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I'm very thankful that my Guzzis don't have 16" wheels. That is really hard. The Kawasaki GTR 1000 that I have (still, I've been meaning to sell it for about a year...) has a 16" rear wheel. The tyre is a 130/80 16. There are about three tyres on the market in total that fit.

Wheel bearing: what? don't know that one. Shift spring: no, not really, as far as I have been able to tell. A solution was found here in the forum. If you're lucky, you might still be able to get one. Look here (it's a very, very long thread, but interesting) : The relays: there has been quite some research done in that direction. Look here, also a very long thread:

Of course. The more accurate, the better. As it happens, I am quite concerned with accuracy. Some might even say "annoyingly pedantic". Looking at the "official" tolerance serves more to help me sleep well at night than to excuse my unwillingness to get it right. My difficulty is more in the direction of recognising when it is well and truly good enough.

I see your point, but I find that a V11 without that fairing looks half naked. The fairing balances out the bumptious rear end that they all have.

Finally got around to furthering the Quest to set the TPS base value. After a first attempt several weeks ago, in which I had neglected to screw out the idle screw and make sure the "choke" wasn't holding the throttle valve open, and I measured 500 mV, I did it right today. The TPS had apparently not been readjusted since the bike left the factory about 65,000 km. ago. There was still yellow and red sealing paint on both screws. What I found was 250 mV. I reset it, aiming for the 157 mV that Meinolf recommends. With the movement that happens when it is all screwed up tight, I landed at between 159 and 160 mV. Given that the workshop manual states a tolerance of +/- 15 mV, I reckon that is ok. After fiddling around with the "choke" a bit to see how it might be best set up, I tried starting it. The starter button funny business reared its ugly head again, but she started after about 4 or 5 depressing clicks. First time since about last June. Idle was ok to be going on with. I hope to be able to spend some more time on it tomorrow and finish off the "decent tune up".

Once again, don't stress youself. We're talking about a luxury product here. A couple of days, even weeks, wont break the bank.

mine's on the way too.

Docc referred to this thread, and I notice there hasn't been any photos for a while. Too busy riding, or what? There's about 3 inches of snow on the ground here, maybe even 5 or 6. I haven't ridden for months, and I'm a little homesick for Australia at the moment. Get your arses on the bike and take some photos.

Maybe not a scam, but definitely a bet. You bet that you are going to have a problem that the insurance will cover, and the insurance company bets that you aren't. All well and good, but somehow the insurance companies seem to always be able to set the odds.

It doesn't rain, but it pours.

Can't help myself... Has anyone here ever heard of Terry Pratchett?

I understand and like the obligatory third-party property insurance. What I really like is the obligatory insurance in the State of Victoria, Australia, of which Melbourne is the Capital. I.e. where I lived in Australia. Obligatory is third-party personal liability insurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Accident_Commission Sure, if someone drives into your Porsche who is not insured, you have a material loss (no obligatory third-party property insurance there). The third-party personal liability insurance ensures that any and all medical and personal damage costs as a result of a traffic accident are covered. I know from second-hand experience that it works. A former girlfriend had a really nasty accident. Someone turned in front of her (she was on a bike) and cleaned her up. Left knee completely disrupted, two breaks in the right femur and both the right tibia and fibia broken. All the hospital and rehabilitation costs were covered, and she got enough personal damages to buy a house.

Mine, in Germany, is €177,- a year. That is only third-party property liability insurance, the legally required minimum. If I were to take out comprehensive insurance, I would be paying within 4 or 5 years what I paid for the bike over again, so I don't. I choose to try and avoid throwing it away instead, and if I do, it's my own stupid fault. If anyone else should drive over it, the bike would be covered by their obligatory third-party property insurance. But I try and stay out of the way of that too.

A Gretsch and a Marshall... Jealous.

Yes, what Guzzler said.

Didn't manage to watch much of that, and skipped to the final review. The bloke strikes me as being an arrogant little wanker, and perhaps not all that bright.

I know two personally. The German forum that I am involved in has about 3,500 members. Really active, maybe a hundred or so. No idea how many look in regularly but don't post. Since the V100 came out, there have been a number of new members who joined because they bought a V100, some of them as their first Guzzi. There is a thread that someone started to record the last four digits of the VIN to see who has the earliest one, and to try and keep track of approximately how many may have been produced. There are currently 29 VINs recorded. The lowest is 0136, and the highest 2135. The bike seems to be selling rather well, at least in Europe.

That's not a Guzzi. It's not even a Vespa. Nice bit of a chuckle though, with the boots and the Dr. Martens logo. Or is it an ad? For these: https://www.schuh.eu/de-de/womens/dr-martens-chesney-heeled-black-boots/1448897020/?gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3d6W2-3igwMVfYpoCR2W7Q32EAQYAiABEgJNI_D_BwE

Quite apart from the music (yes, it is good....) that was very interesting. I'm convinced that one is hearing microphones at the positions that are clearly visible. I'd love to know what is really inside the housings. Somehow, I can't really believe that they are as old as the housings look. Or maybe something new in "retro" style. Also interesting that the recording is pretty much mono, although the two mics lower down should be sufficient for a more-or-less stereo image. Not really important, all of that, but interesting. I reckon.

Yeah, German engineering. There is quite a lot of stuff on various channels (particularly youboob) that is not visible here due to copyright issues.

All I can see there is: Video nicht verfügbar Dieses Video ist nicht verfügbar

An anecdote from the former East Germany: Apparently the winter 1996/1997 was very cold. A colleague related how the had repeated power failures. Most, if not all, of the power was being generated with brown coal. It was so cold that the coal froze to a solid block in the transport wagons, and they couldn't off-load it to feed it into the power plants. EDIT: 1996 was after the re-unification, of course. But "only" about 15 years, and a lot of the infrastructure in the former East Germany still hadn't been renewed by then. The power in the DDR was almost all from brown coal. Even today, there is still a power station a bit south of Leipzig that is still using brown coal. I think it is planned to be closed down in the near future, but at the moment it is still on line.

We're just coming out of a cold spell. About 2 weeks, a number of days not over -10° C. and nothing over about -3°C. That counts as "very cold" for Leipzig. Today is about +1°C. Snow predicted for tonight and tomorrow, and again later in the week. This week it apparently wont get much over +2°c, but also not much below -1°C. That is about right for here and this time of year, but I still find it too cold for my taste. The week after is predicted to see temperatures around 5 or 6°C for the whole week. Maybe I'll finally be able to get a couple of hours in the practically unheated garage in.

Make sure that is covered in the final price.

Perhaps you were distracted?