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It was flawless. Went anywhere I wanted. I also waited almost 3 years to get it but it was worth the wait.

Gut yer cans while you can, lads! Rip some holes in the atmosphere!

Roadtrip US 1982. 16000km, 3300liter of fuel. Brooklyn- Florida- S Frisco- Mexican border- Florida- NY. YES it was hot in Death Valley. 67 Catalina, NO AC. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

That new idling rpm has had an effect on my instinctive driving. I was so accustomed to my low revs, that now, when I stop at a traffic light, I think something is wrong. Like I have not returned the throttle to its back stop. However, the V11 is easier to ride in traffic as I can let it idle run. No need to touch the throttle. No hiccup as if trying to just run it on a very narrow opening. It is still 100 degrees F here (38C).

Hi P6x…the ethanol free gas at Bucees in Hempstead on 290 at FM362 is 92 octane…always been good quality with no issues. I’ve had bad premium gas from small stations a couple of times only …once in Sedan, Kansas after leaving the Cedar Vale rally and once in Utah near Vernal. Both times I used a gas treatment and the problem was solved…

A couple pics from my recent roadtrip across the country. Even had dinner with some Guzzi guy... It was the entire month of June and I covered 9k miles.

Interesting; The Federal recommendation, if I am not wrong, is for Premium fuel to be minimum 91 Octanes (R+M/2), usually max being 93 (R+M/2). This reinforces the idea that Buc-ee's purchases fuel from various suppliers. The photo below is from 2022. 90 Octanes (R+M/2). 87 Octanes (R+M/2) on Buc-ee's at Katy.

Hi FG, No the amazon bezel won't work, unfortunately but thanks for looking. The LED pilot bulb is a sylvania #194. I got it at Walmart, was about $7 and was on a hook in the automotive bulb display area. Don't forget to read the instructions....if it doesn't work initially, remove it, rotate it 180 degrees and reinstall...polarity sensitive. Art

Well played adventure Dave. And a really nice rig.

Today I did nothing on or to the Guzzi, but something for a Guzzi: paid for it. A Breva 750 i.e. with less than 10,000 km on the clock, to be precise 9,883 km. . Of those, about 9,500 were ridden before 2013. Effectively one owner. There are two in the papers, but the first was a dealership. It was a "test-ride" bike. Actually a fairly boring motorcycle in a lot of ways, but I wanted a boring motorcycle to run errands on so that I don't do that on the V11 (or the V35 Imola), and the Breva is also a Guzzi.

If you can't tell by some pictures with no captions... yes it was an awesome trip.

"Some Guzzi Guy " was proud to make the acquaintance!

Low idling no more.... Sorted it this morning in less than the proverbial two shakes of the lamb's tail... I am now around 1000 rpm give or take 50 rpm....

Alles klar, schon verstanden. A bloke in Australia had a visitor. The Australian bloke did the right thing and showed his visitor around, as one does. The visitor was from Texas. They went out in to the countryside, and the Australian explained that the farms here were fairly large. The Texan said "oh, right, you should see how big the ranches in Texas are." The Australian pointed out the cattle, and how well they were adjusted to the environment in Australia. The Texan said "yeah, nice. You should see how big the horns are on our cattle". And so it went on.... Eventually, they were driving down a back road looking at the landscape and the bush, and a Kangaroo came bounding across their path. "Goddamm" said the Texan, "what in the hell was that?". "Oh, " said the Australian, "that's a native mouse".

Good evening everybody, last year I build my personal Guzzi café racer . Unfortunatly I didn´t get younger in the past 63 years, so I prefer riding on my V 85 TT, the best Moto Guzzi ever left the factory in Mandello del Lario !!! Best regards ! Jürgen

I've likely got a spare (I had several made years ago) for the cost of shipping. Can check if you like.

these guys are new to me. Goose. The local NPR station plays Blues on weekend.

at Stein-Dinse: https://www.stein-dinse.com/en/item-2-1021625-01634000-.html from this parts diagramme: https://www.stein-dinse.biz/etkataloge/etkataloge.php?l=de&h=MG&m=222&t=5455#a177240 at Wendel: https://wendelmotorraeder.de/hinterrad-v11-03-04-corsa-ex-30_3006_300602_30060204_3006020410_300602041024.html part no. 6 and a parts list at Guzzitek.org : https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11LM_Nak_RC_Cat_2003_122002_PL.pdf part no. 6 on page 116 So it looks like your part number is correct. Incidentally, I didn't put in three links to be a smart-arse, but rather to give an idea where one can go to check on part numbers. PS: docc beat me to it, but I worked so hard on this I'm posting it anyway... PPS: I read somewhere about spacers to fill out the missing length on the spacer. Don't know if it was here or somewhere else. That might be an option, if you can figure out how much too short yours is. Apparently a bit too long is not as bad as a bit too short. Having said that, I can imagine that an additional short spacer in there would be an absolute pain to install.

Today I took the front end off to have a look at the steering head bearings. Not that there were any signs of trouble, but I wanted to see how much grease was in there. Turns out adding a bit more wasn't such a bad idea. Bright idea of the day (or week, or month...) obvious really, to hold it in place whilst putting it back together. But I was a bit chuffed that I thought of it in the heat of the moment and all by myself, and how well it worked. I poked around and looked at a couple of other things as well. All part of getting to know the bike, and being able to contemplate longer trips without worrying too much if the wheels are about to fall off.

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