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To cap it off we now have the Guzzi lawyers trolling the world threatening Guzzi Forums with legal action for using "their" corporate property. So you pay to advertise their product for free and in return they crap on your good intentions from a great heigh. Not restricted to Guzzi I know. So it's the middle digit to them from me, lol. The irony being that less money spent on lawyers and more on R & D and quality control might mean that there wasn't such a need for forums where fellow enthusiasts make good the gaps and shortcomings of Guzzi's output. Sent from my SM-S901B using Tapatalk

I have no anxiety about any of this. I am just enjoying this new taste journey and learning something new. There are little tweaks I am learning that make small improvements, but none like switching to grinding fresh. My current grinder seems to be just fine for now. I never expected my wife to plunk down $500 for a Gaggia. That's my department.

Suspicious, but it could be that your pump simply lost it's prime, and you swapped filters just before it caught on. I'd cut the paper filter open and inspect the guts just to have peace of mind.

It’s a well taken care of bike by the looks of the pipes and other items already mentioned. You can easily get a high quality wrap on the parts you would like to make red (tank, side pieces)…and it has the rare factory side bags which are also expandable and very nice and not cheap! Definitely worth a visit to ride the bike. A well tuned Griso is a fast bike indeed…plenty fast for our tastes on the road to be sure…it also makes a great touring bike, you may need to modify handlebars or add risers, lowered foot pegs or even a Cortech tank bag with an Onur ring. Lots of goodies there to work with…and to make it yours by personalizing it to your tastes. Those front and rear blinkers are kind of cool if you decide to return them to stock, I’d buy them!

Thank god for FaceBook Marketplace!!! A very discreet jacket, that does not give away any of my preference towards motorcycles. Perfect for patches... Hopefully, nobody is going to purchase it before I can get there....

Good to know! However, there is a reason why all the Ferrari (before) were red. Sadly, science is no longer a criterion for anything you want to support a claim with. If Louis Pasteur is watching us, he must nod his head wondering what is going on...

For this, you must go to Rome . . .

IDK what happened in your case . i usually shut it off hot and go to it. I don't like to leave the oil drain for a long time. Do inspect the filter you remove and inspect the mating surface where the filter goes to make sure everything is all clear . Also look at the filter you are installing to verify there is seal/gasket going back on. If you want to keep up your habit , remove the oil press. switch and plumb in a hose so you can purge the air and see when it primes . Do mount the end of the hose so oil will not go everywhere when it primes. Shut it off and reinstall the switch .

I am glad you did not. If you look closely at the fonts, it seems like a knockoff. Incidentally, Rome is one of the places where they have made taking advantage of tourism a must do! I am sure you have seen all the little shops around the Vatican, selling artififacts to those pilgrims? it is pure robbery! It has been like that for a long long time... I was based in Pescara for a little while, with very few departures per day, most of them in the morning, I had to drive to Fiumicino each time I had to fly somewhere. Then when transfered to Sicily, I had to fly through Fiumicino to get to Catana; at that time, no direct flight to Sicily from abroad. Self guarded monopoly for the Italian domestic airlines and the defunct Alitalia. I did fall for Italian brands sold for less than the cost in Milan. On the scale of cheap reproduction, Rome is right next to Naples. Anyway, I am going to go to the place where that jacket is sold this morning. Hopefully, it is still there. It is going to look well with my Red helmet, red gloves. Need a pair of red riding shoes too. I wonder if they sell Moto Guzzi underpants?

Yep I put it together wrong once also, thinking "what is wrong?" Then feeling both silly and victorious once it went together properly. The rear fender also was a bit of a struggle too.

I saw this jacket in Rome back in October while wandering some streets with a gelato from Giolitti…was tempted also but ultimately decided that red leather is not my preferred textile of choice! Similar to the one you found!

True that Shithouse is for the most part derogatory, unless as a bloke you'd like to be built like a brick shithouse.... Sorry but the Centauro was definitely in the shithouse category he says ducking and weaving!

I will throw the Honda Hawk GT in the ring, my first bike. The Yamaha TDM, at least in the US, did better in Europe. Maybe even the RC30, maybe due to price, but a slow seller. For 4 wheels, the Triumph TR7, still love the looks. Merkur XR4TI, Subaru XVS, the Dino 246, not a big seller.

Wiser words were never spoken. and in this there is a truth that cannot be denied. Very Phil-osofickal.

I guess you pick and choose your complications these days. Life's a lot simpler and just as satisfying when you "dont know what you don't know". As a kid in the supermarket I had a choice of 3 tomato sauces and was happy as a clam with that. Now when I go into the supermarket I'm faced with at least 50 choices of meat sauces and apart from choice anxiety there also the anxiety of thinking that maybe I made a wrong choice. All that matters is you enjoy what you now have.

i have an airscape container or two, and use them now and then, but that "world champion barista" fellow... i forget his name, and of course there are many of them (an english guy...) did some youtube station testing of the storage bins, and concluded it didn't matter that much. basically the beans off-gas, and (usually) are best a few days after roasting up until roughly 2 weeks later, give or take a little based on a few variables, and storage options didn't have much effect on that. But yes, freezing is bad :->

No definitive answer from me John but one thing is I never leave an engine without oil in it mid oil change. Dump the oil change the filter refill and start asap. Even if the filter media was an issue the pressure relief valve in the filter would open and build oil pressure. Your pump just lost prime I suspect and starter cranking wasn't enough rotational speed to re prime it. There is far too much anxiety about engine oil pressure in general and LOP in particular. I've seen race engine data logging where the engine oil pressure goes to zero hard on the brakes into the hairpin at 9000rpm lap after lap and it didn't hurt the bigends. The shallow sump engine issues were always an acceleration over LOP issue. So hard acceleration at maximum engine load without oil pressure, probably repeatedly as the LOP light is hard to notice in daylight when you're gunning it down some suburban street or back road. I'm sure the big block Guzzi can tolerate zero oil pressure for quite a while at idle speeds building oil pressure after an oil change like 99% of engines without any issue. When it comes to pre charging the filter I'm not even sure that with regards to pump priming it's a good thing to be honest with you. If the pump happens to be on the on the edge of losing it's prime for some reason then having the filter full of oil won't help it's cause at all and just make priming the pump harder as it now has a resistance to overcome on the outlet side as well as trying to suck on the inlet side. I still prime filters when I can but then again I don't leave engines without oil during oil changes. Some engines you simply can't prime the filter as we all know due to the instillation and they never have any issues due to it. As for filling the filter observations, well it's amazing the fine details you would otherwise not notice or think about that are pretty normal until you have an issue and then the mind starts asking detailed questions you never even considered before. Mind games John mind games, don't worry. Occams Razor says..... pump lost it's prime. Phil

Found the answer to my question; Emission testing is not required for motorcycles Here's the list of what they were doing before. Not sure what "wheel assembly" means. * Check for evidence of Financial Responsibility ( I am guessing insurance). 1. Horn 2. Mirror 3. Steering 4. Brakes (system) 5. Tires 6. Wheel Assembly 7. Exhaust System 8. Tail Lamp (1) 9. Stop Lamp (1) 10. License Plate Lamp 11. Rear Red Reflector (1) 12. Head Lamp (1) 13. Motor, Serial, or Vehicle Identification Number. 14. License Plate.

Faster than what? Yellow? Then probably so. But black is 11.3% faster than red, because of reasons. And that is science. BTW - these days it seems fast and science can both mean anything you want. I just got back from a romp on my Griso. I'm 6 feet tall and find it slightly more comfortable, and slightly less sporty/nimble than the V11.

I didn't insepct the filter. When filling the filter I thought it took longer than normal for the oil to penetrate the media and fill the outer periphery. On removal tilting the filter oil in the centre was slow to percolate through to the outer. Thinking about it, it probably wasn't blocked but the media seemed denser and fluid slower to penetrate it than normal The sealing ring was fine both sides, as I removed it to check. I've more or less got what you suggest, its piped to a pressure gauge, if the gauge is correct you wouldn't want an open ended hose when it primes it gets up to 20psi almost immediatley and 60 in a few seconds. I can't rule that out, but inclined to disbelieve it. After god knows how many times turning the engine over and nothing the pressure gauge never flickered off the stop. Installed another filter and 3 short turns on the starter and BOOM! system pressure, which is exactly what I'd normally expect when re-priming the system. Now if it had been the HiCam then perhaps............................ I purchased 3 of these filters and next on the list to check is the HiCam engined bike. If it doesn't prime as expected, I'll have a good idea what to do next, either way I'm going to find out Re the filter its in the trash so I could fish it out and cut it open, but it'll be horrible as it's saturated in oil. If I get the time I'll do that. Nobody is more surprised than me, if somebody had posted this up, I'd have found it difficult to believe, I wasn't even going to start this thread. Did so in the off chance that something similar happened to somebody else. The scary thing is if I wasn't so bloody anal, I'd have filled it, started it and perhaps seriously damaged the engine.

@PJPR01 No word from the seller so far. Thanks for the "wrap" tip, I need to investigate. I do like the bags, because I do not carry a backpack for safety reasons, and the small tail pack I have on the V11 has not much capacity, but it does not make the bike look ugly. Well, I rode the Le Mans for thousand of miles in single outings, how worse can the Griso be? the most difficult part is to have the legs folded too high. Being on the Quota is a dream compared to the Le Mans, for that very reason.

You know there is a tradition in Italy for the New-Year celebration; men ans women have to wear red underwear! There is another tradition too, but this one I can't report here...

H/D is the worst . If you make and or sell a wooden board , metal stuff , clothing w/anything resembling Harley Davidson or orange and black , they will shut you down .

Great, thank you Docc!

Yes, that's a good one. Should have done much better than it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Alcyone_SVX

To exemplify what I mean: Shithouse: Holden Gemini Diesel. Shitbox, and it didn't sell. Datsun 120Y. Did sell, but still a shitbox. Dud: Leyland P76. Should have worked, and would have been a good car, actually, if circumstances hadn't worked against it. Unfortunately, it went down with the rest of the British Motor Industry in the seventies. For the rest of the world, I'm referring to these vehicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Gemini#TE_(1979–1982) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Sunny#Third_generation_(B210;_1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_P76

No, I beg to differ. "Shithouse" is something that was definitely bad from the beginning. As far as I understand it, a "nanar" doesn't have to be bad, but rather something that didn't work for some reason. So "dud" is better. Might have gone off, but it didn't.

It's funny I suppose, I have this position where I refuse to wear any "branded" clothing unless I get it for free. I'm not paying my hard earner for the privilege of giving free advertising to a corporate entity. I'm not talking about the consequential logos on a polo shirt or the tag on a pair of Levi jeans but the sort of Jacket the OP has shown and similar. Nope, you want me to be a walking Billboard then you foot the bill and I'll wear it, if I like it that is. It kind of started years ago when I was at a bike show and Australian Motorcycle news had a stand and on the stand was a pile of stickers and I thought I'll grab one of those for decorating my toolbox. The Journo at the stand then said that's $2 mate as I walked away. I turned around and put it back then let him know how I felt about me paying my money to advertise his rag at no cost to them. Baseball caps are another surprise these days. Weren't baseball caps giveaways at the start? They were here for sure. Then some corporate advertising clown found out that punters will hand over now, what $50 or more for the privilege of providing free advertising for a multinational or a sporting club owned by a gazillionair! To cap it off we now have the Guzzi lawyers trolling the world threatening Guzzi Forums with legal action for using "their" corporate property. So you pay to advertise their product for free and in return they crap on your good intentions from a great heigh. Not restricted to Guzzi I know. So it's the middle digit to them from me, lol.

I learned this one the hard way with my wife. I won't make the same mistake twice.

If you are apprehensive , drop it . Like walking into a room and it doesn't feel right , Get up n go. The Vette and the other bike look pretty good , but this is your decision .

That makes a big difference. I have observed that freshly ground coffee that is "left over" in the grinder is not as good the next day, or even several hours later, as really freshly ground. It's not like that resulting coffee is really bad, but there is a certain something that apparently gets lost very quickly if the ground coffee sits around for a while before being brewed.

That looks like a nice Griso, and the owner's garage is also well-organized with a few other well-kept toys. That's a good sign. If all the stock parts are included, you can undo any modification you don't like.

Here’s the reason you don’t use Phil’s machine. https://www.self.com/story/how-to-clean-your-sex-toys-so-you-can-use-them-safely

Looks like a steam punk dildo washing machine!

Looks like a v CLEAN bike, you can always wrap it red. Mr Pete R are very found of the Griso's, just a few minor details. Some greasing at the right places, and may be startus interruptus. I like em in Tenni version. Buy it. Cheers Tom.

That is very good. I watched some experts setting up bikes with Guzzi Diag at the forum rally last year. The bloke on the computer is Beard (Bernd) who programmed Guzzi Diag (the computer is inside the cardboard box that he is looking into). Karsten, orange t-shirt and overalls, was doing the adjustments. Going by what he was satisfied with for the TPS on various bikes, within 2 mV of the target is excellent.

Set up today and pulling great shots. Phil

An Elvis Presley favorite snack was a peanut butter and nanar sandwich as I recall. Do you mean dud maybe? A dude (dood) is a male. In the last century, a male with fancy attire. To your point, a Guzzi Centauro is def a nanar