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I've only done this once, but.... Did you plug in the OBD adapter whilst the computer had an internet connection and let it get a driver before you tried to use Guzzidiag? Questions before that: which adapter are you using? Is it a Windos computer? Which Windows? The relevance of the adapter is that it needs a chip from FDTi. That is the good word from the bloke who wrote the program. I have an adapter from Lonelec which does, according to the manufacturer's website, have this type of chip. What I did was: turn on the computer at home where it has an internet connection through my wi-fi at home. Plug in the adapter. Let Windows go off and find the driver. One of two Windows 10 computers just got on with it, the other one didn't find the driver. The adapter turned up in the device manager under "other" as an unknown device. On that one, which is the one that I will be using in the garage, I followed the instructions on the Lonelec site to download the appropriate driver and install it manually. Note: you don't need an internet connection to run Guzzidiag when everything is set up, but you do to install / download the driver for the adapter. Answer those questions, and we'll see what answers come up. There are people here in the forum who have more experience than me with Guzzidiag. If something comes up that for some reason can't be solved, I have direct contact with the bloke who wrote the program through a german forum. If all else fails, I could try asking him directly for advice.

Nice photos. Pity about the container ship blocking the view. Still, it serves well to accentuate the svelte figure of the V11

Save the site: https://guzzitek.org/ there is a very impressive collection of Guzzi workshop manuals, owners manuals and parts lists there. Navigating the site takes a bit of getting used to, but it is worth the effort.

Just had another look at that ad for the Rosso Mandello. An old man who is selling because he is getting too old to ride it. Bought it from the first owner, his neighbour across the street. Attests to love the bike but "it needs a younger rider". At the very least, go an have a look at it. Sounds like a very good prospect to me.

But that is very pretty. And the rocker covers are easy to change....

Yeah, there are some ads that one is not really motivated to answer, aren't there.

That's pretty bassic....

Centauro, wheels on page 25 & 26 of the document (according to the document reader...) https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1000/Centauro_1997-1999_PL(GB).pdf early V11 models, page 41 &42 https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11Sport-RossoMandello_1999-2001_062011_PL(GB).pdf Have a look for yourself, but it seems to me that the answer to your question is "yes, they should fit".

No, definitely not. Guzzi Diag ist an .exe file, that is, it is an "executable file". I does not need to be installed, it just has to be on the computer in a folder somewhere. Double click on it, and it starts. The worst that can happen is that Windows in its ultimate wisdom might consider the program to be a risk. Click on "more options" or whatever it is on the pop-up, tell Windows to go and fork itself, and the program runs. No internet necessary, no bs. It is a very honest, no frills programme that just does what it is supposed to do, and nothing else. PS, no, I don't like Microsoft products. Not even a little bit. The laptop that is designated for garage duty is going to become a Linux machine as soon as I have salvaged all the data off it. Guzzidiag is very happy running on a Linux machine.

Ah, wasn't thinking of that. I had the steel one in the V35 Imola in mind.

Yes. The "Z" stands for the german word "Zubehör", i.e. "Accesories". In the Stein Dinse jargon, that means a part from a 3rd-party supplier. I have that information from a Stein Dinse employee who was quite active in the german forum for a while. https://www.stein-dinse.biz/product_info.php?products_id=464485

I think you might be right there. https://www.stein-dinse.biz/advanced_search_result.php?inc_subcat=1&keywords=01114390&x=0&y=0&categories_id=

Not "may", a remote mic makes it easy to solve the issues. Look at the pictures here: https://rycote.com/microphone-windshield-shock-mount/cyclone/ Don't buy a Rycote. They are the market leaders, and really expensive. Use the pictures for inspiration. You wrote somewhere here somewhere: "that's what I do, I build things". I'm sure you would be capable of putting something together if you want to. Note the shock mount. A clip for the mic, and rubber bands holding the clip would do it, like the mic mount I posted further up. Note the cage around the mic. You should be able to solder up something out of heavy gauge fencing wire or welding wire. The first attempt for the "cloth" around the cage would be nylon stockings. A couple of layers, probably, for your purpose. If that is not enough, something shaggy on top that looks like this https://www.thomann.de/de/rycote_cyclone_windjammer.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIp86xl7fp_gIVRIKDBx3kDw2eEAQYAyABEgJOm_D_BwE Use your imagination. If you can be bothered....

Obviously. Those things were enormous amounts of fun. One mate had a 750 for a while, another had a 350. I actually owned a 250, complete but not running, and a not quite complete 400 basket case. Never got them running though, unfortunately. I moved to Germany instead, and passed them both on to the mate with the 350.

One wouldn't have to hit it very hard to get a permanent mark, but yeah, ok. Alternatives that don't stress any bearings or what have you: a light touch with a drill or something along those lines. Just thinking in terms of a mark that is still there should the paint flake off.

The quick and easy solution for you is, I reckon, find the TDC positions, and put a paint spot on the flywheel (maybe two different colours or something...) in a suitable spot visible through the sight hole. Since the gearbox is out, and you wrote that the original markings are not really legible anymore, you might also be able to use a centre punch to put a permanent mark in the appropriate positions.

That doesn't sound like just wind noise to me. To combat the wind noise, you could try sticking/taping/fastening a thick bit of foam rubber over the microphone opening of whatever it is you are using to make the video, or over/around the mic. Also, getting the camera out of the prop wash would help. Either further out along the wing, or further in into the wind shadow of the perspex "cockpit". However, what I can hear in the video sounds more like clipping, i.e. I reckon the motor is just too loud for the input. Going by the extensive noise reduction measures that I can see on the exhaust system in the video, I think that "too loud" might easily be possible. But then again, the "too loud" might also be the wind noise from the prop wash. On top of all of that, at the end of the video where the motor is off, I can hear what sounds like mechanical transmission of noise through the camera mount. This might easily be also contributing to the clipping when the motor is running. Try mounting the camera in/on some sort of isolation block, or take an inspiration from this microphone mount. The "strings" are rubber bands. If you can be bothered... The video is good.

Same problem with the small block motors, but only three possible positions. Still only one that is right, though. The last time I bolted mine on (the flywheel, I mean... ) I set the motor to one or the other of the TDC positions, and matched the appropriate mark on the flywheel to the sighting hole in the bell housing. I think that is more or less the only way to be sure of getting it right.

The english, of course. Who else?

From the Wiki article that I linked to: Docc apparently really does know everything.

The english word, no doubt stolen from the french, is "pannier". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannier

That seems to be the case. I assume that this is the two-adapter kit you are referring to: https://www.lonelec.com/product/guzzidiag-3pin-interface-cable-kit/ The first sentence in the description there is Whereby the "please see here" is a link to the one I got.

You do here, occasionally. I know of three (I think...) owners. Going by the posts in the german forum, there are several more members there who have, or have had one.

The Lonelec adapter works fine. On this computer, an oldish Fujitsu Laptop with Win10, the driver installed automatically. I didn't try the adapter with this computer, but am convinced it would work. I have another laptop, also oldish, a Dell Latitude with Win10 that I will be using in the garage. On that one, I had to install the adapter manually, following the instructions on the Lonelec web site. Otherwise, everything worked exactly as foreseen.

I got an adapter from Lonelec yesterday. Only a couple of days delivery from UK to Germany (not a simple as it used to be since BREXIT). This is it: https://www.lonelec.com/product/guzzidiag-jpdiag-ducatidiag-tuneecu-kit-kl-1talia-3-pin-connection/ I haven't tried it yet, but am absolutely confident that it will work. What I like is the elegance of it. I really dislike having adapters plugged in to adapters. Messy, fiddly, and too many possible sources of poor contacts and what have you. This thing has a connector for the plug on the bike on one end, and at the other end a connector for a standard USB cable. There is a socket on the side of it for 12 DC in, and a pair of alligator clips to connect to the battery with an appropriate plug for the socket on the device are supplied. Alternately, one could use a 12V DC power supply with the appropriate connector. There are four LEDs on the top, labelled respectively "power OBD", "power USB", "RX" (receive) and "TX" (transmit). The text on the website emphasises that "It uses a genuine FTDi chipset", which Bernd stipulates as a requirement for the OBD adapter on the Guzzidiag download site, and in his documentation in the german forum.