ferguzzi

I bought the bike from the nice people in the Italian Moyorcycle Company in Exeter. The odometer stopped working and was fixed at the 1000 mile service, but the trip counter died not long afterwards. The return spring was the only thing that hit me in the middle of the trip. I'm not a tech-head so had no idea what the problem was, except I couldn't get out of second. This happened literally as I was in the queue to cross the border to Slovenia. Once on the other side, realising I couldn't sort it myself, I broke a whole bunch of laws and sneaked back into Austria as I reckoned I'd be better off there. The AA picked me up, and Brought me to Villach, a nice little town nearby ,which just happened to have a scooter dealer around the corner from the hotel I was brought to that did a (very small) sideline in Guzzis. The bike broke on Sunday and I was back on the road Tuesday, whether due to Austrian efficiency or just luck I don't know. If you ever end up there,check out the scottish pub. It has a massive Guzzi sign on the wall, and a bored scouser serving yummy local beer that goes down all too easily! The bike was fine for the rest of the trip(7000 miles, 4 weeks, down to Croatia and back) Except for the odd "hiccup" at high revs every now and again ( like flipping the kill switch) that got worse towards the end. It was serviced again in Exeter on the return and they couldn't figure it out. We thought dirty fuel, no, the fuel injection mapping was checked, no. In the end someone noticed part of the fuelling system had come loose, and the problem went away. I have a feeling my baglux tankbag had been anchored to some thing it shouldn't have, and after a month of carrying the abus granite lock had pulled something loose, but to be honest it's a bit of a mystery. Works fine now, though.

We've done a fair bit of 2 up through the UK and in Northern Italy. The Mrs. is just shy of 6 foot, so leg room is the biggect difficulty. She tends to rest the ball of her foot on the carbon mistrals, without any melting or overheating and the extra inch or 2 makes all the difference.(where have you heard that before). It seems good for about 5 hours, but its usually backseat boredom that limits us at that stage.

Interesting, that this should come up. I ride the only Tenni in Ireland(actually the only v11 I think), And the spring broke while crossing the Austrian/slovenian border in the middle of a 7000 mile tour of Europe. The bike was 5 weeks old and hadn.t missed a beat up to that point. Luckily for me The nearest town had a scooter dealership who knew his way around guzzis, and I was on the road again in 2 days, otherwise I was hooped. There was a vague mention of the warranty covering repairs, but 15 months later ,and I've heard nothing.