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You can measure chain scatter with a timing light. Here is a longish thread from when I replaced mine: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11660 Down at post #50 is my notes from the job

Sorry Dimitris, I read too fast and thought you said workshop manual. I haven't been able to find an english list but what is important to me is the part numbers and diagrams so IMO the french one is better than the crappy paper copy I have in German. I do read German but the pictures are so bad. There is also an online version at Stein-Dinse. You can choose English language but some text will still be in German. Also, not all parts are listed: http://www.stein-dinse.com/eliste/index.php This one in UK is very good but with the awful disadvantage that they don't use Guzzi part numbers: http://www.oemmotorparts.com/oem4.asp?M=Mo...mp;L=MG-SPORT_2 I actually thought of combining those manually and produce a decent english one in pdf format. Something for a rainy day.

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The above is very true. As I run MyECU in closed loop, and after tweaking the AFR targets and breakpoints a lot, my bike runs clean from below 2000 rpm and up at any throttle. Still, whenever my tacho shows less than 4000 rpm I shift down. That is the "Hard Deck" for this bike. So I often cruise in fourth gear on smaller roads. And it actually produces significantly better mileage, a bit counter intuitive but I guess it just breathes so much better and the efficiency increases a lot. A spin-off is that I don't need to worry about the fifth gear grenade, as long as I go slower than 120 km/h For that matter, while it should run clean at 4000 rpm, you can really feel the engine is in total harmony above 5000 rpm! The Guzzi 1100's really sing once you get there.

You need viagla!

I have really no idea. Miss Universe?

That was a "member" that posted several threads about fake Adidas shoes and stuff, at the time Antonio wrote it. It actually crossed my mind at the time that someone could misinterpret Antonio's post as a strange personal attack after the spam was deleted

The Sporti had a 4.50x17 rear rim and came with a 160/70 tyre (Daytona had the same rim but 160/60 tyre). Early V11's also had 4.50x17 rear but came with a 170/60. I'm not sure if this rim is identical with the Sporti one but I suspect it is. Later V11's (or just some of them?) have the 5.50x17 and this one is interchangable with the narrower one on V11's, but it wont fit the Sporti because of the clearance issues you experience.

No way, it looks too good!

But it isn't! Just click the British flag and you're set.

Yes, most V11's has pretty much the same clutch as any big block Guzzi has had since early 70's or even late 60's. Except it's hydraulic instead of cabled. The single plate (RAM) clutch is available to any model as aftermarket and AFAIK it doesn't have the grenading problem that some of the Scuras had. There are quite a few variations of the V11 but little differences between them. As someone said, any V11 model could be regarded a Limited Edition

Holy cow, what is that?

I think that was Scura specific, it has a single plate clutch.

I do it the same way, works for me! Pay with paypal, then in the end I can chose credit card.

Yep, I just got this from my local club: http://www.petitiononline.com/PiagGuzz/petition.html

This question was answered on WildGuzzi by Paul and others. I'll repeat here for reference:

These things sometimes make less difference than you expect. And sometimes more. Let's hope it's more this time!

We have an ECU thread here: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13803 I bought it mostly because I'm a tech geek so MyECU is much more fun than a PCIII. I also think it's a cleaner and better solution. The downside is your average tuning centers and service shops won't recognise the MyECU. I run closed loop and do everything myself so I don't really care. "The world is my dyno"... I think you should try to sort your bike first. I'm pretty sure it can be made to run pretty well without spending more money.

Thanks! The screen is an aftermarket one made by Sagem. It was there when I bought the bike. I guess they aren't made anymore. But the OEM screen comes in two heights, the higher is very similar to mine but not smoked. My Mistrals came with the bike too, I think they are butt ugly but currently I use them anyway. Carbon cans look better. Your headlight is the US version, most other regions has the smaller one. My bike is very sensitive to too tight valve clearance. It may be partly because the heads are due for overhaul. If I set 0.10/0.15 mm valve lash, I get very unreliable idle and stumbles at 3-4000 rpm. I use the Raceco spec 0.20/0.25 as there is no downside except for a little more valve train noise. But that is the Guzzi noise! Using that I have rock steady idle and virtually no stumbles. A freight train it is! You could also try adjusting the CO potentiometer inside the ECU a little anti-clockwise for richer mixture. That could help both idle and the 3-4000 rpm too. See the workshop handbook, you can download it from my pages.

You can earn them after playing McGyver repairing your Guzzi with whatever you've got at hand. The white-red thing in my signature is one. I refuse to remember why I got it

My bets are on too small valve clearance.

Ouch. That is really good to know. I missed your edit until now. The one and only thing I'm not completely happy with is how Cliff handles bugs and software upgrades. It seems he will never distribute a new software version, or even tell about it, unless you ask for it or have a specific problem. This is his decision, and I'm glad he does give me newer versions for free when I ask, but I wish there was some "customer login" on his web where we could find notes about software changes as well as the actual files. Anyway this is one of the reasons I wanted this thread. Now we at least have a common point to share experiences like this.

I think so too

I also think mine is rock solid as long as I don't try to move the lot I have a really cheap generic swingarm stand too. The factory stand is way more stable than that.

I agree, route them above the inlet tubes. But to each his own of course. Anyway it's wonderful and very inspiring. My personal dream is to mate my Sporti engine with a Convert gearbox and frame and make it a wierd hot rod café racer