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Well, it's been said a lot that Stoner just couldn't feel the front Michelin and that's one of the reasons he crashed a lot. And being very young didn't help As for electronics, Casey makes very clever use of it, but is one of the guys using it the less...He's just a great rider I think and I reckon he'll do great on the Honda....

the Ghezzi should be up and running (rear wheel bearings...) so I see you on monday. I'll be coming on the bike, very seventies

It looks great and sound ominous, but put a DB killer on it as it wouldn't pass the Mettet noise regulation as it is...

that's a serious appetizer

I'm sure the dolphins rejections must have to do with GW. I'll check Wikipedia later ;-)

Dennis Hopper died today, aged 74. He was so brilliant in Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now...

Crystal Lake: quite perfect rock/pop song (but terrible video) by . Funny how psychedelia is coming back in music these days.

mant thanx for all these, i'll pass all the suggestions to the mechanic. A good news already is that he's taking charge of the repair.

Well, the shop is taking the bike back on saturday and we'll get to the bottom of this. I can't answer most of the questions right now but will get them to the mechanics and hopefully that can start a fruiful END OF THE PROBLEM. (funny, was just watching Dr House season finale and it came to me that this technical topic section is very much like Gregory's diagnostic team. Who's 13 ? )

i guess I have to change Guzzi shop (not an easy task around here i tell you) to get to the bottom of this story.

Well, I don't do the repairs myself, it's done by a garage specialised in Guzzi (they have been doing it for more than 15 years) so I reckon they have the right tooling, and put the right parts in. Well, as it is, it's a rather expensive repair as they need to open up the engine...takes more than ten hours, or so i've been told... Your last point is interesting: i will forward it to the guys handling the repairs.

engine smell...

rear from what I know. (warning: i don't know if it's relevant, but while the engine comes from a V11, the gearbox is the 5speed 1100 sport one)

I have a wonderful bike (2002 blue GB STW 1100), it starts to be really dialed up nicely suspension wise, the PC III does a correct job at controlling a pretty hefty delivery (about 93 CV at the back wheel with the KS Scola cam), the bike is really fast, but it's the third clutch gasket I'm going thru (including two time new clutch disks)...The bike has only 50.000 kms. So it starts dripping oil at the back of the engine and diagnostic is always the same: clutch gasket gone, clutch starts to slip more and more... Is there a reason why I would always end up having the same trouble ? Seems to me it happens when I really start riding the bike strong altho I never pass 8000 rpms. What can I do to stop having that expensive and time consuming problem (speak slowly, I'm not a technician at all...)

If you want to go dirty and Lo-Fi, I give you here . A few years ago, i passed on the link to , the fight between a Triumph bike and a Camaro (I think). Same director and same team.

not my style...but thanx i'm more in a Vermin Twins mood these days

The Coppa looks great ! Bravo !

There will be a special Guzzi Event at the Spa-Francorchamps 4 hours Classic Race on June 11, 12 and 13 2010. Alongside the endurance race, there's an entire array of things to do, see, hear and eat Guzzi there on the (arguably) most beautiful circuit in the world. It's all explained here. Lots of Guzzi to demo ride, and the V8 will be there, and send out on the circuit I guess (but it's not clearly stated). I think I'll be there on sunday.

i actually think it looks interesting and brave. the spiked wheels are great, he just didn't do justice to the back of the bike (seat is all wrong). but what do i know as i own a guzzi that does look a tiny bit like that (all trashied, but mine was officially done this way ;-)

Just saw him in Ironman 2 (don't bother, it's a childish movie and nowhere near as good as Ironman 1) and his acting was good, they used his look well and even enhanced it with appropriate dreadlocks and tatoos.

There's no sweet spot with the Scola RS cam: it's just mayhem above 4.000 rpm...

I fixed the noise problem on ther Ghezzi: it was 99DB with Db killers and I was successful at trimming it down to 95/96 DB so i'll be in Mettet ! Doesn't look like it but getting rid of Db on a bike is about as hard as getting good back wheel HP