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LowRyter sez: "contact Don here": https://www.motivcycleworks.com/ Here is a LowRyter post with more contact info in another thread about the frame plate: @SFTripod, There are several other issues to consider if your RedFrame's tail is wagging the dog . . .

Here is an article on motorcycle travel in Peru written by Florian Neuhauser for Roadrunner Magazine in 2011. I had thought I had seen a more recent travelogue in that magazine, but perhaps there are some helpful insights here: https://www.roadrunner.travel/magazine/read/november-december-2011/page/50/ [edit: Actually, a web search for Peru and Roadrunner Magazine brings up several articles by them. Here is a preview of a 2017 article:https://www.roadrunner.travel/magazine/read/march-april-2017/page/114/ ]

Someone asked me if I was going to Mandello del Lario, instead of the South'n SpineRaid, for the Centenary Celebration . . . Showing up at the Seventeenth South'n SpineRaid, with 200.000 km on my Sport, IS my Centenary Celebration!

So, I could not order as the shipping is only to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and Italy.

I knew that dude was in trouble when he pulled in the clutch headed into the corner . . .

Here, also, is a link to a friend of V11_meticcio's who is also president of the Guzzi Motoclub Carlo Guzzi in Mandello and has a motorcycle store "Lario Store" with items commemorating the Centenary . . . . https://www.lariostore.it/

Thanks to Chuck for this link. Love this guy's work . . .

A couple more images from Anima Guzzista . . . The prototype monoposto tail section http://archivio.animaguzzista.com/maestri/marabese/images/coda3.jpg A cherished moment: http://archivio.animaguzzista.com/maestri/marabese/images/commenti.jpg

There is this concept @Cabernet brought up: "I always found that once I found an address by maps, I wouldn’t need the map again. Go by Sat-nav and I would need to use the Sat-nav next time too (just as I can never remember a route someone else has led) . . ." Along with: "They put on a very good tour, but they didn’t just tell the Sat-Nav the destination and follow it." Taking this a step further, I have been involved in some navigation-intensive riding with other riders depending on my effectiveness that I kinda missed out on some of the riding experience. With my current Garmin replacement (595LM), I'm trying to limit its prompts and alerts in order to better focus on the ride. After having the Zūmo in the Sport's cockpit for more than ten years, I leave it off now most of the time. With the Speedhut's reliability, I seem more connected with the Sport without the SatNav. Again, Cabernet, from the BeeLine thread: "Having ridden out from Manchester for closing on 20 years and establish multiple routes to any point on the compass, my routes tend to avoid towns have few road changes and be on B-roads. But after said 20 years of Sunday ride-outs, even this variety of destinations spanning from Builth Wells to Skegness to Kielder water gets repetitive. However I know there are a multitude of good minor roads to explore in between, they are just awkward to navigate between. Hence considering a dreaded Sat-Nav." So, I am anxious to keep learning what others do for navigation

Lucky Phil’s Shift Improvement along with the extended lever certainly help, but his advice to preload the shift lever and take the slack out of the clutch before making the shift is most important. I was doing this before, but after reading his Shift Improvement thread, I am surprised at how much preload the lever will take, especially downshifting. It was fun listening to the rider laughing maniacally in his helmet with the acceleration. Those look like great V11 roads!

I found the points you made about navigation, and Sat-Nav in particular, poignantly on the mark. I would like to quote some of your remarks in this thread to carry on the discussion in this more general "Navigation" thread. I did not want to lead your more specific BeeLine thread too far off topic.

Wow. That.

In 2007-08, the "revolutionary" Garmin zūmo 550 took up Navigational duties on my Sport and soldiered on until just last year . . . The tankbag window was relegated to Wiring Diagrams and Electrical Flow Charts. (While the BMW and KTM guys laughed it up in the background) . . .

Not sure it will actually sell for 14,000€ (17,000 US $ !) . . . ? So, would he make maybe $5,000 US over twenty years less whatever costs of storage, insurance, etc? Even without any costs factored in, that's well less than 2% interest compounded over those twenty years. Probably should have ridden it!

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I figured you for the guy that would go for lighter, smaller, faster . . . Bigger is better for those smoky parking lot burn-outs?

I suppose it is correct to store a bike with no spark plugs if it is to sit twenty years?

Was it hard to line up that bolt hole to get the fastener in? Some of us have had to resort to creative antics to get a tank back on a late model Guzzi . . .

Well, the tank is a "Nylon" (a polyamide derivative) and the starter cover is likely ABS (a styrene derivative). A "reinforced composite" (combination of bonding agent/epoxy with a substrate like glass fiber or metal particles) will work on either (with proper prep, as Chuck has said). In this case, I would be inclined to bond a reinforcement plate (maybe a shaped aluminum plate) to reinforce the rear mounting point for the tank. I would be concerned something broke that tank (impact) and carefully inspect the two front mounting points for stress or damage . . .

I saw those seal washers at Mcmaster-Carr, @Chuck, but they're not the same type with the rubber ring on the internal diameter. @footgoose, I wonder if the early Sports had the sealing washer and later V11 went to simple "crush" washer? (My 2000 Sport certainly has the sealing washer). . .

The Speedhut are awesome! Had them 20,000 miles, so a couple more years to see if they will outlast a Veglia (less than 30,000 each on those). Interestingly, the matter of Navigation has much to do with speed, distance, and time. The accuracy of the Veglia speedometer and odometer was always in question while the Speedhut is dead-on. I also "upgraded" my cockpit analog timepiece to an "expensive" $30 waterproof Timex. Very visible and reliable. (I looked at the Formotion products for years, but they are just too big for that space once in their mount).

A bonded seal washer doesn’t require the torque to “crush” a crush washer ( although it does take much), so will be easier on the sump threads over time. My Sport is still on its original seal washers.

I immediately went looking at McMaster-Carr for the "Dowty" (bonded seal) washer, but couldn't find it there . . .

Where is it cracked? Had there been an impact?