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"Gravelly" is a good word for the 2002 black paint! Seems it would be hard to just touch up those areas without finishing the whole cases. I hear (from Scud and @footgoose) what a big job that is.

Cool, hart smith! Here is a link to your website (yes?): https://www.euromotards.com/ Anything for our soon-to-be-vintage V11 Guzzis?

I recall, when so many hands pitched in to make a new valve cover gasket for Goofman's 1200Sport at a SpineRaid, the impressive amount of oil that came gushing from an unsealed valve cover . . . (Don't forget this requires copious amounts of "gasket-making fluids" in bottle or can! )

So, a chunk of filter material swept downstream and chocked the throttle plate open?

I gave up on S-100 after it did bad things to various finishes and fasteners on the Sport. Following Chuck's inimitable lead, I am now a devotee of SuperClean.

So, the "V11 Sport" was produced throughout the model range as a naked bike (no fairing or fly-screen), "standard" (Marzocchi/Sachs) suspension, clip-ons, and fork mounted headlamp/instruments. The V11 Café Sport had Öhlins, a flyscreen, handlebars, and frame mounted headlamp/instruments (like the Ballabio) . This bike is rather a mix of features. There are, notably, no tail cowl graphics to help identification. It is, however, a nice example of both the bike and a legit ad. Tasteful mix of carbon fiber parts and meticulous presentation of images with appropriate asking price. I would love a broader view of what is wearing the white walls!

Actually, as asking prices go these days, $1200US is more like 1/4 to 1/3. Just suspicious. Maybe it won't shift out of first and the starter won't engage. Throw the guy a grand and fix the clutch connectors and put in a Chuck-designed Scud Spring . . . .

Welldone, man! Everything you are doing is going to help and be additive. I learned from gstallons that the "copper antisieze" I was so dedicated to is an insulator. Caig DeOxit is the bomb!

Nicely done, KINDOY! Instead of just pushing the bracket to the inside, consider loosening all of the exhaust connections and mounts, then "grooming" the system to de-stress the components, tightening in steps in a "star" pattern from the heads back ensuring all of the joints are tight together. On one occasion after this method, I lost a rather small exhaust leak and was surprised how much running and idle smoothed out.

Not sure what the added "1" designation is. I do not see it in the product description sheet from OMRON ("R" is surge suppression /built in resistor): https://omronfs.omron.com/en_US/ecb/products/pdf/en-g8he.pdf Indeed, the #1 Relay is the only 5-pin, but they (5-pin/"C" pattern) can be installed in every position, and therefor moved about freely as necessary. $10.80 each? Yikes! Why not just get them for $3.91 each from onlinecomponents, fill every slot and have an extra set?

Yet, I never really thought about short tanks on the first long frames of 2002. This must be true of Scura and Tenni, as well.

FWIW, this link to onlinecomponents still shows the OMRON G8HE High Current relay in stock. Minimum order is ten, but that is one for every position and a set of extras (for your buds who didn't get the memo ): https://www.onlinecomponents.com/omron-electronics/g8he1c7trdc12-42670683.html Be sure to score a can of Caig DeOxit to spritz all your V11 contacts. She will love you back!

A cream puff! A Decent Tune-up will likely work some wonders even without connecting guzzidiag. If you have a voltmeter to baseline the TPS and a way to balance the throttle bodies, these are critical steps along with a fresh valve adjustment. It gets my attention about the tachometer behavior, though. That is classic for a faulty #2 Relay. Swap in the #3 (middle) Relay. That is for the neutral switch and is lightly stressed. Best case is to source true High Current Relays, but they are hard to come by I hear.

How many miles on Sugar Plum?

I kinda doubt that bike exists for sale. The kind of ad that smacks of fraud. I could be wrong. Lots of other reasons why it’s half price....

Bad running + erratic tachometer often implicates Relay #2 (from the front), or it’s contacts. Early V11 also rely on the weak NC contacts of Relay #1. Sometimes, if swapping #3 and 4 for #1 and 2 improves the issues, failed relays are revealed.

Sketchy. Web search the email address for fraud reports.

It is the major difference between the Tonti frame and the Spine Frame that would be the biggest difference .

Good point, po18guy makes, that the early steel buckets like mine and KINDOY/Scud's Greenie differ from the later plastic buckets. "V11 Sport" throughout the years used the fork mounted steel Bosch unit.

After other attempts at brighter headlamp (and tail/turn), I've had good results with this VintageCars unit. This post also takes you to thread with other options, including links and experiences with tail and turn signal LED:

Yeah, if you want to download the map, Reader is used (guzzidiag, itself, will not do that). True what you say about fussy connectivity and that Com Port selection is sometimes an issue (but not on every OS). Also, affirmative that downloading the FTDI Driver for either Windows or MacOS X is necessary after downloading guzzidiag. Step 2 in the "Basic Tutorial":

I see the (fuel) pump is new? Perhaps a check that it's electrical connections (as you have planned to check) and inlet fuel hose have not loosened?

I've never used the reader (or writer), but have connected guzzidiag to several V11 and one 1200Sport. My experience has been that guzzidiag opens without having to go to individual files or packets. It is the sequence of plugging up, opening guzzidiag, and switching the bike on that seems to make a difference whether it will connect. There is the matter of selecting the com port from the drop down menu and selecting your V11 model, as well.

guzzidiag works on my MacBookPro OS 10.13.6. I am uncertain what Windows versions it may or may not work on. I never liked the backprobing, either. So glad when the breakout harness became available from Casper's! My understanding, from the guys in-the-know, is that the throttle "Degrees Open" shown on guzzidiag is not accurate enough to set the TPS.

How many miles on the LeMans, Tom?