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No because to achieve perfect primary balance in a 75 degree V twin you would need to offset the crank pins 30 degrees which KTM don't do in their RC8R engines for example. They still run a common crank pin but use a balance shaft to nullify the primary imbalance. The 90 degree V twin is perfect primary and secondary balance with a small rocking couple that needs no balance shaft because the RC is minor. Only commonly found engines that have perfect primary, secondary and zero RC are the inline 6 and V12. Phil

That's a lot of effort just to make a parallel twin sound like a Guzzi.

I am not a real fan of those "constant babbling" influencers, especially those wearing their video camera coupled to their heads, granting us those full of jerky movement shots. But I respect the solo rider and the photography, plus the dream that some of them can inspire. The Tour de France seems to always showcase some of those itinerary; they have for years since the Tour started, shown the "multitude" where to go for a "forget about everything else" motorcycling trip. Those hairpins would certainly rejuvenate the aging Moto Guzzi V11 rider that sleeps in us....

Of course you were mistaken: @gstallons am I right? Scud? But I guess this was yet another opportunity to talk about RUSH . Who?

And that’s why we love them . . . Beautiful, temperamental and prone to fiery outbursts

Guys The comments about a check / cheque were directed to the locals here and not to you four international people. I know that is not possible. All good ... Paypal will be your method. Back to you asap.

1968...transistor radio time.

We had nearly two weeks of sub freezing, down to single digits F and windchill below zero. Nearly 70 today. Took 50 mile ride today.

And the lac the Roselend approaching from Beaufort(what she did) and continuing to the Cormet de Roselend is part of the route des Grandes Alpes. Magnificent rides. When sitting good in the saddle you can make it all the way to Nice in a long day. (Or that is what we did when we were younger). In 2021 it took more time when coming back from Mandello >> Col du Tende(gravel) >> Val du Vesubie and further north on same route in the other direction until Briancon. Really lovely part to ride. Bit dusty on the Col du Tende.

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@Gmc28 Wouldn't you know? I rolled it into the garage Saturday morning, prepared to evaluate the mishap. Just as the forum suggested, turned the key, heard the pump prime, so I hit the ignition. Started right up, idled perfect! I drove it a bit later to Home Depot, about 8 mile round trip, no problems. Then this morning, ride to work, 25 miles one way, no problem. Sheesh. btw, I've ridden about 3k or so since replacing the filters, fluids, injectors, plugs, etc.

Interesting video. He does make a few mistakes, the worst I noticed was his poor explanation of secondary forces. But it was still interesting. Also, Yamaha brought out a 270 degree parallel twin some two decades ago, the TRX 850 in the mid 90's. So the 270 degree engine is not really that new. On a side note, even before Yamaha came out with the TRX 850 Honda was using offset cranks in narrow angle V twins. The Honda Hawk GT650 used a 52 degree V angle along with a 76 degree offset in the crank. The numbers don't add up to a 90 degree V twin firing order, perhaps along the same lines as the 285 degree firing order KTM uses. The end result was no balance shaft was required, but if you rev's it too hard you would break the crank.

The European environmental legislation is slowly but surely enforcing major changes to what used to be an "ad-lib" development for motorcycle manufacturers. Previously, the engineer could start from a blank sheet of paper, and let his/her imagination take the lead. Today, everything is contingent to what the regulator let you do. Since the brands have to stay global, they design around the most stringent set of rules. Those are found in Europe for the most part. I think vintage motorcycles have good days in front of them.

Cheque is difficult for me. They are not in common use here, so I don't have a cheque account. I thought that paypal "to a friend" doesn't cost anything for either party. If you can't use that for whatever reason, just let me know what the charges are, and I'll put that amount on top.

That sounds like a bargain price.

The OEM Ohlins shock used by Guzzi does not approach the performance of the shock offered separately from Ohlins. I would inquire with an Ohlins rebuilder if the OEM Ohlins shock could be upgraded to that level, and if so compare prices to new shocks. A new Wilbers or Penske shock performs better than the Guzzi OEM Ohlins version. I am currently saving for a custom Wilbers shock for my new to me Lemans.

Interesting also, is the rationale on why we are seeing new twins to replace what used to be four cylinders: unburned fuel!

Hey all, came across this thread. Looks like I am about to add a Calvin to keep the V11 company.. do we still have any fans here? My friend is the new owner of Biesels bike. Lovely machine…

I'll start sending a few emails to people today with a final amount to pay. I have the commercial invoices filled out for the overseas people. Final cost per unit came out to $89.65 USD plus whatever the shipping cost will be. I'll be off to UPS Monday Seattle time and will get the shipping cost for the overseas guys and will email them then. Got a couple family things on this weekend but I'll keep on this until they are all sent. Thanks!

Hi, as to the question why more TPS breakpoints are used in the low range than in the upper. It's about flow area increase when the butterfly valve is opened. The flow area resulting from the movement is based on a rather complicated cosine formula, several years ago Beard kindly wrote a small program to simplify the calculation. Looking at the 1st (TPS degree) and 4th column (free flow area in mm^2 including the butterfly axle diameter) one can derive the change in %. 7.7/5.2=1.46=46% increase 22.0/20.0=1,1=10% increase So, ~2.3 TPS degree change at low throttle opening result in 46% flow area increase, a 2.0 TPS degree change in mid range is 10% flow area. It makes sense to use TPS breakpoints which provide the a like flow area increase. Cheers Meinolf

Hi, it didn't take that much time. The 157mV instead of 150mV is simply based on a rounding error in the OEM TPS lookup table. 5V/255=0,01953V 8x0,01953= 0,1563V=156,3mV Now one may argue if the 6,3mV difference is significant. No, it isn't. But why use a wrong value if the correct one is known. Cheers Meinolf

I wouldn't risk it. 20 year old rubber is too old for me at highway speeds. Needs to have good rubber, oil and fuel. But that's me.

Two days ago we had about 12"C. Yesterday and today about 8"C. Some rain, and lots of wind. It's still cold, but it's like Spring sent a postcard with the message "hey, I'll be round in about 6 weeks. See you then".

Thank you all for that good stuff. Some of it I was aware of, but the overall knowledge of this group pointed me to other things I might not have considered.

Personally I'd like to go to the old WSB and current BSB qualifying format where the rider has one warmup lap and then a lap to put down his fastest time. Eliminates the towing bullshit, the yellow flag on the hot lap rubbish and the race grid reflects the true order of who has the outright speed. Currently you can and do have riders with 3rd and 4th row raw speed on the front two rows a lot of the time due to nothing more than getting a tow during qualifying. They then get in the way and hold up the genuinely faster rider at the race start for 5 or 6 laps and ruin his race. Phil

Keep the Wolves Away…another great Uncle Lucius song!!

ol' but young(er)

LOL, pics I have. That's the easy part. In fact there are some on that website. You may spot some ol' chums there. https://belfastguzzi.com/guzzi-gallery/ https://belfastguzzi.com/you-your-bikes/

So here's the installation video for the preproduction plate. The fit was excellent. Obviously this was the first time I installed one of these plates. It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to remove the oil filter assembly. Cleaning the gasket surfaces probably took the most time (aside from all the filming). With this plate you don't need to make any modifications to the side stand bracket. Just loosen the large bolt onto the crankshaft, install the smaller M6 bolt and then go back and tighten the large bolt. Same with the plate, I had to have the plate loose in order to install the oil filter assembly. It was relatively easy to do, just take your time. Upper Gaskets (two required): http://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=34 Oil Pan Gasket (one required): http://www.mgcycle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33 Hopefully we'll have an update on the production plates soon.

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