG I get on my F250 with a 7.3L gas motor. I recently paid $200 for gas at one stop (empty truck and empty dirt bike in the bed). So... The Stelvio continues to be my primary form of transportation when I am going alone. And I notice that the majority of cars and trucks are occupied by one person. I think we should make every new driver spend a year on a motorcycle before they get a license to drive a car. Imagine the national savings on fuel and resources devoted to roads and parking if just 50% of single-occupant car trips were replaced by motorcycle or scooter trips. And people would start noticing motorcycles when they drive their cars. Ok - so that solves everything. Thanks for reading.

Bought these but have no use for them. I'll toss them in the box. Box exterior dimensions are 21.5" x 15" x 12". I'll have a weight soon.

Yes . the case is one solid cylinder with no countersunk screws in the motor case . The smaller diameter motors are permanent magnet . 99% of all mowers along with automotive vehicles are permanent magnet starters . Some time ago , one of these forums discussed the magnet coming loose from the housing and causing no-start conditions . There was an adhesive to re-glue this magnet back in to the housing . Sidenote = never hit the starting motor with a hammer if a no-start condition exists . These magnets are brittle and will break leaving you with a museum piece .

Thanks Docc.... I must tell you that I have been exposed to extreme heat a long time before I got in Texas. It started in Libya, and ended in Chad. On my ride to Kingsville in extreme heat, I did not experience any discomfort. I remain reasonable. I have never felt any heat exhaustion so far, however I know that I am no longer in my prime. Problem with heat exhaustion, is that when it happens, it goes very fast, and you lose consciousness. Let's hope I will be here to talk about it later on.... :-)

Any + and - ,, anybody with a V4 Strada S ? Only 60miles today between shovers, will see. Looks like shit to my V11. Most likely a fun transport piece. Cheers T. Sent fra min SM-A525F via Tapatalk

I made up some tools and took measurements to modify these taps easily, so if anyone locally wants their tap modified, I can do it. @cash1000has my first attempt at the @Lucky Philmodification on his bike, and he tells me that his bike hasn't caught fire. He left me a fist-full of the o-rings recommended by Phil. I must get on and do my own bike.

Phil, let me know if you have any surplus. I'll buy them off you. Ta, Marty.

I HAD a tuner on my bike and spent a lot of time & money trying to get my bike dialed in to find out the tuner was at fault .

In all the pics I see on this thread , the fields (field windings) are wound and not permanent magnet fields . Also , power window motors , etc. are permanent magnet . Many factors . size , cost , etc . Nothing wrong with them , I wouldn't want one on a diesel pick-up though .

Bingo !!!!! the oil smelled like there was gas in it . dropped the pan and replaced filter and oil and of course new spark plugs. taken the piece of …… ( tuner) off my bike . started the bike and she runs beautifully. ad to do a few adjustments but now it’s another animal compared to what it was before. I still don’t understand why someone would add a piace of crap “ tuner” to a bike that runs good from the factory. oh well…. as soon as it cools down a bit I am gonna check the plugs . thank you all ciao

The one on my VII Sport was, If you look at the outside of the case and see large screws holding the pole pieces in place its electro magnet, most of the permanent magnets I have seen are just glued in place. You can barely see the screws in this picture, an impact driver is useful if you have to remove them. As an apprentice we would take the coils out and re-tape them with linen tape, often solves starter problems. (I'm not an auto electrician)

Wow…811 miles in this blistering heat? That’s going to be brutal…I would spend the night in An AC conditioned room and start up day 2 refreshed… Hats off if you can do it one day!!

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Yep, search about four posts back . . . I had not thought of adding the battery basket drop to the Wheels Off Maintenance Checklist ! [edit: Done! Thanks @80CX100 ! ]

If the battery tray bracket hasn't been lowered, you may want to consider it. If it's due, bleeding the rear brake at the same time as the clutch. Cleaning up the main ground above the swing arm inboard of the driveshaft. I've probably forgotten something. I think if you search for it, Docc had compiled a list of maintenance items to do/check whenever the rear wheel is off. fwiw

I've not seen a bleeder on a master cylinder connection before. Could be convenient, I guess. If I am concerned about air being trapped in a high point of the system there, I just unmount the master and tilt it so the bottom of the reservoir is higher. Air can return to the reservoir that way and get out of the line.

The oil and coal conglomerates have been doing a very effective disinformation campaign since the 70s. That is all I'm going to say.

I assume the clean brush holder on the Left is Suzuki while the dirty one on the right is Aermacchi. It looks as though the insulated brush on the Suzuki needs to be relocated to 12 O'clock to make it the same as the Aermacchi, that would change the direction.

Very serious heat indices return to the southern USA next week. Be aware. I have been seriously heat exhausted twice while riding. It is doubly dangerous while underway and far from home. "Heat Stroke " is life threatening, but the sufferer cannot discern the difference and will be fortunate if those in attendance could.

Next Monday, I should do my longest single ride trip yet. Houston to South Padre Island and back. The total ride is 811 miles, anticipated to last 12+ hours. Does not include stops to refuel. I am not certain I am going to manage to ride 12 hours. I have done a rehearsal up to Kingsville, but this one is considerably longer.

As a previous poster mentioned, take a Stanley knife blade without the holder and carefully tap it into the joint. Pick a corner to start with and combine this with a soft faced hammer on the perimeter. I have used this technique a few times with success and no damage. I had to use it recently to get the oil pump off a BB engine. The aftermarket pump had the locating dowels a fraction off spec and the pump was impossible to get off in the normal fashion so it was the very careful Stanley blade method around the pump mounting perimeter. Took a good hour to get it off without and real damage to the case thankfully. The pump was also on but I won't be reusing that. The problem you are having is much like trying to work against suction. Try pulling something sucked down away directly and it's impossible but work at a small section to break the vacuum and it's much easier, same here. Once you get a corner to release and then work along an edge to get that to release it becomes exponentially easier. It's not suction holding the sump on of course but the principle is much the same. Phil

Burning coal makes energy for CLEAN Electricity!!!

More fun fuel usage math: My office commute is 18 miles (round trip). The Toyota 4Runner (LandBruiser) gets about 1/2 the fuel "economy" as mySport (17.6 vs 36.5 USmpg), yet the round trip commute to&from the office is more like 43 miles on mySport (more than double the straight-shot distance, but takes in some lovely hollows, creek roads, and ridge climbs). On top of that the fuel cost for the Sport's *premium* versus the 4R "regular" is about a US dollar more per gallon. So, today, taking the (fun) long way to the office on the (fun) Sport cost me an extra $1.96 over scowling my way down the highway in the LandBruiser . I showed up, and came home, a happier man. Where else can you get that for two bucks?

Very fun to hear from one of our members traveling south on Tennessee's I-65 asking, "Was that you, docc, on a silver Sport with Tenkno bags I saw ?" Indeed it was! Good to be seen!

Well, my worst ever experience was a Ducati that I was afraid to ride farther than I was willing to walk.

I have no plans to get rid of my internal combustions Guzzi's. Well, maybe the Griso. I just don't have enough time and room for all of them. But I could see buying an electric motorcycle. The performance could easily surpass what my Guzzi's can do. A few years ago we had to replace our car, and even back then it made sense to buy an electric vehicle as within a few years the electric car would prove cheaper to own and operate. And that was without knowing that gas was going to surpass $5 a gallon. We feel like a genius. Nailed that one. It is clear that the days of internal combustion engines are numbered. They are just too inefficient. But I suspect they will still be around for a good while. Just because they stop selling them new some point in the future doesn't mean they go away. But they will become less and less common, the same way horse did. Used to be horses were primary transportation power for most people, then along can the ICE powered car. Horses became a luxury item, used for fun. I suspect internal combustion vehicles will go down the same path. With any luck I will live to see it.

@Tomchri is in probably the most advanced country along that road in Europe with a large number wind turbines and a huge take up in electric vehicles. I know Norway isn't in the EU. As I recall if that's approved then all the countries in the block need to agree as each has a veto, so if it has gone through then Italy has agreed to it Just checked it's the end of sales of petrol and deisel vehicles by 2035 a different thing altogether and it has still to be ratified by individual countries lawyers and ministers, so not quite a done deal anyway. Germany is in for a lot of pain as it's huglely dependent on gas and even coal.

Sadly, the oak floor is just an illusion. What you see is vinyl plank flooring……over concrete! It’s actually pretty nice and durable. We all know that the possession of a spine frame is the best indicator of being a true gentleman! My wife would never let me park on a real oak floor………

This is true for any other motorcycle. I never appreciated the stiff angular cuts of the Multistrada. I am sure it is an excellent motorcycle to ride though...

Furthering our noble efforts to clarify the V11 nomenclature (we are the world's foremost experts on the Moto Guzzi V11) @FreyZI's current thread "Sign-up list for new carbon fiber seat cowls" has had some fun with "what-to-call-what" . . . I'm to the point of saying that your LeMans >might< have "PorkChops", but mySport : nope

GSB . . . "Green SumBitch?

Awesome. That's doing it up right.. We faced the East and a little South.. raised our very best bourbon, and sang "Happy Birthday" in 2 part harmony. (I also told Luigi he sucked.)

Nice "apron!" Not the first I've seen you celebrate Moto Guzzi with! [Fourth South'n SpineRaid, 2008, Verona, Tennessee]

Much preferable to being viewed..

God Chuck what did you do to the poor thing. In 40 years riding Ducati's I've never had one let me down on the road or track and come to think of it same with my friends that I rode with on Ducati's. We had a new clutch basket fail in a WSB race once. That bike did the same race with a head gasket leaking coolant into the cylinder as well which we knew about before the race but it was powering our rider to a 10 place finish when the clutch basket failed. Apart from cracking cases those 996 engines were pretty tough and reliable. Our 600 TT2 did all IOM practices and 2 races without missing a beat and onto the TT2 World Championships on the same engine. The 750 engine did cough back through the rear inlet and pop the carburettor off as our rider shut the throttle after crossing the finish line in the senior race but the race was over so that doesn't count. Phil

My 'Sport came to me with a lot of problems, all peripheral but troublesome in the 'trailer' sense. Once I straightened it out, I had near 15k absolutely trouble-free miles. With very little warning, it seemed to have a cascade failure. Fuel pump relay, electrical connections, starter siezure, it would run fine for a while then I'd be crawling back home or trailering home every time I went out. What it took, was a serious and dedicated maintenance to everything I could get my hands on without opening the motor. A big tube of DeOxit, new Omron relays, a new starter motor, new battery, remake all the ground and charge connections, new powdercoat and tires on the wheels, fix the steering head bearing race issue. It seemed a neverending litany of aggravation. Like I had to rebuild and remanufacture the entire bike. I excused MG because they're 'Boutique' and 'tiny'. But the real truth, I came to realize, is that I put 5 times the miles on it of any other bike I owned without *any* maintenance. Over the course of 4 years, in all weather, and often parked outside 'usually' under cover, in South Florida temperatures and humidity. I spent a lot more time maintaining all my previous bikes more frequently without really thinking about it. This only became noticeable because it went so long asking for nothing. One of my bumper sticker mottos is "Don't take half measures". This is a fine example of how I came to that philosophy.