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Can anyone get copies of "Meet the Magoons"? I'd love to have this here. I saw it when we were in the Borders last year and even my 15 year old children are still talking about it. Hubert

Nice,that's the bike with the "Squirk", isn't it?

You should have come to Mandello recently. Lots of seriously drunken people, from at least 5 nations or more, talking to each other in different languages the whole night and drinking the same beer the whole night. Big pub! The only thrilling 2 minutes I noticed was a drunken Helvetian naming a drunken Austrian a bloody Nazi. That was strange, but probably not first hand booze fueled. Hubert

If there was ever any other bike besides the green cutie above then maybe one of those (all Italian design and made): and they're still active: Hubert

so again it's only "We all know about Guzzi that..." and "I'm 30 years in my personal business and I tell you that..." and more of this kind. Thanks Pete, again very substantial! The question was, what makes you think the clutch is Guzzi designed? Is it only the fact that one came out of a Guzzi engine and the other came out of a box with RAM written on it? Or is it the fact that the one coming out of the Guzzi engine was broken and the other one was ok and new? I still can't see why it should be true what you say. No, you're probably totaly wrong with what you spread here. You know that you can't proof your saying but continue to share it publically and "sheer bloody-minded" Hubert

There's only one reason that Guzzi and this forum still exist:

Pete, what you say sounds interesting. Where do you have this information from? I mean, if they at RAM really know how to design clutches/flywheels and if they also really know why they design them in this or another way, why should they work to insufficient specs that they for sure would recognise as being to weak? The more as Guzzi also for sure not has ordered more but a real small quantity of them. How did they get them to make these, as you say? They should have known that exploding RAM flywheels would not have been that what RAM wanted for its business. Money from Guzzi since some years now cannot have been the winning argument, don't you think so? So what you say about RAM as the experts and Guzzi wanting something against the expertise of the experts, can you someow substantiate this? Hubert

Great site, Nogbad, thanks for the hint! Being interested in 30ies and 40ies aeroplanes since my early days I had to learn that the russians created things at least as interesting and in their times modern as we in germany did. If you go closer into detail you'll find that their products were more but copies. Quality mostly was and is something different, of course. It's always interesting to jump over your shadow and explore new horizons.

It was a RAM clutch and you replaced it with a RAM clutch. You should know this. If you look for an aftermarket clutch you'll probably end up again with a RAM clutch. Why not stick to Guzzi Quality and buy a second hand two disk version. The standard clutch for nearly 40 years now. Hubert

Now, that's what's called an ignorant. It seems he's looking elsewhere instead onto his flickering oil presssure light! Hubert

Anzani, 1875ccm

R&D and testing and so is not that big problem. Put a "Road Test" sticker on your helmet, a "Test Bike" on your tank and then push the bike up a hill as fast as it can, then accelerate it as hard as ever possible, then reve it really hard, and when I say really hard I mean really hard! All my life I meant really hard when I said really hard. I've said this multiple thousand times, with a hard voice even. So you can guess how hard you should reve it!! And you'll probably see, everything just worked fine. (But take care that none of your neighbours can watch you!) Just don't make the fault and say that without the sheet and without such experience about doing things the real hard way it may have worked as well. Once there was a longer thread here about how to keep the oil away from the rotating crankshaft in order to minimise losses of power and oil as well. I can't see how this actual design will serve this purpose. I'm still looking for any numbers about how much oil per minute the pump delivers at 6000 rpm. So far I found only values for small car engines. They average is about 120 l/min or 2l/second. I don't know how much of this goes through the bypass valve, but it could be the case that every second half a litre is pumped above the plate and kept near the rotating shaft for some time. This happens not only when you accelerate as hard as you ever have dreamt of, this is fact all the time. So to get the most out of the spent money the average happy RSS owner should think about radically changing his driving style. Hubert

Bring the bike back to them and become direct. Maybe louder as usual. They probably had everything apart to open the engine; gearbox, tranny, rear swing arm and so on. Lots of possible failures. I'd not go on and wait until it becomes more serious. Then they will say it's been not their fault and now you've ruined it. Sometimes I think the most important thing you must have if you want to run a motorbike shop successfully is a good psychological training, of the kind that insurance agents get to sell the 10th life insurance to an 80 year old granny. If the reason for the noise would be easy to find, why don't they do it for you? They have the tools, they should be the experts.

Does anybody know what amount of oil per minute is shoved above this plate at let's say 6000 RPM or higher?

You don't know what those fluids do to the rubber. WD40 eg makes rubber grow. Probably the sealing isn't made of rubber, anyway. The manual says "slightly oil the sealing and then mount it 'hand-tight' ". I never lost one with this procedure, neither car, lorry nor bike version. They don't come loose, they get virtualy welded to their seats. Don't know why. _______________________________________________________ Huey, did you check the oil level before you started the procedure or did you relay on what your customer said or thought about it? I looked at the posted chart. The ARF looks so smooth and as some would say perfect that there was probably done a lot of dynoing before to reach this level of smootheness. Could it be that the bike went over the edge during this obviously done prework and your shop now just shall act the not so funny part of being the responsible for that? Hubert

So MZ also not? Then let's assume the styling of fairing and seat is as always long before its time, will say Italian. What comes to my mind is the early Cagiva. Cagiva having bought the rests of Harley-Aermacchi and some other 2-stroke stuff and already keen on racing. Cagiva sounds plausible to me, and looks so as well. Right this time?

Next week I'll have three of them here for one week. One of them looks exactly like the fifth from the left. I hope I'll can stay serious. He smokes his cigarettes half only and then puts the rest in his shirt pocket, a white shirt of course. Hubert

Then I'd guess it's a MZ. The trailor in the background has that certain "from-behind-the-fence" air with its weak colour and the rough rear lights. But then it could come from the UK as well The pix from MZs that I know all had the exhausts in high position, but you say it's a prototype. Somehow this 80's Monocoque and the brakes don't go together. Interesting anyway. In case we will see the answer here, will you provide some background info about it? Hubert

I wouldn't rely on this. People believe two things: first - pinging comes from too lean a mixture and second - they believe that RAM-Air "rams" more air in your airbox. More air means leaner. So what? Something can't be right here, right? If he recommends a flexible hose then you could as well make your nozzle openings smaller. Same effect. This would explain how he can cure pinging this way. Hubert And regardless whether you mean US or GB gallons, both values are not that bad, 50 miles/US-gallon is excellent in fact! Ducatis are cheaters, you should know

Yep, so it seems. Mine also shows a delay of nearly one second before it starts to light. Could be a communication problem: US-relais in an italian bike... Hubert

ADLER, 250

The relais should interrupt the current after a certain time, not the other way round. That's what I know at least. So the light should come on as soon as you hit the switch. Everything after that could vary depending on the load resp. current resp. Watts of your used "light element". On the other hand, when I have a bad ground on one bulb then I can't see any difference with the frequency. Now that's probably not much help for you, sorry, but I'll go and check it out. It's noon now anyway and time for some recreational hands on Hubert

So I see no reason why anybody should secure his oil filter with what ever you tell him. How about the risks of loosing the security straps? I say you have seen nothing that could be worth this risk and at all nothing what would be worth this forum loathing. Think about someone loosing his trousers. Not funny for him, but it can happen. But the same fellow falling over his silly trouser holder straps and so braking his thump - absolutely priceless! Hubert

Seen in Mandello lately: Nice homebrew project as I think. It will keep you active at least for one winter. Unfortunately I didn't hear it. Hubert

Sorry, Dave, I've already forgotten it. Thanks for the hint. What is a bit eyecatching in this design, at least to my eyes, is the brittle copper connection. They sure know how to mount it without tensioning it, do they? Hubert