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Unless it's a dry clutch with twin friction plates and a steel intermediate. In a basket flywheel. With a couple hundred thousand kays on it, all ridden like a jackrabbit on hot lava. Then it sounds like nine monkeys fighting their way out of a cymbal factory with ball pein hammers.

Installed the starter yesterday; what a misery! I had to keep a towel around my neck to wipe my face every five minutes to remove the perspiration. My glasses were continuously slipping from my nose. My garage was literally an oven. What a difference that starter made. I can easily gauge with the older one. The crank is a lot stronger. In the package sent by the supplier, there is a note stating there is no guaranty if I use a Lithium battery.

I don’t even know if there is a dedicated Cali 1400 forum or club so I can’t advertise there so here will have to do. If any Oz. Members know of anyone with a Cali 14 please point them my way. When we built Beetle’s 1400 single spark Griso motor I bought a Cali 14 wreck to use as the starting point. I still have a grab-bag of parts left for it none of which am I ever likely to use and can’t be bothered to sell and list individually but they include a petrol tank, (With fuel pump.) side covers, swingarm, headlight, various other lights including at least one of the LED tail lights, a rear wheel with disc and tone-wheel, footboards, various parts of the exhaust system and who knows what other old munt. It’s just clogging up my garage which is already stuffed with Grisos and Aprilia Manas and I want it gone. Come and take it all away and leave me a case of Bent Spoke Crankshaft or it goes to the tip!

Red frame. Smaller diameter. Phil

After spending Friday and Saturday at the John Day rally, I'd like to give my impressions of it. As a fairly new guy in the Guzzi world, I felt honored to be there. This was my first motorcycle rally of any kind that I have attended, and being bit by the bug I knew I would attend since I first heard about it over half a year ago. I mean, given it was in Oregon, it was a no brainer, right? It was sort of like church, with two wheels from Italy as the religion. The combination of knowledge, passion and experience was omnipresent. I was a fly on the wall to many conversations and got into others meeting many interesting folks. People rode in from all over Canada and the US. Lots from California, Oregon and Washington as expected, but all four corners of the country were represented with many states in between. So many pulled in on older bikes giving testament to the long life of these Guzzi engines. A Falcone was ridden down from Seattle. Two Australians flew into California where one kept his bike and the other bought and registered a 1000SP to make the run over...he will be shipping it back home. Spoke to the woman who rode in from New Hampshire. She showed me pictures of her old Norge with Crater Lake in the backround. She said, "See, they are the same color!" Not her first rodeo. I don't know all the variations and models, but my guess most all were there. I had the pleasure of meeting Gmc28 who turned me on to a stellar route for my return trip. Eastern Oregon roads...smooth, curvy and no cars. So nice! TwinAH rode from Canada on his nicely sorted out Stelvio. It's beautiful! If you knew him you would expect nothing less. Those were the only two forum members that I knew would be there. What went down to making this the outstanding event it was came down to the people...the organizers, the volunteers and the riders. Each and every one had something to say...I mean, have you ever met anybody that didn't want to talk about their bikes? I had a blast!

I was thinking more of single point threading it and there is a larger ID visible on the outside of the nut that means you can thread all the way through. Phil

I haven't been able to figure out how to take images of the future yet docc. I'm still busy figuring out how to take images of events that didn't occur Phil

As Pete mentioned, the stock pipes are stainless steel, not chrome. Stainless is stainless, not stain free. Both Stainless and chrome tend to discolor based on heat. You can polish out that coloring if you want, but it will come back when it gets hot again. The color it goes to is directly related to the temperature it gets. You can cheat that effect by heating stainless or chrome with a torch, making it turn colors based on how hot you get it with the torch. No idea why you would do that, but I have seen people do that. There are even mufflers sold that achieve the same effect by heating the parts to a certain temp gradient to make the parts color a certain way. The stock front pipes between the engine and the collector are double walled, that is why the stock Griso head pipes are so oversize looking, that makes them less sensitive to temp as the double wall acts like insulation. It is much the same as if you have one of those nice YETI drinking cups. You can fill it with hot tea and the outside will stay cool to the touch. It would also affect the hot exhaust gases in the pipe, keeping them hotter longer. But that has been proven to be such a minor difference it really does not matter. But it does reduce the heat the engine gives off, which can't hurt when riding on a hot day. Just don't expect miracles. Hot is hot.

This is Sedona Airport's designated overlook for watching the sunset... This is such a romantic moment when you can share it with the other 500 people that are there with you to witness it too....

Nope. Thing is before reading that puff piece on ABC Local I’d never heard of that particular myth. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-29/captains-flat-hotel-reopens-sharanne-witt-southern-nsw/104018176 Back when the mine was open things could get pretty wild at The Flat. Floating Schooners would be the least of the problems I’d think!

Good work P! You’re burning at least 10,000 calories working under these conditions!! For me the only way it’s tolerable to work in the garage these days in this 100+F heat…I’m seriously considering installing a split unit!! Willing to take recommendations on good brands if anyone has one installed!

Wow…….

I still have fond memories of the sound and smell and fun of my Yamaha Daytona Special (RD400 style 2 stroke). I sold it because of overwhelming feelings of inadequacy when an associate showed up on his Suzuki RG500 "Gamma." Sadly my excitement over the Gamma exceeded that of my Daytona, and I never even rode it. What a sound!

Yes Pete. My RE 650 fuels perfectly, and I mean perfectly all the time. back in the late 90's I owned 2 Triumph Daytona triples a 98 and a 99 model. Both had Sagem injection and were a year apart in manufacture dates and in the 12 months Triumph had learned absolutely zero about how to get them to fuel nicely despite numerous map updates. Still stalled pulling up to traffic lights regularly etc. My mate had a customer Daytona race bike in the shop and retro fitted a Motec ECU to it and we went to the dyno to map it and Pete had it perfect in about 20 min on the dyno. Sagem and Triumph couldn't get them right for years. That dyno run was interesting in that Pete ran the bike up to redline in 4th or 5th gear and on the run down unplugged the original Sagem ECU and installed the Motec and it just continued running as it came back to idle. Then the fine tuning started.

I was just popping off. IDK if that jam nut is threaded all the way or not and I am too lazy to go o/s and look . Is this going on a red frame or black frame ? It matters.

On that subject of ‘Factory Mapping’ even on *Older* machines it was quite possible for factories to build decent maps if they put their mind to it. My Manas, which use the same W5AM as the CARC series Guzzis have always fuelled up impeccably. There were two or three ‘Map updates’ issued during the manufacturing life of the bike and I’m not even sure if the updates had anything to do with the fuelling as none of them seemed to make a lick of difference to fuelling or fuel economy and they always fuelled up perfectly. Why the early maps for the 8V CARC bikes were such a clusterf*ck is beyond me? It shouldn’t of been that difficult.

Mitsubishi or Dakin. I have both. Phil

Yeah... Moab to Jackson Hole. Beautiful start, to Dinosaur and North... Then Wyoming. The high plains winds are crazy, and for hours. Dropped it at a stop from a pebble and the wind, good sam helped pick up Humpty Dumpty. Jackson WY rather sucks bull nuggets. San Fran libs have taken it wholesale to the point that an old biker gets side eye looks buying coffee. The baby Hilton (idr which brand) was f*'n $525 tax in, and every tent site was beyond full. Nice scenery, though. Flew Teton and Yellowstone, got some rain with hail at 7500 feet. Cody WY now looking at ugly weather.

That wasn't the "leave town" story, was it? Sorry, open door.....

I read that as "Fastena!" . . . And thought, "Damn, I remember Fast Tina, too!"

I have the impression that Phil might have to go to some trouble to visit them. They don't seem to be present in Australia.

I think Mr. Anderson is quoting someone who heard a large Ducati with an open clutch cover. The 1198 Monster that my neighbour bought had one of those "sports" open covers on the clutch. The first thing he did to it was put the original, closed, cover back on. I absolutely don't understand why anyone would want the open cover. It was loud enough to cause hearing damage.

Yes, Piaggo made this (paraphrased) declaration early on : Aprilia = racing Moto Guzzi = travel Vespa = lifestyle Piaggio = urban/commute I, for one, was relieved, and am good with that. Hopefully, some sort of "Sport" / "LeMans" will still be in the offing. I mean, how could the marketing department resist?

"PSSST! Hey! Hey-ya, buddy . . . come let me whip a tune on that Goozzee of yours " . . .

Gotta love a plan like this . . .

No, his name was Rob. He didn't race, he was just a nutter. One time I was riding an XT 500 that belonged to my housmate. I was doing about 110, flat out on that and shaking my teeth out. Rob passed me on his Yamaha 350 dirt bike, a TT I think, at about 130 km/h. On the left, in the dirt. He was, and hopefully still is, a very good rider, but sometimes maybe a little reckless.

Was your mate Ian D? In which case, it was a cx 650 - the same bike we did the blue light on ( AND he "raced" it at Broadford back in the 90's ) BTW, to those who dislike the new katana - I'm pretty sure it was designed by the same guy who did our griso! https://www.frascolidesign.com/about-me/

I'll check it out in September. Phil

Yet another advantage to the older ECU’s, you can do it all yourself with a couple of cables and some freeware. Unless they actually download the map and analyse it how are the EPA going to know?

Met a guy at the rally that built this place...yes, he rode there(FJR). What an idea and it looks first class. IDK if this is on your route, but worth a look. Yukon Motorcycle Park Inc. (844) 343-7433 https://g.co/kgs/3c8yQJW

They have the music and the moves. Too good!

Most every bike was ridden there. Rider who came the furthest...a woman from New Hampshire. Oldest rider...82 years old. My ass knows I rode...631 miles. I either need a new seat or an ass like @KINDOY2.

Ha ha I'll get in first and say.... What about a new LeMans/Sport with the new platform?? Cheers

Ha ha reckon you'd be right there about floating glasses...flying ones perhaps? Thanks for posting the link to explain for others. Cheers

Racings great these days isn't it! You limit electronics that are eventually developed and filter down to the road bike market to enhance road riding and safety and replace it with the rabbit hole of aerodynamics that has zero road bike application or benefit and just causes extreme tyre management issues on race bikes. Pure administrative genius on the part of Dorna. Phil

Didn't happen to see any levitating schooners.......? Then again, they reckon the ghost has shuffled off now.

This one is toooooo cool!

Friday ended in Chama, NM. Didn't ride the Cumbres & Toltec train as weather Saturday was wet. Saturday, surprised myself by finding my route passed the Durango & Silverton steam railroad as well. Spent a couple hours in and around, then moved on to the 4 corners monument- a monumental waste of time as the entry line went from the road to... Eternity. So I have a picture of the sign. Then through the lesser-travelled road through monument valley; lesser views but zero traffic. Also, lesser places for pictures as the good views were narrow 2 lanes with huge drops and no shoulders. Hot, too, the kind that withers and makes you long for coldbrain, (I'm leaving that spelling error in) or even a spot of shade, of which there was none. Pressed on to Moab, UT where I'm now having a fabulous mocha latte.

It’s 1.15PM and 4*C right now, and drizzling. Yesterday was sunny and 12*C at this time and I got a nice shake-down run in to Captains Flat on my new Mana GT. It won’t be getting a gallop today! Rides just like I remember my one in the US did with all its luggage on. Just fine. It really is a superlative little lightweight tourer.

Another thing that makes it much more difficult to safely work out any modifications to the mapping of the MP11 compared to earlier devices is quite simply down to the size of the maps/data it contains. I was chatting briefly with Mark the other day and can’t remember the exact figures, I’ll ask him again next time we meet and pay more attention, but the 7SM as used on bikes like the Cali 1400’s and early V85’s contains vast amounts more data and many more ‘Unknown’ parameters than the simpler ECUs of yore like the 15M and W5AM but then the MP11 is orders of magnitude larger again! Really, it’s huge! Not only that there are huge swathes of files and info inside it that will controll not only the fuelling and spark but the ride by wire parameters and safety features, the heat related advance decay curves and hosts of other things that unless you not only know what they do but how they interact with each other could be not only damaging but downright dangerous to be messing with. Apparently Alientech has some sort of software that allows access to the MP11 but from what I could gather from talking to Mark it is ECU and map specific meaning that if you do purchase it you need to pay some form of licence fee for each ecu or map it interacts with. I may be off the ball with this as it is way, way above my pay grade but the main take-away seemed to be that building a map for an individual MP11 was going to be hideously expensive! Up in the high hundreds of dollars! Per map/ecu! You can imagine your average Guzzi owner who is so mean they can peel and eat an orange without taking their hands out of their pockets lining up around the block for that can’t you? NOT! No doubt there will be the usual tribes of clueless charlatans jumping out from behind bushes waving their cheap fetishes to ward off the demons of ‘Power sapping emissions controls forced on us by the evil gubmint’ by tricking some aspect of the sensors to pour in and waste more fuel and damage the engine and environment for no gain but they’ve been around forever! Hopefully they won’t actually do anything downright dangerous, but who knows? Since I don’t think I’ll ever own one of these shiny, glittering monsters it doesn’t really matter to me. I retired yesterday. My shit all works. I’m good.

Are you selling your GB500? owner wants 8,700 USD. For the price of an Orange Griso and without any starting issues given the kick starter!!! 1989 Honda GB500 Progressive Springs Braided Stainless Brake Lines (where?) EBC Sintered Brake Lines Otherwise Bone Stock Original Excellent Original Condition No Dents or Dings (wouldn't the fissure on the seat cowl account for one?) Well Maintained Never Dropped 8700 Miles

As a general principal I'm not sure I see the point in rebuilding a component with an inherent fault when a later superior iteration has been released unless you have the ability to reproduce the update to the original unit. Always opt for the latest version unless there is some other issue. I'd personally opt for the later unit with the better magnet retention system if indeed that is the case here. Phil