Lucky Phil

It's called style. Some have it, others don't. Ciao

We need an image. The only visible external issues are reduced steering lock in some cases and bubbling paintwork. Maybe this "crease" is a form of that bubbling in the paint. But like I said an image would be helpful. Ciao

I know what the response here is going to be but unless you can provide a back to back run dyno sheet on the gains from removing the airbox I'll say you are dreaming about any gains from that. As for the "earlier V11 ecu" there will not be any performance difference between a 15M and a 15RC ecu. Some here claim the later RC is actually better but I dont see how that's true either. One supports a Lambda sensor and one does not. The RC has the Lambda facility which is nothing to do with performance and can be disabled with a few clicks of the mouse in Guzzidiag. Ciao

Exactly. The result of your original pinging problem could also have been from carbon deposits on the head and piston before the new pistons. Ciao

Well if its about storage then the best thing you can do in these Ethanol days is to remove the tank and drain it completely for the storage period and leave it vented to remove the ethanol expansion issue and let it recover from any expansion that has occurred. Ciao

Why the need to use ethanol free? Tank expansion issues? Aviation fuel is a waste of money in a road engine esp a Guzzi engine, it can't use the higher Octane capability of 100LL. It's also less volatile and engines that are used in cooler/cold temperatures tend to have carburation issue using Avgas such as harder starting and dead spots in the fuelling. Back in the 90's Ducati superbikes saw no benefit using Avgas. The ECU is not calibrated for the lower volatility of Avgas so yes it wont run as well. It's not going to hurt it but the fuel and ignition mapping isn't optimised for Avgas and it's reduced volatility and the engine doesn't need the higher octane anyway. Ciao

Yep, comes from Dunston which is on the Tyne river and literally 2 kilometres from the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. Ciao

Do yourself a favour docc and grab the drink of your choice and spend 45 min. Enjoyable. Ciao

I'll raise you docc. One of my favourites for a few years Ciao

I normally only drink beer docc in the summer and quite often only buy any if we are having friends around or some sort of gathering. I then go and buy a slab because its cheaper and drink the left overs and not buy anymore. I generally buy Victoria Bitter which from memory is 5.5% alcohol. However I bought a 6 pack of Coopers "Ultra light" last year which is Under 0.5% and it very nice indeed. It's $7/ 6 pack and available at the local supermarket. That's around half the price of normal beer and it's drinking without guilt and without worrying about the booze bus. Very refreshing. I'm actually wanting to get pulled over so when the cop asks if i've been drinking and I reply yes and they then go on to ask how much I can say quite a lot actually. Of course my beer drinking friends and relatives give me shit about it but I dont care. Ciao

Here's what your sump return needs. One of these, https://picclick.co.uk/AN-6-AN6-JIC-Flare-MALE-FEMALE-SWIVEL-371566058971.html#&gid=1&pid=1 Plus an M16 to AN6 adaptor and a AN6 blanking plug. Of course you then need to make up a new drain hose with AN6 100 series hose 1 straight and 1 30deg AN6 fittings and a M16 banjo assembly. Making the hose is cheap and easy, probably around $100us and the sump fittings the same,easy to fit. You can then have easy oil drain via the blanking cap and nice looking blue and red anodised alloy AN fittings for everything. Here's mine The easiest way to achieve the "magnet" thing is to fit a Filtermag tn. to your now external filter. If you fit it at the 6 oclock position it also provides some rock protection to the filter from the front wheel. I have 2 of these fitted to the cars. https://4wdindustries.com.au/products/filter-mag-reusable-magnetic-oil-filtration-filter-life-extender-ss375 Ciao

Mechanical speedos generally have a damper pot filled with silicon oil. Sound like its leaked out. Ciao

You need one of these in 16mm. Easy to make. https://www.cmsnl.com/products/bolt-banjo-12mm_90008pd6010/#.X45BD9AzaUk Ciao

I think it's just an evolution of the design. You know they design it all tight and close fitting then realise the tolerances are too tight and modify later seats. Don't know, it's Italian could be anything behind it and logic would probably be a long way down the list. Anyway both versions fit my 2000 year model bike. I actually made a metal strap extension for my battery strap because the amount of tension on a brand new rubber battery stray is insane. I made it from the front battery tray mount so that the rubber strap with its tab now sat flat adjacent to the front edge of the battery. Look really neat and had just the right amount of tension, except the seat wouldn't fit now. The earlier seat base is a VERY tight fit around the battery and ECU. Ciao

Yes. However your post got me thinking. I have a spare seat I bought years ago and your post rang a bell, so I checked my spare seat and its different to my original Greenie seat. Your new seat is the earlier style of a short frame V11 (Greenie) etc. I tried the later seat on my bike and if anything it fits better than the original. Because I raised the rear of my tank when I fitted the Daytona engine I trimmed about 8mm off the front edge of the seat base so it fitted better and re stapled the cover. Surprisingly the later seat fits better without this base trimming. I think you'll find the new seat you have(earlier type with the cutout bulge) will be fowling on the battery strap. Remove the battery strap and see how it fits. All the mounts etc line up and it latches in place ok on my earlier subframe. I think the new one you have off the earlier bikes are just a little too tight around the battery and ecu. Ciao

If you read the book I've mentioned you will realise what a waste of mental effort the reasoning in this post is. As an example Richardson talks of industrial crates loads of many, many hundreds if not thousands of cast parts for bikes that never made production and were never going to. Thats right, never going too. If you think you can apply some sort of logical reasoning to how the Italians run their operations with all the intricacies of not only family connections, political connections, political back room subsidies and local politics and unions then you are misguided. It's a total waste of mental energy and the only way to even understand 20% of it is you need to have a long standing and close personal relationship within these organisations. Dont waste anymore time in thinking, just buy the book and learn a few of the machinations and then you will understand how pointless trying to apply any logic here really is. "Oh they did this so they obviously had a plan for that" Nope. Had no plan at all, period. They had their castings done locally and someone owed someone or the local government needed the casting plant to stay open because a federal subsidy to maintain local employment hinged on it, etc, etc ,etc. Pick any scenario you can think of and then see why from Australia trying to apply Anglo logic is laughable. I've known people dealing with the Italians in business for 40 years, none of it surprises me anymore. How would you like to open a container of parts you ordered from Italy, went over there and personally negotiated with them and when the container arrives 25% of the contents are stuff you didn't order and have no hope of selling. Real oddball stuff of limited if any value. How did this happen? well because when the order was fulfilled and the container loaded some of the things weren't available, no stock. So what do you do? Its all paid for? well you just supply whatever other stuff you have around at the time to the same or similar value in your eyes and send it off. There's some logic for you to apply at a corporate motorcycle industry scale. Ciao

If you want to know the whys and wherefores of the Aprilia/Piaggio influence on the history of Guzzi then get a copy of Dave Richardsons new book. Its an interesting tale of the influences there from someone that was pretty involved and connected to them. Ciao

It's the only chin spoiler I like on the V11. I've seen 1 other style and it looks horrid. I think the fasteners for the mesh on the Tenni spoil the clean look and are totally unnecessary from a securing point of view. Paint match here looks good although you can get away with quite a bit of difference in the shade with so much distance between the painted parts you cant really spot any slight variation in the shade. I think you can still order these from Ghezzi Brian. Ciao

Mine came painted and Yes I fitted the mesh. Dont know of anyone trying to offload one. Ciao

Plenty in my albums. Ciao

So would I and neither would I. Ciao

And plenty of other places as well Chuck. It's a sad indication of whats driving the market in a lot of areas these days. Lets just abandon all practical reasoning and/or engineering and an enhanced outcome in the pursuit of "Individuality" and the vain hope you will somehow stand above the masses propelled by the purchase of a fairly useless, impractical, motorcycle,car or whatever. A smart man once said "just because you can doesn't mean you should" Ciao

Hmmm, just remember who's siting in the white house a the moment. Ciao

Sorry but the additional information makes it an even more pointless exercise in my mind. You've actually just reinforced how ridiculous it really is. Offers a supercharger option! If ever there was proof needed of abject silliness there it is. Ciao

What makes you think we haven't? I even watched the "mood" touchy feely extended sponsored video/commercial. Ciao