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Hey, I've watched this "Summer's Last Evening" video you made. It looks as if the bike is moving. So, what was the problem/solution then? Hubert

Greg, you haven't answered yet. Does this video show what you call "wobble". Do you mean this when you said Guzzis went into wobbles and killed or at least severly injured innocent people? What do your sources say? Hubert

Make sure that every connector between key and dashboard is in perfect condition. As with so much electronics nowadays you have only high or low on most of the pins but no real current, the connectors should all be gold plated. That's a must in automotive business. Bikes very often are leisure business, so the pins are kept cheap. Guzzi might also use the chep connectors. A friend of me had similar problems with his Stelvio. Maybe that the system is the same. Now he keeps the dashboard connector packed under a piece of plastic "zakje" and it works better. Hubert

It's a Guzzi Engineer, too? The last ones outed on this forum had some similiarities to monkies (or had that been members of the board?) Ah, there is so much knowledge spread over or sunk into this board, it's hard to keep it present all the time. Hubert

You guys definitely should come to an agreement what you mean with "a wobble" or "wobbly" etc. If you'd have the same idea of what "a whobble" was as Greg, then you'd not expect it to show up in a long bend. Greg is probably trying to sell this as "wobbling Red Frames", what I think might be a little overstressed. Wobbling Racer BTW: if you watch the mirror or what it is rolling over the street after the bike had wobbled it off then this scene somehow has a bit of Looney Tunes Hubert

You really have balls, man! Under your balls every bike must be wobbly. Hubert

A WM15 costs probably less than 30$ for the manufacturer. These things are cheap. Hubert

Where these bikes in "Police Dress" already? With lights and horn and so? I understand wobbling to be caused by matching or nonmatching (as you like to see it) resonance frequencies of front and rear part of the bike. Front means wheel, fender, fork, everything beeing part of the steering, rear is the rest of the bike. Then what can be so different from one bike to the next, from the same type, the same line, roughly the same date, same tires etc., that one easily runs into the critical area of resonance and the other one doesn't - is in fact far away from it? The more as both bikes are set up identically. I personally find it very hard to believe, but be it as it is. Hubert

No no, no need to disprove it as long as you are sure about your sources. Amazing btw. to what people you've been talking in your life. Didn't think you're of such age. Just a remark: those bikes came to Germany as well. They did a funny highway test with them. Munich - Hamburg - Munich - (Hamburg). No wobble stories. Of course those bikes were driven on a private basis, not by Police authorities in competiton against BMW. Maybe this made them "track" a little better. We know how capricious those Italian beauties can be. What year was it when they delivered them to the US and when did those accidents happen? Not that we're talking of different bikes. Hubert

Are more Scots like him?

As long as the starter turns the engine the bike should start, regardless whether a digital V-meter says 9,8 or 10,2 V. That's my experience. Question: after turning on the ignition, does the pump prime for 1 or 2 seconds? Next question: after releasing the starter button, does it run again for 1 or 2 seconds or does it stay quiet? Question 3: have you really checked whether you have a spark, holding the plug(s) against minus (blank engine part, screw head)? You have checked the phase sensor now? Hubert

Does he show tits that Ralph is looking after him? Hubert

There are no gaps, there are only ribs. Those gaps/slots are deep, it's dark down there. Nevertheless they aren't endless. Hubert

Exactly! That's the point. I own a 2000 KR and it's running straight and stable even above 200 km/h, or with luggage and/or me in a "wobbling" rain suit (in these cases it unfortunately doesn't reach such speeds ) But I know of others that had weaving problems. One is nearly 2m tall. He claims that his very early KR needed the complete Autobahn above 150 and it took quite some activities to make the bike stable in the end. You can guess, with a rider of this size there isn't much weight left on the front wheel at higher speeds resp. sag becomes very small. Don't know what he did exactly but since some years he is a happy owner, also at max. speeds. Exactly that were the articles which where published in the German press. No mag ever was writing something like "dangerous" or the like. And all were mentioning that a passenger at once cured all the nervousness. BTW, I have also friends owning older Japan bikes, CBX, Bol d'Or, Kawa Z1000 etc. Have you ever talked to one of those guys? They can tell stories about weaving and wobbling. One is very proud that after lots of modifications he now can go highspeed on the Bahn with his CBX even at daytime between cars and lorries. Those other two mentioned members (further above): it's again the same bullshitting like in most posts of them. Only "I heard..." or "I'm sure there was, because I have a phone number of this dentist..." and so on. If it was "I heard my sister is pregnant again and again the neighbours said she probably can't remember of whom" then it might be funny. Unfortunately they start different stories using these words. If one writes that Guzzis were killing people and that Guzzi ignored it then he should have very good evidence for that and also he should be willing to share that evidence. The more when he implies that Guzzi did this before and so probably did the same again with the KR. I'd say this is more a thing for a good lawer if not even an state attorny. And to speak about the other bloke: in the end he will come up and say all was just fun and mocking and testing the forum members. Yes, and that Docc was his companion Hubert

Just in order to get this fixed...

Sorry for being so easily misunderstandable. The stinky thread was not your one, not all. The stinky thread I meant is the one DanM reffered to, this endless story of ultra low mass air gap engine temp sensors. A story telling tales of temperature sensors improved by putting in an isolating air gap That's just too much. Hubert

Just to make sure his head will break this wall...

This could be a normal thing. At least a normal Guzzi thing. My plugs always had a laquer layer on one side of the insulator, the other half of it looks as it should, from white (clean) to Bambi brown. I never read something what could explain this reasonably. Maybe it has to do with porting, delivery direction and swirl, things like that. Do you mean this half sided black, brittle laquer layer - or is something else your problem ? Hubert BTW: is this really a "How To" article?

What does "dry fouling" mean? Hubert

AKA "Wanda"?

Anytime. THX. Hubert I apologise for he hole thing, the rest remains flat. I can't call that a joke, not even a flat one. It probably has to do with the fact that I'm German. I don't think I'd call myself a politically correct pillock (without having looked up that word - no, I looked it up, right now).

So it is, and Pete Roper is a dump asshole! Hubert

Maybe, but you can afford it only abroad what I've heard. Hubert

You did meet a Dane? Wow! I know them only from the telly. They have red painted faces, jump up and down and are mostly drunk. The red color is a good thing, so you can better recognise them from the Brits which are painted differently. Hubert

Well, the main protagonists of this stinky thread are ironically those who have understood the least of what they write of in so bloated words. Hubert