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The Sport wind screens mount diffferently after some point. I think it's when the instruments changed in '03. the early screens were fork mounted and the later frame mounted.

Andy, How have your Delren (sp?) bushings for the rear torque arm worked out?

Alright, alright, if you guys are starting to share women, I'd like to offer my services . . . " How many Chiropractors does it take to service a woman? Just one, but she'll have come back nine times . . ."

I tried at the local supplier, but is "Sperm Whale Oil" the same thing as "Whale Sperm Oil?' As a rule I stay away from anything to do with sperm.

I'm not convinced the swing arms on spine frames are all so carefully centered. 'Pretty close' or whatever Italian is for that. I'm not saying this is causative for crashing, just an observation that it is one more item worth tuning carefully to acheive the highest possible stability.

I was watching One Man's Island, a film about Canadian Mark Gardiner riding the TT in 2002. During one shot of bikes staging out of the paddock a Tenni rolls by, the rider in Tricolore leathers! Good film with some great onboard footage made better by a glimpse of a beautiful Guzzi.

I do remember seeing her in The Hunger getting her kit off with Susan Sarandon. Talk about some nice front to rear bias!

No doubt the Red Frames were harder to set up than the typical Guzzi. Delivered very soft with those Pirelli Dragon tires made mine susceptible to high speed weave. Weave at speed is always made worse by increasing the steering damping. Such a sudden incident like Guido's picth-off doesn't lend itself to explanation by suspension set-up or frame geometry. Sounds more like the kind of thing that happens from sudden input as you would expect from a broken chain, motor seize or a side stand impact.

Me good woman, bless her heart and other parts, bought me a nice blend of Johnnie Walker Blue for my birthday. Nice since I was expecting a shop-vac and last year I got a broke leg from my dirt bike . . . She seemed to think it would last longer since it was pricey . . . I think I'll have another. Here's one to you good chaps.

heh, yes, taking the easy way out I pronounce my MATZA-rratti as "BAY-EMM-VAY."

Possible, perhaps, that the bolt loosened up and the constant fore and aft stress on the bolt finally broke it?

I have an old Veglia that got erratic at speed. It must still have its internals to push the odometer. I'll try to bring it up to you at Corse Motorsports in Nashville in the next week or so. Maybe you can salvage what you need from it. From the South'n Spine Raid experience I know you're not as interested in how fast you're going as how far you've been . . .

I've gotten vague on those metric hardness grades: 8.8, 10.9, . . . is it? I was thinking 8.8 is equivalent to grade 5, 10.9 is grade 8?

I'm hearing it's like 'Norway' with a hard 'G.' Piaggio ( PEE-ahzgh'-oh) is asking us to ixnay on rhyming Norge with 'George.'

Here is hoping, in the Spirit of Thanksgiving, that each of you go forth with dominion over the road and Highest Power, whatever you conceive of it, moves its hand ever ahead of you on your way.

. . . true, I do. I've edited that post. Thanks.

I'm thinking only the bar end might be different. The clip-ons were changed from the early'99-'01 Sport to the '02 LeMans. Do your clip-ons attach above or below the triple clamp? ( ealry bikes like the Sport attached below)

Funny about the sound. We had a half dozen Guzzis at the South'n Spine Raid last summer, all with different pipes. They all sound a little different. I like the sound of the cf cans. Deeper, maybe. Less 'ring' than the metal. Ovals, I think, sound better than rounds. But they all sound great. And it could have been the single malt listening . . .

Who is the Guzzi dealer in Germany that bought up all Piaggio's spares?

Sorry, I remember now . . . back in post #2 I thought your battery voltage seemed a bit low at 12.33. The ECU is pretty sensitive to voltage. Have you tried bringing the battery up to a full 12.7 and see if it will stay there?

What's your battery voltage? What kind of relays do you have in place?

Next year you need to come to the South'n Spine Raid. I'll bring some schematics and a really good single malt and we'll spill on them together. Well, we ride , too. And we're happy to dismantle bikes in the parking lot. Hoping all the time that part of the schematic is still readable. Just watch out for Bill and the Grappa. Gives me vertical nystagmus. Damn hard to read schematics then , I don't care how good they are.

Carl, Last time I printed one of your schematics it filled the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. I can't seem to manipulate this one to do that. Any advice? Hey, and thanks so much for this effort. I've spilled a lotof single malt on your drawing following little colored lines.

It says something about a guy when his stable's not complete without a green V11 Sport! What have you added since?

OK, I'm thinking that means 'no.' It's getting cold now and I know my system won't hold both the Gerbings jacket and gloves (99 watts). unless I can find a way to maintain that 10,000 rpm and get all 350 watts . . .