Lucky Phil

What voltage do you get with the throttle wide open and set at 133MV closed? Ciao

Is that $189usd for a PAIR? Gulp. Put 2 pair on a V11 Sport and you've got about 15% of the value of the bike right there. Ciao

Daytona 1988. Guzzi content at last. If you ever wondered what 5am practice was like at the TT, here you go. Lining up in the paddock for an early morning practice session. More work on the bike at the TT. Here the 750 engine is fitted for the Senior race and we have the cylinders off on the 600 engine. Got a fan club as well by the looks. Here's the bike after the Senior race. Axle the bikes owner in the brown top with the video camera. The guy in the blue sweater is John Williams who raced a GSXR750 proddy bike that year and in the yellow t-shirt is Richard Scott a Kiwi racer that came out to Australia in the early 80's and eventually went on to ride GP500's for Kenney Roberts the next year in 87. Needless to say he was a rather good rider. Here's an image of our rider Pete Muir on the right about go out for the Formula 2 race. The rider on the left is Steve Murray who I crewed for a couple of years before in 84. Steve had been racing at the IOM for years and was at this time 54 I believe and still doing 110 mph laps on a F2 bike. His son is in the background with his bike, a TZ250 Yamaha that used RD250 crankcases as was the requirement for F2 in that the engine needed to be derived from a road bike. A TZ250 with a kickstart shaft in reality. Terrific bloke Steve an ex coal miner before working in the motorcycle industry. He was describing working in a mine and told me "it was so dark you couldn't see your hand behind your back", still cracks me up . He even went to race in Daytona back in the early 750's if I remember correctly. Here one for you guys in the States, Fred Merkel, 1988 WSB Champion (the first year it was run from memory) at the WSB round 1989 Oran Park Australia. BP corner onto the straight. Scott Doohan, Micks brother. Same corner, same year, same(ish) bike. Ciao

True Tom. I'll dig out some more images if they look interesting. Ciao

I got my scanner working today and decided to scan some old racing images. Here's yours truly in the grey top and jeans at the 86 IOM TT during one of the pit stops in the Senior race Marco "Lucky" Lucchinelli in the pits at the Aussie round of the WSB 1989. He was team manager that year. The rider that same year was Raymond Roche

Maybe he's got a wooden right leg? It looks like the wear pattern that some guys have at track days. The guys that are WOT down the straight and get in your way in the corners. So they coast through the corners and when its about 10 deg off fully upright they go wide open throttle and blast past you on their R1 or whatever just in time to get on the brakes so early for the next corner you have to be careful you don't run into the back of them. Thats how their tyres wear, just off the crown and next to no wear on the edges. Ciao

Doesn't appear to be the case docc:) Interestingly most of the worlds race tracks are clockwise. Years ago Rob Mcelnea Gp and WSB rider came here for the Swan series in our summer. He went to Oran Park in Sydney where the first round was on an open practice day during the week. Nobody was around so he started doing some laps to familiarise himseld with the track. He was doing OK until someone arrived and pointed out to him that the track was actually run anti clockwise not the usual clockwise he just assumed. He said he thought it seemed a little dangerous,lol. BTW it was pretty dangerous by modern standards even racing in the correct direction. Ciao

I suspect it's psychologically determined. Most of the worlds population is right handed, often described as the dominant side. During a left had turn in a aircraft, or bike that puts the right side higher than the left, Right in the dominant position. In a car being right handed I feel more comfortable in right hand corners than left but on the bike or aeroplane its the opposite. Once again in a car in a r/h corner the left side squats and the right side rises to the dominant position. Just a theory. Ciao

Have you done a track day on this bike? Ciao

On a V11? Ciao

The WW2 bomber engine look? Ciao

Yes but the outer sections are very thin and to get enough torque to stretch a steel 6mm screw so it doesn't loosen will probably be too much for them after a while esp if the faces aren't dead square. Aluminium screws are also good for this stuff as they are a bit elastic for their dia but strong enough for unloaded covers. Ciao