Greg Field

Thanks, Jon!

Thanks. That's very helpful information.

Does anyone know what the rate is of the springs in the Ohlins forks fitted to the Cafe Sport and Coppa Italia? Our supplier can get these springs in 8.5-11.0 N/mm rates. For a 230-pounder like me who rides pretty hard, what would be ther recommended rate?

Flying's fun, isn't it? As for the breakfast, it's the first Saturday of every month. Maybe you BC boys oughta fire up your own little Guzzi club? Then, we wayward Seattle types'd have yet another reason to visit your fair province.

Lex: At Moto Intl. we've been trying to solve the same problem for a few months. Guzzi cannot supply the caliper, and Brembo importers in the US are unable to supply an alternative that fits. If it were mine, I'd try the rebuild kit for an F05 caliper, and see if the seals are the same. Unfortunately, that's as helpful as I can be, but I'll let you know if we find a solution.

This Saturday is the monthly Guzzi breakfast. The shop is closed for the holiday, so I get to go. Usually a group gathers at my house and we ride to the breakfast at the Krain Corner in Enumclaw by some freeway and a few twisty roads. The food there is excellent. If anybody here feels like joining in, let me know, and I'll give you the details.

List on 'em is about $25 each. If anybody here wants a set, I can give 10 percent off. The stud is 8mm. I'll mount them to the H&B saddlebage brackets in back, and to the turn signal bracket drop-down plates I had to make in the effort to move the stock fairing to swing with the bars.

As much as I disdain Aprilia and the shit they do, I have to admit that sometimes they build a cool bike or a cool part. The SXV motard is a cool bike, and it has some cool turn signals. There are they, and I bought a set to put on the Billy Bob. They each have four LEDs, and I'm gonna try to make the LEDs so that they flash sequentially, like the signals on a 1968 Mercury Cougar. I am an electronic retard, though, so my chances of accomplishing that are nil. Still, they will look better than the stock items. They're even reasonably priced.

If anybody's looking for one, I know where one's available in the US. PM me.

We can order them at Moto Intl. We just sold our last set, and I wasn't going to stock anymore, but I will get them to order.

I'll be on the 7:35 ferry from West Seattle, if anyone wants to join up and have breakfast in town . . .

It's Sunday only. Saturday, too, if you are a volunteer at the event.

Yes.

Yes, of course, that's why the MI weights are solidly metal mounted. The CRG mirrors can be used with them without using the CRG rubber adapters, if you use an inexpensive trick I can show you.

Here's the best I could do. I no longer have a copy stand and lights. To see the grids, I had to pump up the contrast all the way and darken them. Side view: Edge views:

Slacker! Profiteer from the misfortunes of others! Flying first class to a holiday while our bikes suffer? We're all gonna buy humpy Hondas while you're gone, leaving you stuck with the whole batch of accursed plates.

I'll dig out the graph paper and snap a few.

From memory, the mirros are about $85 each. Weights are $50 a pair, including the adapters.

There's a third option: The warranty-takeoff single-plate clutches from a Cali can be easily lightened to Sport or RAM weight. When fitted with the right plate, they work great, and they're made of goo, old reliable steel. I'm building a hot-rod Tonti LeMans with a Sport 1100i engine in it, and that's the clutch I'mm gonna fit it with. My Eldo already has one, since September of last year.

Skeeve: I've got a guzzi rack and adapter plates hanging on the garage wall. I could lend 'e to you if you want to copy them.

I use the heavy, 'cause I'm partial to pink. It made no difference to the shifting on mine, nor did it cure the very slight leak it has. I use it because it sticks to metal like no other lube and has dropped temperatures on other diffs and gearboxes (Land Rovers) I've had in the past.

In this case, their respective level of evil can be attributed to their respective work ethics. Like all Italians, Muss. took the whole month of August off every year. Thus, if he worked at maximum evil efficiency for the rest of the year, he could be only 91.66666666666 % as evil as Hitler. But as we know Italians do not work at maximum efficiency for the rest of the year. Wine and grappa and pinching asses and 3-hour lunches all cut down drastically on the time available for doing evil. Thus, Muss. was probably constrained by his Italian temperament to being maybe 50 % as evil as Hitler.

Yes, they can be made to fit. I have them on Billy Bob, along with the Moto Intl. heavy weight kit. Works really well. I have the weights in stock, but the mirrors are backordered, unfortunately. WIth luck, I'll have more soon.

I want to say this as categorically as I may, because many of you may not know Gary Cheek (kg8 whatever). He knows his stuff in the way that Roper does. It's not theory or untested; he has the skills and the inquisitive mind and the equipment to do the work to draw the right conclusions for himself. That said, he may not have ever hooked up a mechanical oil-pressure gauge to a V11 Sport, and romped on it hard enough to then see the gauge go to 0 psi and stay there for several seconds as the oil pumps sucks air. If he had, he would have, I believe, been visited with the response that's appropriate to such an event: "This ain't right; I will personally figure out how to fix it." And he would fix it. His fix may not be a "sloppage plate," as Pete Roper believes it to be. Or it may not be just increasing and maintaining the oil level, as I believe it to be. And it may not be sealing the surface betwixt oil pickup tube and oil screen as another stalwart member of this forum (I am sorry that I cannot remember who it was) believes it to be, but Gary would propose a solution and try it for himself. I say, "Salute" that we have so many so willing to hep solve the problems Moto Guzzi forces us to contend with.

More're less unlimited, except by imagination. Ask what you desire to accomplish, and the list will tell you how. A Convert torque converter in a V11? Easier than you'd ever imagine . . .