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..as you can see, it's a real chick magnet.

My advice is don't try to separate the throttle bodies unless you have no other choice. Phil

seems brians noun use and grammar would pass just fine with Count Olaf ("grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you know...", or maybe it was some other character from that Lemony Snicket movie my daughter used to quote), or any of our jr high grammar teachers, and pressureangle will be the helluva guy in this group to perhaps soon have a proper new gear box :->

I stand corrected, so does my android. Lame excuse I know right? At least in this case, we were able to connect, so there is that. Brian

Hello and sorry if the translation is not clear but I do not speak English and I use Google for that. I am looking for reliable springs because the only French dealer has died. New owner of a V11 le mans rosso corsa from 2005 I learned about the problem of the machine and read on your forum the means of repair, I only need one or two springs to finalize the problem of selector as a preventive measure. If anyone knows where I can get it......Thanks in advance and good luck to all Sincerely

When I saw the title of the thread, I thought he was simply hoping for better weather....

Si tu as des difficultés pour comprendre, il y a des membres Français du forum qui peuvent t'aider. Tu dois donc contacter @Scud qui possède des ressorts de remplacement qui sont plus solides que les originaux. L'administrateur du Forum the propose de suivre les conseils d'un des membres techniques du forum, pour ne plus avoir le problème du ressort de rappel du selecteur cassé. Bonne chance!

Welcome @XELOS17! In addition to sourcing the selector spring from @Scud, perform Lucky_Phil's shift improvement:

Incidently, one of the founders of a PA company that I have done a lot of work for over the years used to have a Kawasaki Triple. Allegedly, he was able to claim it on his tax return as a "musical instrument". He actually did produce music and sound collages, and probably did record the bike and use the sound, but still. Well done, that man....

It sounds like the selector spring. @Scud on this list has them.

I started to play around with some shapes and ended up with this monstrosity. It's actually for the Mustang as a faux ITB air cleaner that goes into a single carb. But it was a good exercise into merging multiple extrusions (lofts) into one unit.

i just texted Dave. I just saw him last at the John Day gathering this summer, so will see if he gets the text. who knows what he might know.... some perry mason work.

Something else you sometimes run into that looks like that is when an exhaust pipe has a dual wall. A dual wall pipe will be single wall at the point it meets another pipe, and then that sudden increase in outer diameter is where it becomes dual wall with a gap between the inner and outer walls. The Griso head pipes are a great example of this. The dual wall pipe allows a reduction in discoloration from exhaust heat. Not saying the pipe pictured is dual wall, but sometimes that is why an exhaust pipe looks like that. From a flow point of view it would be weird to have such a sudden increase in pipe diameter at that point in the exhaust system. That is oddly not something that would likely increase exhaust velocity. In fact, if it is a sudden increase in inside diameter of the pipe it would slow down exhaust velocity at that point. Which is generally something that would not help get exhaust out. But it can be very hard to estimate exhaust flow based strictly on looks. And given the simple nature of the V11 lump I am sure it is fine either way.

Be careful what you wish for

I pmed pressure angle a few minutes ago with Daves contact info. I'm done with this. Between pa and Dave now. Brian

That is funny . Also thank you for being the interpreter !

Dave Blue is by no means a thief! My name is Brian McCall. I have known the original owner of this bike since he bought the bike from GT Motors in Lansing, MI where I was working at the time. I uncrated the bike and set it up for owner. I have a personal stake in this as I am the person who transported the transmission to Dave. I was given the transmission in a box which I then transported to Dave. I never inspected the contents of the box. Dave called sometime later and asked where the back cover was. I referred him to the owner who claimed it was all in the box he gave to me at Barber Motorsports. I have no idea where the back cover is or has been. I do not believe either Dave or I ever saw or had possession of the back cover. My belief is that the original owner misplaced the cover and did not include it with the partially disassembled transmission I was given. I spoke with Dave this morning and I am willing to put the current owner in touch with Dave and have Dave's permission to do so. I think the original transmission should go back into this bike. I get the feeling that Dave does too. Brian

Funny related bit of info. I have a Jeep Wrangler. It has a V6 engine with two sets of exhaust pipes, one per bank. They merge together back behind the engine and trans on the left side of the vehicle. Unless you did something to account for length, the length of the exhaust before where they merge would be shorter on the left side since the right side exhaust pipe has to go further to cross over to the left side of the vehicle. What the factory did to account for the difference in length was to bend the left side pipe into a loop. That loop makes the two pipes the same length from the head to the merge point. But that loop is prone to hitting rocks if you offroad. We in fact did that, putting a dent in the looped part of the pipe. The solution is to replace the loop with a fairly straight length of pipe that does away with the loop. But if the straight pipe was the same diameter you would be introducing an uneven-ness to the exhaust system, with the left side exhaust pipe being shorter then the right side exhaust before they merge. To overcome that the people who make the replacement pipe make the straight non-looped pipe using larger diameter pipe. Because the shorter section of pipe is larger in diameter the exhaust in it slows down so that it takes a similar length of time for the exhaust to travel through that section of pipe as it would have if the exhaust was going through the longer looped section of pipe it replaces. Thus, the two sides still reach the merge when they are supposed to and the two sides still have what acts like the same length exhaust system. Even though one side is actually shorter in length. You never know but given the distance this change in diameter is from the exhaust valve I doubt it really makes a difference in power. But it may make a difference in sound.

all good. I don’t think dave is on this forum, but he’ll get back to me at some point and i’ll let you know. he’s a really good guy, with a very long resume of working directly for moto guzzi and various moto guzzi tech and race teams back when they did that going on, but dont think he does a lot of forums or email. i’ll get back to you soon once i have info. might prove helpful one way or another.

I sent a private message. Still have quite a few springs left.

Looks like a calliope.

There are some noises that NEED to be there . Mechanical lifters , clutch sounds ( lever pulled in or released) , straight cut gears , etc. If you know what you are hearing . Wow ! If it is making expensive sounds , not wow .

Looking for some bass riffs for a Dylan song, I stumbled across this never-aired concert filmed at the Bellevue Biltmore Starlight Ballroom, April 1976, in Clearwater, Florida, where I graduated high school a couple months later. The link opens with the Joan Baez performance at 16:54, hauntingly beautiful. What was billed as the largest wooden hotel in the country is gone now. So amazed this video exists.

roger roger. i seem to recall it being a bit tricky when i tried to remove the whole setup a few years ago, but its fuzzy.

Hi Gents, They're sold now. I didn't think that they'd last long on the market. LP, the noise is just the normal noise from straight cut gears meshing, you can't hear it at all when riding, only on tickover, & even then it's fairly quiet, as you mentioned in an earlier post. The issue is just me being pedantic, some people love the mechanical whine or the clatter of a Ducati dry clutch, 'nothing wrong with that, I'm just not that way inclined. As far as the gears are concerned, the quality of manufacture is outstanding & the precision is first class.

Thanks to both of you! It looked like I would still be off even doing it this way but this must be the solution. Thanks again!

Are you speaking of the entire TB assembly, including the injectors and TPS mounted to the rail set? Either way, I see no changes in the parts or the assembly across the V11 SpineFrame range; should all be interchangeable.

Although I haven't conversed with Joe in a long time, I used to be in quite frequent contact with him He's made several bits and pieces for me over the years and everything he sold me and a few other Guzzi folks I know has been really well made. A few racers have used his gear sets for which he's renowned his other big mod was an oil pump and gears too for the HiCam engines. The original oil pump design on the HiCam engines being badly flawed and led to several engines being reduced to scrap. I heard he was liasing with Phil on an update to the oil pump design for the HiCam, perhaps @Lucky Phil will chip in and tell us more Joe's a huge Guzzi fan and very knowledgable as well as being a really nice guy, PM me if you want his mail address, I just don't like putting it out on a public forum

I bought this silver front fender with the intention of having it painted green for my 2001 V11-Sport. I never got around to it and now it's just collecting dust. It's free if you pay the shipping

It was about a dozen clicks from a blank diagram to a printed piece. I just did this to see what it was like. About an hour to print out. Next will be to start getting actual dimensions.

. The mention of “Paradise” is interesting for its timing. Over on ADV Rider forum, there is an entertaining and informative thread called "Pillion Viewpoint (PVP).” https://advrider.com/f/threads/pillion-viewpoint-pvp.1525703/ The “host,” a lady from West Virginia, posts great photos of the things we “pilots” only see, if at all, briefly as we are so darn focused on the literal way ahead without dying. Her narratives are also engaging. Her “groupies” (I am one) have been encouraging her to collect and publish in, e.g., a “coffee table book,” the best of her posts. Great stuff. Her husband, Wally — PVP calls him “Rider” — is a fine fellow. He is often mentioned, and occasionally seen, but don’t think he ever posts in PVP’s thread. Rider is quite a wrench, too, and has many solo and two-up miles on his beemer and his new KTM. Anyway, PVP — a retired lawyer — has an architectural bent, and her pix often include interesting buildings. Her interest in houses of all sorts led recently to this comment, "All this architectural inventiveness, fading away, and replaced by the ticky-tacky," and 60’s or so protest songs, including, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes. Go to her thread if you care to see all of the interesting chatter, but I responded to the "ticky-tacky" post, including mention of "Paradise." "I understand the Little Boxes, ticky-tacky houses, and the like, and enthusiastically sang (badly) those along with my friends. That said, and I did not recognize it at the time, there is, IMO, an unmistakable whiff of elitism in that and other "suburban protest ballads." Those little boxes were the literal dreams-come-true of so many whose lives, when young, had been scarred by the Depression and then disrupted -- if they survived -- by WWII. Those folks were now raising families in those ticky-tacky homes we condemned in our songs. As a boomer, vintage '47, I lived a care-free teenage life that made it easy to complain about the wrongs of my parents' generation, most of whom were struggling and still sacrificing for their children. As one of those kids, I lived in a tract home in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the 1960's, and dated a sweet lass from Central City in Muhlenberg County, so my favorite song at the time was, of course ... Recognition of my own frailties as a young person helps me overlook and forgive the teens and young adults of today. Now ... get off my lawn, PVP, and take and post some more pix!” Whatever the socio-economic and political value then and now, it’s a great song. Bill

@PJPR01 I updated the original post with the map for the 2025 tour; 50 stops, 5 alternates, 5 Republic of Texas stops. As before, you can copy the map and save it on your google drive to build your own itineraries. The Wyoming ROT #5 seems very far away... 19 hours one way without the stops.... Stop #25, which is any Veteran of Foreign War post, I picked the one in Navasota, since we have already one stop there. But of course, there are others.

just fyi, this is not a verb. It's a noun, like Batman. Pressureangle is a helluva guy too.