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Apropos vaginas, I don't own one, either, but I have found them quite useful over the years. Lawyers less so, and certainly are less fun -- well, except for one or two that possessed the subject private part, but that was before my Perfect Pillion & Polish Princess , so the less said about that these days, the better. As for lawyers, I understand how folks can think as you do -- and, occasionally, I even share that view. Still, when I hear such statements, I am reminded of the several times over my 50+ years of practice when I picked up such lawyer-bashing folks at the local jail and how happy they were to see me. Bill Member, Kentucky Bar, since 1971

You could easily pay $7,000 for an unmodified bike in this condition, then drop $2,000 finding a perfect set of Titanium cans, HB painted to match bags and racks, a Russel saddle, and the other mods. For somebody who wants this combination of features, the price is reasonable. If you don't want all the extras, maybe you don't like the price.

Ha ha Yep, she sure as hell let me know she wasn't impressed eh! Think I'm forgiven though as she was brilliant on Saturday! And I have promised not to leave her be for so long again... Cheers Ps in fact we're going dancing again on Thursday!!

Newly purchased 2012 Stelvio home with me now. Bought new by PO in 2014 from local Guzzi dealer in in Canada. His wife worked there as saleperson and it has been serviced there until they closed up shop. 7k miles, very nice shape and true to form it seems with every bike I buy, original rubber. Took almost 1 hour to get through customs since nobody there was familiar with bike imports so they had to read the regs and ask a lot of questions with others. First questions asked of me...Moto Guzzi? Is that Japanese? lol Much thanks to the forum members for answering my questions and giving me valuable info, especially Pete Roper. His information was precise and plentiful. After about 30 emails back and forth, I asked if could remove valve cover to confirm roller tappets. The manufacture date was not able to be verified on headstock because all of the stuff in the way but engine numbers were after cutoff. But Pete said only true confirmation was visual, so I asked and owner obliged. I got it for a great price. 600 miles round trip with two nights at my sister's in Seattle to break up the trip. Plus I took care of stuff at her place so she was happy to have me...especially since I fixed her bedroom pocket door that the roller came out of the plate on top of the door. One thing for sure...this bike is not going to see any dirt. I bought it for the highway and that is where it will stay. Tires and CARC bearing service, oil, filter, valve adjustment and fresh non-E gas is on the menu.

A buddy of mine was having a get together on his boat late one afternoon and he walked up on them at the stern and was listening to them talking about meds & ailments . He busted them out saying "40 yrs ago you were braggin' about what drugs you had been taking & now you're complainin' about all the drugs you are taking" !

So, you left your Italian mistress to languish and then, when you finally take out for a dance, she steps on your toes a couple times to make you remember? Could be worse. She might "stab you for no reason at all" . . .

I don't believe there were any changes to the v11 Lemans fairings and supporting framework for the entire run, but one would need to check the parts diagrams for each year to be certain. That being said, I suspect any would work if you were to get the entire assembly from one bike. Not that any of the following is completely helpful with your exact question, but I was just Goggling around about that "Coppa Lemans"/"CoppaMans" about a week ago out of curiosity, and it appears that more than one conversion may have been done or considered. So the links below may be interesting. There were some links to other forums from some of the threads here, but those are apparently dead now. The fellow ( manuelbig ) that did his was a member here for a while, and although he has been inactive since 2012, Jaap may have his email. If so you could reach out to him to see what he remembers about the conversion and any lessons learned. https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/profile/9233-manuelbig/

I don't think they are that interested in the "old gaurd". There's no money to be made on someone who is riding a bike that is 20 years old or more. Piaggio wants to profit from the tradition, that is clear, but on their terms I think. Tight control of the brand name, fashionable accessories only from them directly, and so on. They want to sell the new models, not to help keep patching up the old ones.

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The title and formatting in this new thread is subject to refinement. Help me populate these links, please . . .

I just ordered a set of these from Mike at MPH cycles. The price is now $49 per set. He says he has a few more sets left in stock before he has to have more of them made. If you want a set without waiting for another batch you should grab them now.

On the contrary, I suspect it is "cleaning up" after a couple of decades of no-one paying much attention to such matters in the time pre-Piaggio. An optimistic view is, that they (Piaggio) are serious about the Moto Guzzi brand, and are clearing the decks for the long haul.

Cheers mate. You must be hanging out to put some kays on yours.... Hang in there mate as they're a great ride and you'll love it! Cheers Guzzler Ps as you know we are lucky to be able to ride year round here, just gotta ensure things other than the weather don't get in the way from now on!

the one disadvantage of having "replies" in classifieds.

G'day folk's Well life has conspired to keep me off the green one for the last 6 bloody weeks.....Argghhh! Finally, an opportunity arose to get a ride in turned up when asked to help out at our Dandenong branch last week.So not only did I eagerly volunteer, I didn't give a flying fornication what the weather was going to do or even if it snowed on Friday.... I'm taking the bike! So up a wee bit earlier in case of trouble starting her,I'm togged up and ready to go at 5 am. Ha ha no sign of any snow and a nice cool morning! Hit the starter and bingo she fires right up! I expected some bother after 6 weeks but warmed her up well as I normally do and pulled out the driveway and through town to the Freeway on ramp.Just as I feed in the power to get up to speed, she just loses all power and dies! So Brrrr Brrrrr over to the side of the road and what the....I turn everything off and try to re-start but all I get is d,d d, d,d d, d,d,d and no go! Weird and just as I'm about to get off and call the wife I thought I'd flick the kill switch a couple of times and try again.BINGO she fires up! Great so off to the servo for gas and she won't fire up again! Another flick of the kill switch and she fires up...Phew! I decide I'll keep going but she's running ok but just not quite right.Can't put my finger on it but give her a bit of the ole Italian tune up a few times when I'm certain Mr Plod's not looking and by about 50 or so Kay's she's coming good! By the time I get off the freeway at the other end she's back to her old self again! She stalled when warming up after work but quickly back to normal and I had a so so ride home. It was only due to traffic on a Friday arvo of a long weekend but I did enjoy a few brief clear patches. After that wee taste I decided I'd take the bike again Saturday to see Dad after we'd done the weekly shopping. She fired up ok but I think she took a little bit longer to warm up and idle ?? Not sure but she was all good on leaving the servo again. Now about this time the cloudy overcast morning gives way to a bright and sunny clear 20 degree wind free day and I hit the brilliant twisty bits between Drouin and Lang Lang! Both of us ( me and the bike ) are running well and we have the road to ourselves....! It was just one of those rides where everything goes just right and made even more enjoyable as it'd been too long ! I was babbling away about it for ages when I got to Dad's but my brother's an ex- rider and knew what I was on about! I could see the wistful look in his eyes and left the subject alone from there. Twas a great catch up but more of the same lay ahead on the way home again.I didn't quite have the road to myself this time round but we still had a bloody great ride home. I'm sure as hell not leaving her sitting idle for six weeks again! ( touch wood ). Cheers Guzzler

"I got a moto guzzi gt with keihins and the six speed I got a tab at jc whitney but I ain't got you." goes something like that anyway

I think this is the best place for this. I haven't read the whole thread, so if the answer is in there somewhere, a link would do. I have been trying to find out how the shape and size of the socket for the relay is defined, and by whom. The reason for the search is that I'm a bit interested in finding a source or sources in Europe, better Germany, for an appropriate Relay, i.e. a 5-Pole that I could put in all positions, and maybe also use as a relay for power to the starter motor solenoid. I haven't had a look under the seat yet, but I do know that there is such a thing as a "standard" automobile relay socket. So the questions: Is the socket in all possible cases always the same, i.e. standarised? Which standard does it adhere to, and who defined the standard? Is the standard one that is the same in severals countries (DIN, EC, ASA, whatever...)? Does anyone happen to have a link to a document that describes the standardised socket? I've found a couple of sources with nice diagramms including dimensions for everything, but without knowing the dimensions for the socket, that is not very helpful.

@Scura R I've sent you ManuelBig email address

The primary difficulty with those common ends, and the reason for the factory "solutions" on the V11, is clearance for the throttle rod. Probably the very last function you will want from your speedometer is to observe just where the needle maxes out when the throttle linkage fouls itself fully open on the drive cable . . .

HMB Guzzi is now: HMB-MOTO / https://hmb-moto.de/ Germany Paul's Fast Guzzi's is now: Paul's Fast ***** Page / http://www.minnaert.net/ The Netherlands Radical Guzzi is now: Radical Speedshop / https://www.facebook.com/radicalspeedshop Germany Guzzi e piu is now: https://gpiu.de/ Germany

I have no idea what the story is about how these came to be, and it would be speculation without asking MPH.... so I'll go ahead and speculate They could have arrived at or developed the adapters themselves just based on the realities of the dimensions of the part, or maybe they worked with "Turtle" to carry-on the production after he moved on? I really don't know

Maybe one can see the direction of the company as where they spent the development money. Piaggio spent it on the Euro 5 compliant small block and a completely new water cooled "Big Block". That said, look at the California model, a Moto Guzzi staple from 1971 to 1921, once they gave up on that model (1400 couldn't make Euro 5), all that's left is the future. Probably another Stelvio along side the V100, its a different customer base than the California EV set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Guzzi_California#:~:text=Moto Guzzi have produced a,Italian furniture maker Poltrona Frau.

The way the headlamp and instruments are mounted to the Scura-R is the same as the frame mounted set-up of the Café Sport, Coppa Italia, and Ballabio. Other than the matter of mounting the LeMans fairing and mating up to the headlamp/instruments, I wonder about clearance for the handlebars (versus the LeMans' clip-ons) . . .

This also happens when the battery is near completely drained (especially Lithium) - seems it can expend the last bit of energy starting engine & runs for a bit but the ECU can go brain dead & not have enough synaptic connections to make any decisions! Dies Like a shot of Floradix tonic - give battery a charge

Not a very god way to get ready to sell something? Piss everyone off before it goes up for sale .

Or actually beneficial . . .

You know you're gettin' old when you make the statement "it's been 47 yrs. since I've smoked ANY pot . Then you sit there and muse that for an hour.

Bugger indeed. But mate, I bought mine in December, and still haven't ridden more than about 120 km. . I think spring is starting to spring here, but it's still going to be another two weeks at least before it gets good. I hope you get a good winter with regular sunny days where you can ride a bit.

Thanks and yes perhaps. The challenge in my situation is the number of modifications I have that may not lend themselves to a standard map or someone else's custom map without actually measuring AF across the map. I dropped him a personal message several days ago though to see what advice or maps he may have. I'm in no hurry as tuning the ECU and/or PCIII will be the last things on my long list, a list itself which is still behind a few other projects. But I'm just reacquainting myself with all this information as I start that process. See here for the modifications that may make using a standard or someone else's custom ECU map impossible or difficult. And I would actually consider reverting to using the airbox, but modifications I made to the fuel tank to "balance" the fuel availability makes reinstalling the airbox impossible. So we're sticking with "pods"... well the K&N's that have the long runner pods like velocity stacks. https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/profile/4-al_roethlisberger/?tab=field_core_pfield_19

A summary of all three metal core gaskets that MG Cycle sells: ENGINE SUMP GASKET CALIFORNIA 1400 SERIES, GRISO 1200 8V PART NUMBER: B063861 https://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=5495 VALVE COVER GASKET METAL BREVA 11/12 GRISO VINTAGE NORGE 976139 PART NUMBER: 976139B https://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4634 METAL CORE TIMING COVER GASKET, BIG TWINS UNTIL 2009 GU05001230 PART NUMBER: 12001200M https://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=5044

You can and just for safety's sake put 5 pin relays in all positions . The one 5 pin relay in your bike now acts as a load shedding relay. This removes all unnecessary power so all the current can go to start the bike.

Yeah... California, Nevada, the Stelvio National Park, and LeMans are gonna have to think of something quick.

I think its an excellent name!

All kidding aside, I propose we pin thread in FAQ with links to current business names with links and a reference to the name that had to be surrendered.

I welcome any feedback,while this topic is on the burner,because it also happens to be on my "to do" list; there is one other aspect to this that iirc was an issue. I've read a ton of info on the pros/cons replacing the gaskets in the crossovers with solid machined pieces vs just eliminating the crossover completely with new headers. Iirc there were a few/many? owners that replaced the gaskets at the crossover with solid machined metal pieces and experienced cracking in a variety of places around fixed fastening points of the header pipes, because of the loss of flexibility dealing with vibration/engine/pipe movement etc. fwiw idk

Yeah, just plug the ECU in directly. Look, especially, at your CO Fuel Trim setting. "Zero" is a good place to start. Negative double digits are worth zeroing. With a proper "Decent Tune-up," any desire to keep a PC will likely fade . . . Here, Al, I distilled our collective knowledge into this compendium thread. The first post is all 6 steps.

It mainly affects the 8V's and the problem seems to be that the gallery in both block and spacer is larger and the bottom of the gallery in the block has a largish chamfer on it. This means that the actual thickness of the clamping surface for the gasket is very thin. Couple this with the clamping force being applied still by only two 6mm bolts and the shitty quality of the original gasket and it's a recipe for disaster. PS. It has been known to happen n 2V CARC bike engines too, but it's much rarer. I wonder if it became an issue when they went to the trochoidal pump from the gear pump but I'll likely never know.

I feel like the SSR may have mellowed over time, coming into our nineteenth. No law enforcement stories since, well, "pretty early on" , plus no one would have dreamed of messing with Seventh South'n SpineRaiders. These guys could re-gap your plugs in a heartbeat . . .

+1 True, as the oil pressure switch rides ahead of the left cylinder, vulnerable to the weather. IIRC, the connector to the oil pressure switch on the V11 are all just pressed on with no shielding. Worth a careful clean, crimp, seal (Vaseline®). I sourced a switch boot from the EV series for mine . . .

How could this be posted with such a high degree of confidence? There was enough member participation in the "Livin' Easy Test" to draw conclusions . . . If your V11 Start Relay is "Livin' Easy", consider the Startus Interruptus mod. If your V11 fails the Livin' Easy Test? Be certain you run a quality, rated High Current relay in that #1 position (1999-2001 V11) . . .

V11 owners, note: This concern applies to V11 harnesses from 2002, and from 2003-2005. The early (1999-2001) Sport and Rosso Mandello already use a relay and do not benefit from this improvement. They do, however, benefit from a High Current relay in the #1/Start position.

An update from MPH regarding their "Startus Interruptus" kit, specifically for the V11 Sport/Lemans: https://mphcycles.com/starter-relay-fix-kit/ They are currently out of the V11 kit, and need to order relays to build more, but are in the process of doing so if anyone is interested.

What's slippery-squirt?

His Bike His choice imo

I could be interested in mounting a Le Mans fairing on my Scura R 2005( if I can find one for sale). The Scura R is technically identical to Cafe Sport and Coppa Italia. Will the fitting be relatively easy? Can I keep the 2005 dash? I have seen a Coppa Italia with Le Mans fairing somewhere, so I know it`s done. But can I use any year model? Tried to find this topic, and sorry if it already exists.

maybe tidy up loose ends for a potential sale of MG?

It's that, and it is a very big corporation that makes millions of scooters and a couple of thousand Moto Guzzis per year. Someone in a suit contracted a lawer's practice to look for "infringements" on the net. No-one is looking to see if the "infringement" is really detrimental to the Moto Guzzi image or not.