Purloined

FWIW, Revival Cycles sells this glass lensed 7" LED headlight assy. There are not a lot of comments addressing the beam pattern, but all in all reviewers seemed pleased with them. Revival itself does not claim they are the best performing, but all in all acceptable. The lens is convex like an old school sealed beam, I prefer the flat lens on the OEM V11. There's a photo in the link of one mounted on an older Moto Guzzi and they say there is an adaptor they sell for it. LED conversion research is a ticket to the purgatory of the rabbit hole. A lot of time wasted, then you give up in confusion go back to squinting on dark roads. Don't know if this is of interest to anyone: https://revivalcycles.com/collections/motorcycle-lights/products/secret-led [doccedit]:

I motored through Glacier National for the first time about a year ago (via four-wheel conveyance). I was gobsmacked, tongue-wagged the whole way through.

Do we think that the selling price of 31.5k is reasonable for this moto? I hold the almost odd and audacious proportions of these model Guzzi's in high regard. They, for many reasons in their day, are rare. From here, a biased and fervent love of the auditory spawn their engineers managed to conjure by virtue of skill or accident; birthed decades ago and revered as endemic once it was understood. A handful of motorcycles are solid in my auditory ear canal and they stop me in my tracks as their faint sound grows loud then rumbles past. A joy to hear. Moto Guzzis, BMWs, Ducatis, are a chorus of a proud history. And evolution is a jarring tremor of shifting sands we're all wobbling atop. . . . I'm not advocating nostalgic hamster wheel travel. Transportation understandably involves a sentient reality, an imperative to resolve its consequence; but dinosaurs should also be a celebrated niche. For me, an ability to feed off of what I love about the confluence of the trepidatious wonder of what will follow the smack of the gearshift into the first of five or six at the onset of a journey on one of these machines and the many that made it possible for me and others to do so while grateful I'm able to be astride for the moments I'm able. Sometimes for a reason. Equally often merely because I'm able to do so. Both are a rock and roll gifted. There are multitudes of these machines out and about that grace us by virtue of their presence; artifacts offering a proposition of mutual benefit were their progenitors able to cast a vote. It is difficult to assimilate the prospects for this crated Daytona. It presents an equally confounding conundrum for its next chapter and the spirit the new owner chooses. I would love to see it, or another of its ilk thunder by me while I watch and hear. Best wishes to the new owner of this machine. Hopefully uncrated and sputtering to life as was its purpose. Me, others, and the hands that spun wrenches will grin at first sight. 31.5k seems tiny for this pauper, but extraordinarily priced for other reasons.

Yes, it is true of some of us olds here in Connecticut. We've been schooled by the migratory Official Geriatric Driving School Manual of Florida; Chapter 4: engage your turn signal (left or right side, it does not matter) when you leave the house in the morning. The gentle clicking sound is a soothing balm that will counter the annoying bleat of the chorus of horns that for no reason follow you to the smorgasbord restaurant. Doubly true on a motorcycle where this built-in 'keep 'em guessing' feature is not interfered with by an infuriating tendency for self-cancelling. The devil is a vigilant little bitch.

Docc: you gift wisdom about the most intricate details of these bikes. And it don't seem like you're breaking a sweat floating your salve to the surface, not that sweat matters. Long practicing surgeons must also come to know every detail of those in their care. I've appreciated your generous contributions in what goes on here. +Several Honda 500's have been offered on bring a trailer. One just posted last week. Good to see them out and about.

It is very difficult to engage the turn signals, the slider l/r is resistant to sliding in either direction. It feels like it is hanging up mechanically. Even a slight downward pressure makes it almost impossible to activate. Cancelling it is not a problem. Wearing gloves exacerbates the problem. Is this typical? Is it possible to disassemble it and renovate it to make it slide smoothly? Thanks in advance for any advice.

And a gobsmacking and entertaining virtual tour of the Elk Grove showroom on their website. Chockablock full. A testimonial to the low bar my entertainment expectations reside in. We ain't got places like that here in Connecticut. A vicarious joy.

You're trying to source a carbon fiber starter cover? If you're in need of a plain-Jane OEM plastic cover, I took mine off my 2000 V11. The previous owner painted it dark grey. You're welcome to it if it is something you can use.

Will do, Docc. The suggestion about substituting a stud is not a bad idea. Mister Brainerd is pretty resourceful, I'll bring it up.

Thanks, Docc and everyone for information and advice and images. Hopefully Stuart Brainerd is able to extricate what's left of the bolt without destroying the threaded hole in the casting. I agree, it looks under-engineered.

Docc, You think the bolt could have backed out and then snapped because the assembly is floating off the case and the side stand has more leverage? It broke a few fractions inside the blind hole. Would make sense.

The busted off casting image will flash in my head tonight.

Super. I launched, kickstand down (skimmed, not hard) at least a couple of times. (The sidestand warning mechanism is non-functional on my bike for reasons I have not been able to figure out.) That my ass has been kicked a couple of times is unsettling and a pathetic failure. One time it was remarked on by a pedestrian. A good sidewalk filled with good people in a town in Connecticut. I presumed I was the reason for the sheared bolt. I bet a lot of force for the split second it takes for you to realize that you are a carless nincompoop while the bike does its lever-moves-the-world practice round. Thank you for scrutiny of the upper bolt. I have been very careful and gentle putting it on it's stand, it is unsettling to watch it stretch. I should check.

Being able to see heaps of motorcycles in the wild and not in a museum; each of those in this exhibit worthy of great respect for at least some attribute; engineering or design or concept, style; and on; brings joy, a museum on fresh-mowed grass. Thank you for posting and of course thanks for the effort that went in to producing it.

It has seemed as though my 2000 V11 has been listing to port excessively the past several months; looking more and more like the Costa Concordia minus the water and if the ship's kickstand was on its starboard side. I thought it was a normal angle, but realized there was a lot of weight on the stand. Hands and knees examination revealed the lower bolt fastening the kickstand assembly to the blind hole in the casing had sheered off and the geometry adjusted accordingly. Does anyone happen to know the pitch/length of this bolt? I'm bringing it into an auto shop a friend runs who'll try to extricate what's left and it would help if he knew in advance. Thanks in advance.

Found a pic. 93. Tho an old pic. Fuel price double $ now. why is it so difficult to clip a tiny image to a post here?

I read (tho 'glazed' prlly more descriptive) the link you sent (I can't find the underwear in my drawer any given morning, how are you able to conjure a six year old post? Kudos). I'll read and re-read. Thank you. High-test fuel available here in Connecticut, which I exclusively use, is 93 octane. I think. Maybe it is 91. I need to pay more attention.

I'm once again inclined to test the normally sweet, polite temperament of the many here with another bout of my stupid questions. I did sift through countless posts about the issues that induced this, to be clear. I was stunned at the fuel consumption of my 2000V11 at +/- mid-thirties when I purchased it five years ago. My 1980 Le Mans averaged in the mid to high forties. A recent post regarding average mileage has assuaged my assumption that something was seriously amiss. My VDub TDI, even with fat, sticky tires manages closer to 45. It is possible that a performance disparity exists between the two, though not empirical, I've good reason to believe it true. They're both balls-of-fire in their own way; I don't feel a need to belabor the differences at a drag strip or elsewhere. I, as others have also noted, experience some detonation on hard acceleration. I don't tend run the motor at higher RPM generally. It does not feel like it is lugging at lower RPM in sixth gear, pulls strongly, and I often don't downshift when hard on the throttle. Perhaps the detonation is a result of the way I'm riding it and I should expect that this is a normal given what I'm asking of it. But given these characteristics and possible remedies, I'm wondering about the balancing of fuel supply and ignition timing. Someone here suggested a Tecmate Carbmate fuel injection synchronizer. This appears a more sophisticated version of the old mercury tube vacuum balancer I used to use on my old, carbureted two cylinder motorcycles. Is there a port on the throttle bodies that this would attach to and is it a purely mechanical adjustment of the throttle cable assembly? Worth the price of purchase? And ignition timing? Monitored by the sensor reading the position of the camshaft? Not the dual points version on my old Le Mans of days of yore that looked like caveman flints? No tweaking necessary? In the old days I would mechanically address the state of these and other adjustments given detonation and 'poor' fuel mileage. I have gone through the bike, i.e. valve lash, fuel/oil/air filters, spark plugs and new leads etc and the machine runs to my mind well and sounds great. I get burbling when I'm off the throttle, the exhaust is (I think OEM) somewhat loud and seems fine. I'm not sure what the ~3000RPM 'cough' people describe is. I'll talk to my therapist about accepting the fact that is guzzles fuel, but the detonation is not cool. I took it on a spirited ride today (roughly 45ºF); the achingly cacophonous detonation a sharp lil'needle in my ear. I can't stick to a script, a couple of questions in a succinct paragraph. Sorry to the pummeled few who managed to hold on to this linguistic roller coaster in order to get to here. Hardy thanks.

I heartily endorse what DOCC wrote. Grateful for the generosity and spirit of the folk out and about here.

If I go to sleep with a V11 wiring harness under my pillow, or whatever electrical part imparts the most wisdom, will I wake up as all-knowing as you guys in the morning? Is that what you do? No. I don't think so. I will have awful creases in my cheek and sheets stained from the charcoal-black, burned wires.

I'll do my best, but they usually jam the mimeograph machine. They say I should be more careful with my graham crackers and milk. I think they're just lazy and don't want to crank the thing.

Wow, Kiwi_Roy, exhaustive. I replaced the regulator after navigating through the V11lemans Tutorial Committee's advice and my bike is on the road and only needed human power for propulsion once since, a few days ago, when I ran it out of fuel. It has trained me well in the art pushing it around. I'm beginning to believe it learned a few tricks in an S & M dungeon and I'm its rube. I discovered a fried black wire in the harness under the seat a while back and appealed to the collective wisdom implicit here and ran a more robust wire from the regulator to ground. The electrical system seemed good enough to earn a grade of D, graded on a curve, in a class filled with Moto Guzzi addicts; until the regulator quit, was replaced and here I am still crying into my beer to anyone who'll listen. But it runs, only if I give it a drink of gasoline, but it is running. Almost overwhelming, the well written detail in your post. I do have a battery drain, it would be nice if I could vanquish it. I will cajole a friend who's education exceeds my kindergarten diploma in electrical/electronic summer camp to read over my shoulder and parse what you're recommending. He'll sketch a few illustrations in cartoon form and I'll get it. Thank you.

I'm pretty sure the regulator was last bolted onto this bike in late 1999 in Mandello del Lario. The grinding pain of an undiagnosed, crippling malady festers; so if the price of exiting an exotic, cryptic failure is the cost of a voltage regulator, I will praise that outcome. Maybe it don't fix it, but the fact that I was able to get to here so quickly was because you guys kept coming back with helpful suggestions; and quickly. In the sweltering heat of last Monday night, I was pushing my Chernobyl radiator of motorcycle through the city, back to my garage after it sputtered. I got schooled on Tuesday, Wednesday and today I didn't buy a stator I don't need and somebody in California is putting a box in a box and sending me a voltage regulator. A huge triangle from which to clink glasses and cheers from; but y'all know why. And yeah, I sipped at the trough of too many electrical calamities, tales of woe published on these pages the last few days, and also think that there's an account of someone's new regulator curing their battery drain malady. I'm sometimes in bed at night thinking about the battery blood-sucking going on in yonder garage. it's not calming. Hyar. Hope is by reputation, a balm. I will let you know.

I did visually inspect all the fuses at the onset. All seem to be in order. No sign of any burning etc. Checked the 30amper for continuity and all good. I ordered a new regulator.

The counter guy at the electrical repair shop here in New Haven has no idea the bullet he dodged in not having to endure my babbling incoherence. You guys cannon fodder instead. His gain, your loss.