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I have just brought home a pair of vises from Dr. John Wittner's estate. R.I.P., our good man. Your legacy is in good hands here. Now, I am trying to figure out what I have, here. And the matter of vises, overall. The larger one (28 pounds!) is called a "utility vise" and has a substantial anvil section and "exposed screw." A Columbian C44, Cleveland, Ohio, that looks like it lived on the back bumper of the Wittner race van. (I wish!) The Craftsman is a more typical "workshop" vise with 3 5/8" jaws and "just" 16 pounds. Yes, the "shipping and handling" of the pieces (49 pounds) from Pennsylvania here to Tennessee was *substantial* !!

We could go live with this! SSR XX is just not that far from Marietta, Georgia, @emry ! Y'all come, now! Ya hear?

@Josh told me about the rebate. I never knew about that before. Coincidentally, the rebate was exactly my winning bid on the pair of bench vises from the Dr. John Wittner estate auction. Money well exchanged!

Good question @Speedfrog! I prefer the GT for the bit of extra mileage I get and especially how much wear is left once the tire first looks like it will need changed. This attribute is one reason I particularly like the Bridgestone over all the Pirelli. Seems at he point the Pirelli first looked impending, I had better get straight home! The Pirelli all seemed to go away quickly at the end. This current set to be mounted are "standard" as the front was not available to me in GT at the time of purchase. I also learned the GT is not made in the 160/60x17 that I prefer on my short RedFrame. This will be my sixth set of Bridgestone Battlax T3x on my Sport

Bridgestone T32

A "cut&paste" from 2022, with the dates changed to protect the innocent. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Let's get some housekeeping out of the way so we can have some fun . . . Weekend after US Labor Day (Sept. 6-8, 2024) Tellico Plains ,TN, USA > Get There. Bring Tools. < While many SpineRiders stay at The Lodge at Tellico, there are other places to stay or camp. It is far better to perform TechSessions in the garage at The Lodge rather than a pull-off on the Cherohala or some remote motorcycle shop down in Georgia. Prep well. "Bring Tools" . . . There is the whole "non-event", and "this ain't the rally you thought you were getting a T-shirt for" thing . . . "It's just an idea" To wit: This is not a rally, event, or function of V11LeMans.com. It is an idea about riding, or meeting interested people. It is an idea only. There is no plan, no registration, no stickers, T-shirts, merchandise, door prizes, meals, poker runs, routes, organization, or support. Just discussion and sharing. There is no affiliation or responsibility, expressed or implied, with or by V11Lemans.com, its owner(s), Administrators, moderators, members, pets, pocket mice, or any other entity. If being at The US Appalachian Divide in September feels like a good idea to you, look forward to sharing ideas. The idea of ideas has been around for a while. I do love George Bernard Shaw's take: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

Indeed, so!

To become the next V11 in the Steve S line? Would that be number twelve?

Here is one about weight distribution: And what it could take to get from 43% to 48% on the front:

When my won items arrive, I will start a new thread about them. And: no, I did not win the bid on either of those motorcycles. Oooh, but who did . . . .

Yeah, I don't want to be "that guy" (again). New tires are on deck.

A sure sign of an impending SpineRaid: the Stucchi flyscreen gets mounted to the Sport to shield the Speedhut gauges. Call that done. Shakedown ride with my trusted Cohorters and Hobknobbers next Saturday ("BikeWash") before a fresh front tire. And to ponder whether to risk the rear . . . Flaunting Waddington.

Proof positive that if you cannot fit a round peg into a square hole, Moto Guzzi may not be for you . . . Nicely done, @DucatiGuzziIndian! Thanks for sharing all the details!

As others have pointed out, the ride height does not so much change the actual weight on the front (typically around 43-45% with the rider on a Spineframe), yet significantly affects handling geometry. No doubt, the spring selection is fundamental to making all the other parameters work well together. A link to similar discussion and the post referencing my 5.5mm longer Öhlins:

Including throttle body balance at "some rpm?" I also have learned (the hard way) that the TPS baseline can be painfully elusive. Worth repeating with absolute certainty the throttle pate is "completely closed." Cleaning and treating (Caid DeOxit®) the sensor connectors can be helpful while assessing the values of various sensors on GuzziDiag from cold start to operating temperature could reveal a failed sensor.

Perhaps you will enjoy this direct link to Cycle Garden's "Big Bore Kits" even more . . . http://www.cyclegarden.com/big_bore_kits.php

While "this logic makes sense", trying to index the throttle opening to a random point on the mapping, simply to add more fuel, leads to other undesirable issues. Most proven method is to baseline the critical parameters at the outset:

Told y'all I get the blues . . .

Just conjecture on the Moto Guzzi process, but the early V11 suffer from relay failure in position one. Perhaps this led to change the electrical demand for starting through the ignition switch. The very first action under warranty by my dealer was supplying a larger Start Relay.

I would add a clarification regarding the V11 that this assessment is true for V11 beginning with the LongFrame, 2002 (and late 2001 in Europe), while the ShortFrame starts through the first relay and benefits from a good quality, high current relay like the Pickers Components listed in the "answer" to the Best Relay thread.

"Just for show." I dated a girl in college like that. Jus' sayin' . . .

Turning the steering to exact starting is an issue with the clutch switch connectors. They are a bit fussy to get to on the fully faired V11, but can be seen to . . . These are the "bullet connectors" from the clutch switch on the left side of the spine frame beneath the fuel tank:

Calling @Kiwi_Roy . . .