callison

Silicon takes on metal... The Norton is nice, but damn!!!...

Tell me again why I have to be in a bikini to push start your Moto Guzzi... What do you mean I have to drive with the high beams on? Are they still on?

Maybe Pete majored in Animal Husbandry in college.

I second the motion!!!

Wait a minute. We never had any dogs... No wonder my sister is still PO'd.

Of course there's global worming!!! The vet used to treat all of our dogs for worms out of the same medicine bottle.

Here you go. Worms the size of a garden hose. Megascolides australis

I've always thought that babe in the green bikini with the green V11 was pretty spectacular. So is the bike. And they both have plastic body parts

Click on the image, when the page of garbage comes up, save that page to disk with a .jpg extension and then use the browser "Open File" menu item or a graphics program to look at it. It's the correct data - the server is using "index.php.html" as the file name and to a browswer, that's text.

Okay, back on thread...

I said get a LeMans and paint it, not put the older parts on a newer frame. In any case, they would probably fit as the frame lengthening is ahead of the tank on the spine. Frankensport - my V11 Sport TT, has a 1996 Sport 1100i frame. Frame lengths are close enough that the tank and subframes bolt right on. Other things are remarkably different. Right now, it lookx like this: Eventually, if I get back to it, it may look like this: This project is on indefinite hold though, if someone else wants to carry on with it, give me a PM. Occasionally, I post this Marabese Design Studios orignal concept drawing for the V11 LeMans - which is based on the green model. At least you have an idea what it would look like in general.

It's running in reverse direction. Makes lip reading a bit unlikely.

Get a LeMans and get it painted that outrageous green. Far more practical than adapting the V11 Sport.

The original spec battery is available in the USA for $70 (not from motorcycle dealers though). Portable Power Systems

That's easy. It's MGNA's business plan and parts inventory!

Gad, I put LED's in mine more than 3 years ago. LED's typically have a lifetime of 200,000 hours. A bit more than a Guzzi will last don't you think? You sure as heck don't need to get fancy to put them in there either. Mine are simply wrapped in duct tape until they fit snugly in the upper part of the old bub housing. I used the white LED's available at your friendly local radio shed. As I recall, one lead is soldered to the resister (320 ohms? - long time ago, sorry) and the other end of the resistor is soldered to whatever kind of terminal was in there for the bulb holder assembly originally (again, I don't recall and I am not going to go out in the garage and rip it apart for so menial a detail). It isn't difficult to do and the lovely light blue light is highly reminiscent of a 1000 rad Cobalt 60 source deep in a water pool. It rocks! I showed mine to Greg Field at the National Rally in Mt. Vernon. He just may not remember it.

I was going to go with Laverda but I'm thinking now that it's a Benelli 650cc.

Cool. Do I get a point starting the thread? The worst joke ever: The desk clerk at a resort in the mountains checks in a newly arrived honeymooning couple. Ten minutes after arriving, the groom heads out of the lodge in his fishing gear, pole, waders - the whole outfit. He doesn't return until nearly midnight. About four the next morning, he's off again for another day of fishing. This goes on for two more days until the desk clerk's curiosity gets the better of him: Q: "Why aren't you spending more time with your bride rather than fishing? She's really quite a lovely young lady" A: "Oh, well, you see, it's her time of month." Q: "Oh, sorry about that, but couldn't you just, you know, poke her in a different hole?..." A: "Nope. She's got piles. That's out too." Q: "Well, couldn't she just" Get's interrupted here. A: "Oh, I know what you're about to say, but she has gingivitus and that wouldn't be advisable at all." Q: "Wow. Look. If she has all of these things wrong with her, why did you marry her?" A: "Oh, that's easy. She has worms too. And I just love to fish..."

Tapeworms, the perfect pet - goes where you go, eats what you eat.

That's why I rebuilt mine with white LED's.

58000 miles (93,341 km) - 1997 Sport 1100i. Heads ported, seems to need a timing chain - 200 miles in the last 5 years. 38000 miles (61,155 km) - 1997 California 1100i. Clutch replaced once. Had 2800 miles (4506 km) on it when I bought it. 31500 miles (50,694 km) - 2001 V11 Sport TT. Rebuilt after being totaled. Engine intact except for timing cover case. Now has a 1996 Sport 1100i frame. 2200 miles since it was totalled in September 2003. Had 530 miles (853 km) on it when I bought it in 2002. I put 4400 miles on the V65 that I got rid of last year too. Had it 3 years. Good riddance. I ought to be out riding right now. The cataract surgeries are pretty well healed up...

It's hard to find any movie outside of Star Wars that was any good if it had Mark Hamill in it. Pretty much, he head a meteoric rise to a mediocre career. This one is no exception. Best grade B auto/motorcycle filck ever? There are lots, but I'll give my vote to 1976's "Eat My Dust" with Ron Howard. An absolutley kickass bluegrass soundtrack from the David Gisman and the DGQ gives it the finishing touch.

Worms are everywhere, but to be honest, I just got tired of that other thread!

Oh, it happens. Mostly to the south and west of here, but we are on the edge of tornado alley. Oklahoma and Missouri get them real bad sometimes (Hi Carl!). I'm sure this is not the first to hit Iowa City, but it's the first since I've lived here. This is all just a manifest of the large continental area that gets solar heating and Gulf of Mexico moisture. It's good fuel for 'active' weather. 86157[/snapback] Glad you're okay. Those photos are truly frightening! I've just moved to tornado alley and don't look forward to my first tornado experience. With luck, I'll never see one but luck is all that would be. I can't afford to move back to the land of earthquakes as Mike so aptly puts it, but I would consider most anyplace northwest if I decide to relocate again. For now though, we're happy and we have a tornado shelter, so I guess we should survive although we could certainly lose everything else in the process if everything blew away. The Oklahoma Guzzi MGNOC representative, Russ Marooney, got hit directly by the May 3rd, 1999 Norman F5 tornado. His Guzzis were found under some very large trees. His house was completely destroyed.

I've gotta get a longer dipstick. Mine doesn't reach the oil anymore...