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and the other thread Cookstown etc Anyone going? Haven't heard from Big J for a while ?? I hope to take some time out on Saturday daytime to get a look.

Check this thread in Member Intro: Roadholder http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?...topic=7740&st=0

You don't keep those in your fridge, do you!

er, not if you keep it in the fridge

Keep it in the fridge. Not too close to the kippers.

Now that this is finally settled, must be time to move onto in-depth rumination on brake fluids. Does it taste better from plastic bottles or from tins?

I don't think that mdude means he is running your C.U., Cliff, He's just referring to your comments about (standard?) ECUs. Seems to be running a MG Titanium 'race' kit ECU. With what? Stock 2001 set-up – air box / x-over / pipes, or with other mods?

pony peloso

Nice. I use some of those lads at home.

The Inspector tells Martin EXACTLY where he would like the traffic cones placed, in a generally vague sort of way. Martin considers where exactly he would like to place a cone.

Interesting. Do you happen to have any reference numbers for the parts that you got?

! Do you take me for a fool!

I didn't try adjusting anything, by the roadside. It all 'looked ok', i.e. nothing had come loose. (That's why I went for the bit that I couldn't see – an internal inspection of the selector mech including the spring.) I will go through all the adjustments though, when I get some time, as something must have gone off a bit. Ever since this incident, I have been wondering again about your comments – that the box shifts better on the race track. I was particularly thinking about it because the conditions that I was in when it wouldn't work were the direct opposite of racetrack conditions: very little cooling airflow, slow riding with gears chopping up and down in second and third for miles on end...

Martin Barrett's Rapid Response Traffic Cone Squad get their first call-out. Pity they forgot to wear their traffic cones. Better luck next time chaps.

Copycats! We were cosmic first. Need I remind you what it looks like when a gaggle of Tenni Guys get together---->?????

I sent them for cleaning.

Ahh. Yeah. I think I have a fair example!

At last year's Erin, I had an oily rear tyre – as the big bevel box seal burst on the way down and oil kept flinging out onto the tyre. This year, on the way home, the bike was unexpectedly stepping out of line when banked over (e.g. around roundabouts) and it would slide dramatically under heavy braking. When I got home after 300 miles, I saw why. This year's problem was self-generated. Due to the gear-change problem I filled the gearbox to a high level – without taking into consideration that I had fitted an extended breather pipe that leads up to the under-seat area. As it happened, the end of the tube terminated over the rear wheel area... ...so, oil was blowing out and ultimately emptying on to the rear tyre. The tyre did a nice job of flinging lubrication around. The upside is that the shock eye mount didn't suffer any rusting on the journey. Oil came from breather and down this way: Rear end nicely lubed

I used the bike seat as a side stand so that I could work at the transmission cover side. Golden-Pine-woodstain Bodge Point?

It's interesting to hear that. It's the same experience and the same conclusion. After this incident, I resolved to get this magical Redline Heavy as well. When I mentioned it at the Erin though, I was told that it is actually a very light oil (despite its name). ?

sorry, dbd, maybe the post was confusing: I wasn't asking the question, I was just answering it again, having done the work in a 'real-life' situation this time. I just resurrected this thread to say – 'here is the job done, actually by the roadside in real life, with whatever tools I carry on the bike'. It has been discussed before, and I had done the full job at home and posted the process with accompanying pictures – as if it was out at the roadside – but I thought it was interesting to comment on the situation that arose last weekend, and show a picture. The only difference is that I didn't need to replace the spring this time. That's the easy bit anyway. All the nuisance work is getting through the strip-down as far as taking the transmission cover off.

as discussed before – Yes it can be done roadside. Now I've done the dirty business for real though. It's just a pity that the spring turned out not to be broken! The first hundred miles of my journey to the Erin were successive road works and traffic jams. I've never seen the Belfast - Dublin roads so bad. There was much riding in second and third gear through packed traffic. Gear changes got harder, then coming away from first toll approaching Dublin, I couldn't get above second gear at all. Brainwashed by V.11Lemans.com, I naturally assumed the worst. Well, I couldn't quite believe that the spring had broken again, as I've been convinced that the original cause is fixed. However, couldn't see anything else wrong. The shift linkage looked ok. So I went for the internal inspection. The cover's bottom left allen screw, that is pig-difficult to access at the best of times, is now impossible to get at because the Quat-d box inlet pipe stub completely obscures the slight angle of approach past the bracing tube. So header pipe has to come off to allow the box & pipe to be prised down slightly. Access is just possible and I can't be bothered taking the whole Quat box off to make it easier. Anyhows: spring turns out to be fine. What could be balking the up-change? Has anyone found this change mech / gearbox to be sensitive to: oil level oil weight (can of worms) temperature (was getting very little cooling air flow) ? Having lost a few hours by the side of the motorway, I put it all back together and limped on from petrol station to petrol station, vainly looking for gearbox oil. As I couldn't see any other problem, I figured that maybe the oil level was a bit low and causing the problem. Eventually found a coach-hire garage that would dispense some of their gear-oil. Then I realised that there isn't an allen key in the Guzzi tool kit to fit the gearbox filler plug... To be continued elsewhere... But please, any similar experiences or theories on what is wrong? All settings and links look as good as they have been, but maybe it is, in fact, just a simple matter of the linkage adjustments needing to be reset for some reason????

Look so, Officer I'm telling you, there are rain clouds following our every move!

Disgusting ah, that's more like it MB can't wait to get home and tell the Chief Constable about his great idea for a Rapid Response Traffic Cone Unit. Did someone mention BFG's delay on the the way down?