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Sounds like the ECU might have a problem. First though, just go ahead and replace the ECU fuse and check the bottom of the power and ECU relays to make sure that no pin contacts have gotten forced down. If that doesn't help, find a bud and swap ECU's long enough to determine if that's the problem.

we LOVE th Prius. Almost 51,000 miles on it and it typically averages 46 mpg. Sometimes 51-52 mpg and if we're not careful, into the low 40's.

The Bugswatter is in the shed, doesn't run so well. The Ambassador is in pieces, who knows if it'll ever run again!

Do the SIMPLE thing first!!! Remove the tank and make sure all of the wiring connectors for the handlebar switches and so forth are as close to the spine as they can get. They can push the tank to the side enough to make the forks hit on one side or the other. But not both. If the forks on hit on both sides, start checking fork stops and all of the other things mentioned above.

The discussion on why one awshit wipes out a thousand attaboys came up on the Oz Forum recently and I thought I'd share part of it with you guys... Starting with: "I'm sure you get enough ATTABOYS, but realizing that 100 ATTABOYS are wiped out by one AWSHITE, I felt it was worth the effort to give you an ATTABOY! Sorry if that AWSHITE counted against the ATTABOYS!" Of course, that isn't entirely correct. We know that one awshit wipes out a thousand attaboys, not a mere 100. But what we really want to know is why an awshit has this awesome power, so I will try to enlighten you on the subject. You have to understand some of the basics of paranormal particle physics to understand the colloquial expression in it's entirety. On the surface, the expression "One awshit wipes out a thousand attaboys" is fairly simple. It can be properly interpreted as meaning that no matter how well you do something, one mistake can completely negate the value of things that you've done well. Should you not believe this, just refer to how your boss evaluates you prior to your next raise... But I digress. So, let us delve into the underlying physics of this phenomenon. As you are probably aware from the basic science taught at grade school levels, opposites attract and likes repel for magnets and nuclear particles such as electrons and protons. Magnets can be easily used to demonstrate this property, nuclear particles such as electrons and protons much less so due to their size. Yet we all see the effects of these interactions in everything around us. What you may not realize is that there is an entire and undocumented field termed paranormal particle physics, and just as our more accepted physics models affect our everyday lives, so do the effects of paranormal particles. What, you may ask, is a paranormal particle? Well, insofar as I am not well versed in the subject, I will tell you that I know of two - the "Luckon" and the "Murphon". Like their counterparts in normal physics, they have mass and charge, but they react differently than electrons and protons. In paranormal physics, likes attract and opposites repel, quite the opposite of normal everyday, mundane physics. The luckon and the murphon even have symbols to annotate them - but they aren't Greek. The luckon bears the hand symbol with the forefinger and thumb in a circle in the time honored fashion of "Okay!", whereas the the murphon gets the hand symbol with middle digit extended fully in the fashion of well, giving the finger, or "F#$k You". You get the idea. These are entirely appropriate to the nature of these particles by the way, given their effect on objects and people around them. Especially people. More on that in a bit. These particles have mass, just like electrons and protons. Protons are vastly more heavy then electrons and it takes a considerable quantity of electrons to counter a single proton on a mass scale. So too, do the luckon and murphon have mass. The murphon outweighs the luckon by exactly one thousand and one to one (1001:1). I'm certain that you can see where I'm going with this now. If these particles attract each other and repel opposites, there must be instances where large quantities of these particles have accreted to the betterment or detriment of the physical object closest to them. Don't believe me? Remember High School? Remember the guys that always seemed to get the girls? And the more girls they got, the more girls were attracted to them. The "jocks". Yeah, you get my drift. These guys had an accumulation of luckons about them, and they just kept getting more. Their counterparts were the downtrodden and unloved schmucks that just seemed to attract all of the bad things in life to themselves. What do I mean "seemed to"? Hell, they did, they just didn't know why. They had a cloud of murphons hanging around about them. Poor guys, they just didn't have the good luck that the jocks with the luckons had. But, fame - and luckons - are fickle and fleeting. All if takes is one mistake, or one murphon, to blow away that cloud of luckons and the popular guy quickly becomes an outcast. Just fumble the ball during a crucial playoff game and you're not the hero anymore. Same for paranormal particle physics. The murphon outweighs the luckons and it only takes one murphon to blow away a thousand luckons. Okay, so now we know why some people have good luck and why some don't. Bad luck is really a cloud of murphons and so the expression "He has a black cloud hanging over him" isn't so far from the truth. It just isn't visible. But it is tangible in its effects. So how does one get out from underneath the cloud? Well, it's logical enough. Since likes attract in paranormal particle physics, then it follows that finding a larger cloud of murphons than the one you're under means that you can rid yourself of your cloud by letting it attach to someone elses cloud - providing theirs is larger. Woe unto the owner of the larger cloud though. Of course, you do have to be careful of someone else with a smaller cloud searching you out in an effort to rid themselves of theirs but it's pretty easy to spot the hard luck cases of life and maintain some distance from them. By best way by far to rid yourself of a cloud of murphons though, is to look about for an obvious source of bad luck such as a tax bureau or government service. These entities exist under very large and impersonal clouds of murphons dispelling gloom and bad tidings upon everyone and everything they associate with. Just go to work for one of them for a while, and your own black cloud will happily merge with the larger one. Now just slip out the door while the black cloud of doom has its attention centered on somebody else. Oh yeah. April Fool's! And now you have something to start the new year off with. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Or "Theme For An Imaginary Western".

Corky Laing, drummer for "Mountain" with Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi way back in the '70's. Mountain was best known for the song "Mississippi Queen". Showing my age aren't I?

Ignorance is bliss. And I'm extremely happy...

Nice work.

No worry, it's just the irrepressible Dave Laing at work. Hey Dave! Any relation to Corky? Now let's see where that goes...

Been there, done that. Paid for it extensively on my Sport 1100i. Before I take my wheels off of the tire balancing jig, I take a pad sander to the tread and scrape up the mold release enough to make the tire safe. You can't overdue it - the tires are too tough to actually lose much (if any) material to the sander (coarse grit is fine).

PLEASE NOTE: I no longer have access to the previous website at http://home.pacbell.net/guzzi007/sportissimo.html THERE WILL BE NO UPDATES ON FILES AT THAT LOCATION ANYMORE!!! Greg Bender's site is hosting my stuff at: http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzi007/sportissimo.html There is one updated schematic as of 12/28/05 and the addition of 5 owners manuals in html format as well.

Sure that wasn't a Buell elephant? I didn't get anything motorcycle related for Christmas, not even my Ural. Roadway saw to that by sidelining my bike an extra week. Cretins. Now I don't get it until next year.

I dont know about New Hampshire, but in California, the dealer is required to ask you if you want the old parts and provide them if you do. I would have made them remove their oil, put the synthetic back in (and undoubtedly, they'd have to go buy it) and put back in your good oil filter, or inform them that they were in violation of the law and I would be reporting them to the BAR (Bureau of Automotive Repair).

You guys have got me embarrassed. I took FrankenSport out for a quick 20 mile jaunt this morning. It was nearly 70˚F. Blew the ECU fuse twice. Gotta fix that. This is the first time in two years the bike has been on the road legally registered.

Changing to another brand of tire seems to help a lot as well.

My 2005 Patrol should have been delivered before Christmas. The cretins at Roadway pigeonholed it in St. Louis indefinitely. I could'a been having fun and instead, I'm just playing around on the computer.

I can't tell you what the difference if any there would be by swapping the units, but if one really is bad, there should be some difference since they affect different parts of the map. The little buggers aren't cheap either. Actually, you can just hook an ohm meter on the contacts and blow some hot air on the sensor and see if it changes. If it doesn't, it's bad. If you want to go the the lengths of checking it for accuracy, I think the owners manual or shop manual give some resistance figures by temperature. Being the cheap recalcitrant luddite that I am, I'd check them out that way before shelling out for another set. Also, my Sport 1100i has only gone about 200 miles in nearly three years! It runs like crap between idle and 6000 rpm. I have change every sensor, the ecu and so forth with little to no effect. At this point I strongly suspect that the timing chain is the culprit because it may be too slack with 58,000 miles on it. Just thought I'd mention that in case you're up in the miles department.

Plug it in. I don't know why that one is unplugged but it does go to the LED. I've never used the LED code indicator though, so I'm not much help beyond just telling you to plug it in - mainly to keep moisture out of the connector. There is one reasonably simple thing to do to see if there's any major difference. You can swap the oil temp sensor and the air type sensor on this series of bikes because they're the same. One (air) is in the fairing to the left of the headlight and the oil temp sensor is on the left valve cover. Be careful with the screws on the valve cover, you might wind up stripping the hole. I haven't looked in a very long time, but I think the screws securing the oil temp sensor protrude from the side of the valve cover and if there's any crud on the screws or the threads are compromised, you can easily strip the threads out of those tiny screw holes.

g.forrest, you seem to like having a Ural Gear Up for your avatar, so here's where you can get the movies if you haven't already seen them. Ural Movies The Three Desert trip through Australia is a good flick.

Congratulations Mike! I would probably have had my new Ural on the 23rd but Roadway sidelined the shipement indefinitely in St. Louis. Maybe next year. Literally.

The Ducati Electronica unit uses a balanced thyristor bridge which gives better output at the top end, but requires more voltage to fire making it less suitable for lower rpms/voltages. The ElectroSport uses an industry standard approach full wave bridge rectifier which is more efficient at the bottom but loses some voltage at the top. Operationally on a street Guzzi, it should be a wash between either type but with the nod going to the ElectroSport if you just chuff around town at lower rpms a lot.

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I have it in a file from the tv show it was on. Too bad I can't cut that portion out and stick it somewhere, but it would be gigabytes in size. I think it was on Discovery Channel or something and about (what else) motorcycles. It's about $525K or something like that. The designer rides a 96 Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport. Can't be all bad I guess. The steering is somewhat bizarre. The two wheels slide across each other to accomodate the lean. Other that that, it's somewhat normal. If any motorcycle with a theoretical 300+mph top end could be considered normal.

I've gotten 51mpg @ 79mph on a long superslab ride - Creedon chip. These things can get good mileage on occasion but since you're dealing with the WM16 computer you might want to cruise over to Cliff Jeffries site and nose around. Cliff Jeffries