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Joe designed the lever such that if you went down the replaceable peg would break off at the threads rather than scrapping the whole lever. Good looking piece milled from 6061 rather than diecast.

You can prop the back of the tank up far enough to do the airbox change without removing the tank completely. Just don't try it with a full tank.

I thought there were only two Stucci racks and you showed me a third one. I did a search of "Stucci rack" and here is a picture of a fourth one I found. Won't help in your case but it may give you an idea of how to come up with a bracket. There are the two screws that hold up the pillion footpeg bracket. Behind this bracket is a third screw that holds the tailpiece onto the frame. I would suggest removing the tailpiece and see if there are any more attachment points available. I'm sure something could be fabricated from angle iron. I suspect something like the ladder frame in my earlier post would work.

He is going to sell me the clamps alone for $40US apiece. I think we have a winner here.

I took a couple pieces of velcro with the self adhesive backing and stuck my garage door opener to the underside of the fairing lip just below the left handlebar.

These look just like the risers sold by MPH Cycle at $100 less. The MPH risers have deeper notches to clear the master cylinders though. I wonder if this would be an issue?

This is probably the type of rack you have. MG Cycle MIGHT have the bracket available separately. Detachable luggage rack for V11 Sport and V11 LeMans; Luggage racks for V11 Sport and LeMans models come in two versions, a one piece affair with the same rack appearance as the detachable version shown above, and the detachable version shown above. The non-detachable version is heavier and likely stronger than the detachable. 01466500 luggage rack, V11 Sport, black 150.00 019910 Luggage rack, V11 Sport, detachable, black 209.95

It's a radial. Bet the tire is a bias ply.

So Ducati and Moto Guzzi got it wrong when they called their bikes in-line and transverse, respectively?

The bags are expensive. I got around this issue. My California has bags so all I had to do was get the mounts for the LeMans and swap the bags back and forth.

Ah, but the Ariel is but a pair of Triumphs siamesed together with a pair of cranks and would fit into the transverse category. The Guzzi museum has a V4 prototype on display, another transverse.

I think the difference in these definitions between the automotive and motorcycle industries has much to do with the quantity of cylinders. From the beginning autos were built with multiple cylinders with the crank and cylinders inline with the vehicle. Along comes the front wheel drive where they place the engine transverse to the car. I think the automotive uses the in line - transverse to describe the orientation of the CRANK. Motorcycles in the beginning were predominantly one or two cylinders and the industry used the terms to describe the orientation of the CYLINDERS. All of your HD, Indian, Henderson, Vincent, Brough, etc were in line engines. The Henderson and Indian 4s were called in line 4s even though the crank was placed perpendicular to the predominant arrangement. When Triumph and others came out with vertical twins I don't think they were called transverse twins but they are. Honda came out with the 750 four and it was called a transverse four. This cylinder arrangement is why I believe our bikes are called transverse twins.

The pictures may be misleading. There is plenty of clearance there.

How about one of these?

And now for the picture of the condom?

Building a shovelhead?

I also have a dozen or so pictures of this display. Different close ups. Anybody is welcome to them.

Maggie and I rode the bike to Steubenville OH last night for the funeral today. 220 miles with the temperatures hovering around freezing made for a good cold weather trial of our gear. A 20 mile, 1 1/2 hour, detour off I-70 due to a flooded portion of the road sure tried our patience. The weather held out in both directions giving us a dry road at least on the ride home today. It was kind of misty last night. We got to the funeral home about 1/2 hour early. There were 4 bikes that attended. There were about 2 dozen there that I recognized as Guzzisti. Gerry Mees got up for a eulogy and he was followed by Jamie Mueller of Grand Rapids Guzzi representing MGNOC. We rode on to the cemetary where an Honor Guard served a ceremony handing Buckys mother the flag. There was a follow up at the Baptist church and another at a bar nearby where most of the 2 dozen gathered. Bucky would have wanted it that way.

I received this today from Jack Arnold, the Ohio MGNOC Rep and longtime friend of Bucky. I just got this sad news a little while ago. I talked to Jean and she said that Buck had went straight through an intersection and hit a car. They say he few 100ft. and it took a while to find him. He had landed in an Orange Grove. He was Life Flighted to Tampa where he died. His mother and sister were down here at the time. I am also in Orlando and when I get any further news I will contact you. Jack

Thanks. I was trying to go through my old link. I would have never found out they were back up.

I heard somewhere that 85% of the wear in any motor is on start up.

Send your heads to Mike Rich. They'll be glad you did.

Try nesting a trouble light under the pan. Maybe that will keep the insides warm enough to prevent condensation from building up.

39F and foggy this morning. Plenty of salt and melting snow on the roads. Felt I had to ride the bike to work once more this year. The Lemans? Heavens no. In conditions like this I want to reach for integrated brakes.