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It's for sale. Italo Classics. The translation is obviously babelfished.

Italo Classics Moto Guzzi GTV 500 Detail: With many new parts GTV restored 500 year of construction 1937 with a rare Velox cylinder head, which there was as sport accessories at the time at that time in the trade. The engine runs perfectly, wiring harness drew in, since the restoration is however not yet completely final, must the headlight and electrical system be still attached. There still none are, can papers however when desired and against surcharge be singleapproved . Certificate of origin of the Guzzi work participates! Further details, price and photo on request, test run with existing characteristic according to date agreement gladly possible.

Do you have any idea what they cost new from a dealer?

Hand your wife a wire brush, some sandpaper and a can of spray primer. If she has all that time for the girls, she has time enough to help with the truck. Just be sure you have a comfy chair and enough beer to direct her efforts.

Arc welder? I have the optimizer and the cables - buried somewhere in the morass of boxes after the retirement move. You can send the unit back to me and I'll send the whole thing back to Cliff for updating. I snagged a Ducati WM15 to put the MY15M into and I'd probably be better off paying Cliff to do it right rather than fight with it myself given the current condition of my work area (garage - 27˚F).

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but that 1000S is just another Guzzi enthusiast's take on what MG ought to build. I think they should. With USA sales up 58% this year for Moto Guzzis, it may be the right time to do a retro "sport" model in addition to the new California. I'm still holding out for a Griso though. Here are some Griso accessories Anima Guzzista Scroll down to "Donne, moda e Moto Guzzi!". Reminds me of a tv add from long ago: "Mama mia, thatsa some spicy meatball!"

Cycle Garden 2006 Moto Guzzi calendar

I think the new engine on the Breva 1100 actually has the aforementioned access plug. It's an entirely different cover on that engine though. I doubt it would retroactively fit ours.

32 ft/lbs. You know why Frankenstein doesn't have any kids don't you? His nuts are on his neck. If this thread gets any longer, we can make a rope from it and hang ourselves... Just let me know where and when the campfire will be!

They did. They were called the Sport 1100i and the Daytona RS. Guzzi needs the Norge in addition to the other stuff. Gotta suck some of the lifeblood out of the over-inflated BMW touring crowd. A financially healthy Moto Guzzi may yet produce another bike to match the beauty of the Sport 1100i/Daytona RS, only this time with the performance to match.

Just keep in mind that by keeping the passing switch on, you're doubling the current through that one pin in the instrument switch connector that supplies the high/low/passing switch. It may not be rated to carry that kind of current continuously since the intended use would normally be intermittent. The relay, as you say, is probably fine with the current load.

I think I must have most of them. Someday, I'm going to have to follow through on some of my projects and then excess the remainder onto eBay.

I don't know of anyone that's taken the resistance measurements of a regulator on all of the leads to establish a good/bad relationship. I'm not certain that you could in any event. The Ducati Electronica regulator uses some form of balanced thyristor setup vice the more common bridge rectifier. I'm not certain they can even be read with a meter. The best trouble shooting method you have at this point is to re-connect the regulator, start the bike and then measure the voltage across the battery as you rev the engine. If you don't show any voltage increase whatsoever as the rpms rise beyond 4 or 5 thousand rpm you can pretty much count on the regulator being bad. One alternative replacement is the ElectroSport ESR510 I wish Euromotor Electrics would produce a tapered shaft version of the EnDuraLast 450 Alternator Kit. 450 watts would make for a pretty nice change on the Guzzi system.

You can find the appropriate schematic, in color and enlarged, at Sportissimo. It does sound like a ground that's loose and I would yank the tank and examine everyplace that wiring bolts to the frame closely. This includes the regulator mounting bolts.

The timing cover gasket is really not too hard. Don't work yourself into a tizzy over it. Just turn the front wheel to provide clearance if needed. Should take less than 90 minutes start to finish. Even for a novice mechanic.

I was 3 1/2 years old and had a toy Caterpillar bulldozer with a nice blade on the front. I tried to sit on it and ride it down the sidewalk but hit a seam and somersaulted over onto the blade and cut off my nose. 32 stitches to put it back on. I still have a slight scar. In Kindergarten, the kid ahead of me slammed the door behind him and laid open my head in the hairline. I still have a slight scar. I was riding up Pacific Coast Highway in the rain on my RD350, put the brakes on too hard and wound up under the bike. Something on the bike punched a nice hole in the calf of my leg. I still have a slight scar. This is getting repetitious...

Well Joe, at least you remained in the Italian fold. Come on out and pay Katy and I a visit. I'll even let you go for a spin on the soon to be delivered 2005 Ural Patrol

I've got no end of these type of stories. When I was at Sand Point Naval Station in Seattle and I went over to the auto hobby shop and rented an engine steam cleaner to use on my Fiat 2300S (do you detect a bit of masochism here?). I had the steam wand going full force and stepped backward into a hole. In an attempt to keep my balance I swung the steam cleaner wand back like walking stick - with the steam going full blast - and managed to stick it right down and into my shoe! I instantly boiled my foot. Blisters the size of my fist. The pain was pretty much intense. Almost as bad as the time I fell out of a tree when I was kid and plummeted 20 feet onto a pile of bricks shattering my left arm. Too much like that joke "Does it hurt when you do that. Don't do that..."

Well, the story is a tad longer than that. I was leaving the Naval Reserve Center in Vallejo and a wire off of the equipment I was carrying snagged on a decorative 3" shell flanking the quarterdeck. It fell straight over and the rather heavy solid metal nosepiece decided to re-arrange the last bone in my right big toe as well as break the toenail in two crosswise. That was at about 4 pm. It was too sore at the time to determine much, but by the time I got home that evening, it was readily apparent that something needed to be done. That's the first part of the story. The last part is even better.

A three inch artillery shell dropped onto my right big toe one day and shattered it. I couldn't find a ride and I couldn't take the car, so I rode my bike the 72 miles to Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland, California. At about 2AM, I got out - but with a cast that ran clear up past my knee. I hobbled out to the parking lot, broke off the top part of the cast above knee and proceeded to ride the bike home with the cast on. Good thing I didn't have crutches, I didn't have anyplace to put them.

Ugh. Over on one of the Ural forums we just had a slew of photos of an accident in Sweden where a Honda sport bike went through a car at about 155mph. Everybody died. This one is equally bad. I have a PowerPoint presentation on my computer somewhere that I've managed to view exactly once. It's even worse, a lad in the UK impacting a truck head on. Way too graphic to describe. When my kids wanted to learn how to ride, I made them watch that presentation first. A picture is worth a thousand tears as well as fears. I pity the parents and/or family. Not much left to bury.

That - is more likely to be the clutch switch wires being pulled a bit taut under the left side of the tank. The starter switch is a lot less likely as the switch wiring loom uses some very capable AMP type connectors. The crappy clutch interlock switch uses some questionable bullet connectors.

Lemme guess. Worlds fastest Indian?

I'm not going to dispute most of this. I have Guzzis and I have a Ural Patrol on order, so technically, I'll have the best of both worlds and none of them will be a cage! I don't for a second make the mistake that they're supposed to be the same thing in anything more than basic appearance.

Then you're not going to like this one much either... Or this one Might as well go after the English as well All is not lost however