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Bryan just spent his winter time restoring the ponds at The Lodge at Tellico . . . Jus' sayin' . . .

She looks expensive to maintain. More expensive than the nice V11 she is sprawling over. I’d still employ her as a tool holder and general garage hand, but I’d think she could quickly empty your sack Strangely I’ve never found Guzzi’s to be a babe magnet 🧲

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That all appears correct to me. Perhaps @pete roper just made a posting slip about the Coppa Italia and meant to say "Tenni" . . . Just going for clarification for those investigating the aluminum flywheel "single plate clutch" concerns by model. Also, very glad to see @cash1000's flywheel checked out. Thanks, @MartyNZ !

Right? More of a dude magnet while his babe stands by thinking, "What is all the fuss over ?"

I took Cash1000's RM flywheel to the NDT dept at work. I showed them pictures of cracked and broken flywheels, so they knew what to look for. The next day they said "No cracks. Surprisingly it's perfect". Edit: this is an aluminum alloy flywheel. @cash1000

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Dusty runs a Spring Rally that caters to the old Guzzi crowd and a Fall Rally that set up on Adv Riders board. Just to clarify to help determine which one or both rallies you might want to attend. Me, I saw the Sultan on New Year's and still didn't get it straight.

I'm not sure. I will find out

Hi docc. I did some looking at parts lists, and found (perhaps) what you are asking for. The source for the parts lists is here: https://guzzitek.org/gb/accueil_gb.htm There is a quite amazing collection of workshop manuals and parts catalogues there. Looking at this one: https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11Sport-RossoMandello_1999-2001_062011_PL(GB).pdf There is a reference on page 67 of the document to the "Mandello red clutch" that is, going by the drawings, a single plate clutch. In this one: https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11LM_Naked_2001-2002_052013_PL(GB).pdf the drawing on page 79 shows the twin plate clutch with an additional reference to a single plate clutch labelled "V11 Scura / V11 LM Tenni" The Coppa Italia was, as far as I can tell, a tarted up Cafe Sport. This parts list for the 2003 - 2005 Cafe Sport / Ballabio https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11Cafe_Ballabio_2003-2005_062013_PL(GB).pdf has a picture on the first page of, as far as I have been able to tell, a Coppa Italia. Page 70 shows a twin plate clutch. As far as I can tell, there is no reference to a single plate clutch in there. Hope that helps. I would encourage others to not take the information as undisputed fact, but rather to use it as a starting point for further research to either confirm or refute its veracity.

I am here. Not getting notifications in my email. You are correct it is now on Ebay. This is not my first, only, or last Guzzi haha. Out of the over 800 views and 20 questions no one has pointed out the error with #40 in the listing haha. It is #49 and it has been corrected. I am not trying to scam anyone. I have an excellent Ebay rating. I decided to try a different platform to listing it, I was getting lots of "Will you take 3k?" offers on Facebook...

It may not be re-assurance but I've come to think RM clutch assembly components differ from Scura. It may just be a question of production numbers but can anyone here recall hearing of an RM flywheel failing in a similar way to those in Scuras? For my own peace of mind, I'd be really interested to know why your output shaft bearing failed, & to that end it would be useful to know how driveshaft was aligned. You may have missed my earlier post re my exploding Scura (the driveshaft was badly misaligned, & the paint marks totally wrong from new). Thanks for any info on the driveshaft. Cheers, KB Here's pic from earlier post:

Got my room reservation back from Bryan today. The "Jotform" thing threw me off . . . No, you do not have to create a "Jotform" account to make a reservation. Bryan will confirm your reservation in a few days by email.

Reserved our room before we left last year.

as soon as I hit "submit" I realised what a stupid thing that was to say on a Guzzi forum someone will be along in a minute with a catalogue of the 8 different variations of Ballabio that contrived to roll out of Mandello over a 2 year period

Oh yes. A shittonne lighter. The flywheels and on later models the ring gears have got a lot lighter over the years. The early loops had a flywheel that actually had its own gravitational pull and light would bend going past it! It was vast, as was the ring gear. With the advent of the V7 Sport and 850T it was lightened considerably but it was still huge. That flywheel was what was used in all the T series bikes, the SP, Mille GT, Californias etc. The ring gear was also thinner. Then came the LeMans series and this was lighter again but was still a 'Full Circle' flywheel and used the same ring gear as the 'T' models. After this, with the advent of camshaft triggered ignition there was no longer the need for a full circle flywheel with timing marks so the Daytona and then the Sport 'C' and Centauro got the relieved steel flywheel, (As shown above while I was writing this.). The ring gear was also lightened once again and this assembly remained pretty much identical throughout the entire V11 series and the 2 valve per cylinder CARC bikes that superseded them. The one real oddball was the Sport 'C'. This has its own *Special* flywheel with triggering knobs on its perimeter as they use a weird twin trigger system for their ignition.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing after my first post. It's all a bit moot though. The box is going to have to come out anyway so if when it's pulled out both clutch and flywheel are good then it's essentially got to be internal to the box doesn't it? Perhaps the nuts on the end of the shafts have loosened/spun off? That was the issue with the last V11 box I was buggering about with.

People say this. They say it a lot. It pisses me off. Why. Because the amount it is out of true DOES of course have an effect and the smaller the amount out of true the less the effect. BUT there is also the impact of the shaft angle. Once again the greater this is the greater the loads imposed. Add in all the other loadings imposed by the system and simply RIDING DOWN THE ROAD and the forces imposed on the entire driveline are substantial. I've seen pinion splines twisted off on more than one occasion. I've seen a plethora of gear pinion, UJ and bearing cage damage on bikes that have habitually been run with their trunnions misaligned but at the same time I have seen NO torsional related failures on bikes which have a confirmed history of CORRECT trunnion allignment. OK, I'm full of shit and am not an engineer and therefore I haven't a clue what I'm talking about. You want to think that driveshaft alignment is a small and inconsequential issue? Knock yerselves out. Like I give a f@ck. It's your lives you're playing with, not mine. Remember. I have seen and see LOTS of bikes. About 2 out of 3 V11 Guzzis I see have their driveshafts misaligned. INVARIABLY with 100% feedback, people for whom I've pointed it out and fixed it say there is a noticeable improvement in suspension compliance. OK, so say that an average rider weighs 100KG. Then add in half the bike, another 100KG, then add in the forces acting on the entire system every time the suspension goes up and down and the fact that every time the shaft turns through 180 degrees these forces are going to load up one way and then the other imposing loads that SHOULDN'T be imposed if the system is assembled properly. At speed this will be happening many times a second. You work it out...... I simply can't be arsed any more. Pete