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I shouldn't think so, BJ. You're ever the optomist.

Er, that's not a bug, Rob. That's an eagle. Moto Guzzi paint it on their stuff.

Seems to be the case. Didn't I say, a month or two ago, that they would probably start appearing in Merikay shortly? You guys should have placed your orders then. My next prediction is that I will DEfINITelY have my Ti exhaust on and everything back together by...Christmas, possibly.

No you don't have to wait. The broken spring can be re-bent. It will be a bit shorter but still works fine and will fit even better if you slightly re-shape the plate that it hooks over. This will keep you going until you get home or get new parts from somewhere on your travels. File the pawl arm boss down to 15mm diameter while you are at it. You may find that yours is over 16mm wide and so the spring coil tightens onto it. It needs to remain free as the spring is tensioned. The hardest bit of the whole job is getting at the bottom allen bolts to take the cover off. Otherwise you only need basic tools: you can even save the gearbox oil by tilting the bike over when working at it. See other threads with pictures.

As you are 2002 – YES, this seems to be the big year for wrong-sized parts. Take the cover off and measure the pawl boss diameter and the spring coil. It makes sense to prevent the breakage happenning by doing your own fix or getting the replacement parts, if you find mis-matched sizes.

Hey HJ, are you sure that you read my answer properly? Maybe you didn't see the bit at the bottom?

"That didn't last very long. Guess I'll have to be more creative next time. Good call..." snort!

We all know that there is NOTHING new under the sun, so following on from ChopperJim's technically 'advanced' cycle – what is this FRONT WHEEL DRIVE oldie that also had the engine inside the wheel? Its design is also "aerodynamic" and "rational"

In that case: it is the 'Autonomous Motor Unit'. OZ is the company working on this. It was shown at the Geneva Motor Show. The AMU's mechanicals are sited in the rear wheel. The idea seems to be to create more space in the vehicle by putting the engine inside a monster wheel! This stuff is invented for Sbarro by the O·Z design staff. Sbarro and O·Z are proposing three prototypes on three different road configurations (super sports, motorcycle and three-wheeled vehicle). "The motor, a 160 CV four-cylinder motorcycle engine with five valves, water radiator, two fans, the four-in-one exhaust tube, gas tank, suspension with an excursion of 12 cm, is contained in a single wheel. We can envision weights and performance: the prototype doesn't weigh over 200 kg, I think, and on the road, it can travel at the speed of the motorcycle from which the engine comes." Adriano Gasparin, chief of the O·Z Styling Centre, illustrates the Italian share of the project: "a 23" flange, mounted on a 720 mm disk, to reach a diameter of 28", as requested by Sbarro, makes up the technological framework of the wheel, with a special tyre produced by Rupp in collaboration with Michelin, to cover the width of the motor and its components. This is an interesting take on the Citroen Berlingo, which is already a handy wee van:

Is there a picture of these?

ointment?

That looks like the hanger supplied with the kit. It's an old part with an adapter bracket supplied, so it's not an ideal fit. I have lowered my can position, for now anyway. Here is the standard hanger set over the top. If I had a spare pair I would cut the bottom off above the footbeg bracket and this would then be almost perfect for where my cans are at the moment. Has anyone got a spare pair of standard hangers that they don't want?

Thanks BJ, Al. This is what comes of taking a day's holiday! The problem that you're refering to isn't a problem. The joints are shorter than the standard pipes, but that's ok, they tighten up fine. The problem is: I saw that the 'stop' on the x-over outlet pipe was twice as far down the pipe as the length of the connector pipe overlap. ok, here we go At the top is the x-over outlet and the stop ring. At the bottom is the Guzzi Ti Kit s.s. connector pipe – as you can see, it will only fit on to half the length. The length of the outlet pipe also makes the bottom of the silencer stick out and then the line of the silencer pulls back in at the end of the bike. So I put both things together and thought that the x-over pipe was too long. Cutting its length by half so that the connector pipe fitted up to the stop seemed to make sense. Too late, I realised that the extra length was to allow for the width of the swing-arm on the right side. It's a pity that Guzzi didn't take the opportunity, when producing it's own aftermarket pipes, to make different shapes/lengths of connectors to suit either side. Instead we are left with a lop-sided fitment. I think I'll push the swing-arm can out more by extending out the hanger. That might be the best solution, still keeping the overall look a bit neater thanks to the shorter cut pipes. (It's a pity that the hangers are such a dog's dinner too...)

Ha, they certainly spread here, as we're reminded every 12th July!

Yes, there's an indentation and a bend. They only go on half the distance of the standard pipes.

You're quite right. I was working on the left, brake, side where there is more clearance. Now that I'm on the other side I have remembered about the swingarm being wider – that's why there's extra length on the x-over pipes. What a dumbo! I've already cut the x-over and put it back on. The left side is much better, but the right will be too close. Cutting one side shorter would let the pipes lie in a better postion, but then one would be further back than the other. Looks like there is no easy solution. As for me, looks like I'm going to have to take the whole lot off again and the pipe will have to be welded back. I didn't want to relocate the signals because I thought that the pipes would be better a little bit lower anyway. Now I'm going to have to reconsider. I should have waited a while, to get a reply on here.

Cream reforms tonight for 4 nights of London gigs, at the Albert Hall. I'd give up an evening's Guzzi fettling to be there. (Tickets are going for £1,000, just heard of one bought for £2,850.)

There have been comments about the poor/difficult/uneven fit of Guzzi's own Ti. silencer system. The footrest hangers aren't purpose made and the whole thing doesn't line-up terribly well. A bracket that would be somewhere in between the length of the stock V.11 ones and the kit-supplied (Daytona?) ones would seem a better size. Another problem for me is that the new pipe-end position is exactly where the indicators are on the new tail-bracket that is meant to be a V.11 fit. After spending time making up an extension for the footrest hanger to give a slightly lower mount for the silencer band, I'm now thinking that the best solution would be to cut the crossover outlet pipes shorter. I think that this would let the whole silencer line-up much better. The bottom end would not be kicked out so much and the silencer assembly would come further forward. This would also make everything less wobbly (ref recent wobbly cans posts). This is a Stucchi x-over, but the outlet pipes position/length are the same as the standard crossover. What is different is that, while the stock silencer pipes will fully fit onto the x-over, the connection pipes that Guzzi makes for their Ti kit don't fully fit! Why have they done this? They only go half way on. So I am going to cut 3.5 cm off the crossover pipes. I don't remember reading about this being done before – if anyone has ideas or knowledge about this I would be grateful for a quick reply, before I do something irreversible.

I dreamt (had a nightmare) about the thing last night! In my dream the V.11 had a more conventional frame and it was sitting on the ground without its wheels. Someone knocked into it, which caused part of the frame to fall off, due to rust. This let all the pressurised air out of the frame. The air was there because, of course, the Ohlins suspension works by pressurised air that is stored in the frame. Then I woke up, which is a good job as I had no idea how I was going to fix that one.

Slap some of that anti-fretting on it – should cut down on wear and tear.

2002 seems to have been a bad year for Italian measurement capacity, what with too short spacers and too big spring bosses...

Amazing - mine is much newer but was rusty and notchy enough to merit a change, although if I didn't have everything else apart and wasn't already changing the other bearings, maybe I would have just cleaned and greased it. There must be something else for you to worry about. Have you checked the spring and ball bearing in the rear footrest swivel joint? It could be rusting horribly!

Yours is probably a fake. What about the excellent drawing: it's a chicken on wheels!

What model year is the bike? How did you check the tightness of the spacer? Are you sure that it is the correct length? The faulty spacers are only 1mm too short – that's not much, so you would need to measure accurately. Your bad bearing is the same one that was very bad in my bike and I found that the spacer was short.

er, can I be the first one to ask... is there a fender extender that fits?