al_roethlisberger

It's been what... 15-16 years since I broke and replaced mine with a factory replacement (to be replaced with the new one soon) but as I recall you are correct. I don't think it will go back together unless it all lines up, so it kinda is fool proof

Happy birthday!

Yeah, mine are up in the fairing on either side of the tank, and as I recall are mostly horizontal. They are attached to the rear fairing bolt & bracket, but they pivot and wobble too much for my liking since it is a single bolt. It's on my list one day to find a better way to mount them, but the location seems good. They are generally out of the weather.

All very interesting... and funny how just a few "little things" can often make such a big difference.

I'll see, but I have no idea where they are packed away at the moment... If I even have them. That being said, a bunch of folks here have installed them over the years, so they may have photos. But honestly it would be tough (impossible?) I think to reverse engineer them from photos without technical drawings and specs. Plus that isn't really fair to John and his intellectual property and the effort he's put into designing them. I'd really recommend your dropping a note to John or call him, since his contact info in the first post. You never know, he may have a set still hanging around or as you say give you a one-time use of the specs to have a machine shop make a set for you

That's what I was thinking. Thanks

OK, so don't laugh... but with being stuck working from home for months, I've also had more spare time to go through my junk and have found all sorts of things I've forgotten about, and apparently one of those is a "VDST Standard" kit that I bought years ago before everyone really figured out GuzziDiag, etc. From the invoice, it looks like I bought it from Todd Eagan way back in 2008, and in 2015 he told me that TechnoResearch had already gone through two rebrandings since then. So the question is in the context of Guzzidiag; it is even worth keeping and trying to mess with VDST anymore or should I just make it available to someone with a Ducati, etc? Any thoughts by those that may have used VDST on if it has any advantages over GuzziDiag? I'd rather not put effort into mastering both if GuzziDiag gets you there. Thanks

Here's some info on the Phillips bulb: https://www.philips.co.in/c-p/12953BWX2/x-tremeultinon-led-headlight-bulb#see-all-benefits It doesn't seem to mention the actual wattage though, whether less than the halogen or not. I've tried to steer clear of the no-name LED bulbs of various application as they just don't seem to hold up or perform well, and it's taken years for Sylvania and Philips to start making LEDs for many of the automobile, etc applications. But they've started to do more in recent years, so I may have to check them out. It would be great to have a cheaper bulb solution than an entire light assembly swap, especially if the bulb is just about as good. Here's one review I found, and one might wonder if the heat sink would fit in the LeMans bucket.

I think there is still going to be a lot of air gulped into that central opening, and one can glimpse the exhaust port & header through that opening. But who knows, only the owner that rides with it will know if it overheats or not... As usual, I'm in the style minority, but I like that ...everyone else seems to hate the XJ40 Jaguar too, but that's why they are cheap is why I have a 94 XJ12

Yeah, I'm almost certain I have a set of the Motratech foot controls in a box somewhere... always intending to put them on and give them a try, but never did get around to it yet. If I do have them, it's on my list of to-do as the old Buell drop peg experiment never really worked for me as it caused me to be too pigeon toed even when extending the shift and brake pegs.

Possibly... one could drop him an email I suppose and see what happened to the business or specifically the foot control portion. I certainly can't speak for him, but if no one picked up the entire business, he may be interested in doing something with the foot control licensing & plans on their own. He was very active and helpful here for a long while, but hasn't logged in since March 2019. So along with retiring from the MC accessory business, it looks like he may not be that active with motorcycling and the V11 community at all anymore either? I too take long breaks over the last years, and it seems that every time I pop back in after a year or three break that several of the top contributors and old-timers have moved on and themselves not logged in for a year+ It seems like an ever shrinking audience, but then again these bikes are now at their youngest 15 year old models, and at their oldest over 20 years. Hard to believe that much time has passed so quickly. For nostalgia, here is a snapshot of what the old Motratech webpage for the MGC-SB10 controls used to look like, with a little info about them:

Yeah, and the shape of the V11 Sport tank's hard slab sides tend to dig into the inside my knees over time and hurt, so something soft might be really comfortable. I'll probably look into these too.

Not a lot of information in the CT ad, but from the photo is appears to have about 21k miles on the clock. Based on the various fading and corrosion one can see, it looks like it has been put away wet ... or maybe just lovingly ridden in all weather It's only 60 miles from me, so tempting, but I don't need another project.

Well, like many things I'm sure this will fall into the "love it" and "hate it" camps of aesthetic taste .... but I love it. It looks very Mad Max. Is that available off the shelf from somewhere? I don't have a naked V11, nor a Magni fairing, so not applicable to me. But I'd consider it if I did just because it is so odd

I bought the HD black textured paint as well, but also haven't given it a try yet. It is supposed to be the same texture used on all HD engines for the last decade or so to present, and looking at the current HD bikes at the dealership the other day... the texture looks very similar to the "fuzzy" MG paint. The HD part number that I bought is 98606BF "Texture Black" Again, I haven't tested it yet.

Ha, well I dunno... I kinda like it Great and immensely helpful thread BTW. I've had my eye on a CalVin for a few years. Still not sure I'll pursue one, but they are a neat bike.

Those look especially good coordinated on the earlier chin pad tanks. I don't need a lot of extra tank "grip", but one oddity with the V11 Sport/LeMans tank and my physique is that the flare of the tank on it's slab sides tends to put a lot of painful pressure on the bony prominence inside of my knees which hurts after a while. So I may have to look into these.

I assume that the stainless exhaust have been polished versus chromed? ...if so that must have taken a lot of elbow grease

Glad you found it. I had that once, just a few weeks into ownership... stopped at an intersection, oil leaking out pretty significantly., and was the infamous timing chain cover gasket leak that a number of the 2002 bikes suffered from.

Welcome, and it looks like you might be in my neck of the woods. I'm in Sanford, NC. Not a lot of V11s around these parts as far as I know.

I relocated the horns in there, using big FIAMM blasters. The cars hear those.

Welcome back I too saw my first V11 Sport, in green, on the cover of a magazine in the late 90s when it was first announced... and thought it was such an attractive and unusual bike, which is what often attracts me to things others aren't. It stuck with me, and some years later I saw a green V11 Sport parked up at Alice's in the Santa Cruz mountains, and it was even more interesting in person and thought I just had to have one someday. A couple years later I was looking for a bike to replace my 1989 FJ1200, and although still remembered and liked the V11 Sport, I wanted a fairing for long tours and thought the V11 Sport just wasn't going to work out. But that was when MG released the V11 LeMans. I went to Moto Italiano in SF, test rode the bike a couple times.... and bought it

I'm sure I have a thread on here somewhere about the external pump and internal pump tank capacity and dimensional differences when I was chasing the vapor lock issues and finally just went out and bought a used 2003 internal pump tank and retrofitted it to my 2002. Although I obviously had to modify the fuel lines and electrical connections, which was trivial, the tank itself dropped right on with no modifications. So although I doubt the 2003+ tanks will fit a short frame bike, the 2003 tank will fit a long frame 2002 bike with no problem. What I also noted back then, even before the swap, was that the 2002 tank looked a bit too short at the nose on the bike to me, especially when looking at earlier bikes. This turned out to be because the long frame extension apparently was done at the head tube, and created a larger gap between the nose of the tank and head tube than was present on the short frame bikes. When I installed the longer 2003 tank, that unsightly gap between the nose of the 2002 tank and head tube closed up and looked better, more like the short frame bikes.

.... The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I'll be looking into K&N''s sister product, AEM dry flow "oil-less" washable filters to replace the foam filters on the velocity stacks. I used to have the big K&Ns like you ordered, which I liked a lot, but they won't fit with the velocity stacks fitted. K&N acquired AEM some years ago, but they don't seem to get quite the interest in the hot rod world, but are well regarded. I have a big cone AEM on the XJR now.