Tom M

Great pictures! Thanks Paul. While I have no idea what a brammer is I love the seeing the old Tonti racers too. Got a couple kids college funds to attend to before I take on a project like that though...

Hi Eric, Here's the poop on the Buell mirrors: Buell part numbers for extended mirrors to fit LeMans= N0161-2A8 (left side) N0162-2A8 (right side) About $20 each. Buell part number for standard LeMans mirrors= N0161-02A8 (left side) N0162-02A8 (right side) About $25 each. Note the extra zero in the part number for the standard LeMans mirrors. If you aren't very specific with the part numbers you may get the wrong mirror. I got the extended ones because I didn't like looking at my elbows with the stockers.

Sorry for your accident Steve but I'm glad that you weren't seriously hurt. 6 feet deep is a crater, not a pothole. Not that this is any help but here's another story about a bike eating pothole in CA. It ate up former auto racer and current Speed TV announcer Alain deCadenet on his Vincent Black Shadow. Scroll down to "A Criminal Pothole" : http://www.cycleworld.com/article.asp?sect...9&page_number=2

If you're keeping the Daytona use it for touring with pillion and get the Cafe for blasting around the back roads!

Very nice!

RH, FWIW in Lee Parks book Total Control, High Perfomance Street Riding Techniques, he says "At higher lean angles motorcycle suspension becomes less efficient because the moving parts are no longer perpendicular to the forces being applied to them. In essence, the spring rates become progressively stiffer, and the sideways forces cause sliding parts to flex against one anothercausing additional friction. To counter these inefficiencies motorcycle engineers design in a "tuned" amount of chassis and tire flex. This is helpful because at maximum lean the frame and sidewall are at a better angle to absorb bumps in the road than the suspension system." He also has chapters on suspension setup and chassis tuning that I'm sure you would enjoy (I bought the book before a recent camping trip to bone up on proper street riding technique before heading to the mountains with a group of guys who have been riding the street for decades. I know how to go pretty fast in the dirt but the road is a lot different. I might have kept up without reading the book but it really helped my confidence knowing what I'm supposed to be doing when heading into a blind bumpy downhill corner at 85mph )

I can field a couple of your questions John. The Buell mirrors are extended versions of the stock mirrors. See here for part numbers: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7807&hl= I got mine from Paramount Harley in Framingham. There are 5 relays under your seat that you can easily change yourself. Send this guy a check for $14.50 to get all 5: http://www.dpguzzi.com/relay.htm

Welcome John! I suggest that you put some more miles on before you change the ergos. You may find that your body adapts. That said, I'm 6'1 too and love the position for about 1.5 hrs, then my old shoulder injury starts to get sore so I may be making some adjustments over the winter. I'm close to Worcester too so we'll have to get together for a ride some time.

I'm sorry but THIS is what a real off road bike looks like :

FWIW I carry the "sticky rope" type plugs and a neat tire filler hose/gauge in a bag under my seat, and a mountain bike tire pump in my tank bag. I haven't had to use the patch kit yet, but I use the filler gauge thing all the time. I doubt I could get the mountain bike pump onto the tire valves without it. It was $10 at a local auto parts store and it's come in real handy a few times when riding buddies needed air and couldn't get a gas station chuck onto their tire valves. I highly recommend this thing: http://www.autosportcatalog.com/index.cfm?...pid=2348&cid=90

One of the below. I believe that you now owe us all a beer for making try to guess which one when this isn't the quiz forum Normale (498,4 cc) 1921 - 1924 Sport 15 (498,4 cc) 1923 - 1928 GT "Norge" (498,4 cc) 1928 - 1930 Sport 14 (498,4 cc) 1929 - 1930 Sport 15 (498,4 cc) 1931 - 1939 GT 17 500 cc (499 cc) 1932 - 1939 GTS (498,4 cc) 1934 - 1940 Alce (498,4 cc) 1939 - 1945 Airone (246 cc) 1939 - 1957 Dondolino 500 cc (499 cc) 1946 - 1951 Motoleggera 65 cc (64 cc) 1946 - 1954 Astore (498,4 cc) 1949 - 1953 Falcone (498,4 cc) 1950 - 1967 Galletto 160 cc (159,5 cc) 1950 - 1966 Cardellino 73 cc (73 cc) 1956 - 1965 Zigolo (98 cc) 1953 - 1966 Lodola Sport (175 cc) 1956 - 1966 Stornello 125 cc (123,1 cc) 1960 - 1975 Dingo 3 marce (48,89 cc) 1963 - 1976 Dingo 4 marce (48,89 cc) 1963 - 1976 Trotter Special M (48,89 cc) 1966 - 1973

I wish someone made a solo seat with a rainsuit sized storage compartment under the cowl.

Mine does this sometimes too. Let the clutch lever all the way out for a second or two when in neutral, then pull it in and step on the shifter. If this doesn't work try giving it a rev when the clutch is out before going for first.

Congrats on the beautiful new bike guy! That oil cooler sure looks vulnerable with that short front fender though...

KB, Would you mind sending me a copy of your map? I'd love to compare it to mine. PM or email me if this might be possible. Thanks, Tom

Thanks again for the suggestion Ben. I find it strange that my map is VERY different from the similarly equipped '03 LeMans map that I looked at. I know they added the crossover pipe by the alt cover in '03, but I would think the maps would be closer than they are given that we both have the "race" ECU that comes with the Ti silencer kit. Does anyone know if there was a different base map for 03+ race ECU's? Doc, If the guys that you're going to for a custom map have been doing this for a while and have a good reputation, I think it would be a great investment if you plan on keeping the bike and if you don't plan on doing any more modifications in the near future. You might as well get the most from your !

HA! I think I fixed it! I bumped some of the values in the map up in my "ping zone" from 2 to 6 points based on a map from a similarly equipped bike that I found on Guzzitech and the pinging seems to be gone. Also I checked around the intake boots for any vacuum leaks with an unlit propane torch at idle and the rpms didn't budge so I think I'm air leak free. Kiwi Dave: the map on my bike was done on a dyno for the previous owner. The PO said it didn't ping for him but based on the "stock air filter" note in the map, and the fact that the PO installed a K&N, I'm going to guess that the pinging might have been caused by the freer flowing air filter. Dr Gil: IMO if the guys at the dyno shop know what they're doing you theoretically should get a "perfect" map that's optimized for your bike, and it should not ping anymore. As I understand it from reading the forums you or they should balance the throttle bodies, calibrate the throttle position sensors, have new correctly gapped plugs, freshly adjusted valves, and a clean air filter as a baseline before creating a custom map on the dyno. I'm sure if you search here or Guzzitech you can find more information. That said, a few tweaks to my map in the "ping zone" seems to have fixed my problem, and I didn't spend a dime

Thanks for the suggestions guys. As for the plugs, I put in new freshly gapped plugs after I did my decarbon procedure. Dlaing: If I'm cruising at 50% or more throttle in a high gear or going up a steep hill, then I open it up it will ping, so we may have had the same issue. In my PC software under the tools menu there is a "promote map to advanced" feature that displays two identical fuel tables for me. OBND: I contacted the shop and he said he didn't have the file (or he didn't want to look for it) so I downloaded directly from the bike. I thought about trying the accelerator pump feature but it seems to me that I need to richen the mixture for more than a few revs. Desdinova: I did download the map directly from my bike and it matched the map I got on diskette (I used the map compare feature and also visually verified that they match). Thanks for the tips. I don't have a set of mercury sticks, will see if I can find some. It looks like I won't be able to experiment on the bike for a while because of the weather. Ben: I didn't find any maps for bikes with the race ecu on the PC site but I just found one for an 03 Lemans on guzzitech. I'll compare it to mine and see if they're similar except for the 5k rpm range. Thanks again and any more suggestions are welcome!

Quick question: My bike has a power commander with a custom map done for the previous owner. It pings in the 5k rpm range under load at >50% throttle. Runs great otherwise. I have the map and the software, was wondering if I should just boost the values in the 5k rpm range by some arbitrary number to get rid of the pinging? What exactly are the numbers anyway? I know 0 = no change to stock map, does a 2 = 2% richer than stock, 5 = 5%, etc? Bike setup: 2002 LeMans, factory Ti exhaust, race ECU, stock crossover, stock airbox, K&N air filter. I've had the bike for about 3 months. Background: I asked the previous owner if he had any pinging and he said NEVER! He told me to find another gas station, don't lug it, and give it the italian tune up. I did switch gas stations (always 93 octane) and I did a de-carbon procedure on the cylinders that I've had good success with on cars. It still pings. I don't lug it. FWIW the plugs looked rich when I changed them Some other curious bits of data are the PO told me the cylinders were independently mapped, but both the map that I got on diskette from him and the matching map loaded on the bike only had one fuel table, not two. Also, the notes in the diskette file said "2002 LeMans, factory Ti exhaust, race ECU, stock crossover, stock airbox, STOCK AIR FILTER Other than the pinging I think the bike runs great. Any suggestions on tweaking the PC to get rid of the ping would be greatly appreciated!

Hepco-Becker makes a rack & bag system for the V11. From the descriptions on the MG Cycle site it sounds like they have a back pad for the top case: http://www.mgcycle.com/luggage.html

About as unlucky as this, from the Laconia Motorcycle Week rally: Falling tree hits, kills motorcyclist The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 14. 2006 8:00AM A motorcycle passenger was killed when a tree fell on her. Louise Croft, 43, of Guelph, Ontario, was killed when the tree hit her on the head as the motorcycle she was riding on left a picnic area on Route 112 in Waterville Valley around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, the police said. The motorcycle driver, her husband, was not hurt.

I'm glad the Whale..uh...Hurricanes won. They've won enough cups in Edmonton back when Wayne whats his name was there. My biggest gripe with the NHL is the season is waaay too long. By late June who gives a d*mn about hockey other than the home cities? I'm a life long player and fan and even I couldn't be bothered to watch most of the playoffs. A few years ago when I was watching the Bruins lose yet another first round matchup the announcers said "...and on this day in 1972 the Bruins won the Stanley Cup!" I think that was early in May. Why do they have to play into almost July nowadays? Oh yeah, $$$$...

I think a nice set of purple or yellow Tomahawks would complete the look http://www.1tail.com/sa/c/Tires_1705.htm Kudos to you Enzo for the time and effort you've put into your bike.

I'm a big IPA fan too. The most popular one around here is Harpoon. My 'fridge is always stocked with some. http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/

Wow that's nice. Great job Alex!