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May be no difference, just knowing where it's set. Does she she need a second coming back to idle ? Inspect trottle wire, specialy where it's connected to the trottle body. Seems the bracket can be bendt a little releaving some strees for the fine wire. Cheers Tom.

Looks like you have a spare 10mm open end wrench. Most people carry them in their tool pouch.

Yes, the angle of the throttle cable to the bell crank can be problematic and even fray/break strands of the cable. Simple to inspect and correct:

Each bike & owner are unique. I "think" because guzzis are such beautiful, emotionally satisfying pieces of rolling mechanical art, there are many people quite content to park them in the garage,,, look at them or start them occasionally,but have no inclination/desire/intention of diving in and doing what it takes to make them reliable riders. I came vary close recently,to buying a "sight unseen" Norge, it was relatively low mileage,well farkled,cheap,aaannnnnddddd in my favorite faster colour. lol The owner/seller had owned the bike for 3 yrs;although he was an old guzzisti,he never really rode the bike. When I quizzed the owner about known Norge issues;he was oblivious to them,but was emphatic that he checked the oil regularly changing it every year. When examined in person,I noted that this 16 yr old Norge never had the lack of a hole in the fairing lower addressed,,, After 16 yrs of ownership by POs;there was still no easy way to check & add oil,, Hidden issues like single plate clutches,recall trannies,flattie 4Vs, etc;would be very easy for a lot of owners to overlook,,,perhaps not by you or I fwiw ymmv

Don't worry about the day light/tail light/Fuse 6. That is a separate circuit with no relay. So, you have power from Fuse 5 to the #2 relay? But no power to pull in the relay coil with the ignition switch on? I would be inspecting the Ignition Switch for a broken wire where they are soldered onto the switch.

Seriously makes me wonder about the internal clutch master spring condition. Rebuild kit is readily available and not hard to install. How many miles on your V11?

https://www.motiveproducts.com/collections/brake-bleeder-kits/products/0100-european-bleeder

I have been searching for a well kept, low mileage, single owner V11 for a while now. I have found a few and missed out on them for one reason or another. Distance, price or recall status all factored in. I found a beauty but recall work was not performed. Owner said he brought it in to his dealer to get the service done, and dealer refused because MG wouldn't reimburse him enough. The owners of bikes like these usual reply to me when I ask about it is they have driven it for years and never had a problem. I then move on. I know if I got a notice in the mail way back when I would have acted on it immediately, no matter how many cages I had to rattle. So my question is...are there people riding on them all over without regard for this? I dont want to take an unnecessary risk. Being prudent seems like a very reasonable thing to do IMO.

The very first guzzi tune up & fueling balance I ever did,was on my CX100. That bike has a "country clutch";the clutch grabbiness on that bike decreased immensely,after the fueling was balanced. Just a WAG,but if your basic tune & balance is way off; it probably adds to the grabbinesss. The prospect of some of the finer details can be intimidating, but tuning these guzzis so they're running sweet, is one of life's greatest pleasures. fwiw ymmv

That was shocking noise, wasn't it @kalev11 ? Apparently, the dramatically mis-set TPS caused such running imbalance at idle that the cylinder firing combined with the wear of my flywheel to sound like nine monkeys fighting their way out of a steel barrel with ball pien hammers . . .

I am not certain what the current availability of rotors is for our V11s. Some braking systems (cars I have owned, i.e. Volvo) were designed to change the rotors with pads. "But they have great brakes " was my service writer's reply to my bitching, er, "objection." AFAIK, our Brembo are not designed this way. I realize racing look$ at expendable part$ differently.

If it was closer to me and going for a lower price, I'd have been tempted to get it just for the black Quat D exhaust to stick on my Scura. Otherwise, it does seem a fine machine.

Reserve not met on 7/10/23 at $5,200 Jul 10 at 2:46 PM $5,200 bid placed by BlackRifle Jul 10 at 2:45 PM $4,800 bid placed by Eltoc Jul 10 at 2:43 PM $4,700 bid placed by BlackRifle Wow,very interesting auction,,,, It looked like someone was getting a bargain,,, a higher reserve never crossed my mind. One of the comments mentioned that it was easily a $6K bike,,, seems like at least the seller believes that.

Bid to $5200, reserve not met.

Hey Docc, Tks for doing such a great job documenting this challenging bit of maintenance. Fwiw, I'm sure there are many different cheap rotating flexible grease gun tips out there. I partially disassembled the adapter to make it work for me;It looks you & guzziglide used it "as purchased" Whatever works.

...ends in 2 hours, only $4200 thus far.

Unfortunately I just placed a Speedhut order 2 weeks ago or I would have jumped on this. For reference for anyone looking, I just payed Speedhut ~$500 for the same two gauges.

I ordered the kit from MG cycle. My sport has around 13000 miles on it.

If you mean play before the lever engages the piston. I don't know its tough to say with no pressure. I had the lever adjusted all the way out to lengthen the pull when I was pumping. That's not how I normally ride.

I was in the process of greasing the front U joint and inspecting bearings when I hit this snag. The bike is on a center stand on a lift with the swing arm removed. I even went so far as to carefully separate the perch from the bars and manipulate the whole thing so any bubbles had an opportunity to rise without letting the reservoir t draw air. I don't know why the PO glued the screw?? I can't imagine the MC just decided to poop the bed at the very instant I tried to maintenance it. I really have 2 choices. Figure it out or burn the garage down. I'm going to sleep on it.

All good. I have my own history and reverence for our US Independence Day. Yet, we are an international community, so this is not relevant to all of our members. The same awkward circumstance occurred when the Queen of England passed. That was not "silly banter", but mattered to some of our community. Yet, we have no other "catch-all" subforum. I am asking our Chief Whip to consider re-titling this subforum that we may keep a place for banter and conversation that is not V11/Guzzi/technical/archived . . .

Docc, my comment was not a real criticism, as there is no perfect place for such things. And, after all, it was banter. Yes, some solemn, even reverent between-the-lines meaning, but still banter. I apologize if I came across as the Old Guy I am. Bill

As so many times, I will make this reply and promptly report myself. It is on me when topics get moved. There was no other place for this, yet this matter has come up before: A topic gets posted that is not technical, motorcycle, or Guzzi related and . . . where does it belong? I will discuss this with our Admin/ Chief Whip @Admin Jaap and perhaps we may retitle this subforum as a "catch-all" without suggesting silliness or frivolity. Matters of Silly Banter and Redneck Trashtalk shall ever have a place here, though. Some of our best "conversation!"

Busy -- a good thing at my age! -- so have missed this and a number of other threads recently. I suppose that this thread is banter, but celebrating Independence Day is, IMO, hardly silly. My fourth great grandfather, Corporal James Hagan, Jr., served with the Maryland line of the Continental Army from 1776 -1783. He was seriously wounded at Eutaw Springs on 8 September 1781 ... interestingly, that is the day in 2023 that Kathi and I will arrive at Tellico Springs for this year's SSR. We celebrate The Fourth in a serious way. Unlike most folks around here who -- oddly, it seems to us -- put up Christmas decorations in November and toss it all in the garbage on the 26th, we leave ours up until Epiphany. Those same people put up the Fourth display here around Memorial Day, but as soon as the boom and smoke of the fireworks clear, down come the flags, etc. We put up our Independence Day bunting on the first or second of July, but leave those up for at least a week after. Here's what our front gate looks like "as we speak!" Bill

During my current Wheel Off Maintenance session, racing Mr. Waddington to the upcoming Nineteenth South'n SpineRaid, I gave this a go. I have tried EVERYTHING, over all this time, to grease "that bloody farking front UNI joint " as @dangerous so aptly referred to it. Many of you recall that I finally resolved to just pull my swingarm every third rear tire and triage the shaft . . . Like @Guzziglide, I approached the front Zerk from forward of the swingarm using the 180º swivel tip, with the Zerk at the "twelve o'clock" position/ straight up. With the swivel tip aimed as acute as possible, and the grease gun held as high as possible, I was finally able to connect and feel the grease enter the U-joint. I found it helpful to slightly relieve (unscrew) the tension on the tip. A little grease comes out of the connection, but that is okay for this long-sought success! [view, below, shows the direction of access, but the tip has to be oriented vertically and aimed as far forward as possible with the grease gun raised high to the point of contacting the frame side plate]: [endoscopic view, from behind, through the swingarm]: Compared to @Guzziglide's images , it seems the enigmatic, early RedFrame/ShortFrame needs a bit more radical approach angle to make this work. (Still not sure what changed or why the ShortFrames are so much more difficult): Best outcome, ever! I set @80CX100's post as "Best Answer."

A Quorum of Quotas! From the Quota Treffen France 2023... Italian/German/French all rolled into 1 meet...

Truth be known, with fourteen of us in the queue (never again!), I knew there were several unprepared to roll into that 55ºF/13ºC cloud ceiling from the 90ºF basin we rode up from, and pulled us off to regroup and "suit-up". The hapless fellow's dangerous exhaust falling off was spotted by one of our sharp-eyed SpineRaiders . . .

BTW, this is the rebuild kit I used. Brembo number: 110436292 I questioned the MG Cycle "rectangular" description and that the V11 is not in the applications list, yet there we have it . . . https://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_112&products_id=5196

No , you're gonna love it. Don't expect wheelies , stoppies or whatever else they call these stunts . Just fun . You now are officially a weirdo !

Perfetto! It will be fun to gather at the pavilion and try to recount all the different Guzzis Bill Hagan has ridden to South'n SpineRaids since the first in 2004 . . .

That's my favorite! Not sure if it's a silver bike with a black tank or a black bike with silver fenders. If there was only 15 of these things made, they are rarer than a Tenni! I'll start the bidding at $11,500

I will take the wheel and swing arm off later this summer but managed to grease the front uni using the same grease coupler as @80CX100. Worked like a charm. Had the weight off the suspension to do it. https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/motomaster-180-degree-swivel-grease-gun-coupler-0282760p.html?rrecName=Similar Items&rrecReferrer=product&rrecProductId=0282760P&rrecProductSlot=2&rrecSchemeId=product3_rr&rrec=true

Is it coming back

Not sure where this goes on the forum, wow…