swooshdave

If you mean like this it would be dead sexy.

Old Triumph fairing? Now I’m getting scared. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The 850-T was 1974-1975. Even then I suspect the 75s were just left over 74s. The T3 came right on its heels in 75. As many 850-Ts as one sees you think they had made a ton of the but the truth is they just last forever. Surprised docc hasn’t kicked you off the forum for painting a silver V11 red. [emoji12] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The good news is that there has been flexible plastic bodywork on cars for long enough that all shops should know how to fix it.

Did I miss the part where you posted pictures of the V11? Also I believe I can't believe that Guzzi had a 850T (Loop) and an 850-T (Tonti), but then again they are Italian...

Probably trashed them just like he trashed the rest of the bike.

A couple things. If you want to train avoiding obstacles next time you're out avoid every manhole. You'll pick up how to avoid something while moving pretty quickly. And secondly, that hit was hard enough to pop the GoPro out of its shell. That's pretty impressive as they do not open easily. Impressive as in you never want to hit something that hard. Ever.

There aren't that many of you. Fess up. I've enjoyed this guy's videos, well the ones with the Guzzis. That silver 1100 Sport... dang.

http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-moto-guzzi-v11-scura What the hell? What a waste of a great bike. I hope they were lying about it actually being a Scura.

I think we’re on the same page about the pressure. But coming back to the V11, an engine that was designed for more traditional breathing I’d stay away from negative pressure without a ton of engineering and testing. The simple answer is low to no pressure would be ideal for a typical owner with modest resources. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's a fine line. Too much negative pressure and you could have oil going where you don't want it or not going where you need it.

This was free. I had not heard the Smugmug trick before. Nice.

You can get an add on for Chrome and Firefox browsers called, "Photobucket fix" or some such. Download, install, and see those blocked images. Photobucket can kiss my patootie. http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=20351&p=231393 My Photobucket Rescue

I have close to 5000 images on Photobucket, a vast majority of them linked to this forum. When they screwed everyone over last year I kind of gave up. There were so many highly useful images that not only helped me but hopefully a lot of people here too. Currently the only way to view them is to use a Chrome extension (which does work). There is also one for the Opera browser which 3 people in the world use). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-hotlink-fix/kegnjbncdcliihbemealioapbifiaedg?hl=en My other choice was to download all of the images and start over. Except they have blocked almost all methods of downloading. Until I found this. Be warned it required command line but if you have access to that I literally just pasted the three commands into my terminal and BAM! it downloaded all of my images! While I have many of these pictures already it just means that I no longer even have to think about Photobucket. This worked without flaw on my Mac. It should work the same on Linux. Windows may take some tweaking. https://gist.github.com/philipjewell/a9e1eae2d999a2529a08c15b06deb13d High level instructions: Go to the first album in Photobucket and click any picture to select it. Now a Select All button will appear to the top left of the pictures. Click that. Go to the next album. The Select All should be there. Click and wait until it completes. This took me a while as I have something like 100 albums. Down at the bottom of the screen you should see a count of the number of images that are selected. I did about 2000 the first time and 3000 the second. When you are down with the Select All process you click the Link button on the bottom (near where you see the count). Find the Direct Link field and copy. Paste into any text editor. Save file as photobucket_files.txt in a folder called photobucket on your desktop. Now run the command line scripts. The first one navigates to the folder. The second one finds all of the photos in the root Photobucket folder (Your Bucket) and the third command finds all of the photos you have in the folders. It only goes down one level so if you have nested folders you need to move the images to a first level folder. It will take a few minutes to run (many in my case) but you will get all of the original files in the folder neatly organized by folder. I'll store these and then start the process of loading to Flickr, until Flickr decides to screw us over too. Oh, and FU to Photobucket. May they burn in hell. I'll provide the gasoline.

You actually don’t want negative pressure because of that. Ideally you shoot for neutral pressure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Excellent vid and explanation. The Norton doesn't lend itself well to crankcase venting because it's a close-case dry sump. Is yours a Colorado Norton Works reed, or something you made yourself? (I have a '71 Fastback in the works, apart and researching) The Guzzi has a lot of places to put a vent up high where oil can separate before it reaches the vent- even the stock place isn't bad, but the limitations are obvious. A hosed reed like yours in the distributor hole or I think at the top of the timing chest would be great. Unfortunately a ton of pictures on how to do this on a Norton are locked up on Photobucket (may they rest in hell). I haven't dug into the Guzzi breathing yet but it's been well beat to death on the Norton. For the 71 if you don't have the frame crosstube interference you should use the Comstock sump breather. My brother has it on a 73 850 and it works great. On my 72 for one year only there is a stock breather off the back of the crankcase which makes an ideal location for a reed valve. I'm using the "XS650 Reed Valve" which never came off a XS650, rather is sold by XS650 Mike.

You can see the effect of the reed valve on my Norton. On this model there is a vent off the back of the crankcase, then a very short hose, reed valve and then a long hose back to the oil tank. I drilled a small hole next to the reed to allow any oil that gets stuck up past the reed valve to drain back into the crankcase when it wasn't running. The hole is too small to affect the functioning of the reed valve. If you watch carefully you can see the pulses as the oil is pushed up past the reed. Then as the pressure drops the oil doesn't move as much. The Guzzi is definitely different but Ducatis and BMWs have run reeds so there must be some gains on V or opposed twin.

As brillant as Phil Irving was he didn't have access to some of the modern instrumentation we do now. If so I'm sure he would have loved to play around with neutral crankcase pressure. For a racing engine you might be able to squeak out a smidge more power if you put a reed valve close to the crankcase. But if it's working to your satisfaction you probably shouldn't change a thing. The Guzzi configuration is less susceptible to over-pressurization than something like a single or a parallel twin. Those are just giant pumps.

No reed valve. The high volume of the breather takes care of crankcase pressure That just helps the pressure out but you don't have anything keeping it from sucking back in.

No reed valve in your setup to help depressurize the crankcase? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How much are the wheels worth?