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Yeah, that's right, indeed, but what does she do the rest of the year with those bells? Hubert

Your avatar is so great! Is it the above described bike? Hubert

Mine is a 99/00 Limone, also with its original Hawker Genesis. It still started well this summer, but for our actual temperatures around zero it seems to be to old now. If you need your bike for daily use i'd look for a spare battery. Wouldn't be too surprised if it's just dead flat one morning. Hubert

I'm not really sure about this. Everything faster but running is already to fast to be controlled by the cerebrum. Things like driving, using a hammer, shooting on moving aims and such normally is controlled by other parts of our brain, called cerebellum. The cerebrum then leans back and makes plans, tries to foresee what could probably happen behind the next curve or so. The actual steering, the 'fine tuning' then is done only by trained reflexes. Knowing that you could say as well that this guy probably was a more experienced one, with lots of miles and near misses under his belt. Under such circumstances the cerebrum saw no extraordinary risks and fell asleep, unfortunately at the wrong moment. This can and does happen to everyone, regardless whether he has seen such things or not. So such pix and stories have no other effect but damage our image even more. They only help to establish more restrictions than we already have. Hubert

Oh yeah, sure it does so. Sometimes it even leaves you there...

I backup this 100% and I understand your writing well.

I think we do this sad colleague (and other people) no justice if we use his death to celebrate our pretended better fitted genes, just because we actually are alive. If one needs more stuff for discussions like this, go here (you have to type the link): xxx.rotten.com Hubert

I hope I can see your point, but then I think you're not right with it. IMHO only the tools to maintain or change things are more complicated, the matter itself has become much easier. Try to find an english PDF of the Dell'Orto manual and then look how many combos of needles, jets, valves, 'atomizers' and so on are possible and what these parts do. It's an endless story. The same with the ignition. Vacuum and centrifugal advance, how do they correspond? The last types of car carbs had two systems of vaccum advance, one for accelerating, one for cruising. Bikes normally never took care about this, by good reasons probably. Somehow it all worked acceptable even if single components were not at its best. That's one thing that has not changed anyway! Hubert

Interesting, of course, thank you very much. BTW, that's probably one of the most appreciated features that the My15M gives to you. Connect it to the O2-probe, press the auto-tune button and drive on. Regarding to what O2 targets you have defined in your map the software then corrects the fuel map all on its own. Very confortable and reliable! Hubert

Be it idle stabilization or not, what struck me most when I first saw it was the huge amount of advance at WOT and high revs. The tontis used to run at max 35° and generally it's the case, that at the top end the advance can and should be reduced. Just because of the in this case eminent turbulences and temperatures. Should really be need for these numbers (44°) than dual plugging is more or less a must for this engine! Hubert

If you look carefully you can see that the exhaust on this photo did not work. All the parts were only dot-fixed so far! Compare these values with others to be found in every moto-mag when they compare stock exhausts with aftermarket exhausts! In nearly all cases you get only more noise, the sound often even rated as worse, and only in some very few cases the can find a more or less marginal win of power here or there, always combined with losses elsewhere. If this guy will adjust his EFI the bike will probably explode! 8 HP already now, without any further change. That's some word, indeed! But the look of it lets me hope at least. There's not all lost with the new Guzzis. Hubert

Could be that one phase got lost. I saw this on an Aprilia lately. The voltage was 13.8 V with engine running, but as soon as I switched lights on it dropped to what the battery actually had. Probably with one phase lost the alternator is unable to deliver any remarkable current. Maybe you can reload a flat battery with the alternator only, but certainly not in one or two hours. You do not expect this from your charger, do you? The more as you can only switch off the lights, not the EFI with fuel pump and injectors. Check your alternator resp. its terminals/connections. Hubert

What we see here are only the main fuel maps. It looks as if the standard map is remarkable richer than the Ti map. What is not taken into account are the correction values from air temp trim, engine temp trim and pressure trim. After you have added these values the maps look different. Exciting is also a look at the offset tables, that are quite different as well! Hubert

Wayne talks about this: The two screen shots show in detail that you can fix a bad map only if you have access to more then the fuel map. Look at the step from 77° to 89° C. The Ti looses 1.6, the standard map instead 4.6 Also the Air Temp Correction maps are rather different. Add only this and you can imagine that without fixing the root cause really correct results are impossible. Hubert

Maybe some pix will help You start here All trim values are zeroed. Open the File menu, select the PC map and check out what the values are. What you see here is a downloaded user provided map. In 3D it looks like that: The next two pictures show the main fuel map in 3D and the corresponding values. The red curves cross at the green marked cell. The next pictures show how to get the trim values in the main tables. You see, for folks like me it's available even in foreign languages! Hope that helped Hubert

No, no, not at all! That's a serious problem also for me. I've tried severall things to improve it, but with not much success. The only thing that really helps is some exercise. Because of the unconfortable footpegs you shoud do exercises anyway, at every tankstop at least. Some jumpin, up and down and legs out and in and so. Take this as the right oportunity to combine it with some 'privat' exercises, why not after the same schematics as above. You'll sometimes have to explain it to curious other customers at the filling stations, but some words about Italian bikes, Italy in general and the basics of common machism related with Guzzi will normaly do. Tell them finally, that all the other bikers ride their bikes 'Comando Style' and therefore don't need exercises, and you can be sure of their everlasting attention! Hope this helps. Hubert

You have all the cables reattached? Check it twice, with an el.torch. Hubert

Once saw a cartoon, showing a tatoo artist making suicide: "This big ar*#* thinks I'm stitching a Harley..." Hubert

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First of all loosen the ground cable at the battery. Else you may hurt yourself or other delicate parts ... Hubert And drain the sump before you start. After you have removed the timing cover you may get in timing problems with the oil.

We have a saying: You never lend neither wife nor bike! Or the other way round: if I had a friend with whom I would exchange wifes, who knows then... Hubert

Hey Jedi, come on, don't overstress it now. I'm sittin' here at 2°C, snow, darkness, damaged standard V11 (beloved anyway). Don't wanna talk about the rest that comes to my mind here... Peace, brother! Hubert (feelin' somehow depressed)

For all of you heretics out there! This appeared somewhere on wildguzzi (and later on in V11sport.de as well) : http://www.users.tsn.cc/rdd/guzzi/Griso_Condor.jpg (done by an Australian) So what about the Griso? Any more doubts? Shame on you! Hubert

They should last for ever! Hubert

Suppose the bits with the bike are not the biggest problems you had to deal with the last few months, are they? Reminds me what I've seen in one of the last 'Motorrad's: Patient, lots of blessures: "Doctor, doctor, be honest, how bad is it?!?" Doctor: "Well, exhaust bent, mirrors cracked, tank some dents, probably all can get well again." Patient: "Oh, thank God!" Hubert