Cobra23

Lost the vision in my right eye, deciding to slow down and buy a cruiser. The bike has 16,000 miles, and a Corbin seat. I just traded a very nice custom built bike for this, now I have this eye problem. New battery Fork just serviced New tires $4600 PM if interested. http://reno.craigslist.org/mcy/5745906059.html

There is a blockage behind my optic nerve opening it has restricted the flow of blood to my eye. Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO)Central retinal artery occlusion usually occurs with sudden, profound, but painless vision loss in one eye. Most people with CRAO can barely count fingers in front of their face or see light from the affected eye. Do you have vision in your detached retina eye? If not do you still ride?

Its covered, but thanks to higher insurance rates (Obama care) I now have a 5000 deductible. The bills have not started coming in yet. The Co-pays alone are up to about 800.

Hello again. I posted earlier, I have an 04 Cafe Sport. Unfortunately I have lost nearly all of the sight in my right eye. The bills for the treatment will be large. If anyone is interested in purchasing mine I would be willing to talk. It has 19k miles on it and is near perfect.

Well then.... I cant seem to get a reasonable sized photo inserted.

Here is a good photo of it.

And now this one is mine !! I love it ! just traded a very nice custom bike for it. It lives in Northern Nevada. Its almost time to begin wearing out my new Guzzi V11 Cafe Sport. When I got the bike from MAR, he said it was rare. I just really like Guzzi's and kind of nodded ok its rare. This winter I have been reading as much as I can find about the bike, and now I discover it is really really rare. Just how many are in the States?

Bike went in to the shop to get the forks serviced and new tires front and rear. One of the front brake rotors seems to be warped, what other bikes use this same rotor? Seems really hard to find rotors of decent quality for it, and I am certain perhaps Ducati uses same rotor on one of its models.

uuuuuuuuuhhh OH NO !!

That is a bunch of good information. I will need a couple weeks to study all this.

This is the bike I built, then traded for the Guzzi: http://kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/274097-1975-kz-900-zrx-swingarm-89-gsxr-front-end

I have the twinmax. This sounds like a good winter project... still a little spooked by the ECU business, I have done carb sync, and many many vale adjustments, but never got into the weird science of ECU's. Where can i find the Guzzidiag? Guzzi people are so cool, I called an outfit to buy some exhaust gaskets, the cross pipe is loose and rattling. I spent 30 minutes on the phone with the parts guy, he was very knowledgeable. He finally says "have you tried tightening the clamps on the midpipe?" I says Nope. So he says well try that first. Wow a Jap bike parts guy would have been glad to sell me an entire exhaust system to fix the problem. I came home and checked the clamps... yup they were loose. Problem solved !

Got the battery in, and checked the charging system, everything looks good. I also checked the ground wire that is near the seat lock, the previous owner had already moved it to the transmission bolt. When you cold start it what is the best technique. My Ducati is also a giant twin (996) it turns over quite a few times before firing when it has been sitting for a week. The Guzzi seems to take a little longer to fire.When I picked it up the previous owner said to let it crank until it fires as I was hitting the starter two or three times. So ! Do I just hold the starter button in until it fires? Seems like that would heat up the starter motor. he Altitude here is 4500 ft. I can't figure out if it really needs the cold start or not (choke / high idle lever ).

Thank you !! I will be putting the battery in today.