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Another really important thing is to make sure you actually have a 20AH battery in good condition. With the bikes that use a YTX 20-CH BS a common problem is that owners, and shops who should know better, fit a dimensionally identical 16AH battery instead of the 20. This works, for a while, but once the battery begins to deteriorate it can end up causing arcing at both the relay and solenoid contacts and you get the dreaded no-start problem. I don't believe this is an issue with Norges and Sports as much as they use a different 20AH battery but it would be worth double checking what you have installed.

A lot of work has gone into this! Adapting the Carc drive to a spine frame is not an easy job

True, but, for me, the ride there is a journey of joy. OTOH, the 500-to-600-mile ride there generally leaves me drained, so the SSR is more a “rest & refit” time of beer, bourbon, and BS than local riding, tho Kathi and I will do a bit of two-up while there. No matter how many times I ride that general axis of advance — and it’s been MANY — to the SSR, Atlanta, Hiawassee, or other points to the SE, there’s always something or someone new to make it fun. This is my planned route on the out-leg for this year. Map doesn’t show the short bump north, but I'll likely RON in Princeton, W.V., as I usually do. I am less happy with the Day 2 run, and will likely mod that into something very different and less straight and trafficky, even if longer. I will launch on Thursday; arrive on Friday afternoon sometime before BENT. Kathi will drive down on Friday. I’ll not even think about the return on Tuesday — from my brother’s house in Hiawassee, not Tellico Plains — until the night before. Serendipity is the best planning technique. As I noted — in an (unintentional, I swear) serious thread drift here, https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/topic/18925-what-music-do-you-listen-to-share-your-favs/?do=findComment&comment=292234, I just pulled the rear tire — an OEM-mounted Dunlop Meridian — and put a Michelin Road 6 on the wheel. It awaits the black-art of static balancing. Regrettably, I am no magician, but we shall see. Bill

Can’t wait for the next Spine Raid, last year was epic. Quoting Kale, “ this was the best weekend riding of the whole year”. I agree.

How cute! It's got tiny bellmouths and no air filtration on the 50mm TB's so they're buggered before you've ridden it more than 1,000km. It also has a wheelbase that dwarfs a stock Griso! It would be like riding a hearse! A flexible hearse with a hinge in the middle!

I thought I had posted about Carla Maffioletti before, but a search found nothing here. Knowing that my horn vids seem to have resonated with few, I'll try again, given the mention of some wonderful women singers. For all sorts of reasons not limited -- as Kathi sweetly thinks -- to the lady's considerable vocal talents, Ms. Maffioletti is a favorite of mine. Even if you can't stand this sort of thing, go to 2:25 and get a feel (so to speak, of course! ) for her vocal range. Bill

Agreed that is an impressive and interesting project. At first glance, I liked the styling, but on closer look I don't care for the pairing of the angular, faceted tail section with flowing, organic fairing. Personally, for the expense and effort of this project, I'd prefer to have retained the original Sport and the original Griso (but with aftermarket exhaust).

As I said it's probably for European legality registration wise. The Europeans have some strict rego laws that are enforced. Phil

Yes, there is something in that. But let's be generous and concentrate ourselves on "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". I'm sure the constructor meant well, and perhaps there were unforseen difficulties in aquiring an exhaust system that was not an ugly piece of shoeshine.

It looks like V11 99-2000 frame or Daytona/Centauro frame fitted with a 1200 Griso/Sport engine and driveline and Daytona RS tank and fairing and Aprilia RSV1000R seat cowling. Interesting and fitted with the std Griso mufflers so one can assume it's been road legalised other wise why would you retain those massive things. Phil

The lady sings very well indeed. However, let's do the piece properly, shall we? Ludwig got it exactly right the first time round, and it doesn't need anyone buggerising around with it making "easily digestible" arrangements or any of that sort of rubbish. Here, the link is set at the start of the relevant last movement. Take the time to listen to all of it (about 25 minutes). It builds up so well, it is really a shame just to jump to the "hit" and leave out the rest. And this is the reason why I chose that recording...

Yea it's bureaucracy gone mad but they just have to suck it up so they hate foreigners mentioning it in reality. Can't blame them. Phil

I shared a house in Melbourne with a couple of mates of mine for the last several years before I moved to Germany. It was something of a meeting point for motorcycling friends, and perhaps a bane for some neighbours. One of the blokes who lived there had a Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans III, a Honda CBX 1000, a Yamaha XT 500 (awful...), and a Honda NS400 R. At the time, the Motorcycle Rider's Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_Riders_Association_of_Australia was really on a roll, and they organised track days at Calder Raceway a couple of years in a row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_Park_Raceway (On the flat bit, not on the banked "thunderdome" bit.) So, my mate let me ride his NS 400 R whilst he had a go on my 1976 Z 900. My mate was not the fastest in the bunch, and I was reeling him in. At the end of the long straight I could see him ahead of me in the 180° turn, and thought "I'll get him on this lap". The next thought was "oh dear, I know that noise" (of fairings and such scraping across the asphalt...). The culprit was the Avon tyre that my mate had fitted to the front wheel of his (according to the standards of the time) super-sport bike. The tyre was a middle price, long-lasting touring tyre, and not up to race-track shenanigens. To give my mate credit, there was not much choice available at the time for the 16" front wheel of the NS, but the Avon was definitely not a good choice. So, I've had a bad experience too. On the positive side, I've got Avon Spirit ST on the Kawasaki 1000 GTR, and those tyres on that bike are a really good choice.

I'm sure it's well built and goes like a scalded cat. Lately I can't even seem to manage to thread zip ties into place,let alone build something as beautiful as this,,,. But now that you've brought it up,,, anyone going to this much time & effort and still leaves the hideous stock Griso exhaust installed,calls for a public flogging, jk.

"I had a bad experience ."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1589241764655627/permalink/3581633522083098/ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=842607477492402&set=pcb.3581633522083098 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=842607554159061&set=pcb.3581633522083098 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=842607400825743&set=pcb.3581633522083098 Really stunning beautiful..... my kind of color!

to me, it looks like a Griso 1200 motor, exhaust and drivetrain in (perhaps) a spine frame with a V11 tank and a fairing that approximates or is derived from a Sport 1100. If it is well done, potentially a very exciting motorcycle. Poorly done, a potential nightmare. In the picture it is pretty enough. Something about the proportions irritates me, but I'm not sure that the problem there is not simply an artefact of a very short focal length lens on the camera that took the picture. ( @Admin Jaap it's about time we had that "scratching his head and thinking heavily" emoticon here...)

I took off my seat to check the tank's fastener and found it unscrewed. The head was clearly off the large washer, allowing the tank to move laterally. I guess this was the root cause of the problem as when I removed the fairing to change the head lamp, I did not notice anything wrong with the tank being armed by the support on the left side. Don't know how that screw could become that loose.

Yup. What makes you think it's the relay? What is it doing?

My guess is it a Griso CARC bike with a Aprilia Tuono rear sub frame and body work, added to a Sport100 Tank and fairing. It somehow also looks to be housing a red spine frame and Griso muffler. The wave front rotors, Aprilia dash and custom rear sets to top it off. A Tuono Griso Sport1100, I like all of those bikes so I guess by default I like this invention.

That looks to be a spine frame Sport with a fairly modern 8 valve CARC motor (like from an 8 valve Griso) stuffed into it. Tricky in part because the alternator of the modern motor is up front between the cylinder heads, driven by a belt as I recall, which would likely be in the way of the spine frame. The Sport was before the V11 Sport, between it and the Daytona. Think of it as a Daytona with a V11 motor but the older 5 speed trans. Impressive. I wonder if they switched from the belt drive alternator to one mounted directly on the end of the crank.

From all of that, I really like this one the best. Mostly because I can't fathom WTF is going on. At all . . .

*Doc* is the Hammer. He's behind the camera.

It stuck in my mind so I've kept looking at this and I see the hold up...their's NO Hammer!

Thats one way to get those unis greased...

For those of you rolling the north Georgia roads, @buellish1 reminds us about the restaurant at TWOS in Suches on GA HWY 60 . . https://twowheelsofsuches.com/restaurant/ Check out the thread buellish1 just posted about the Georgia Moto Guzzi Campout, Sept. 22-24:

Looks like that route comes back through Ducktown. Makes me think: Rod's Rockin' Rolls . . . https://rods-rockin-rolls.business.site/

I'm going to have to temper that a bit...