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Well, I thought the pic showing the brass holder with broken isolation and the aftermarket brass holder without isolation and added cooling fins made everything clear. But I'm not sure whether this is really the intention of this thread. Hubert

Yes, that's what I thought. Hubert

Hold on David, hold on. Just for a moment. Have you ever looked at the picture that Greg has posted several times now? Have you ever seen it? Not the light, the picture Think about that, for a short moment only, do me the favour, and then you may catch up again to this furious stampede. Hubert

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircra...itz-Glider.html Hope this site now has Zeitgeist enough for the topic owner. Hubert

In most cases it's just the relais sockets that fail. They're cheap and also very often the whole unit is in contact with the seat. Pull the relais, clean the sockets, check the tension of the clamps and drive on. Same with the fuses. Does anybody really believe Siemens would produce relais especially for Guzzi and then for the V11 only A good Guzzi mechanic sure is good for a Guzzi. But is he good just because he has the right eagle spread over the back of his suit? I know a lot of especially Guzzi mechanics that say: "I've tried a lot so far, then I thought I always loved Guzzis - why not make a living out of it?" Hubert

There is no idle screw you could easily turn. There is only the white sync knob. Nevertheless, regardless wich knob or screw you've turned the one or other direction for half a turn, this would never explain why now the engine runs as bad as you've described it. What about the weird whirr? Still there? I kinda liked the idea of Raz of noisy gas bubbles. Otherwise you'd have a more serious fault in the wiring somewhere, but how come? I'd not touch the relais - they're good enough (new in your case), I'd not open the oil-temp-sensor thread - even the title is bullshit, and I'd not make things even worse than they actually are - by just jumping from one into the next thread and applying all you'll find to your poor lady. Look, I have 100.000 km on my Sport and still the Siemens relais built in. Because they do a good and reliable job. Others have tried out every relais they could find on the market and only one make seems to be good enough for them. That's a great story. Hey, you thread necromancers, why not let the oil-temp-sensor rest a bit and disgrace the good old relais thread a bit instead If you don't have the knowledge to DIY maintain your V11 then you better go and see an average mechanic who is keen on working on a bike, he'll fix it for you and maybe he'll also show you how things work. Try the next Japan shop, for instance. At least over here nearly all of those guys have 1A equipement, 1A training on the job, and a good motivation to get one of those famous bikes under their fingers. For a trained and experienced mechanic it makes not much difference whether he works on a lorry or on a bike. They know how to measure sensors or how to synchronise carbs/flaps or how to track down a shortage. And he'll tell you when something is to complicated for him (getting parts or special tools e.g.) Guess how many trained mechanics are writing in internet forums, or, same question, how many professionals are playing in amateur bands? Hubert

Not too sure about that. What they didn't show in the film, by reasons I unfortunately have no more detailed infos for, is that he could escape only because the whole thing was brilliantly faked. Funny enough that he didn't find it suspect that he could find this english bike inside the camp. Anyway, immediately after he had escaped, a special trained agent closed up to him to get things in the right direction. Hubert

Probably not, yes. It only takes a certain time to get a coil completely charged, more than that is useless. Hubert

No Flip-Up helmets either? Hubert

The AGV Airtech actually is sold for 160,- Euros (plain black and one visor only) Hubert

Only for forums. In RL this would never work, there are just too many parties involved. I guess the ecu is continuosly polling the analog inputs, anything else would make problems only. Hubert

You could put row one to 800 or so to avoid this (personally never had a problem with kick back). Then put its ignition advance to 20° for instance and you'll have some nice idle stabilisation. Nevertheless, transition from cranking to running may become tricky this way. Besides that, this is page 8 now, there should not be too many questions left about what makes the text in the map. Hubert

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Molly, the polished/blank side plates give a very interesting and nice effect I've put this on my list Here's mine, while taking it's first sun bath this year. Same location, just one day later Hubert

Belfast, reading how your thread developed I guess there are days on which you feel somewhat lonely, don't you? Hubert

For sure that's because of the Roper Plate. Hubert

Hmm, I'd say that's the problem wiith OEM units: you probably have to ask the OEM what it means Hubert

What Ivan wrote is totally useless for our purposes, as it's useless if not counterproductive for himself as well. You'd need a million dollar equipement to adress just 50% of all those features such an OEM unit seems to provide. Making up a complaint out of this is nonsense. Hubert

No, it still comes without ignition. Hubert

Well, if I remember right it was not enough just to make something silly. This happens every day, to every one. For a Bodge Point you had to come up with an interesting solution to come out of this problem, I thought. Maybe something like using Irish sheep piss to neutralize the Irish Diesel piss. If you're now getting these points so easily I could tell you a lot of stories of which I thought I would better not tell them to anyone else. Don't get me wrong, is's a nice and interesting story, really a summer's tale. I once read a similar one of a german guy who filled up his bike in Italy using a 20 euro note. As he couldn't use the whole summ he offered the rest to some italian bikers behind him, but the Italians kindly denied. The funny thing was that he felt offensed by this refuse and started to argue about "bigheaded" foreigners, himself being abroad ofcourse and not talking their language, only to find out 5 minutes later that he had filled up with Diesel - unfortunately. Hubert

We had a test of the actual 1200Sport here in Germany recently. They said this type probably will be the last bike built by Moto Guzzi in Mandello. Anyway, who cares? The V11 Sport is history so or so. Hubert

Does it? Hubert

Hey Jim, where have you been so long? Hunting after each single one of them? That's a spot-landing, I'd say... Hubert

Well, I thought we start counting at 0°, valves both open, then 1 full circle, 360° (ignition), then finally at 520° the full load of fuel is supplied, 200° before the Otto-cycle starts again at 720/0 degrees. That's not too challenging, or am I missing something? BTW, I think the other diagramm shows a similar flaw: 360° normaly is around ignition TDC, not at overlapping. Peanuts anyway... Hubert PS: Emry, where do these curves come from? You could nearly post them in the Hooters thread Is it a Ducati Desmo chart? 2. PS: Sorry, looking closer at it I think it's not from any working engine at all. Not a good source I'm afraid.

He wrote "...where injection ends". So injection always ends at e.g. 520° = 200° b.t.d.c., no matter how long before it has started. I'd expect bigger advantages with variations at lower revolutions, for instance when the engine gets started => 50°? Then, what values are used while cranking? First column? Hubert