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I got the bike home, what a sweaty job, it was about 90f and 90 humidity.. got it started for the first time in 6 years. It was put up nicely with clean carbs and tank. We just filled the float bowls to see if it would run and it does. I won’t get time to mount the tank and test ride until Monday. I’ll get some good pics then. I’m really pleased with the acquisition. 42k but had a total take down to the last bolt in 2003.. has the Gilardoni kit and a lot of parts were replaced and re chromed etc..10k since the restoration.

They are enormous DB bags, (Dan Brown?) that were modified by the PO.. he did a fantastic job and it wasn’t easy. Cut and re fiber glassed smoothed and painted. here’s another bike with the bags in original shape, note the bump out on the back which had some running or brake lights, he cut those off so the turn signals fit better. Aesthetically mine look a lot classier.

She's been bugging me for a little face lift for a while now. So I finally caved in and gave it a little something to make it "POP". Now it's my V-11 LeMams/Superveloce .

Stay tuned..

Not yet.

Getting the whole thing this afternoon

Yes, the tank had a dent and CG repaired and painted it to the tune of a few thousand. Receipts call the bars civilian. But if you mean the bars on the full dress bike thats not mine just a pic from the web. My tank not mounted yet, I’ll get to that tomorrow.

Any updates?

That wasn't me though. That's an actual Moto Guzzi print advertisement. Found it on "This Old Tractor" site - where there are lots of cool ads and manuals about the Ambassador and other models.

Vive la Révolution, Vive la République et Vive la France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

MartyNZ is correct about white Leds. The 2 small arrows are too small a surface to get much light through. I went with my original plan, which is very easy to see, even in sunlight.

One of the most beautiful tanks/paint schemes of all time.

thanks for all the suggestions! It is kind of an odd problem but important. I purchased the Etsy cover because I could get it in red...

FWIW.... https://www.thisoldtractor.com/for_sale_wiring_harness_ordering.html Art PS - If a problem exists with ign., clutch, start button switches,wiring, etc., adding a high current relay will not solve an intermittent cranking issue. I think if I had an intermittent cranking issue I'd begin looking for weak areas ....switches! These bikes are 20+ yeas old, things go bad from sitting or age & use.

Finally made it here! Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

@guzzler Simply put, where mine is C5 & R12, yours is C3 & R9.

Done. Thank you, Jaap!

A black Quat-D on a Scura ExtraDark . Now, that's just . . . . edgy . . .

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

As a long time Susan Tedeschi fan, the whole TTB thing took the music to another level . . . Look at this little kid!?!? (thirty years ago, July 4th) . . .

A proper Bolero. More than a quarter of an hour long, consisting of only 4 musical elements, and it never gets boring. I chose this version because I have helped mix a concert featuring this piece with that conductor, but with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor is truly brilliant.

Is it coming back