Paul Minnaert

If you look back in the forum you can find picures of opened up silencers. You're not the first with the idea. A search will do it?

more pictures: http://community.webshots.com/photo/547194...071419499ZtNwGJ http://community.webshots.com/photo/547194...071419499oIfYEu http://community.webshots.com/photo/547194...071419499eISRhe http://community.webshots.com/photo/547194...071419499YGhCdJ http://community.webshots.com/photo/547194...071419499hpYcXM

I've seen them soaking wet, at a running bike, I wonderd where the air came through, but it worked.

it's red and guzzi, what do you want more?

cp racing italy Maybe they had the first totaled one:-)

No special tools needed to get it out. watch this topic: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7181 In a few hours you can get it out. The backcover comes off without special tools. Well I didn't have problems with it yet. Some people did, but it's not that you can point to a weak spot. I just opend it out of curiosity. 3) “There is a guy in Norway who sells a toolkit to make things easy” What do you mean? To dissemble the gearbox? Yes. look here: http://www.guzzitech.dk/05/05-11/05-11_e.htm Compare with the workshop manual if it's interesting. I have no idea of the costs. In spain you can ask Classic Co - Mauro Abbadini's shop near Madri for more info, he has some (bad)experience with the 6 speed I think. Do I read 36km in your first post? then there is waranty?

Well, the first money saving is done when you take it out of the bike yourself. I did open one, but didn't take it in pieces. If it makes sense to chnage all bearings, I 'm not sure, I would first open it up and look what went wrong. The thing that oxidation is the reason, I don't think, even with water in, the oil is everywhere. I don't think that you can get the bearings at your local bearing shop. There is a guy in norway who sells a toolkit to make things easy.

davidb Location: Leeds England

the ones who like it put such a tank/tail on their v11, and ready. Rest of the small parts, G&G is happy to sell to you. Not my thing.

these lights look like kellermann : http://www.kellermann-online.com/ you can buy them at a lot of sources

take a look here: his name is Wim de Bie http://www.kootenbie.nl/index.asp?http://w...videografie.asp

I suppose his tools are needed if you want to take the gearbox in pieces? And back again:-)

So send him a mail to ask?

for the ones interested, he is selling them on ebay now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CARBON-FIBE...1QQcmdZViewItem

the first tool is, the second you don't need, you can use the one you have in your hand, the one that mounts on the gearbox. And to lock that, I suppose you need nr 8 in the picture. To get the old one of, you can use a spanner, no problem when it's ruined. Maybe your dealer will rent you the tools? Fot the pushrod cup, the v10 one has a to small hole, and the scura one won't fit. It looks almost the same as the v10 one, only side to side will reveal the difference. So get a new one: retainer: 04082800

well you know I do that:-) On my website more evidence. But in this case the bike was put into pieces, in the shed, and waited there for 4 month, before mandello gave it a new engine and gearbox. Had something to do with a clutch...

Ok the parts manual doen't give another number for the rosso mandello single plate clutch pushrod. So that's the same. what you will need is the small thing the pushrod presses against(retainer: 04082800). Because the v11 pushrod is a larger diameter. That is what the scura in my picture was waiting for. The one part that was forgotten to order.

there are ( at least) 2 ways to do it. 1. leave the engine mounted in the frame and take the gearbox away. problem with the >2001 bikes is a bit the subframe between gearbox and swingarm. 2. leave the gearbox and take the engine to the front. For only the clutch this one is easy I think, look at the picture here. The engine can be taken away in this position, As you see the engine is on a wood piece on wheels that has the right height. If you ask your dealer for 2 special tools: the one that locks the clutch, and the tool to block the gearbox spline, then you don't have to take it out no more than this. Else in the position like on the picture, you can take the engine sideways out.

G&B don't modify the engine. that's to expensive. It's more what they don't mount. They use an small alu tank, almost non existing rearframe, and so on. The v11 tank is 7 kg if I remember. The problem withthe weight is the drivetrain, it's so heavy. making the rest of titanium it will still be a heavy bike.

JRT, congratulations for you and your wife. For me it was the most special moment I had in my life. Girls are great!. Make shure you take your time to enjoy it. Not only this week, but also the next years. They are big before you know. Mine is 13 now.

TLM special

Hi, I've been looking to do the same thing,, but I wonderd how you got the mounting for the backrest in?

for the ones who tink of changing old new instruments, they can't be changed. the ode has a different speed ratio, then you have so change the gearbox too. Ebay has the new instruments http://cgi.ebay.nl/Drehzahlmesser-Moto-Guz...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.nl/Tacho-Moto-Guzzi-ITI-V1...1QQcmdZViewItem

well antonio, if you don't trust your box internals, get another one, last week one was sold for 500 euro on ebay. isn't more expensive as a repair. A brand new box is sold by hmb-guzzi.

well, I think you might feel more comfort, the forks have so low friction. I don't know what difference in price you're looking at? might give a higer returnvalue in the end, but that's not why you buy a bike.