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I read somewhere that the UK is tying all of the cameras to a central location and they will be timing your vehicle between each camera as well as for your total trip. Exceed the speed limit anywhere and you'll get a ticket in the mail. That negates knowing where the cameras are and will likely render your gadget useless within a year or so. Sorry. Big Brother is watching. George Orwell was right, just off in his timing. Wouldn't it be nice if technology was used to enhance your freedom instead of taking it away?

There I am, cruising over Tejon Pass in my Fiat 2300S at 80mph. Hit the windshield washer button. Window wiper mechanism grabs dash wiring harness, rips it loose from everything in the dash and wads it up in a ball. Coast to side of road. Re-wire car. Proceed. Unfortunately, all very normal for a Fiat. Better than my 66 VW bus when the dash wiring caught fire. My various BMW's were not much better.

The Ural isn't even a Soviet design, they stole it from BMW. They didn't copy German quality though.

OIL CHANGE INSTRUCTIONS- FOR WOMAN 1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since the last oil change. 2) Drink a cup of coffee. 3) 15 minutes later write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle. MONEY SPENT Oil Change $20.00 Coffee $1.00 TOTAL $21.00 OIL CHANGE INSTRUCTIONS- FOR MEN 1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree, write a check for $50.00 2) Stop by 7-11 and buy a case of beer, write a check for $20.00, drive home 3) Open a beer and drink it. 4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands. 5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. 6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it. 7) Place drain pan under engine. 8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench. 9) Give up and use crescent wrench. 10) Unscrew drain plug.. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on you in the process. 12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil. 13) Have another beer while watching oil drain. 14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench. 15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off. 16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in trash can to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer. 17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener. 18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in backyard instead of taking it to be recycle! 19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18. 20) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday. 21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer. 22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface. 23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine. 24) Remember drain plug from step 11. 25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. 26) Remember that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard along with drain plug. 27) Drink beer. 28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel oily dirt into hole. Steal sand from kids sandbox to cleverly cover oily patch of ground and avoid environmental penalties. Wash drain plug in lawnmower gas. 29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor. Throw kitty litter on oil spill. 30) Drink beer. 31) Crawl under car getting kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with oily rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame. 32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31. 33) Begin cussing fit. 34) Throw stupid crescent wrench. 35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes 36) Beer. 37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow. 38) Beer. 39) Beer. 40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil. 41) Beer. 42) Lower car from jack stands. 43) Accidentally crush remaining case of new motor oil. 44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during steps 23 - 43. 45) Beer. 46) Test drive car. 47) Get pulled over &arrested for driving under the influence. 48) Car gets impounded. 49) Call loving wife, make bail. 50) 12 hours later, get car from impound yard. MONEY SPENT Parts $50.00 DUI $2500.00 Impound fee $75.00 Bail $1500.00 Beer $40.00 TOTAL $4165.00 -- BUT YOU KNOW THE JOB WAS DONE RIGHT!!!

Gads. That thing makes a Hannigan fairing look streamlined. Of course, the Hannigan is about the size of a barn door. I actually had one of these once. Great fairing, but the scale of the thing can be a tad overwhelming. Then of course, there's the Vesco Rabid Transit fairing Still got one out in the shed. I may resurrect it someday on the California. Maybe. Pichler fairings are really nice looking, but very expensive.

Gads. That thing makes a Hannigan fairing look streamlined. Of course, the Hannigan is about the size of a barn door. I actually had one of these once. Great fairing, but the scale of the thing can be a tad overwhelming. Then of course, there's the Vesco Rabid Transit fairing Still got one out in the shed. I may resurrect it someday on the California. Maybe. Pichler fairings are really nice looking, but very expensive.

DeBenGuzzi, I envy you. Tx Redneck, a Yugo, a Pacer and Hornet? You scare me dude. jimbemotumbo. Too imbalanced for a Yugo to have any effect. Besides, the 2005 Ural is a better class of scrap iron than a Yugo. I shouldn't talk though, I once had two Fiat 2300S's - at the same time plus a Fiat 850 Spyder. Fix It Again Today Fix It Again Tony Found In A Trench Feces In A Toilet Being the vehicular masochist that I was (or am, I have that new Ural too you know!), I had two BMW 630CSI's at the same time. Break My Wallet

Do my cars match my Guzzi's? No way! I can get parts for my Toyotas. 2004 Toyota Prius 2004 Toyota Tundra - long bed V6 2005 Ural Patrol "Ksyusha" 2001 MG V11 Sport TT "FrankenSport" 1997 MG Sport 1100i "Bright Red Italian Bugswatter" 1997 MG California 1100i 1971 MG Ambassador - box stock as in pieces, in boxes Perhaps not the most eclectic assortment of vehicles to own, but they're all paid for.

The household budget is fine = Get a second job.

I think Urals are more like what style. No matter. I just got back from riding mine through some 8" deep dust and gravel. Can't do that with the Guzzis. They're reserved for actually getting somewhere. The Ural is for putzing around. Let's see, the Guzzi is a modern classic (pushrods, etc). The Ural is a modern copy of an antique (1938 BMW) and a Harley Davidson is a modern antique.

I get along wonderfully with my wife and have for over 26 years - but - bikes are still easier to live with.

Only for formal weddings, but they have to be white shotguns...

What did you order at McDonalds when you finally got there?

Not a Dnepr, it's a brand spankin' new Ural Patrol. I just hit 400km's on it tonight. From the back to the front, 2001 V11 Sport TT, 1997 Sport 1100i, 1197 California 1100i, 2005 Ural Patrol - or to put it another way (back to front), spine, spine, spineless and gutless.

Pack 'em in!

If you can modify the program in the ECU with the same ease you can the PCIII than the call will be for the setup with the fewest possible points of failure. The additional connectors on the PCIII will be considered addtional possible points of failure and with the larger number of them, the ECU will be the preferred mode. Technically, they could probably be made nearly ideal and very nearly identical giving no practical edge to either. But - you would have to possess the entire programming, testing and tuning process for the ECU just as you would a PCIII. With a multitude of maps readily available for the PCIII, you can experiment without the PCIII tuning session until such time as you feel it may (or may not) be needed. So, for practicality, the PCIII has the edge. For now.

Poor old Pete. He moved 13 TONS! of parts to France when he move the operation last year. Small wonder he doesn't break engines down.

MG was denying the existence of the Norge initially too. BTW, my Ural is (laughingly) called a Sports Utility Motorcycle, not an SUV. Given it's military origin that fits, although the "sport" part might be pushing it a tad. I don't think there are truly two wheeled SUV's in the same sense that the cagers have SUV's. Some of the current dual purpose bikes are a tad large or heavy (Quota?) but they were never about having spinner hubcaps, chrome brush guards and all of that crap, so they might more purposefully be called SUM's.

I think there's two different calibers.

Ya gonna mount soft bags or hard bags on that beast Mike?

I've ridden every day this year! On the Ural though. It's a lot more fun in the gravel than my street bikes. A balmy 43˚F this afternoon. Tomorrow, I think I'll get up early and go buy a paper. It should only be about 28˚F for the 6 mile trip to the store and back. Lest you wonder why I have to go to the store, they don't deliver the paper out in the boonies where I live. I may opt to take a Guzzi but the Ural sort of gets in the way. I'm really going to have to clean my garage...

The Moto Guzzi schematics that used be on my web page at pacbell that were relocated to Greg Benders site at thisoldtractor.com are now mirrored on guzzitech.com as well. On both of these sites, the generosity of Greg Bender and Todd Eagan have allowed me use their facitlities to host these files and articles. Neither Todd nor Gregg administer or are responsible for the content, submissions, errors or so forth on the schematics page - that responsibility is mine. If you find an error on a schematic, please refer to my email address on the schematics web page and do not contact Todd or Gregg. Many thanks to both Gregg Bender, Todd Eagan and all of the wonderful Moto Guzzi enthusiasts everywhere that make these sort of efforts worthwhile. schematics at guzzitech.com schematics at thisoldtractor.com

Yeah, that's me. 30+ years of electronics knowledge and I can't figure this one out. I came up with a new way to test it this morning, so tomorrow, given time, I'll see if I can reproduce the failure without having to be on the bike on a public road.

Plastic gutter primer (a beautiful mahogany brown) is an ABS primer. Works quite well as a base coat to which you can apply a more standard finish. As with any paint job that will get scrutinized, surface preparation is a critical item.

Not so odd. Out of the billions of fuses produced, some are bound to have a bad weld at the fuse element/terminal junction. Either vibration or a current surge will cause the bad spot to fail and generally, it's down inside the barrel/plastic/ceramic or somewhere not visible. BTDT too many times in 30+ years of electroncs from microvolts to megavolts.