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I split lanes for 25 years up and down the I5 corridors in SoCal 100+ miles a day with an open faced helmet and levi jacket... Today with the texting and obnoxious drivers I spend less and less time on the road (Freeway) here in Western WA and my yearly mileage has gone down as my age has gone up for various reasons.

After hearing this way too much when I was a kid , I now limit myself to once every FIVE years . I don't need to tell you how fast 6 minutes is when your are having a catharsis ! I have trouble understanding perfection until I listen / feel music like this . I don't have to tell you this is best heard at full throttle .

At the risk of this being a repeat...one of my favorite albums.

Gents replies much appreciated. Exploded view and photo just the job to figure it out It's indeed #2 - Fwd Sub frame(apologies my clumsy description) I'll have a good think before I go for it- with your good advise in mind. I'll let you know if I broke it!!! Thanks

I was pretty severe with my kids and motorcycles, and they took me seriously. I bought them a Honda CB125 to tool around town on, individually and together so they knew how to carry and be a passenger properly. Told them if they went to jail on a motorcycle, don't expect to be bailed out. If they got hurt of their own accord, they'd never put a leg over a bike within my reach again. Taught my daughter a proper rear choke so she could get off the back if she needed to. Seems it's funneling down to parenting again.

I'm thinking kill switch is cause of problem. I will give it a clean when I'm home. Im not tempting fate by working on it while on trip. Bike didn't miss a beat today. Traveled 400k home to Dunedin via some back roads. Off to rally tomorrow in Alexandra which is about 200ks away.

Another PS: I had written another post, but it got lost in the ether because my internet connection broke as I sent it. The gist of it was, that the bluetooth connection seems to be between the T800 device and the mobile telephone, and perhaps the dashboard. The T800 device itself is apparently connected to the ECU via a conventional OBD adapter, as is Guzzidiag and co. On the basis of this assumption, I doubt very much that a theoretical version for the V11 models would be able to show things like vehicle speed and gear changes. The more modern models listed in the compatibility lists have dashboards which collect that information, and have a bluetooth capability which is used by the aforementioned MIA application. The V11 models simply don't have bluetooth capabilitly in that regard. Further to that, I seems that the possibility to download and save the existing map before a new one is installed is not available. That would be a prerequisite for me personally, and if that is not possible, I would stick with the IAW reader and writer programmes.

I translated that, as I unfortunately don't speak Italian: So they're working on it, but I don't have great hopes that they will get around to the 20-odd year old V11 models any time soon. PS: it occurs to me that they may be exploiting the Moto Guzzi MIA functionality (and its equivalent for other manufactureres) to read out things like revs and gear changes. That is, however, communication with the dashboard, as far as I understand it, and not the ECU itself. Anyway, we'll no doubt see how the product developes, and how successful it will be.

"Sometimes, I get a bigger hammer. Hoo, getta bigger hammer " . . .

Curtis has an analog era motorcycle shop, & thank God he does. I’ve had friends that ordered parts from an Italian manufacturer and he never got the order filled. But he has sold me oil gaskets & maintenance items with no problem. He also found a new old stock mud guard upstairs for my 01 Rosso, for cheaper than the scratched up salvage yard price.

Coming home from Seattle yesterday heading south in my car on I-5, cruise control set at 76 mph. The road finally opened up after all that Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia congestion. I see some two bikes coming up fast from the rear, weaving in and out of cars and lane splitting. They lane split right by me going much faster. Single rider on one and a male rider with female passenger on the other...they looked young. Nothing more than hoodies and t-shirts on with the wind exposing their backsides. 30 seconds later I couldn't make them out. A short time later there is a bit of a slowdown. Three or so cars pulled over, one bike that I noticed on a side stand with people all moving around in different directions. I did notice the girl still with her helmet on as one of them. I don't know what happened but it did not look good. Very troubled by what I saw. Nothing I could do about it.