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It's a bastardised Tonti with some sort of squarefin 2V motor in it. So what? These things are like locusts. I used to love a 'Cafe' Tonti, but they have become, like this unit, 'Cookie Cutter' items bought from a catalog just the same as any 'Screamin' Eagle' Harley. OK, the aftermarket suppliers may be independent, unlike the 'Screamin' Eagle' catalog suppliers but it's the same thing. They may well be 'Independent Builds' but they are all terribly boring and formulaic. The naked frame triangle, or coy copy of a V7 Sport tool box. The battery under the gearbox. The clip ons and rearsets. The absence of any suggestion of practicality and funniest of all, these things often are based on old roundfins and they STILL wear shitty 30mm VHB carburettors! What do these idiots not get about the name they adopt 'Cafe'? OK, that sort of has some sort of oddball reference to a mad cult in the south of England sixty plus years ago. Perhaps if you stretch the point you could say that an engine and frame that didn't go into production between ten and fifteen years after the 'Cafe Racer' thing could be made to look relevant but basically it's a load of tiresome, irrelevant, wank! But then they don't do anything to increase the performance! So where in the name of holy F*ck is the 'Racer' part of the equation??? Look, I'm glad these people have built these things and they make them happy. At the end of the day though fawning over them is like wanking to AI porn. YOMV. (PS, I have a picture, not a good one, that I can't post on this site of a much younger me with my little green hot-rod. It looks like a T3 but it made 81 rear wheel BHP out of 891cc. It torched its big ends frequently because to make that I had to rev it to 10,000 indicated by the Veglia. It was stuffed full of twenty years experimentation and a lot of money. Then I bought an 1100 Griso which made a bit less power but did EVERYTHING better and didn't blow up regularly. @#!#$# 'Cafe Racers'!)

I know Mr. Roper will lose sleep over a Tonti frame being used for this project, but to each his own. This build is deserving of the Tonti, and so is the engine: https://www.bikeexif.com/moto-guzzi-v11-tonti-frame Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

The more ugly bikes that are out there, the better mine looks. I actually like looking at anything built.

@Joe I think Pete has got the 1400 in a CARC bike already covered. At least for the past 4 or 5 years.

Relay bypass surgery, Roper plate,evap garbage removal, what else? I'd like to work towards "priceless" ...uh yeah mosfet, etc...I imagine that it is like an old world cathedral; when the work is completed the world ends. 🙃

No sleep to loose. That is not a V11 LeMans/Sport motor/drivetrain. Let's say it's a V11 "EV" or "Cali" square fin with a 5speeder gearbox and not our reardrive. So, someone made a slumpy croozer-goozzee into a café ride. (A VERY nice one, I would say!) No Spine Frames were harmed in this . . .

I reckon some of the modern V7s are quite pretty, but not sports bikes and very much too "sit up and beg". I even test rode a V7 850 a couple of months ago to make sure. Spent the whole ride wondering how hard it would be to fit clip-ons to it. Modern sports bikes: yes, undoubtably wonderful machines. If only they didn't all look like the 8th. or 9th. edition of a transformer movie after the ideas had all run out.

Pete, How about a modern cafe racer based off of a CARC donor bike?

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Linking this to the Tank Off Maintenance Checklist. Something I need to see to, myself . . .

Some 8% of the male population have "red-green shift color blindness." Legnano Green would not look to "green" to those folks at all. V11 Sport and LeMans variants are generally becoming worth more and more than us long-timers would think. Especially for those "unmolested" examples. As for me, I would want a little something extra for the molestation. That has been a ton of time and effort invested in intentional groping and fondling . . .

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The CARC platforms don't lend themselves to anything like this. The wheelbase is too long so they always look like they've had an unfortunate arse-accident! The exhaust on that thing is absurd, it will be a blubbering mess below 6,000 and then it'll take off like a cut cat for 1,500 rpm before falling flat on its face again. So it's both ugly and ridiculous and we won't even begin to talk about how long the throttlebodies will last with the woeful air filtration.

I know that. My old Camaro had all that too. Computer + knock sensor. Where I'll disagree is that it won't go any better or faster. No seat of the pants difference whatsoever. I ran both cars for years running 91 premium. I switch to cheap gas and it runs exactly the same. So I've done a before and after. The computer was already calibrated for premium. I don't even pay for 100% gas, I get the cheaper 10% ethanol. If I felt a difference, I'd pay for premium. One advantage with cheap gas, it's fresher and gets pumped out sooner, less chance of old gas and contamination. If I was tracking the car or running down the strip, I'd follow your advice. I'm a little skeptical it would make more than a few hundredths on the quarter mile but why leave it to chance? For my bikes, I buy premium. I don't want to risk detonation, particularly those legacy big cylinder air cooled Guzzis with the clunky gearbox that makes me occasional lug the engine if I take out in 2nd. But that's another story. And I will admit that I'm not totally convinced that what's pumped out of the 91 pump is any different than the 87. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't

Yeah, yeah. The same stuff that everybody does. Most, if not all, available 'Off the shelf! A lightened flywheel? A 'High Torque' cam? So a mm ground off the base circle of the 'Lawnmower' cam or perhaps a B10 or P3 type grind? Twin plugging? Vital with such a shitty combustion chamber design. Even the facory did it at the end. The oil condensor system has to be improved over the system used on Low Head Tonti's or they puke their oil out and run their mains. None of this is exceptional and has been common practice and well known for forty or more years! And boring out a set of PHM's to 41mm? Wow! Colour me bored! As I said, I'm glad the people who build these things are happy but the Oooh-ing and Ahh-ing is laughable and makes me want to puke! But that's me. I'm not the arbiter of your or anyone else's taste. I am though entitled to my opinion and being an irascible old bastard I'm more than happy to state it!

I noticed this sentence in the text: If the bloke actually listened and acted upon Peter's advice, the bike is likely to be very good. I've not had any significant contact with Peter, having only bought a couple of bits off him a couple of months back as he was clearing out his workshop. He is, however, literally a Legend in the German speaking Guzzi world.

Addendum, regarding servicing the crankcase ventilation: (Thanks @worthyperformance! )

On hot restart, make sure the fuel pump is primed and tank is vented. If it doesn't start due to that, open the gas cap and add fuel as necessary. Don't ask how I know this. Public service notice

Thinking more about a hot engine restart, especially in high ambient temperatures, I am reminded of the fact that the fuel/ignition mapping runs a rich condition for >4000 revolutions (it is an exact number that @Lucky Phil shared with us) on EVERY start-up regardless of actual engine/ambient temperatures. Under certain conditions (hot motor + hot air) this could contribute to very poor running, especially at idle, during that enrichening period.

There is nowhere, anywhere, that has a Classified section like ours . . .

In case a V11 sump doesn't fit.... Mike at HMB makes a sump extension that allows for an external filter at the rear: https://hmb-moto.de/Oil-sump-extension-for-oil-cooler-with-rear-external-filter I don't know if that fits the Quota. You'd have to ask him yourself. And yes, it is expensive. Low numbers, specialist product, good quality... I gather that version, should it even fit the Quota, can interfere with some exhaust systems. HMB also offers a version with a filter on the front to avoid that issue. I don't know it that fits the Quota either. However, as far as I know, the Quota motor is more or less the same as the California motor of the time, so I reckon you have a chance.

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