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Have a great xmas everyone 👍

Enjoy your holiday and a happy and healthy 2025!

I will let you know how much the seller wants for it, just in case... The one below sold for 13k USD. By the way, if you look at the pics, it has the exact same black faced Speedo/Odometer.

This reminds me of turning 100,000 miles on mySport and thinking it was a big deal (major "round number" ). We used to throw cars away at 100,000 miles because of wear. What was worn? EVERYTHING! Yet, our treasured international (read: metric) community here said, basically, "So you have 160,934 kilometers on your bike and you're throwing a party? Weird. Come back when you have an even 200,000 kays ." Something about the nature of our beings is given to these "round numbers."

I know EXACTLY where I would put that Daytona in our living room. If my wife were not so taken with all this stuff people call "furniture" . . .

Wishing All the best for you Lovely People 🙂

So that's what he looks like.... Merry christmas everybody.

Happy Christmas to you sir. It's a great time to be alive.

My 2004 Ballabio is in really nice shape and has about 27,800 kms (17,300 Miles) but is 20 years old and was showing a few maintenance needs. My 2012 Stelvio has cut into the amount of Kms I do on the V11 over the last couple years. The bike has never been outside other than when riding it and has only spent maybe 15 to 20 nights away from home where it stayed outside overnight. It is kept in a heated /cooled environment. Earlier this summer I decided it was time to deal with all the items and do a thorough maintenance check to prepare it for the next 20 years. Kind of a 20-year block check (D check in large aircraft words). It had a little bit of oil weeping at the cam case cover, the phase sensor, the rocker oil feed lines at the heads, sometimes some oil dripping out of the air cleaner box, the tires needing replacement, one caliper and one master cylinder showing signs of needing rebuild I created a work scope and have completed it over the last few months. It has never had the TPS or Throttle Bodies touched other than me balancing between them using a balance tube. This Forum with all the Experts and organized information made this a very enjoyable task. I appreciate all the people that have made their expertise and information available to everyone. Included in the work scope was the Decent Tune Up. Bought the suggested cables/box for both Guzzidiag and Voltmeter This was my first time using Guzzidiag, and my computer skills are not what they might have been 10 or 20 years ago. I read all the threads and watched several videos before I attempted to use it. The one item that took me a number of attempts was right at the start where you select Preferences when you enter the program (Language, the Bike Model and Com Port). I didn't realize you had to close that little window prior to being able to Select Connect under File. Workscope: Front and Rear tires Michelin Road 6 Front 120/70 ZR 17 Rear 180/55 ZR 17 (4 rear (one was short life due to tear), 3rd front since new) Rebuilt front and rear brake calipers, front & rear brake master cylinder and clutch master cylinder. Fresh pads all calipers. All flushed and fresh DOT 4. Cleaned from fork seals using the thin film (they were not weeping but as a preventive measure, they were not near as dirty as the ones in my Stelvio) Spark Plugs replaced with same type NGK BPR6ES Valve clearances set to In .006 / Ex .008 Replaced Odyssey AGM Battery with Eliminator AGM battery (third battery including original, first two were Odyssey) Crankcase vent hose – GU30157400 Oil Pressure Switch – GU17768750 Intake Temp Sensor (in airbox) – GU30729331 Phase Sensor/with O-ring – GU01721600 Cylinder Head Temp Sns. – GU29729461 Holder Cyl. Hd. Temp Sns. – GU03163330 Timing Cover Gasket – GU05001231 Timing Cover Crank Seal – 90402840 O-Ring Spacer, Crankshaft (tim. cs) – GU90706178 Crush Washers, Rocker Oil line Feed at Head – GU90706010 (used copper replacement) Roper Plate, Upper sump gaskets (2) GU01003650, Lower sump gasket – GU01003600 Viton O-Rings at oil Cooler Lines and at Breather Return to Sump Line - GU90706010 Exhaust Crossover Gaskets – GU91113230, Exhaust Gaskets at head – GU90718370, and installed a restraint to ensure crossover cannot move in future Air Filter – GU30113600, Oil Filter GU30153000, Dipstick O-Ring GU90706178 Although I had new Rubber sleeves for Airbox to TB and TB to head I did not install them as the originals look like new and are still flexible like the new ones. Oil Motul 7100 15W50 4 L. Transmission & Rear bevel box oil replaced Removed Bevel box to access front u joint, greased 3 fttngs (2 u joints, and spline) Removed Gianelli slip-ons and installed original exhaust. Polished stock exhaust head pipes, front cross pipe / under transmission collector / using 400 thru 3000 grit. Came out very nice. Removed Power Commander 3, measured TPS with TB fully closed (was 300 MV) TPS set to 157 MV using Voltmeter (with everything disconnected), Right Side TB Idle screw backed out TB Idle Air Screws removed, cleaned TB/screws, reset to -1 turn out setting Engine run, Balance tube used to synchronize RH/LH TB at 2500 RPM Guzzidiag used to read CO, check idle compared to Tachometer (it is accurate) CO was at 0, CO Set to +5. Idle set to 1100 RPM using LH idle screw reading on Guzzidiag, correlates to Tach. Also noticed that TB balance is almost equal at idle as well. Cleaned / polished bike. It is now pretty much original (except for heated grips and 2004 Lemans Upper triple tree plate/clip-on handlebars, and speedo cable with the Instruments moved up / forward about 2.5 inches to clear the clip ons. Looking forward to Spring and riding the fresh V11

What with low miles, and the seller apparently motivated to sell, And a top Guzzi guy knowing what is needed to bring her up to reasonable standards, this is looking more like a real find for someone wanting to add a bike or replace a 'long in the tooth' bike. How often does one see a classic come up 'word of mouth'? If I were not so long in the tooth, I might be westward bound.

Merry Christmas from down here folk's.....

the stuff movies are made of

Make sure you modify your new taps John with Viton/fkm seals or they won't last. I did a thread on it a while back. I don't think the float type sender will work in the v11 tank as the float diameter is too large to go through the std sender tank fitting. I may be wrong but if it's that easy then I'm on board as well. Phil EDIT..... I just measured to ID of the sender unit adaptor, 14.3mm

I remember back in the 70's in NZ we had an 80 kph ( 50 mph ) national speed limit due to the gas crisis ( down from 100 kph ) and heard about the 55mph in the USA. Also remember thinking gee 50 mph in a country the size of the USA would be a pain in the freckle! It wasn't a huge deal in NZ especially the Sth Island given the er twisty nature of our roads, except the boring straight bits on the Canterbury plains esp ChCh to Timaru. Even that wasn't too bad as only a short distance ( felt huge to us at the time though ) and given I was riding a 250 dirt bike and driving a '52 Morris Oxford, speed was an alien concept! Cheers

Hey , is there a Norge forum out there ? If not , hook him up here !

The photography is great, the narration just there to punctuate the story. This is a great one...

has anyone recently had issues with this (reflective stickers, yellow jackets, tagged gloves, etc), in person or first hand knowledge? I've never had any issue with any of that. Very possibly just good (blind) luck. I've rented many times in Italy, from various sources, and they've never mentioned any cautions, and I crossed borders into most (?) of the neighboring countries and never had an issue, nor seen someone have an issue. I did get a couple automatic-camera speeding tickets near Grenoble a few years back in a car, but since then have sped along all across France and had no issues. Last couple times I had the missus google searching from the passenger seat for some kind speed trap/cam type web site or hot-tips, but nothing came up, so i bombed along, prepared to receive a ticket or two in the mail if it came to that, but it never did. In italy, east of Florence, I saw lots of speed cams, but none of them did anything... i never saw them flash or light up, and never got any tickets.

Ah, ok. Again, I don't think so. Not that I have ridden all that many different models here, but none of the bikes I've had here had one.

My point was that US models, not only CX, may have had a lamp already in Europe, which was simply adjusted to illuminate at 55mph for the USA. I'm speculating, since I'm exploring something I've never seen.

“D check….” another aviation guy! thankfully a “D check” is usually a one man job on the Guzzi :->. And I’m thinking that its more like a C check, since there’s no D-mate involved. Sounds like that Ballabio should be good to go! My Red has an oil seep which appears to be from the pan seal. After the V85tt gets off the stand from its first-for-me annual go-through (how does A-check sound? plus some minor mods, all of which will only be “field approved”), i’ll get Red up there to drop the pan. I’ll see about maybe one of the options others have suggested of getting a sheet of fine grit on a flat surface and doing a home-job of getting that pan mating surface cleaned up and flattened. then a new gasket, and considering whether to use a smidgeon of hylomar, or trust in the clean up of the surface and new gasket.

^^^ Wow. nice. ^^^

Truly. I so appreciate this "thread". A "rock" song came on the radio the other day, very "vocal centric", but the drummer -ah "that drummer!" That is Neil Peart! This is RUSH! I would have not recognized it without this unexpected journey on a "motorcycle" forum. You guys rock (in so many ways!) Thanks for the journey!

@docc you've said (writen) it before. It's amazing where and how this (motorcycle) forum brings things to ones attention and opens ones horizons.

Ok, so the young lady has discovered Cuban music at some point, and has got most of it right. I had the very good luck to spend a couple of evenings with a cuban band. Brilliant. Compared to what the young lady in the video is doing, it is like, I imagine, a group from Boston trying to play delta blues or something. Whatever, this was very commercial, but the music was authentic, I think, and this is what the young lady was trying for. I reckon. https://youtu.be/zEjTNTJsIf4?feature=shared&t=261

I don't think so. As far as I know, amongst other sources from here, the CX was a US only model. https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_cx100.html Apart from that, 55 mph translates to 88.51425 kmh, anything other than a round figure and not relevant to any speed limit that I can think of that might have applied at any time in Europe. What I have seen here is 70, rarely 80, 90 in the Czech Rebuplic, 100, 120, 130 (all not only in Germany) and in Germany unlimited. 88 and a bit doesn't rhyme.

What docc she has no time for "art"? Phil

@PJPR01 I forgot to tell you; Davey said that the Moto Guzzi dealer on the 59 in Houston, brings the bikes for service at MPH. They don't do the service in house. I am not sure if that applies to Wild West Motoplex.

Went back today, and got a few more facts: The Speedometer/Odometer is clearly showing Veglia Borletti; Possibly black faced so it would not be confused with a metric one, on the assembly line? were those Daytona equipped with Koni rear shock? This Daytona is from 1993; The current owner purchased it used, and never rode it. This is why there is no registration. The bike came to MPH because they could not get it started. Davey explained that someone replaced the fuel pump (Weber Marelli), but reinstalling the fuel hoses, they managed to block the fuel flow, and after multiple attempts to start it, they burned the fuel pump. Davey has replaced the fuel pump, and is replacing all the fuel lines. The bike starts immediately now. Davey said that the owner has not requested to replace the distribution belt. The bike only has 8+k miles, but chances are, the belt is the one installed in 1993, 31 years ago, soon 32. He said the owner only wants to spend minimum amount of money since he wants to sell it. I don't know you guys, but personally, if I wanted to sell a motorcycle that has not run for a while, I would make sure I am in a position to confirm everything has been checked.

At 33 seconds in he shows a speedo that lights up at 55 mph. But you are correct, lighting up was not required.

Here is a video about it. It is six and a half minutes long. The video shows examples, some of which light up at 55. I do not think they all had to light up, but as I lived through that time period I do recall at least one car I owned had a light at 55. Other cars I have owned simply had a fuel efficiency light to tell you when you were being more fuel efficient, often related to engine rpm. The video also points out that for a while the US had 85 mph speedos, where 55 was highlighted but 85 was the highest number they could show. The rule about highlighting 55 was over in the early 80's, but many manufacturers continued to do so for many more years even though it was no longer a requirement.

Just a reminder: Please click "Report" on any messages, like that above, you receive through the forum's Message system. Thanks for helping keep us free of this sort of thing.

1995 1100Sport carb edt 28k. 1996 1100Sport inj edt 96km. Only 8k rpm. Whatever they had on the shelves. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

Fellow on a Kawasaki forum just bought a 2-valve Norge and I am providing him with the best guidance I can regarding the bike. There must be a Norge owner or two here. In that case, I'll ask him to sign up.

Mike's own Daytona RS is in the museum I visited in 2023. I took some shots but I don't remember how the instruments looked. A good reason to return there, anyhow. One thing I do remember, is that I tried the clutch lever there too, and it was just as hard as the Daytona at Mike's MPH. He actually did remind me about it when we had that conversation about the Daytona in his shop. He said he purchased it as a testimony to Moto Guzzi's craft ability. I am supposed to go back there today, I will ask Mike about the odometer.

The US national 55 mph speed limit was in force from 1974 to 1987. Even in 2000, when I purchased my V11 Sport, the vestigial "55" marker remained (thirteen years after the law sunsetted!). When I designed my Speedhut replacements, I decided to highlight 100 kph as 62 in the remaining 55 zones is generally acceptable by law enforcement and the motoring public. Plus, it's a nice round number where the tach needles lays in alignment in fifth gear whistling along . . .

So, are these relays available in the USA? Everything in my web search says "UK" and "back ordered" . . . I see this United Arab Emirates site with the exchange rate about $4 per relay, but no idea about the shipping/extra costs . . . https://ae.rsdelivers.com/product/durakool/dg82-2011-36-1012-dr/durakool-plug-in-automotive-relay-12v-dc-coil-40a/9156641

I remember back in the 70-80's if you pulled up behind a car ( just waiting to overtake ) all the kids in the back seat would be turned around to watch and wave at you till you shot past them. That don't happen anymore! Yeah, well before they all had electronic distractions! Cheers

Straying slightly from the topic, I recall from some kind of click-bait, that overall, sales and registration of motorcycles in the U.S. have declined & there are fewer new riders coming up from "the youths". Even considering the shaky economy and the deadly increase of mindless 4-wheel cages on the roads, there seems to me less interest in motorcycles and riding and it even felt that way strolling into dealerships. I know that I'm probably not their target demo, but even observing other customers I didn't get that vibe of adventure romance and excitement that existed even 5 or 6 years ago. Maybe it is just me getting older and more cynical, but I feel like motorcycling and even motor sports in general really are on the path to eventual extinction, soon to be seen more in videos, game simulations, and glam commercials than in real life. "The kids riding in Mom's 'Musk-blob' hear a growl outside their windows. Looking up from their screens they see a man dressed kinda like an astronaut filtering by on a vibrating 2 wheeled beast. One asks 'What's that Mommy?' She just sighs 'The past'. The others don't even look up, their eyes locked up in their games. The auto pilot clicks and moves on..."