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There is that old saying...I could fill in the blank with fishing, duck hunting or motorcycle stuff. When I go, I hope my wife doesn't sell my ________ stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

Still amazed by this bike, after 20 + years. Here picking it up in New Orleans in 2004 on my 50th birthday, an incredible gift from my wonderful wife. The next year Hurricane Katrina would wash this shop away! The Rosso still runs strong....I compare it to my other Guzzi, a 2022 V85 Guardia d Onore, and it has about 100% more Guzzi soul. Yes, both the bike and the wife are keepers for life. Andy

Docs = The Silver Cyborg

I can be philosophical telling someone else to throw stuff away .

Worry’s will only hurt your stomach, don’t watch news for one. I bet my son will be happy with all the parts ++++ l say l live a simple life as retired . Cheeers Tom.

The bike that started my love for Moto Guzzi. On the bike show in Utrecht I spotted Sophia Loren amongst hundreds of occasions.

Having been through a couple of moves (divorce) and downsizing my garbage I can tell you it’s a revelation. I still have too much stuff but I am getting there. 1 rule to follow, if it’s useful or gives you pleasure then it stays. All else gets ejected. so I have 1 car 1 small house, 2 guzzis a Yamaha tmax and a Ducati 996.. oh and an Aprilia Tuono.. .

Tell the good man we are speaking fondly of him and would enjoy a visit!

@Orson kicked off our "Post a Picture" thread with his "Tenni in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany " . . . At some point, he moved to the coast of US North Carolina. Last post, last visit here I see from him is March 2019 . . . https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/profile/16-orson/

I'm sure I've put thoughts on this before, but a long time ago. I'm sure many have. Along with aging, it's unavoidable. I think not so much about my own accumulation of recent decades, modernish things with relatively fleeting life and use, but the more everlasting items that have built and shaped through generations. They can be weighty and all together they certainly take space. They are often simple in construction and function, robust and good for purpose from past into the far future. Stone masonry, carpentry, iron fettling. Now I feel this is the end of the long line of use and interest though generations: what is present will be dispersed or junked after me. There's no point in passing-on, as these items would only be burdens. So really I should just get rid of such old things to free up precious space I need. But the solid integrity of these things... they are just not 'throwaway'.

Presently embroiled in a transition from a thirty year domicile, I am reminded of the matters of Maritime Law. Is my buoyant crap falling overboard (flotsam), or am I throwing it overboard deliberately (jetsam)? Will I try to tie a marker to my sinking stuff (lagan) to try and reclaim it later, or let it sink to abandonment (derelict). Will pirates come to relieve me of some of the burden? AAARRRRGGGG !!! https://everything.explained.today/Flotsam%2C_jetsam%2C_lagan_and_derelict/

Firstly, I couldn't watch that video. The running text parallel to the audio drives me mad. Can't do that. Nevertheless, the theme is very current in my household. We moved my girlfriend's father from the house that she grew up in, at least from her early teens, to a "senior residence" in the city that we now live in. He went from over 200 m² to about 65m². Lots of stuff had to go, but the girlfriend had to "save" some stuff. Now we have got more cartons in the flat. Ok, it's not like we can't move in here, but it is too much stuff. There are cartons here that have "survived" two moves without being opened. That means about 16 years. And now some more... I have to admit, I have a bit of stuff that needs reducing too. I haven't played my trumpet or my flugel horn for years, so one could think about them. I have a fairly extensive collection of Pentax Spotmatic (Honeywell) camera equipment that I haven't used for years. One could definitely think about that. But it's hard... EDIT: I could note that I have already done a radical reduction. In 1996 I moved from Australia to Germany with a backpack, a briefcase, and two cartons that I sent on ahead. I was about 33 years old at the time, so a fair bit of stuff got sorted out then. And I am fully aware of the advantages that it brought. Still, I like my stuff.

I bought these primarily for the nuts. I have pans of standard / metric nuts and I like to go the easy and most accurate way of doing this . I was using bolts to measure thread pitch , etc. of ea. nut

The shaggin wagon!

Leave it to Dr Peterson to so eloquently beard the lion. I've just moved to my new and presumably last home, after 26 years. No family so just a single guy's work and hobby junk. An amazing amount of crap. It forces one assign value to each item. I had to face the reality of the advice I had given a close friend not so long ago. He was bemoaning the amount of 'stuff' he had accumulated and didn't know where to begin. I told him that when he's gone, someone will walk through your things, look around, and throw most of it out. Little did I know at the time that he would pass within the year. Close family kept a small keepsake, auctioned or donated the rest. My girlfriend now gets to sort through her pile of belongings so her house can be sold. Country life awaits us. I have to buy a tractor. ... and a few other things

In an accidental way, I noticed a Wordpress site I subscribed or connected to in the past but have forgotten: it's Orson't amazing Travel Blog. Scrolling there, I saw the time he visited Northern Ireland on a Scotland-Ireland venture more in 2011. We went to the North West 200: unfortunately a bad year when heavy rain, a bomb scare and a huge oil spill prevented racing most of the day. Orson was on his Triumph Thruxton rather than V11 for that trip. I think he a few bikes stored in various parts of the world for his travels. Last time he was on the forum here seems to be 2019 and I don't see any author info/bio on Orson's Travel Blog or dates on posts. Is there any news of Orson?

Silly question here. We're all "converted". The V11 Models have various issues, mostly minor. You can find very extensive information on all of them here. It is possible to iron them all out. Go for a ride on it. You'll either love it immediately, or not. If you don't love it, don't buy it. If you do, buy it. It is really as simple as that. My V11 Le Mans has a number of problems, all solvable. My problem is finding the time to get onto them. Even so, every time I ride it, I come home with a smile on my face.

And if the Tenni ever needs a new home, @docc might know a place.

Ps Bloody good job she doesn't see my posts or that time of reckoning might be sooner rather than later......

A very relevant post. As of December, I've had to move my Dad into permanent care after a fall and broken hip meant he can no longer stay in his home despite the fact that my brother also lives in it too. He needs a level of care now (Alzheimer's as well) that we can no longer provide hence the placement. We're almost over the red tape and will shortly have to go through his belongings and do the same as some of you mention here. It does make you think about your own stuff...My wife is always giving me curry about my collection of bike magazines, books, cd's and last few years blurays! We also just did our wills to make matters easier on the kids when our time comes too and can just imagine them going through my stuff...I don't reckon much will survive but folk's ...Enjoy your stuff now while you can!! Cheers Ps 11 years ago we moved to our current home which is almost twice the size of our last...which means plenty of space for more STUFF!

Orson has posted fairly recently on a BMW forum that I occasionally follow He still has the Tenni

Your (emotion) expression will be the same as Jaap's

Griso is one of the most righteous bikes of all time

Did I mention the books? And the 4 metres or so of vinyl records?

Hopefully she had a fullfilled part of her life done there/here. Juding is. About nighttime, cheers Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

Yes . Cheers Tom.

3 small wires that sit in the thread pitch dia, so in the thread valleys so to speak. Two on one side and one on the other and then use a std mike to measure the bolt dia. Useful when single point cutting on a lathe. This is better than my explanation.

No, if they were in negotiations they would deny there is any truth to the rumor. No comment is what they say when it isn't true. That way they keep people guessing and talking about it.

Took me a while, but I did find this nice shot of @Admin Jaap's V11 G&B . . . .

This brought back a memory... I once flew from Paris to Rome seated next to a man wearing a cap with "Captain" on the front. Like on a ship. He had a dictaphone in his hand (yes, back then), and he went on reporting absolutely all the trivial matters for the duration of the flight; such as: -They have closed the doors -They are demonstrating the safety procedure; -They started the engines. -we are taxiing. -We are taking off; time is:..... -We took off. And so on. I remember thinking: what does he do with the recordings? today, I know. This is actually the audio version of all those "influencers" that document absolutely everything of what they do in life.

I have a pigtail attached to all my bike batteries and it hangs out the side panel. My battery chargers all have this disconnect on the charge leads . This is where I can plug/unplug from each bike w/o any fuss and charge each battery . I get this stuff @ NAPA because it is close. The lead that is permanent has ring terminals and attaches to the battery + and - posts. hang the wire out the side of the bike making sure the seat or anything else is not going to damage the cable. There's a protective cap to cover the plug to keep out bad stuff. If your charger does not have this and you want to splice this into a charger , CHECK polarity every time you cut/splice any wires and use a voltmeter to check when you are finished . This two part wire has a slick and a lined indicator on the insulation also but just to be safe check when you are finished. The theory about disconnecting the battery when charging this bike , I will have to think about . For now , just charge as low a charge rate as you can. I have found that batteries that are completely discharged , install a fully charged battery in parallel with the charger . This allows you to charge up the discharged battery when the charger would not even read the dead battery. This saves you from throwing away a salvageable battery .

For the record, what Jaap's LeMans became: https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/gallery/album/87-gampb-sport-monza/

Just think. If it not for this moment, and this fine fellow, we would not be here together. I am SO thankful!!

Day one with mySport, August 2000 . . . Top 5 Moto Guzzi picks since 1965? V11 Sport/silver, V11 LeMans Tenni, V11 Sport "carryover"/burgundy, V11 LeMans/black, V11 Coppa Italia I mean, hey @4corsa, you're asking the other inmates on the ward!

Beating a speed triple😀

Doesn't sound like the battery then Usual check on the Alternator is to measure the output wire with a multimeter set to AC Volts Figures are in the manual I believe, if the same as the Sporti they are 15 V AC @ 1k RPM 40 V AC @ 3k RPM 80 V AC @ 6k RPM I'm not ruling it out but still leaning toward something amiss in the system wiring or the Reg/Rec One other thing that intrigued me, it looked like the Reg/Rec was for a 3 phase Alternator, that's fine its just 2 of the phases aren't used. Oh and the manual also has current figures for the system, looks like it's meant to max out at a little over 27A Where's @Kiwi_Roy when you need him?

Going back to 1995 . Just get a divorce in Ky. where the ex keeps EVERYTHING . she keeps your childhood pics , mementos , everything. You get your truck and clothes . I was talking to a buddy and he was telling me about he couldn't find his H.S. football uniform when he "left" . She told him later she threw it all out in the backyard ,poured gas on it and burned it. I don't have to tell you , some women in Ky are mean.