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No - the Harbor Freight unit is gone. But if you want to try the No Mar unit, you can bring your wheels and new tires over.

I like frogs. Leave em on the frog..

I also fell for the color. More or less the first time in my life that I was attracted by a color. @LaGrastaI'm sure you make that bike run like it was new again.

Fun how this has moved to literature. Steinbeck was amazing - I love East of Eden. The Frogs as currency is funny - and it worked as a social contract with anyone who agreed to exchange frogs. To LowRyter's earlier post: Prices are set in currency, but values reflect human utility. For example, two people may value the same item differently and one be willing to pay the price, while another is not willing to pay the price. If you think something is inexpensive (or a bargain), it means the value to you exceeds the price. Wealth is created by leveraging differences in human value, and money keeps the score. Theoretically, every sale generates profit to the seller (they store more value than they had before the sale), and it creates value to the buyer (they get something that they value in excess of the money they exchanged). Neither money, nor a product need to be tangible. As I mentioned earlier, anyone who uses any form of credit is already using intangible money, and you can use it to buy intangible products or services. Money is whatever people agree it is. If frogs as money had caught on, surely, paper notes promising to deliver frogs would have been next, then the government of Cannery Row would establish a strategic frog reserve. Then, seeing a shortage of actual frogs when compared to the paper notes that could be redeemed for frogs, they would be forced to abandon the frog standard. Then somebody would invent blockchain frogs...

I was a fairly precocious kid, and read "The Grapes of Wrath" when I was entirely too young. (what were my parents thinking?) Maybe 11 or 12. Because of that, I'll never trust money men, used car salesmen, religious folks, glad handers of all kinds. I'll go to my grave with those feelings. Steinbeck certainly could paint a word picture..

Hello all, I'm Anthony LaGrasta, from Mission Viejo, CA (SoCal). I recently acquired a 10,000 mile burgundy 2003 V11 Sport that has been parked in a garage for over a decade. I'll be working to get it cleaned up and on the road. Among other bikes, I also own another Moto Guzzi, a 2010 V7 Cafe Classic with 23,000 miles. Thank you for having me.

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I like my frogs dredged in flour, salt & pepper then sauteed in butter with garlic, topped with parsley and a little lemon juice.. but only the legs(gambalunga?) mind you! Some people pay good money for "Cuisses de Grenouille" at fancy restaurants, and for others just the thought of it will make them queasy... it really is just about what one considers valuable.. but that taste, let me tell you, is deliciously tangible.

did that too, both are good. I swapped the relay too.

That is the direction M/G riders are going... and it is a good thing

Stock pipes & rear mudguard project complete.

@LowRyter's "sad face” reaction to my post, above, is intellectually interesting. If he meant that he was sad because I might do more damage to my GuzzisI, I am touched. Moreover, he and others who feel similarly will be pleased to know that I was able only to go down a few minutes and mostly just hooked up my EV to the battery tender. I am capable of causing sparks from that, but got lucky today. If, OTOH, he meant that PayPal should do as it did here because he shares P2’s view of things, it would seem that he illustrates my intended point. By that I mean, if he disagreed with PP’s position on a given political view, he would be appalled by, not applauding, the action. I am, of course, imputing to him things he may not have meant at all. If so, I have a fine unopened bottle of high-end bourbon waiting for him, tho he’ll after to come visit the Moto Grappa — where he and all Guzzisti are, with regard whatever to their political views, welcome. But, it seems to me that a business — especially a mega-business on the web — should be politically neutral. I am always bemused by those who will not buy a product and want others to boycott businesses because of the political, religious, or whatever views of the owners. That is, IMO, a personal matter and none of my concern. I distinguish that from a business that panders politics to the public in its marketing. Boycott away because they have chosen that course as a tool. Ben & Jerry's comes to mind, tho it's been a struggle to get Kathi to give up Cherry Garcia. I suppose — but I must tread there warily — that most of us would agree that a person, business, institution, or any other entity that espoused, e.g., pedophilia, human sacrifice, or similar shocking, immoral, or illegal conduct, deserves our contempt and more. But, nearly everything else falls within that realm of ideas over which we — at least one hopes we — might reasonably differ, discuss, debate … and vote. At the ballot box, not the cash register. When a major business entity essentially chooses sides — and it doesn’t matter which side — and acts to squelch those who see things differently, it does us all harm. Those who smugly see themselves as morally superior to the rest of us find nothing wrong with such censorship of speech. They seemingly think that what they do is so right that no one could object without being unworthy of consideration. Indeed, they think that those dissenting voices should be silenced. When, however, the position is not in keeping with their own, well, that’s a different matter. They will then learn that one can fight city hall (and the government generally) and win. That is hardly the case with the suits at corporate HQ’s. I thus am, as you might suppose from all of the above, no cheerleader for corporate activism no matter which "side" it is on. Life is too short to engage in this sort of discussion on a Guzzi forum. I’ll be happy to continue this at the Moto Grappa, under the pavilion at Tellico Lodge, down by The River in Kentucky on a Mutton Run, or most any place where we might gather in moto-fellowship and share our thoughts along with something worthy of our sipping. Until then, well, I’m out. Best to all, Bill