belfastguzzi

tough guy, eh?

You may be stretching the biking connection to breaking point. Did she have a particular experience, , or affect the world of biking in any way or did she just happen to 'spring to mind' ?

oh... Don't think this is the cleverest way to approach the job. Not so easy to do and it would shorten the overall length of the spring too. If anything has to be altered, best to work on that boss.

You're 'right'. It should have had a question mark. " "

It better be stainless: I didn't pay £200 for a bit of bent drainpipe!

ok then might as well make this the thread for all the other Joans Here are only 3 of them: There is the admirable Joan Calder who has written a one-act play called The Motor Bike with a full cast: 2 actors consisting of 1 female and 1 male Synopsis:A large black tombstone dominates the set where Helen and her motorbike-crazy boyfriend Jim have come for a picnic. But Helen is enraged when Jim gives all his attention to motor bikes and none to her. Then there's Joan Claybrook Quote: "...when she was DOT head - she had, it was rumored, a project hoping to require seatbelts and pressure-sensitive seat switches on MOTORCYCLES. By god as a biker I was very worried about this. If you weren't on the seat and buckled in the motor would not start. Her idea was killed when CYCLE mag published a hilarious story about a guy who tried out one of these bikes. Seems he was riding down in New Mexico, on some desert and deserted highway, when he swerved to miss a dead dog in the road, and ran his bike down into a culvert and fell over. He was un-hurt, but the culvert sides were sandy and he couldn't ride the bike back up, and was threatened with being trapped in the desert in the middle of nowhere with no one in sight. After an hour or so of failures he realized he needed to run alongside the bike - if any of you ever did dirt biking you know this trick - guiding the bike up the hill by running along it. Of course the seat belt and seat switch, not to mention some experimental training wheels were an obstacle since he couldn't be both running beside the bike and sitting on it at the same time. Brainstorm. And there, in moments, was the dead dog, strapped onto the seat of the bike, providing both weight and an object to be sensed by the seat belt retractor. Unfortunately when the bike, ridden by the strapped-on dead dog, cleared the top of the culvert the biker slipped and fell, and the bike took off down the highway, teetering on its training wheels, and you know how long and straight are those New Mexico roads. The bike was last seen heading for Laredo and the biker was left hoofing it into town." hmmmmmmm......... and this, clearly, is Mark and Joan in the Badlands – Guzzi'Fatboy'Rider will be wanting to correspond with them.

Excellent. Both Armatrading and Collins sprang to mind...but I was too tired by that stage.

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that.

Exactly what Baldini says – the spring will sit loose, but when it operates, then the coil tightens and binds on the boss. You can work it by hand and see that. It may not look like a big deal, but clearly it is, as it's enough to stress the spring to the degree that it causes it to break. So file away until the spring doesn't bind – around 15mm. You gave the sizes of the spring coils: I can't remember what size the 'new' bigger coil spring is, bit it must be in the FAQ somewhere. If you have the big coil, you don't need to do any work, supposedly. It's still worth checking the operation and tailoring your set-up as needs be. But what do you mean by 'making the spring hole bigger'? If you mean the area where the spring-end hook sits. I made an indentation for it to sit in primarily to compensate for the shorter spring length, as I was using my broken spring that I had 'repaired'. Or do you mean something else?

just like your V.ll then

Don't know – I'll go and investigate

oh well, might as well get into the spirit of things and vote anyway. Law and order has gone to pot. No, not that pot.

You're a Moderator – you should be deleting this post, not adding to it!

Joan Jett "Come on, come on and take me home Please stay with me and don't you leave me alone You drive me wild Yeah yeah You know you do Uh huh You drive me wild You know I need you You're on my mind always my one desire Lets get together and build us a fire Make me tremble make me shakePleasin' each other rockin' till daybreak You drive me wild Yeah yeah You know you do Uh huh You drive me wild You know I need you" Saint Joan "Aide toy, Dieu te aidera" "Help yourself and God will help you" Joan Baez Well I'll be damned Here comes your ghost again... .....Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic... .... Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid Joan Miro or Joan Sims "Her talent was wonderful, she could do any accent, dialect, she could dance, sing, play dowdy and glam. "We laughed all the time and giggled a lot. I will sorely miss her."

this isn't going too well EDIT I could be wrong, but Jaap seems to have attempted to de-rail this thread by introducing a 'Joanie' who, without any evidence to the contrary, appears to have no connection to the world of motorcycles. (Of course, this thread started by accident – but that doesn't matter now. It's here. It needs respect. ) C'mon folks, remember this is a motorbike forum!

I put it down to character, though some might consider it a defect.

Invite JR around – have a party

You needed to be there

Never mind comparing the blessed springs. Make sure you've got the right size of pawl arm boss and a standard Guzzi spring or bigger boss and the revised big coil spring. Or fix the broken spring as a temp. measure. Get it on, get it together and get it in gear. B*ld*ni has already been insulted. Now you're starting on Martin Barrett and BigJ too. Trouble's brewing.

is that quantity, or height?

Yeah. B*ld*ni, Friday night, Erin Rally, June. – say no more.

What I can't believe, is that you guys don't lubricate your bit and pieces as a matter of course. Cor...Americans!

Unfortunately there's no dealer near me, but I was meant to be in Cambridge last weekend. If I'd known there was a chance to see the bike, it might have tipped the balance in favour of going. I'd love see it. (Downside would have been I'd have had to fix P.R.'s mum's shower's leak.) I'll be in London over 17-19 October. I doubt if there'll be time to get to Corsa Italiana. Anyone, who knows their way about the big smoke, know if there's a dealer that can be got to quickly from Camden?

hehee

Where? Have they arrived in Engerland? Black ones and Red ones?