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Yes, @Baldini, looks to be the rear bearing of the upper lay shaft. Both @guzzi323 and @Bjorn's gearbox failures look to have broken a piece off of the gearbox "back case cover" that houses that rather large rear bearing. Another place for a careful crack check, @cash1000 . . .

That very nice silver Sport did not meet reserve at $3,050US.

Yeah, I've told him we aren't really put together like a CubScout Den, all greased grooves and ticked boxes. We're more like spilled drinks looking for a mop . . . Bottle rockets out of a wide mouth Mason jar . . . Don't get me going about nailing cats to the wall or herding Jello.

As in, "Check, got my room" or . . . "check, no fishing."

Bryan just spent his winter time restoring the ponds at The Lodge at Tellico . . . Jus' sayin' . . .

Yes, @cash1000, please clarify which is that failed bearing ?

That all appears correct to me. Perhaps @pete roper just made a posting slip about the Coppa Italia and meant to say "Tenni" . . . Just going for clarification for those investigating the aluminum flywheel "single plate clutch" concerns by model. Also, very glad to see @cash1000's flywheel checked out. Thanks, @MartyNZ !

Can we get clarification that Coppa Italia have steel flywheels, with common twin plate clutches, and it is the 2001 Rosso Mandello and 2002 Scura and Tenni that have the aluminum flywheels mated to a single plate clutch?

Right? More of a dude magnet while his babe stands by thinking, "What is all the fuss over ?"

Got my room reservation back from Bryan today. The "Jotform" thing threw me off . . . No, you do not have to create a "Jotform" account to make a reservation. Bryan will confirm your reservation in a few days by email.

I wonder if "someone" can get Piaggio to declare what percentage/ number of the V11 in that Gearbox Recall they have recorded as performed . . .

Seriously, mySport has made me much more discomfortable than she looks . . .

I mean, "comfort" on a V11 Sport is all relative, right?

That (racy) silver Sport (by itself) looks really nice . . . https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/k8UAAOSwoLBjv4UQ/s-l1600.jpg

What are we looking at on the this LeMans?

Would that fit a V11? Or too many changes to expect simplicity?

Well, I still think we should loop out of The Lodge Saturday morning and take the bikes across the Cumberland River on the free ferry. Bring yer poles, but fish fast. The river is pretty narrow up there . . .

I really wasn't sure this whole fishing thing wasn't off topic from the start. But I forgot we are talking Kentucky. . .

Classic "fish story" . . .

I am curious . . . "Connected" riding it? Or even "connected" just being around it, talking about it? "Connected" working on it?

Correct, the steel flywheel of the twin plate clutch is a non-issue on all V11 models 1999-2005. It is the aluminum flywheel of the single plate clutches on the 2001 Rosso Mandello, and 2002 Scura and Tenni. The question remains unanswered if every one and all of these flywheels are suspect, or only a batch/production run of them. For instance, has a 2001 Rosso Mandello has ever suffered this failure? Or even a Tenni that we know of?

uhmm, well, yeah . . . right? [for the record: I have two bikes. One wife.]

Yep, and have a look at how that crankcase oil drain hose can push out on (crack/break) the starter cover. All of this has has to be finely groomed, much like a cello is tuned and intoned . . .

Besides the obvious premise of "let's ask the other inmates on the ward if we are really and actually crazy and just which, and how many, Moto Guzzi to buy" . . . . . . I resemble all of those remarks in that eloquent P.Roper post.

There! There on the distant horizon! Looks like the Nineteenth South'n SpineRaid coming into view . . . . . . Weekend after (US) Labor Day September 8-10, 2023 Tellico Plains, Tennessee > "Get there. Bring tools." < [ [ There is word, again this year, of other elements reserving rooms already for that weekend. So, heads-up, time to consider our plans and reach out, if you are so inclined] : https://www.lodgeattellico.com/page 8.htm