Greg Field

MG Cycle is out of stock according to they're website. Ive been checking back for a few weeks. I suppose if I just order some from MG, they'll come sooner than they're website will update them back in stock haha How 'bout the Moto Guzzi titanium pipes? I have a set lacking the ECU for about hte price of Mistrals.

As an officer in the VME, I can tell you, "Don't worry about it. Ride what you like, behave yourself, and enjoy the event." Your fellow Canadians always behave themselves and make a good showing. George Dockray's green cafe bike won the People's Choice Award in the bike show. Thanks for joining us. If you ever want to come down the night before, I can probably hook you up with a free place to saty.

Those're good bikes. A few had soft cams, but that would've revealed itself by now. Save yourself the angst, and service the forks pre-emptively. Do it yourself if you can, so you can be sure the old fluid and gunk gets thoroughly pumped and flushed out.

Let's do this when snow is on the ground......... No luxury of waiting for snow. I need to have the Sport ready for a serious sport-tour in four weeks where I show the BMW/KTM/Triumph and Honda guys how the Guzzi can hang . . . Or, no . . . Again, these guys are like going for a little hike in the woods. With Army Rangers. I wake up in a cold seat to ,"Your Guzzi breaks down, we're splittin' up your gear!":ninja: Then, two weeks later, off to Barber's for the Vintage Festival. Fabulous event and I've thought of taking the (almost) old Honda. The heat and slam it on a block of wood trick obviates the need for the puller. It may be true that you need not remove the pinion first. Like I said, I've never replace that seal on a V11S-type rear drive. On a normal 5-spees=type drive, it's a 45-minute job, including removal and replacement on the bike.

I've never had to do this on a V11 rear drive, but it should be similar to the other Guzzi drives. Remove the pinion gear/block from the front. Take off the bolts around the big pltter cover. Remove the cover, along with the ring gear and its hub. Heat the case in the boss around the inner race for the needle bearing. pick up the case with a gloved hand and slam it open side down onto a wood block. That'll usually drive out the bearing race. Then lever out the seal and rteplace with a new one. Drive back in the race. Look at the other race on the ring gear hub. If it's loose, clean everything and red loctite it in place. If it has walked away from the shoulder but is still tight, drive it back in place. Re-assemble the whole works. It should hold the pink stuff fine after that.

Actually it seems to be an interesting - if not amazing - bike, the Dorsoduro. Nevertheless it may be interesting in this context that Wilco started as some sort of hillbilly/country band, at least if I got it right what I found on the net about them. Hubert Uncle Tupelo. One of the great bands of the 1990s. A mix of Replacements and Hank Williams. Tupelo broke up too soon and re-formed as two bands: Wilco and Son Volt. IMO, both of those bands produced a few really good songs but generally uninspired albums.

Jet: There's a cherry '04 Ballabio that's set up for a tall guy in Seattle. He removed the fairing and put the big headlight on it from a naked Sport. Lots of custom stuff on it. I can put you in contact with him if you are at all interested. I have no financail interest in this.

I had the exact same problem with mine using Redline. I changed both of the seals and it only stopped the leaking temporarily. I'm guessing your leaks first started only after being on the highway going over 70mph? Then it progressively gets worse from there. Long story short, just use regular gear oil or what the manual calls for. When I drained the redline from my box and put plain gear oil in there the leaking stopped. I'm thinking the redline is just a little too slippery for the rear drive seals. So, I drained the Redline. Twice now. I keep thinking the drizzle gets better. Did yours take a few miles a change or two to "seal?" The phot shows a pinkish tone inside the spline area, indicating a possible inner seal leak. I've had RLSH in my rear drive for 26,000 miles without a leak. Or so, I think. It's somewhere in Wyoming right now, being ridden by Aussie Bruce Reader. It may be leaking now, but he hasn't said anything about that.

How do you know that he is not once more amongst us at this very moment? Keeping a low profile, biding his time.... Ratchethack & Captain Nemo, Masters of Delusion ... If only Ratchethack hadn't given fullest rein to his phobias & prejudices without discrimination & to the point of tedium...I can't remember what happened to Captain Nemo, but I remember him challenging Greg to a race (or was it the other way round?)...& his blue exhaust pipes... Shame really...but Buzz Lightyear managed to turn it around...there's always hope. Yes, Nemo and I rode together for a few years and even went to a couple rallies together. He could be very entertaining, but in the end, his behavior caused me to abandon him at a rally. After that, he said all kinds of nasty things about me, and even challenged me to a race. I said, "OK, we'll race to this place and back by this route, and you can even run the race on your RC-51 against my Eldo," and that was the last I ever heard of it. Truth is that once it got twisty, he never could even keep up to my Eldo when he was on his "fastest Guzzi on the West Coast." I haven't seen or heard from him in several years. Last I heard was a rumor that he had joined the Bandidos and was riding a Harley. I do not know if there's any truth to the rumor.

They are good bikes with relatively few problems. At 10k, the engine is just broken in. If in good cosmetic shape, that's a fair price.

Sorry. For sale. My mailbox is now no longer full.

Footwear, schmootwear. Anything south of the morning-dew-on-fur is irrelevant.

If so, PM me.

Why not use a CanyonDancer and take both ends up? In the end, I'm not at all sure that greasing the front u-j matters. After 6000 miles, the front u-j will be stiff. At 32,000 miles and after a lot of greasing, it is still stiff. I have seen many like it. YMMV.

Agreed! Nice bike Raz. How's it running after all the engine work? Thanks, well the pic is taken without exhaust mounted so it looks a bit cooler than it normally does. More pics are linked in my signature. Anyway I think the raised compression was a good thing. I haven't experienced any problems with pinging or such, even with piss poor octane gas from the continental Europe. I get the feeling my front wheel is much more prone to get airborne but we'll never get hard facts on that. I didn't modify my ignition map. The fuel map was a little modified (enrichened) with my closed loop correction until my sensor recently went tits up. I just finished a long distance ride in open loop and all in all, the bike was just fantastic. Fantastic. It's a pity it's not really a touring bike 'cause I'm a touring guy. Maybe I'll sell it now and buy meself a good old carburetted 1975 1000 Convert. Edit: Of course, I will bore it to 1100 cc and claim it to be a V11 so I don't have to switch forum Keep them pink and wet, else, all they strain out is buterflies.

Not really so. The successful ones ran no better, made no more power, and weren't really more reliable. What the japanese found was, if it looked enough like a Harley to sell with the Harleys, it was no better in any respect than a Harley. This is how we ended up with H-D outselling Honda in the US.

Slip-ons might be easier.

In this I must disagree. The Guzzi engine forces the rider's weight to the rear, unless you make the bike very tall to get knee clearance over the cylinders. Or, they could dry-sump it and lower the engine. Neither of those would work in the modern marketplace, though. Also, Guzzi was once a prosperous company. Many things contributed to the decline. Among them are an engine architecture that forced so many compromises on the bikes. No one loves that engine more than I do, but it's time to move on to something better, IMO. Yes, a V-8 might be nice. There are many other options, though.

Do the Honda ST1100 and 1300 engines count as modern? Yes they are 4 cylinders but a twin seems feasible. Modern, yes, but as you say it's a four. With a four, you can use a shorter stroke than on an equal-displacement twin, which reduces how far up and out the cylinders stick, making packaging much easier than with a twin. If Guzzi's water-cooled motor turns out to be a four, fine. If a twin, there are better packages they should use.

I'll try the adjuster next. I'll let you know. I wonder if anyone can think of a reason why the shifting degrades when the bike is warmed up? This is puzzling and leaves me skeptical that it is just the adjuster under the acorn nut. Yes. You may have worn splines on your clutch input hub and on the i.d. of the flywheel, or the flywheel may be packed with clutch dust. You can try cleaning it. This sometimes helps, though seldom for more than a few thousand miles. Then, you have to flush it again. Here's how: 1) Use a strip of duct tape to cover the weephole on the underside of the bell housing. 2) Put a drain pan under the bell housing. 3) Remove the timing plug and pour a pint of mineral spirits into the bell housing. 4) Plug the timing hole. 5) Start bike and lightly rev it while continually actuating the clutch lever for about 30 seconds. 6) Remove tape and let the goo drain out.

Odd bikes. Odd numbers. Seems natural to me.

Those sideways cylinders get in the way of a lot of things and only make sense if they need to be out in the breeze for cooling. If it were a successful and advantageous engine architecture, some other manufacturer would have used it in modern times.

I'm not against a water-cooled Guzzi. I am against a water-cooled Guzzi with a transverse-V twin engine. If they're going to water-cool it, they should start from scratch and make a new engine with an engine architecture that does not create so many other packaging problems that result from the V7 architecture. I love the Guzzi transvers-V engine, but reality is that Guzzi has been essentially bankrupt ever since its introduction. It has not brought success for the company. Why stick with it?

I'm coming in very late on this topic, but I fully agree with Hubert about subfora: They detract, rather than add.

Huh? Also, do you mean week or weak? I am a lefty & I'm not sure if I'm f**ked up or everyone else is? I meant weak.. as a Lefty myself spelling is not my best suit.. I might be good at found object Art! I watch people sign credit card slips all day at a Guzzi and Aprilia parts counter. By my figuring, 40 percent of Guzzi riders are left-handed, which is triple the percentage in the population at large. The Aprilia motorcycle riders seem all right-handed. I have no theory on why other than that I have observed that lefties run in packs. I was at a board of directors meeting for a motorcycle museum once where nine or eleven of us were there (not really clear on the exact number) and every single one was lefthanded. Very strange and comfortable at the same time.