PhillipLarsen

Our local Firestone store here in Vancouver (on Commercial Dr) charges $5 Cdn ($4 USD) per tire to fill /purge/fill motorcycle tires. It used to cost a lot more but very reasonable these days. I use it on my car/SUV and it stopped very slow weeping of a couple of the tires there as well. Have it in 7 out of my 11 vehicles (8 motos, 2 auto, one airplane). So far the ones I have filled have lasted 3 years (that is the oldest one I have filled) or until I replaced the tire without measurable loss. What I have been doing is if one of the vehicles starts losing pressure that needs attention more often than once in 6 months, I go get nitrogen in the tires.

I use Nitrogen in my airplane (Glasair III) as was having problems with tires weeping a small amount of pressure (new tires and tubes). The larger N2 molecules stopped the leaking completely. Fill with Nitrogen once to purge, then second time to pressure. Use it in most of my motorcycles including V11 Ballabio and Stelvio. It cured the 1 psi rear and .25 psi front leak per week on the Stelvio which has the o ring sealed spokes. ( had replaced the spoke nipple o rings and tires with new tubeless, but still slow weeping of pressure). Rather than chasing these very slow weeping cases, now I just use Nitrogen. I used to work for major airlines and we used Nitrogen in all tires and landing gear cylinders.

Thanks for the info guys. I was able to get Collector plate for my 2004 Ballabio. I did not provide any info, just checked boxes that said 15 years old and less than 1500 manufactured. They must of already had the data you submitted to confirm low production. Picked up plate and insurance today. Saves a lot of money.

I just got approval for collector plate and insurance for my 2004 Moto Guzzi Ballabio in BC today. I checked the boxes on the application that said 15 years old and less than 1500 manufactured. I did not provide any data with the application. After about 5 weeks I got approved and just went and picked up the plate and insurance now. I assume they already have the data as I know of one other person in BC that had obtained Collector plate for 2003 Lemans. The cost per year is $ 219 for 2 million liability plus license plate fee for a total about 300. I just got 3 month worth and was $90 with license plate and fee cost. The license plate fee is one time, as long as you keep the same one.

On my 2004 Ballabio my Odyssey lasted over 12 years. Replaced with same. Is always kept on a battery tender when not ridden. That is the longest I have ever had a battery last in a motorcycle, aircraft, helicopter or automobile.

Installed the Bikemaster heated grips (same as picture of kit provided by Swooshdave) on my 2004 V11 Ballabio that has the Lemans Clip on handlle bar installation. The grips fit very tight so did not need to use the glue supplied with the kit. Took power off the aux. plug behind the fly screen that I installed to power the GPS. The power comes from the Fuse 6. Power on with key on. Works great so far. I like the added volt meter.

Thanks so much Chuck, got my two in Vancouver BC. Installed and works great on the Ballabio. I really appreciate all your and Lucky Phils work to make this possible.

ok with me for 2 of them

Hi Chuck, I will take 2 anyway if possible, as I am planning to buy a V11 Lemans in near future as well as keeping my Ballabio. Thanks Phillip

I just open the picture in windows 10, use the Resize feature shown in the menu on the right top ( where you see … which says ""show more"" when you put the cursor over it) then the drop down menu has Resize in it. Choose the smallest size (.25Mp ) when the picture is open and save it to a new name. Then upload to this site.

The pipes are Giannelli slip on cans, apparently installed at new. I have the unused original cans in boxes. The rest of the pipes are stock. Other than the cans, everything else original other than the spring in the transmission shifter that breaks, and a power commander and removal of the smog canister. I have the spring from Scud, which has worked great after 3 broken ones from Guzzi and others.

Yes, it seems was done at factory with the triple tree without holes for standard Ballabio bars. Also the spacer plate looks like factory, including the bolts used prior to me adding the GPS mount.

Figured it out. Here are pictures. You will notice my GPS mount on top of the instrument spacer plate.

I took some pictures with my blackberry but they will not load as too large file. I can send to you if you like. (pics of my 2004 Ballabio with clip ons (as it came I think)). You will see that the need to move the instruments forward was necessary for the bars to be able to turn to full lock.

Hi Chuck. I would also like a Shift Lever Arm Extender. I will email you with my details. Thanks very much for all your work on this. Look forward to using it.

The one other thing that seems maybe different. The gauges are moved forward by a plate compared to other V11's I have seen. It moves the gauges about a couple inches forward into the fairing. It looks like a factory plate with the four bolts holding the gauges to the plate and four more bolts holding plate to the original holes to mount the gauges. I will take a picture and load it tomorrow.

Hi Guys I have a 2004 V11 Sport Ballabio, Red. ZGUKTC0274M111224. Mine seems to be a little different in that rather than the straight handlebars it has clip-ons and the top triple tree does not have the holes to mount the straight bars. Looking in the MG parts catalog it should have the handlebars and mounts for bars in the triple tree. All other Ballabios I have seen have the bars rather than clip-ons. Other than that everything else is per the MG pars catalog. Has anyone seen this before. It seems it may have the lemans top triple tree and bar set up? I have had almost since new and believe this is as delivered by MG. For long distance rides I was thinking I would prefer the bars to be about two inches higher and one inch aft. I am about 6 '0 tall and find it a little crampled, but still love it and put lots of miles on it in the summer.

Hello Scud I just sent paypal for another 2 springs. The one from the original batch is still working great in by 04 v11 Ballabio with about 4500 miles on it. These ones will be for a Lemans I want to buy and a spare for it. Thanks again for all your work.

I have a 2004 V11 Sport Ballabio. It had the correct size of boss on the shifter since new. It broke the spring about every 4,000 miles. I tried stock spring, better spring that would not break, but they still did. I was about to do the coil spring mod when Chuck and Scud came up with the fix with the spring with thinner spring steel and two wraps in the coil. I installed about a year and 4000 miles ago and has worked perfectly since. It is the best solution. contact Chuck / Scud about if they are making more or have available

Hello Chuck and Scud, I now have about one year about 4,000 miles on the new spring you provided. Everything continues to work great. If you do another run, I would buy a couple more for the day when I also buy a v11 Lemans in addition to my 2004 V11 Sport Ballabio. Thanks for all your work on this issue. Phil

Thanks Francesco I will take it. Will call you later to arrange payment and shipping. Thanks Phil

Hello, I am interested in the speedo, Is it an ITI, and in kilometers. I have a 2004 V11 Sport Ballabio, and the odometer is stopped. I am in Vancouver BC Phillip Larsen 778 999 0094