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@KINDOY2 As far as I can tell, that must have been around 1,000 km a day for three days. I'm impressed. And that, apparently, on a Griso. Not necessarily known as a great touring bike, not like a GTR 1000 Kawasaki, for instance. That shows a certain amount of dedication.

No. In fact, he doesn't seem to be offering any wheels at all anymore..

I happen to know that they are PVM wheels, and Phil got them from Däs Mototech. However, even knowing that, I can't find them on the net. I rather suspect that Phil might have got (one of) the last set(s) that Däs had on offer. I'm not 100% sure, but I think they are from this series (but the V11 is not listed there...): https://pvm.de/de/produkte/raeder/6-speichen-felge/

Keep an eye on the internet, and if one turns up for sale near you, go and test ride it.

So the moral of the story seems to be, read everything here and everywhere else you can find good info, believe it all, and then have a look for yourself and think very carefully about it all despite what you have read up til then.

Thanks Marty. Then the workshop book seems to be misleading or incomplete(or I didn't read it thoroughly enough). Who would have thought...

Yeah, he talks about putting it in first, and maintains that the dots line up in first. Baldini, however, wrote that the box should be in neutral to re-fit the selectors. As I wrote, curious. Has anyone been in there recently and can clear my confusion?

That's curious. The manual starts off the gearbox disassembly section with "make sure the gearbox is in neutral" page 326 here https://guzzitek.org/gb/ma_us_uk/1100/V11_1999-2003_Atelier(Compil-GB-D-NL).pdf and when they get around to refitting the selector on page 348, they talk about lining up the dots, and "Important: The fitting procedure for the pre-selector cover must only be carried out when the gearbox is in neutral." but the lined up dots is actually first gear?

I think the green probably is better. Your idea for the carbon guard with a clear strip in the middle might be a good one, if you can get it painted the right colour.

Thanks Phil. I like to think I'm not a ham-fisted moron, but I have managed deform circlips in the past. Maybe I'll get a couple in just to be on the safe side.

I never had a K 100 myself, but a couple of mates of mine did. What I have is a Kawasaki 1000 GTR. Rumour has it that Kawasaki bought a K100, looked at it and found the "weak points", and made a motorcycle that didn't have them. Looking at the photos in the interweb, I can imagine the BMW has a couple of tricks up it's sleeve akin to the GTR that the Le Mans doesn't have. On the GTR, the rider's hands are in the slipstream from the mirrors. Going by the photos, that is likely to be the case on the K 100 as well. That is worth a million in cold wet weather. The fairing on the GTR is so good that it is unpleasant in hot weather. Too hot. Also, 160 km/h on the German Autobahn is completely relaxed, because the fairing keeps you out of the wind. I have a little bit of turbulence on the top of the helmet, but that is it. When there is a gusty wind and lots of traffic (i.e. turbulence from other vehicles) one starts wondering if the motor has a problem. One doesn't feel the incosistent wind, and it feels like the motor is missing or something. Going by the photos, at least the K100 RT is going to be very similar. From what my mates told me way back when, the RS is not quite as all-encompassing as far as protection goes, but still very good. Oh, yeah, when it starts raining, on the GTR the first part of the rider that gets wet is his back, due to blow-back from the turbulence. Front on, barely anything gets through. The fairing on the Le Mans strikes me as being pretty good. I haven't ridden mine in the rain yet, but the wind protection seems quite well sorted for the size of the fairing. The motor takes care of the legs a bit. That is likely to be similar to the RS. The fairing on the GTR and the BMW RT goes down further. I dare say the RT provides heating for the feet through motor heat, as does the GTR. The RS probably not, but rather similar "performance" around the feet to the Le Mans. Lots of speculation there, but I'm pretty sure most of it must be fairly close to the truth.

Could you tell me (us) which part number you are referring to? The parts must be on this diagram: https://wendelmotorraeder.de/schaltung-v11-02-le-mansskura-ex-30_3006_300602_30060203_3006020330_300602033012.html I expect to be going in there in the foreseeable future (maybe this winter), and would like to have those sort of things ready to go before I start. PS: How does one do that?

Bill, was that up early, or up late?

There have been posts about that here. I think someone (at least one) has done it, but It's too late at night for me right now to start looking for the relevant topics.

That's how I see it.

I'd take it happily.

Going by that trailer, I'm not even sure about "just okay", even for free...

Can't you just use the innards of the old switch with the casing from the new one? Or do you not want to risk trying to take it apart again? I had one damaged by a vandal whilst the bike was parked. Got a replacement and broke the casing trying to get it apart, got another replacement and successfully took it apart. The innards I'm using are the original ones from the V11. They had to be, because the second replacement had a different switch in it. From an Aprilia Scooter, S50, I think. Very cheap on E-Bay second hand. The switch had only two contacts rather than four, but the housing is identical. Getting the switch apart was not that hard on the second go, after messing it up the first time and then thinking about what I did wrong.

Yes, certainly.

I stumbled across this thread just now. Regarding this: Gawa Guzzi went out of business a couple of years ago, so don't bother looking. Hepco & Becker still has racks available for the V11 models. https://www.hepco-becker.de/meinbike/moto-guzzi/v-11-le-mans-2001

That's pretty much what it looks like to me.

I'm poring over this once again (no, still haven't addressed the issue on my V11...) to see if the problem with the V11 is in any way related to the problem causing the same symptoms on my Breva 750 (no, not really, or at least only in very general terms...) Reading this with the wiring diagramme in the other hand, I've come to the conclusion that insulating this wire is not necessary Because to carry out the following step, one has to unplug the other end of the same cable from the spade terminal on the starter solenoid So the wire is disconnected at both ends and cannot possibly be under power. Am I right or wrong? Come to think of it, assuming the wire is heavy enough, it could be used to bring the power down to the starter solenoid if the new relay can be installed close enough. Couldn't it? :scratching-head-and-thinking-smiley

A friend of mine who has been on the back with me quite a lot used to always want to do that. She picked up the method on japanese bikes in the late 90's and early 2000's when bikes often had "hump-back" tanks. After numerous long rides with me on the GTR 1000 and some rides on the V35 Imola she gave up on the idea. I don't like it much, and she found that on my bikes she can't really support herself satisfactorily that way anyway. She has been on the V11 once, but is not keen to try that again. The back seat of a V11 is not really intended for serious use as a pillion seat, I think. On the V11 she was hanging on to the belt of my jacket, as has been her habit for a while now. I can live with that. It means I know that the pillion is hanging on, and what they are doing with their body weight to an extent. But that is also not the ideal solution.

I think the only "grab rail" any of the V11 Models have is the strap across the middle of the seat. The pillion can hold on to that, or the rider. Neither is particularly satisfying; I think.

Yeah, stops bodies colliding, but puts all her weight on the rider's hands on the bars. I find that very hard to deal with. I like my pillion to hang on with the thighs, like on a horse, and brace with the hands against my hips. When I'm a pillion, that works well for me as a pillion, and when I have a pillion who does that, it also works well for me as the rider.