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Incidentally, given that exchange rate, the price of a belly pan at 310 Euros would be ~$341, in case $41 changes anybody's mind.

BTW, read a review of the Triumph Thruxton 1200 R on Motorcycle News today. In the shootout with the BMW R nine T, the author said, "BMW’s 110bhp flat twin-cylinder R nineT ... Sport version costs £1090 more than the base model and comes with heated grips, a seat hump, a brushed ali tank and high-rise Akrapovic exhaust." Thus, apparently "hump" is a term of art (also) in the motorcycle community.

The belly pan is a hella lot more complex part than the hump. Maybe G-B will do some humps for us. I'll take a belly pan, too, while we're at it, if they can do it in matte.

You'd have to make your own padded part. $300 is a bit steep for me, but I'll keep working on it.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/mcy/d/mesa-rare-moto-guzzi/7461230822.html 24,000 miles. Salvage title. Asking $6,500. Looks like the little fairing has a chunk out of it. Probably some other issues a keener eye will easily spot.

That is the price for 6. I suppose it could come down a bit more for 10...

First response back from fabricator: $300 per unit. That seems a bit steep to me. I'll get a few more quotes. What's your price point?

I'll make a few calls this week and see if I can get a quote. I can provide a fabricator with a hump . I assume, between those who've already expressed interest and a few more Guzzisiti, I could get six and maybe ten, bringing cost per item down somewhat from a one off. Cheers.

BTW, @Lucky Phil, your repair on that side cover looks great.

Gotta choose my battles, Phil. This one, I'd rather pay someone to git er done. If there's a critical mass of us that want these, maybe we can get the price per unit to a reasonable number. If it's prohibitively expensive, then yes, I'll give it a shot. Or, repair and matte clear, per your suggestion, above. Thanks!

Correct -- just the pillion cover. I have far too little time and comparatively more disposable income to start messing around with this as a DIY job. Incidentally, maybe this hump is due for v11lemans.com nomenclature. @docc: Yeah, that supposed windshield/flyscreen on ebay is clearly the seat lid. For a mere $200, you also get the sticker of Manneken Pis.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I took out the Green Goose today! Rode into Amish country, avoiding horse puckey on the road, took a mountain (well, what passes for a mountain in central PA) pass (lots of gravel and salt -- I almost walked around the 10mph hairpin switchbacks), and got back into town following a magnificent sunset. Stupidly, I didn't think to get a pic until too late, but I snapped this image after before it was lost completely: Look at that!!! Where is the "jaw on the floor" emoji? What a beautiful piece of machine art. You can walk around these V11 for hours trying to find the best angle to look at them from. And riding it is just as special. I can't make claim to being a great rider, I don't have any idea how to dial-in suspension settings, and I've haven't ridden scores of bikes for comparison purposes. What I do know is that the grin on the face sets in just after rolling out of the driveway. Literally. One moment it's a hooligan; another (around the ton) it's stirring milk tea. Pretty great combination, that. Cheers, Frey

So, I "need" a seat cowl, too. My Tenni came to me very well appointed in CF: front mudguard, gauges mount, fuel tank chin rest, alternator cover, side panels, hugger, and seat cowl. The only problem is that every piece of the CF is matte finish EXCEPT the seat cowl, which is high gloss. This bothers me immensely. Also bothersome, one of the POs turned the bolts too tight and cracked the cowl a bit; and there's a few other chips in the clear. I would like to source a matte CF cowl, but I'm guessing that's unobtainium. How many of us do yinz suppose it would take to make it affordable to get some made up for us? Seems a pretty easy job (for someone with the knowledge, skills, and tools, that is) -- one small piece, no corners, two holes. May have to start a new thread on this.... Thoughts?

Can't explain it, but I've always thought a tank cover would be cool ugly chic? Got one you aren't using? @docc? Color should be appropriate to champagne (if I were to order one new, I'd think about the steel grey). Cheers, Frey

Add Pennsylvania to intent. Timing is far from ideal for me, but gonna make every effort....

Geauga County is 3.5 hours away, so not an unreasonable ride, and I have fam in Cook Forest on the way there. I'll keep a lookout for NE Ohio MG activity. Cheers, @guzziart. Frey

Is that mood lighting, Docc?

Bought one-way flight from Pennsylvania to Colorado in June. Thinking I'll ride around CO visiting friends for 5 days and then spend another 5 days on a joy ride home. I'll need to buy a bike out there of course. If I love it, I'll keep it when I get home. Otherwise, I'll sell it. Trumpet Sprint STs seem to be pretty affordable and well-liked, plus many come with factory cases. Seems a number of forum members have owned or ridden one at some point. Virtues of this bike?

Interesting idea. Incidentally, the Tenni exploding clutch/flywheel problem was resolved by POx1. Bubbles just sounds a bit clanky. Seems that switching the brackets L to R resolved the fairing problem.

Yep, that did the trick. PO missed that when installing the fairing after the first crash. I always knew one cylinder was forward and one aft, but never knew they were no on longitudinal center.

Okay, I have the decent tune up bookmarked. @Scud, what to look for?

I did notice a bit of a stumble on acceleration, too. Maybe engine vacuum leak from the throttle-body base gasket?

The most encouraging thing is that I didn't have any parts left over after it went back together. Thanks for the nice pic, Docc. Per instructions, grounded wire and got neutral light. Filed connector, put on some dielectric grease. Neutral light all good.

I got Bubbles put back together. I started with the rear, as I swapped out the badly peeling anodized-looking red pork chops for a pair of dark silver-ish pork chops that came with the bike from PO. Though I had considered a "one side at a time" approach to pork chop replacement (i.e., take as little apart as possible), I ultimately decided to just take everything apart. Now that I've had the rear apart, the good news is that most of it seems pretty serviceable. I did not break into the rear drive, but oil looked fine and magnetic plug looked fine, too. All the joints in the drive train looked good enough. Known problems: Shock eye at swingarm has some play Torsion bar rubber jobbies are shot Right muffler mount bent Torsion bar has been eroded at the connection to frame (I suspect one of the frame tabs was bent inward at some point and it since ate slowly away at the torsion bar where it's pinched Also, the most rearward part of the fairing (above the cylinder heads) is not a tight fit to the fuel tank. I suspect that, in the fall on the right, one or more mounting brackets were bent, and then bent back, but not quite to original shape. I have a half inch or so of daylight. In the outdoor light, it sure seemed to me that the fairing was a different color (a bit less gold) that the tank and the seat surround. I suspect that the fairing had either been replaced or repainted at some point; and that there was a second accident in which the fairing got a little minor road rash. Yes, I think this bike has been down a couple times. Moving on to the front: I took Bubbles down from laundry room suspension and wheeled it outside. Started right up. Runs a little rough. A bit more (valve train?) noise than the Tenni. I let it warm up a couple minutes; did not ride it. Began leaking fuel from the right throttle body. I noticed this after I shut it down, so I don't know if it was leaking while running. Also after shut down, I noticed that the right muffler only smoked for a while. This is where I will be most happy for your thoughts. One other gremlin to note: Neutral light does not come on and dropping the kickstand in neutral results in engine cut-off. It's a good thing I'm having fun wrenching and learning about V11s, because I'm feeling like I made a pretty poor, sight unseen, Covid Times, boredom purchase. This may end up being the rat bike I always wanted.