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Mah fellow Americans, it is with a heavy heart - that I counter-balance my Guzzi to the left! Are we talking balance here or weight distribution? I'll guarantee you that when I'm balancing on my bike it's not because there is a danger of it winding up on just the front or rear wheel.

The second Central California Anti Rally Rally visited Guy Webster's collection a few years ago. It was nothing short of fantastic and Guy is the perfect motorcycle gentleman. I wish there was someway to download the video so I could keep it on my computer or random and enthusiastic viewing.

Thanks for moving the post to the correct thread! Todd almost had it. Keep trying. BTW, I know where, but not what year it was produced.

Nope.

Okay, someone will probably get this one relatively soon but I'll provide a hint anyway. nuclear permutted is unclear If the [name] of the bike is permutted, you get what late model Guzzi name? And what is the original name?

Sounds llke you need a cron script that would run once or twice a day and automatically delete these cretins.

That's why this thread exists, to keep stuff like this out of the other topics. Certainly, no one is telling you to click on the "Hooters" topic, so if you don't like it, just don't enter in this particular thread. Just out of curiosity, how many spammers are we getting in this thread? I'm going to guess that 99% of the spammer stuff shows up at the main content menu, and not much down here in this thread.

I don't think there is any specific issue with the oil cooler models except maybe sloppy clean up at the factory. My 97 Sport 1100i has 58,000 miles on it and I've never seen any remarkable in the oil.

If you have a Ducati dealer in Singapore, source the brake parts from him. Much cheaper. Probably the same for the spark plug cap.

Tommy Smothers told this one on the Smothers Brothers Hour back in the late sixties. The principal changes were it was a hunter and after removing the thorn, he captured the elephant and sold it to a circus. Many years later, he went to a circus and the elephant recognized him, reached out with it's trunk and gently lifting the many out from his seat, proceeded to squish him to death with his trunk. Elephant jokes were very popular at the time as well. Why did the elephant lie in the road? To trip the ants. Why do elephants were yellow sneakers instead of white ones? They don't, it's just that occasionally they forget to lift their leg. Why do some elephants have red sneakers? Slow natives...

It's beginning to sound like the starter solenoid. My Ural does the same thing, but it's an RPOC (Russian Piece Of Crap) whereas the Valeo is obviously a FPOC. Do an eBay smart search for "valeo guzzi" and you'll typically find entire starters (expensive, but a whole cheaper than dealer) and tune-up kits.

We're glad to have you Nige. Just tell "Strife and Sorrow" that the shed and the bike are a marked improvement over wine, women and song and perhaps she'll leave you alone.

8500 rpm would be correct and 11000 rpm = "Shrapnel Italia".

Lowes. The angle measurements were done in Canvas (3.56) on my Macintrash. Ricks headstock had the spine actually folded up and tucked in so neatly that you would have thought it stock unless you knew better. Rick took a pretty serious loss in the accident, both financially and with his physical well being. I wish him a full recovery and lots of luck. His bike was pretty badly mangled and burned. Not too much of it was salvageable which was really unfortunate. Send the shift lever out and get it powder coated black. They look good that way and have to be sandblasted first anyway, so the crud on it will be gone in any event. Guido: "Crash Cranium" sounds better.

I should be on a Norge by then. If I catch any of you guys trying to take it apart, I'll erase your wiring!

If anybody has them, Pete Morcombe at Reboot Guzzi Spares does. He has a 97 Sport 1100i being parted out right at the moment and the mounts are Rear Footrest Hangers(Pair) £20.00. Pete's a real gentleman and all-round good guy. Give him a buzz. FWIW, the mounting holes for the Sport 1100i appear to be 6 cm and the mounting holes on the V11 Sport about 6.6 cm. The distance from the rear hole on the Sport 1100i to the muffler mount is 12 cm and on the V11 Sport it's maybe 19.5 cm or so. Quite a difference. You could just try detaching the rear bolt, loosening the clamp and investigating whether the bolt can be positioned at the bottom of the lowest triangular-shaped hole in the mount casting and then see if the muffler can be angled up to that. I think the additional clearance is just there for the Tekno bags offered for the V11 Sport. The rather wide seat of the Sport 1100/Daytona RS series pretty much precluded that kind of baggage mount. Greetings to Scotland from the USA, I spent two days in Edinburgh in June of this year. Now I'm listening to the Porridge Men and wishing for a new release.

Well, the drawings, almost all of them after the V700 era, are sized to fit a 13x19" super-A4 sheet of paper. That's the smallest I could get good results with at the native 72dpi found on most computer screens. I think that means you have to either change the resolution of the drawing in a graphics program to about 144 or 150 dpi or print it at about 48% to fit it on a standard 8.5x11" sheet of paper (landscape mode). 98% of the planet is running some form of Windows on a PC and I don't have any experience with them at all since I prefer the Mac. I do use Adobe Elements (2.0) frequently for resizing images and if it works anywhere near as well on a PC as it does on a Mac then I can at least recommend it for printing these. I value the effort put into my drawings, you had better be spilling good quality single malt on them...

Anything is possible I suppose. I'm trying to wind up with the Bugswatter in good running condition, a spare engine and a set of Mike Rich heads and then sell all of those as well as my California. With a set of stock used heads on it, I'd sell the Bugswatter as is for $3500. No takers so far though, so I suspect I'll have to re-engine it to make it viable for selling.

Okay, I'll bite. How does one "permute" a V11 Sport?

I have bigbikerrick's engine. By the time I even find out if it runs, I'll have put more than $500 into repairs just to ready it to be tried out. In addition to the horrible Guzzi bubble paint, it was burned and smacked into at the front by the tire. The original plan was to fix it (the V11 Sport engine) up and put it into the Bugswatter and set the original Bugswatter engine aside for later repairs/sell. Now, with the impending purchase of a Norge in a few weeks, my plans have changed. I'm trying to sell the Bugswatter. I will at some point have some sort of spare engine available. Which one depends upon the status of the V11 Sport engine. At the moment, it's being soda blasted to the tune of $200. I should be picking it up today or tomorrow. Then it's replace a bunch of stuff, adapt an engine stand, find a set of throttle bodies and injectors, linkage etc. I have a lot of that stuff too, but it has to be re-conditioned as well and then whatever parts are missing have to be ordered and installed. As everyone in the USA knows, getting parts here for MG's is not always an expeditious process, so this could be a rather lengthy project time-wise.

I don't have any diagrams where the bulb is depicted as anything more than two electrical connections (except for dual filament bulbs and it would be really careless to show one of those incorrectly). No physical orientation or bulb socket is drawn so it's not relevant to the wire colors. You are correct that the ground side should be the shell of the bulb socket if at all possible although in a plastic turn signal housing it doesn't make any electrical difference at all. I try to get these things as correct as possible, feedback helps. Keep it coming. You should see some of the original stuff I worked from. Wire colors were at best a guess based on previous years etc. For the CAN models such as the Breva 1100, Griso, Norge et al, there are next to no discernable wire colors on the .pdf renditions provided by Moto Guzzi. A lot of guess work means that I'm probably only 40% correct until someone provides a decent scan. Honestly though, I don't think Moto Guzzi wants anyone fiddling with the wiring on the latest models as the computer tie-in to the alarm systems and so forth is so involved. I've been told already that if you purchase a Givi tail trunk for the new models not to purchase the additional rear lighting kit because the CAN system can be confused by the changes. I'm certain that there ways around that but I suppose when I get the Norge and put a tail trunk on it that it will be a plain vanilla job rather than adding wiring.

??? There are NO changes to the turn signal. For the 1999 V11 Sport, the high beam indicator didn't have a connection. Some connection labels on the handlebar connectors were corrected and the ECU/Tach wire color changed. I don't know which schematic you're looking at Dave, but the date for the previous schematic was 20 October 2005. I have added the red/black connector dot however and I'll get that update out there pretty soon. This is kind of the same thing. Alex is referring to a diagram dated 9 January 2004. The current diagram is 20 October 2005. Plus, Alex has a 1998 Corsa, a model to which I've never had a diagram to create a schematic for. There are obviously some differences. There may even be differences between European and USA models all down through the Sport 1000/carbi/efi/Corsa models - excepting Corsa's in the USA because we not receive any of the 200 Corsa's built. Guys. If you find an error, email me with a description and I'll fix it. It does no one any good if only one person annotates his personal copy. It is even less useful if personally "updated" versions start spawning because the confusion results in a sort of digital bedlam. Be sure that you've downloaded the latest revision too if you think you've found an error. There may be a more recent revision on the web that has already corrected it.

Thanks to the input of Gord Seifert, the V11 Sport schematics have had errors corrected. Thanks Gord! http://guzzitech.com/guzzi007/sportissimo.html http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzi007/sportissimo.html

It still sounds like the clutch interlock switch connectors to me or perhaps the wires at the switch. For now, bypass the connections under the tank and if the problem persists, at least you what isn't part of the problem.

550 watts @ 2000 rpm. A real alternator for a change! You could probably do a retrofit to the motor somehow, but not to the frame (spine frame/tonti). Not enough space.