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Hey @chamberlin, thank you for chiming in, I wasn’t sure if you were still active on this forum. What a shame not knowing the whereabouts of that bike after all the efforts you poured into it. Nevertheless, I for one really enjoyed reading your narrative about that build and the spirited approach you maintained all the way through, not cutting any corners in following your ideas/ideals.. Chapeau Monsieur!

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Joel Levine Inc.; I am making a separate thread because his credentials were buried in a different post. Credit to LowRyter for sharing the address in the first place. I wanted this ITI odometer repair option to have its own thread for visibility purpose. Like many other owners of Moto Guzzi V11, my ITI/hUR odometer had stopped working at 8865 miles. As we all know, the instruments installed by Moto Guzzi on these V11 always were failure prone. Starting with the Veglia, and thereafter the ITI/hUR. By the way, after making contact with a specialist shop in Italy, they said the actual metering part of the gauge was made in Korea or Japan. Only the container that bears the name ITI was made in Italy. The guy that fixes these instruments here in the USA gets its parts from Japan. Maybe hUR is a Japanese company after all. So, here's included the message from Joel Levine Inc. from La Fayette in Georgia. This is an alternative to either purchasing a failure prone replacement Speedo/Odometer cluster, which are found on eBay (as I type this) for about USD 700, or the SpeedHut alternative which is well documented in its dedicated thread.

I second that........

@Scud I will definitely visit, sometime soon. I'd driven my bike to work about ten times now, each a 40 mile round trip. Each day, I repair, adjust, or observe something new. Today, I lost two of the three screws that hold the exhaust tip into the silencer. A lunch run to the hardware store should get me home, then I'll apply some lock-tight. As for the speedo, I read extensively many of the threads on the forum. In addition, searched online extensively for choices. Since my cable and drive work, I'm going to take the cable into Autozone, just for the hell of it, and see if it fits any of the cable driven speedos they stock. If it can be made to fit, I'll go that way. If not, I'll attempt to have Joel Levine fix what I have, and hope for a long life. I know, I know, This means I'll be adding Speedhut a few years from now.

The only complaint I have with the Speedhut speedo is that the trip meter numbers are so small. My old man eyes cannot read the trip meter while riding. They are a bit time consuming to install properly in the stock gauge cups, but several of us have done so with some variation in methods (I think all documented in the previously posted link.) If you swing by, I can show you the Speedhuts on my Nero Corsa - and I think I have a set of functional gauges in a drawer if you want to take a look at those before pulling yours out.

Never heard from the guy after the bike was picked up... nothing, nada. The shipping guy was touring around the country picking up other bikes for this guy... I think he was in the PNW or Vancouver, BC.

Wouldn't that be some find . . . FWIW, it is probably the odometer/trip odometer most critical for our application owing to unforgiving fuel range . . .

In my opinion THIS is the best bet out there and at not such a terrible price if you really want one. considering is it has all the bits you need to mount it except the 2 hose clamps ..which you can get anywhere..the mounting bracket, rubber bushings and proper inserts, stainless nuts etc..all are not so easy to find.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/354444595918?hash=item52868b52ce:g:6RYAAOSwjNJjld1A&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsHvewL77P4baGc71WNa4DCsyJUeuYaBURmdZpUIlhjPM09NB8esyOF2RieDI7fowUGwapcgyGPWDEBXA1X%2Fj%2BJkUXGtHGmv2fp2Sg1TdgdnDWOWlpyfJLZ3sHb%2FT89s0Gyj68UAZOgxoV%2BEduWp9eS7nOQuF%2BXvoTlwGs5d9SOtsBA8l82eSxXEx%2FSoS0YyROTQc31Q3tlnHm%2BoEJ7OU4L7ALvN4HE%2Fxepj0lgIPTK4U|tkp%3ABk9SR6ai68qlYQ

Just thinking how fun it is to ride 100 mph on a bike, and then imagine how fast 200 mph feels on a Moto GP bike and then another 100 mph on top of that - that's truly insane - must be a hell of an adrenaline rush! The Bugatti is just an amazing piece of art...couldn't agree more! I wonder what the highest mileage Bugatti in the world has...probably not more than a few thousand miles I should imagine...it's difficult to add the miles when you're just doing Sunday drives around Monaco or Dubai!

First you need to determine what your problem actually is. As mentioned, problems with the cable drive are more likely than a problem with the speedo itself. If it is the speedo, there are people who can repair them, but parts can be tricky to aquire as it is not considered "serviceable" by Guzzi. Probably the easiest option if the speedo is toast is a GPS speedo from Speedhut. That eliminates dealing with the cable drive. Other options include using a pulse driven speedo and getting a widget that converts the speedo drive output to pulses. That is what I have on my Daytona. It works, but it would have been easier to just go with a GPS speedo from Speedhut. But, as mentioned, I would figure out what is actually wrong, first.

Members on here have opened these up in a couple of ways. Finding those threads is probably harder than the job. I 'cut' open an earlier white face tach and found it cheap and an unwelcome place to work. I replaced it with a used one I found for $100. If yours is broken, you have nothing to lose so I would have a go at fixing it. I doubt you'll find parts anywhere other than in used "parts" gauges. I had some later black face ones I sold awhile back to a member who was wanting to do the same project as yourself. Don't recall who it was but would be a good source for info. Aside from that, I'd spring for the Speedhuts. Waaaaay head in tech and quality, and beautiful.

The cable and drive are A-OK! I hooked up a drill and spun it up. I guess the speedo gear must have taken a dump. I'm apt to open it and repair it myself, if I can get the parts, and it's obvious. I've repaired a few speedos in the past, different cars and bikes and such. Joel Levine has offered to take care of it for me, but hasn't offered a price. Any idea what that cost? btw, I set the valves this weekend, and adjusted the forks a bit more. Ran it to work again today; no leaks, runs well, and the suspension is much stiffer, more to my liking. I'll set the sag this week while my father is visiting for Christmas. Dialing it in little by little.

Maaan, I just went thru this 20 pages thread like I was reading a novel. What a saga, stupendous! Was kind of left hanging at the end though and wondering whatever happened to this bike... Might it resurface one day? And all this work gone into creating this splendid machine and never riding it!!??

Pretty sure my preparation/installation of the Speedhut took up four or five pages of that "Installing . . ." thread. Far from Plug&Play. Worth it? I hope. I just could not bring myself to buy a fourth Veglia speedo and still pain over the fussy angle drives and all the little plastic gears. Looks like I put a couple years into "being interested", six weeks with order/design/delivery, and about five weeks on the actual installation. Big improvement over what my Sport had gotten to . . . Yep, learn your fuel range and how that is reflected on whatever odometer you are using. "Fuel Level Warning Light" is for entertainment purposes only . Expect an early "short/ chin-pad" tank to deliver maybe 5.1 US gallons before requiring the roadside "tip-slosh" . . . Sputter-out sooner in a downhill right-hander.

title had me a little bit worried at what I might not be able to unsee ... bit since it was in tech topics and not in idle banter thought I'd give it a go

I found the full history of C.E.V. on an Italian website, and they also offer a translation in English... the company starts in 1906. The actual name is HB4 Here's the link to the website:

Just an interesting point, the Ducati monster/750ss/900ss CEV / ITI gauges have a metal gear, where the Guzzi one is plastic . I replaced the gears myself in my ITI speedo and it's holding up well, unfortunately the speedo body is 2mm wider otherwise I would have just fit the whole thing! Here is my ITI speedo in pieces with the new parts fitted. So that silver worm gear on my (lovely) workbench is actually sliver plastic, whereas the one I fitted from the Ducati speedo is metal. Likewise for the long gear on the left, the old one is all chewed up as you can see, It is a weird design as it is tapers towards the bottom end and sits over another worm gear that, without enough grease, just rubs a notch in it over time. I also scavenged all the parts for the trip reset knob, which works fine now!

Joel fixed the Veglia Speedo on my V11 Sport. Still working.

Maybe a lot of bikes didn't get exhaust gaskets. I wonder if that could be a factor in some coughing/sneezing. I was reading about head re-torque after new gaskets - like many things, there are differences of opinion. But it seems that some of the issue has to do with how the gaskets are made. Some materials need re-torque, others don't. I'll probably call MG Cycle next week and ask about the gaskets I got from them. I need to get a copy of Guzziology. I did step 2, but not step 1. But I did torque, loosen, and then re-torque in 5 lb/ft increments starting at 15. I'm running the valves looser than the loosest factory settings already. Retorqueing takes a fair amount of time, since the rocker arms have to come off to access the head nuts, which in turn mandates a valve adjustment. Thanks for adding step 6. With my new clutch, Roper Plate, fresh gaskets, fluids, plugs... I hope the next wrench is nothing more than oil and tires. I'm hell-bent on riding the Sherman Pass over the Sierra Nevadas on the LeMans this summer.