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Hey Pete, let me know when your first batch of Titanium Dioxide coated aluminum time gears for big blocks has been released. I'd like a set with the optional Woods metal and carbon fiber laminate beauty inserts in addtition to the DU loaded woodruff key/mass concentrators. Add some rubber chicken lube to install it all with and I'm good.

That cracked me up. Otis Elevator Company has been using DU for elevator counterweights for decades. It only takes a layer of paint to block the alpha emissions. Tungsten is too damn brittle for anything requiring mechanical strength and it's had to work with besides. Now that Coleman has stopped making their Thorium laced lantern mantles, we won't even have a place for all of the decaying flywheels in a couple of billion years. Drat!!!

Close inspection of the details reveals a HD infestation.

Back on thread - sort of. The Breva 1100 will not be in the USA until late October. I'm getting tired of waiting... Griso sometime in 2006.

My take is that of the Euopean nations, Denmark "feels" the most like the USA. YMMV. Wandering into the local "big" store in Vojens is just like going into Target. Taxes are still ridiculous though. I limited my shopping to antiques while I was there - and lived on Corn Flakes to pay for them. Weirdly enough, Gillete razor blades were exactly half the cost in Denmark that they were in the USA. Must be because Gillette enjoys a near monopoly on the US market. While I'm not entirely fond of the bigger cities, the Danes were extremely friendly and the smaller towns were very enjoyable. Someday, I'll make it back again.

I talked to them last week while I was trying to find out when they'd get a Breva 1100.

To err is human, to really screw up, it takes a computer. It has happened to this forum too. However, only the forum at WildGuzzi is down, the rest of the site functions.

The dealer in Wichita, Kansas has a Nero Corsa. I think he has it discounted to about $9K. I may be wrong on that. Putting the case colors aside, you would be better off with the Ohlins suspension.

The 6 speed will fit the Sporti frame with a little welding (new torque arm mount). Plus, you need the entire swingarm and rear box from a V11 Sport. Is it worth it? In a word. No. The 5 speed box works admirably well after it has broken in (takes about 25,000) miles and if it is shimmed correctly. The first gear ratio for the 6 speed never struck me as being that much shorter, I have both bikes so I'm not unfamiliar with the two different types. If you want to shorten the gearing, you could just fit a shorter profile rear tire and see if that suits your needs. At least that will require no physical changes to the bike.

I just did a total for my bent frame project and not including the broken front engine cover and cracked transmission cases, it ran about $1600 (minimum) to get it on the road before I discovered the broken cases all over the place. Add in the cracked engine stuff and you can add another $1000. Except for the engine case parts, ALL of my purchases were through eBay, Guzzi Reboot Spares and my local Ducati/Buell dealer and except for the Ducati dealer parts ($60), everything was used and as dirt cheap as I could make it. The dealer did do a repair cost estimate and their estimate was more than $4000 - and they missed the bent frame entirely. I truly wish I had taken the insurance money and run, but I kept the bike. So, do what JEDIONE68 says and get a proffessional estimate done before you embark on any rebuild project. You need to do so to get your mind around what you're going to do. I didn't even throw in the cost of a stock silver front fender from MGNA, but that was another $335. Add to all of that the parts I damaged inadvertently (a sideplate), paint, shipping costs for parts (which I didn't list) and a host of other small items, the total is closer to $4000 - and it isn't even street-legal yet. Believe me, I should have just gone out and bought a LeMans or something. Get that estimate done first. Then decide.

Steffen, what part of Denmark? I love Denmark, great people, pretty countrysides, horrible taxes. Now you've posted the price of the Griso there, I'm appalled. Taxes there were high when I was at at Skrydstrup in 1986 , but they must have gone even higher since then. That sounds like a VAT of about 150%.

Dave, please let me know where the "whatever" is located as that is the only part I haven't changed in the process of working on my Sport 1100i.

You really have to read the posted .pdf file and use the links to the .wmv movies and the photos. Especially the movies. Griso, Test

Wow

Oh bollocks. The rubber chicken gets all of the attention!

There's probably more power to be had from ported heads than you'll ever get from messing with the computer. Even with the stock ECU as it will try to accomodate the change in the engine to some (unknown) degree. It's already dual plugged, so at least fussing around with the fuel pressure to sneak around putzing with the map would be effective to some degree.

Perhaps the new swingarm design is blessed with the same greasing tool supplied with the V11 Sport models.

I don't think that the steering head suffers damage directly because the fork tubes below the steering head tend to bend first. Note that the fork tubes are not parallel after an impact. Look closely and you can also see that the front engine case is cracked where the bolt attaches it to the front sub-frame. Look at the spine - not straight. Frame removed from bike with digital photos and some software measurements of deflections from normal. After replacing the forks, I put 2000 miles on the bike before finding out the frame was bent. Stable the whole time and little if any pull to one side or the other. The shop manual has all of the measurements if you want to engage in that level of determination.

The guy who designed it rides a Moto Guzzi Sport 1100.

Now that I've seen some photos, I strongly urge you to remove the gas tank and carefully check that frame.

Remove the tank. Carefully check the spine for ANY sign of bending, buckling or twisting - especially in the area around the rear bolts for the engine sub-frame mount. Also, with the bike upright and the wheels in line, check to see that both wheels are in the exact same vertical plane. My personal take on bent frame repair or replacement is that it isn't worth the cost and effort. If the frame is fine, then it's just a matter of chasing down repair parts and doing the repairs. That sheered off steering stop and broken damper would have me looking very closely for a twisted frame. This is the result of a 20 mph sraight-on impact into a car going 15 mph in reverse.

I'm pretty sure that's the Buell emblem on the jacket. Ford uses an oval too. I actually wish that MG hadn't adopted the oval, I liked the earlier emblems more.

Okay, but the kid on the right has the better looking vehicle.

I can see a 1200cc street version of an MGS01 if what I was told two years ago about the new engine block is actually true. What I understood from the never-to-be-believed John Stoddard, ex-head of MGNA, was that the new engine, besides having casting mounts for the new alternator and so forth, was also designed so that it could be bored and stroked. Stroking the current Guzzi block isn't difficult - it just takes money. Boring it out though, brings you hard up against some very limiting physical characteristics - the cylinder head studs. For the 2V model, the practical limit is about 95mm. Past that and the cylinder head gasket stands a greatly reduced likelyhood of sealing and remaining sealed during the heat cycles of engine operation. The 4V model, because it has no pushrods, has a little more latitude and can accomodate a 100mm bore. The MGS01 has this and also exhibits some cylinder head sealing problems, presumably for the reason outlined above. IF the new block has the cylinder head studs further apart, then I can see a 1200cc engine variant. Otherwise, I doubt that we'll see a large displacement MG engine, four valve or otherwise - to power it. My $.02 worth. YMMV.

This is what Moto Guzzi should have released to begin with!