callison

Pretty cool. For this, round fins rule.

I'm waiting for the next batch of MRM pistons. If and when Megacycle produces one of their rare batches of cams, I'm in line for one of those and MRM Ti pushrods for the long-dormant Sport 1100i.

1989 750 Strada Parent Directory: Moto Guzzi color wiring schematics

I'm looking at some Guzzi stuff in Italy. I'm in the USA though and I would need a middle-man for funds transfer, crating, shipping etc. Please PM me if you know of anyone. Thanks.

Some of the late '90's California's had a similar problem so a second cable was added. I'd check a parts book and see what might fit. It was also be worthwhile to see about adjusting the position of the rear shock reservoir to avoid a recurrence of the original problem. I've never a debris problem of any sort in more than 100,000 miles on injected Guzzi's so you can reasonably ignore that possibility.

Inasmuch as there are no parts available anymore for the WP front forks on the Sport 1100i, there may not be any repair parts available for the monoshock either. They're a decade and a half or more older design wise and they're long in the tooth.

Late 1997 or early 1998 I think.

A 1991 Quota 1000 harness should be pretty close. Moto Guzzi color wiring schematics

If I could get my hands on a QV motor for my Sport 1100i, I'd be one happy camper!

http://forum.guzzitech.com/tech/electrical/81-carl-a-wiring-diagrams.html http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzi007/sportissimo.html 1938 Ercole (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1939 Airone-250ST (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1946 Superalce (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1955 Ercole (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1958 Cardellino (updated 1 Dec 2011) 1967 Dingo (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1967 V700 Euro (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1967 V700 USA (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1967 V700 Police Series 1 (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1967 V700 Police Series 2 (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1969 V750 Euro (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1969 V750 USA (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1974 Dingo (updated 18 Nov 2011) 1975 Convert Europe (updated 5 Nov 2010) 1975 Convert Europe Police (updated 5 Nov 2010) 1975 Convert USA (updated 5 Nov 2010) 1975 Convert USA Police (updated 5 Nov 2010) 2008 Griso 8V (updated 1 Dec 2011)

If you buy a used set of Öhlins to put on your bike, you need to be aware that getting a front fender to fit it is going to be nearly impossible. There is one company making a CF fender for the V11 Sport Café in SoCal but it's a weird shape and doesn't look right.

Too bad the Guzzi automatic shown at a show around 2003 was only a concept. I think it was electric shifted but I can't find any references to it now on the web. I do remember seeing the photo though.

You can find a few more pictures on how it's done on this page: Guzzipfarrer Text is in German. It states it wasn't that easy because all parts are different f.i. the dash. I actually saw this bike and it looks sooooo much better than original. Dead link. Does anyone have a newer one? Orangeokie wants to see it.

There ya go!

All I can think of is that childhood story about the Emperor's New Clothes. 'Nuff said.

"Pretty!??? Maybe the V7 Classic is pretty - but in "falsies & make up"? To call this pretty is an abuse of the language. Cafe Racer??? A cafe racer is stripped down to function not tarted up with bling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quy4HEBBhJ0&feature=related The clueless bufoons at Guzzi HQ have outdone themselves - a pimped up shiney pretender for wannabe yuppie outlaw cafe types to mince about on massaging their egos - & what's so sad is Guzzi are PROUD of it. They should hang their heads in shame, it's an embarassment...." ...a view of the new V7 Racer not widely appreciated by inhabitants of that other place... ...stylistically I take my lead from the Great Antipodean Master of Vituperol who is a constant inspiration. KB Well, you are too modest, as that is only a tiny, teasing vituperation extracted from the full meisterwerk. And indeed, I was thinking, as I laughed heartily, that the Roper has been out-Roperised. Have you considered emigrating to Austrialand? Remember: In promulgating your esoteric cogitatitions or in articulating your superficial sedimentalitites on amicable, physical, psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your conversational communications possess a clear conciseness, concatenated cogency and coalescent consistency. Eschew all conglomeration of flatulent garulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectation! Seduously avoid all polysyllabic profundities, pompous prolificy, ventriloquial verbosities, and vain vapidities. Abstain from magnanimous sesquipedalianisms. Avoid the pleonastic repetition of tautological superfluous redundancies.

OK Here's a more appropriate photo to help offset that awful thing that Antonio posted. Ah, physical perfection.

Absolutely have the bike shop remove the tank and check to see if the spine is bent where the front engine mount frame attaches. If there is any bending, collapsing, twisting or folding evident, the bike frame is toast. It simply is not worth the cost or trouble to repair it at that point. BTDT. It was called "FrankenSport" after its rebuild and there is a long description on this forum somewhere dating from about 2004.

Roy as thankfully taken up the slack of losing Callison to the CARC cult Thank You! Gad, run out of diagrams to post and everyone thinks you've dropped off of the edge of the world. While it's true I don't post here anywhere near as often as I used to, I'm not gone. As far as CARC seduction, ah, no. I'm spending most of my riding time on my V7 Café and loving the heck out of the little beast. I rode it 963 miles combined Monday and Tuesday.

Follow the two yellow leads up from the alternator to under the left front of the fuel tank. The two yellow wires have connectors to the main wiring harness at that point. Those connectors are just simple bullets and they change a tad over time from corrosion or mechanical vibration. My guess is that when they get warm (they do pass a lot of current) they start making poor contact. Like a weather report, there is only a small chance that I'm correct but this is another place to look for a cause of your problem(s).

My wife and I had dinner with Martin G. and his girlfriend this evening at the historic Rock Cafe in Stroud, Oklahoma. Martin will continue his journey across the USA on Hwy 66 tomorrow. We wish them good luck and God speed.

I used a Scünci hand steamer to remove one of my stickers. Worked quite well. Never gets beyond 212˚F.

I'm not a machinist by any stretch of the imagination. I have a jigsaw, a hacksaw, two files, a bunch of drill bits and a lot of determination.

I think it says something that the front brakes use a microswitch and the rear brake uses a pressure sensor. The sensor might be something that affects the feel of the front brakes and would therefore be undesirable or it might be that the rear brake master cylinders are not available with the much less expensive microswitch. It makes you wonder if the rear brake actuation wouldn't be improved some with the mechanical switch versus the pressure activated type.