VtwinStorm

Thank you, PJPR01. I really prefer plug and play modifications and updates to my machines.

Totally forgotten to ask: Does the installation of the Roper Plate interfere with the dipstick/thermometer? Any clearance issues for those that have both installed on the same V11? Just got my Roper Plate today. Shout-out to Pressure Angle for the fair price and fast shipping. Thank you!

I guess I'm more a wannabe engineer. *adjusts glasses*

Totally agree. While parked, grabbing a sandwich and looking over my V11, I can glance and see how my oil is doing. If it is abnormally high, I can be aware and avoid catastrophe...not likely, I know...but I like to be mechanically sympathetic to my machines. Plus, like carbon fiber on a Scura...I think it looks the business. Just a little something "nice" to have.

So pretty. I prefer seeing the spark plug wires, but those look so good. I think the real star of the show is those headers. Yowza! Nice machine, Grim!

MG Cycle. They are sending me the correct one, and I'm shipping back the wrong one. So far, they have been great! As far as I know, it just screws into the sump...

I like BMW bikes, pre-'96, before they started building machines impossible to service, and not designed to last. It won't hurt my V11 to have an oil temp gauge. I like gauges.

BMW Motorrad really, really hates their owners.

We could repeat this for Guzzi harnesses in general from what I hear...lol Ducati isn't any better.

Docc, don't be coy. We all know you've forgotten more about the V11 than I will or could ever learn.

Perhaps...but I'm not really keen on hacking my wires to bits.

I ordered one of these for my V11 Sport, and I'm excited to actually be able to monitor the oil temperature, seeing as Guzzi thought such info irrelevant to the rider. The online shop sent me the one with the black gauge face instead of the white gauge face one I actually ordered. Currently waiting for them to respond so I can get it swapped. I'd like the instrument cluster white gauges to match the temp gauge face... details are important to me. Don't want my baby overheating, now...

Thank you, Chuck! Will get one of these post-haste!

So, just so I am clear...This brace prevents the engine case from cracking? I'm a little light on details. I used the search function and just came up with the posts referencing mostly "red frame" bikes/early V11s.

So, um, what in this photo is the frame brace?

I was born too late to meet such a majestic woman. Le Sigh.

Thank you, Scud! Will do.

Well, Kremmen, a Guzzi 1100i is a very, very rare eagle in the States. Only slightly less rare than an OHC Daytona. Guzzi 1100is aren't exactly growing on trees like throwaway GSX-R 600s...

I went on Hyperpro's site and for a V11, all I found were front and rear fork springs and fluid. Do you have a link for a rear shock with the remote reservoir that just bolts up?

Thank you!

Would have really loved a Greenie or silver one...and black is NOT my color, but I accept it on this bike. It looks great in any color.

As much as that sounds like something I would do...unless I came across a minty LeMans with low miles for an insane give it away price I couldn't ignore ($4k or less), I'm done buying bikes. I have 5 now, an MG, and two daily cars (one is a winter beater). So, 8 vehicles total...and in the Spring, I will sell my Monster 696 because I've had it 7 years, and I don't really ride her as much compared to my other bikes. ...And yes, the V11 bug has bitten me bad. I knew I'd enjoy a V11, but now that I actually got seat time, I "get it". I understand why Guzzis are a cult, especially the V11 Sport/LeMans, which I view as one of Moto Guzzi's watermark machines. I'm in love with mine. It's just simultaneously a rumbly, burbly, torquey, hairy-chested machine, but it is also svelt in some ways, elegant, almost feminine in others. My Ducati 900s have heavier clutches and brakes, though. You get a real workout working the gears and brakes with gusto on one of those. I can see you get a workout on a V11 just trying to hustle it through turns with the extra heft and torque effect of the shaft which I felt when moving along switchbacks. Both bikes demand physical exertion, just in different ways. A V11 really is a man's motorcycle.

Thank you, Scud! Also, do you know a model I can buy new off the shelf to replace it with? Please doesn't say an $800.00 Ohlins unit.