Chuck

Attaboy.. keep it up. Attitude *is* important. The genome project is still in it's infancy, but has great promise.

Sweet sounding things..

Sometimes, people ask me why I'm smiling all the time. Trust me. When you've had an extended chat with the Grim Reaper hanging in the straps while the cutter is doing his thing.. "Oh, wrong spelling of your name. Sorry,didn't mean to startle you. Have a nice day." My bad. " Trust me, every day *is* a gift.

Whew!Purdy.

I think I remember(roll eye) that the Ti ECU is just a little richer across the board.

It is a dying art, for sure. I apprenticed as a sheet metal diemaker, and can design and build tools to form sheet metal, but there is a lot of artistry involved in free forming sheet metal. Different skills entirely..

No need to thank me, Tim.. it's what I do. I was out for 3 weeks and didn't even get the old gas ran out of the MZ.

Uhh, it won't get any better in another 20 K miles or so.. Edit: Oh, Stoddard solvent is sort of a standard. Another really good grease cutter is that water soluble purple stuff at the local car place. Forgot the name, sue me. Just the same, you can see why you have to be *really* careful on the rear drives. There's not much volume there. Draining and measuring will generally overfill them if you are using Shockproof.

Looks like redline heavy to me. Wipe it out with paper towels, clean with solvent. No big deal. When I pulled the cover on the Mighty Scura, all the gears were liberally covered with shockproof light. That stuff doesn't go away..

So, if there's a minimum order, I'd imagine a group buy is in the cards.. the last time I hooked up guzzi diag, there was a stored injection relay fault. Let's cure this relay problem once and for all.

Yeah, going to the gym got me back on sport bikes. Basically needed to build core strength as Iaged. Building thigh strength helps, too. There's a reason for those knee indents in the tank.

Here's my experience with lubes on the splines. To make a long story short, I tore a strada down shortly after putting it back together chasing a mystery vibration. Now, every Guzzi I've had apart has had rusty splines, so on the advice of Wayne Orwig, I made up a slurry of chain lube and moly and applied it to the splines with an acid brush. Obviously, you don't want to put so much on there that it gets flung onto the clutch plates. After putting it back together, the mystery vibration was still there, so Itore it down again for a complete balance of the rotating assembly. Less than 1000 miles, and there was no sign whatsoever of the lube I'd put on. Need I say that I don't bother anymore? Now, about that clutch plate thing. Because of the uneven firing order (270/450) she soundsa good.. but when the springs are compressed the clutch plates and intermediate plate are free to rattle back and forth on the flywheel and transmission input splines. This will eventually wear grooves in both sets of splines. The first sign the rider sees is a clutch that suddenly engages.Once that happens, there's no option but to replace stuff. Those splines will last forever unless you hold the clutch lever in for extended periods. Oh, the mystery vibration? Sometime in it's life, it had been down on the right side and bent the crash bar enough to cause a sympathetic "singing" for want of a better description. D'oh!

Back when I was a young whippersnapper of 60 or so, I found that Glucosomine with MSM (MSM is used on race horse's knees).. Costco sells it.. helped my knees. I do it every day, and have for freakin ever. Works for me.

I'd say it could.. I've seen worse, but. I suppose I should say that everyone here knows to *never* sit at a stop light, etc with the lever pulled to the bars, right? I was riding with some SoCal guys that were maybe beemer converts that never dropped into neutral when coming to a stop. I tried to explain the clutch/intermediate splines rattling back and forth because of the uneven firing order and said don't do that. It met with glassy looks.

The Mighty Scura is livin easy, too..

Talked to the Kid last night, and we are a definite maybe.

If you squeeze the bottom coil a little with channel locks, it'll hold on to the stub in the recess of the spring well.

Apples and oranges, maybe.. but on the Aero engine, they mounted the sensor on the end of the pod.

Well, there's for damn sure no turbo on the exhaust.

Where's the turbo?

^^^^^ GuzziMoto pretty well covers my feelings, too. I liked the Mighty Scura so much when I had it in SoCal that I thought I'd get a Rosso or Nero for the midwest. After a long search, I found Rosie, and found that I actually preferred the minimalist fairing on the Scura. The Lemans fairing does a good job.. especially in rain compared to the Scura, but day in and day out I prefer the flyscreen. That's why they make all kinds, of course.

So sorry. Ican relate..

Yeah, That's Rosie. I rescued her from Alabama in fairly rough shape. She's a sweetheart.Strangely enough, Irode the Mighty Scura down to the Duck dealer in Indy this fall looking for an Ohlins part, and there was a Rosso sitting in the parking lot. It *wasn't* Rosie. (!) Someone in Indy had dropped it off for an oil change.. so there's another one around that we don't know about.

I'm pretty sure it would take a good woman to keep you in line, Pete.. :)

You have learned well, grasshopper..