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I assume that the glass gets a lot colder (esp. compared to the air inside the clock housing).

but as I said earlier, drilling an equivalent hole in the tacho has made absolutely no difference.

Surely the condensation is not because of a leak past the glass? I have never seen water sitting in the tacho. The speedo does not mist up and it is the same glass/seal construction.

ahem..... make sure that you use the right sort of oil...

I think that the hopeless part is the pivot/adjuster end that the brake/clutch lever fits into. It is so thin that it bends as soon as you look at it. I find it hard to imagine the lever itself breaking before that skinny stuff bends or snaps. AL won't approve, but I have glued and bolted a broken one back together, without adjuster as I don't want that and it's just a point of weakness. I carry it as a spare for emegency use.

it's over there

You can do an upgrade by adding a feed from a compressed oxygen tank. It shold increase the flame significantly. It's great for cutting through traffic at night.

1 Even when you are out wiggling your relay? 2 Constantly wet with Atlantic weather heading this direction and - No 3 I will need to check it, but I don't remember this gap and certainly water does not enter and collect

I think that my very first post here was about this and I discovered that there had been lots of posts before... and there have been lots since. This is one of those simple little issues that are so utterly perplexing. I took the tach off and thoroughly dried it out. Made no difference. I drilled a hole to make the tacho side as identical to the speedo side as possible (as the speedo doesn't fog) – the main difference is that the speedo has a lage hole in the METAL case where the reset shaft goes through, which would allow an exchange of air. Made no difference. Interestingly it seems that the latest clocks. which are completely different models as I understand it, are suffering in the same way as the earlier Veglia units. ? It's hard to see that there can be a warranty fix (exchange) when it appears to be an inherent problem.

Yep that's the problem. Can anyone give more information on the Quat D box? I know it has been mentioned before but there was talk of problems - weld seams splitting? Is there a better version now that anyone has experience of?

Re Ratchet, isn't that the opinion that was given 'everywhere' – that those bikes were supplied with a tyre that was too big for rim? Then eventually MG moved it up to a wider size.

yep: gaffa tape, gaffer tape, duct tape, duck tape, elephant tape, etc. etc. It holds the world together, but only for so long – and then it leaves a horrible mess. The worst is when it has been used to repair seat covers and hand grips.

OK, I see what happened now. There is a thread elsewhere that I had been avoiding. I've just looked at it and I see that there was a picture of 'someone' posted that had the effect of unhingeing you. Nature isn't always pretty. Here's hoping that your inner child recovers and your wild behaviour stops.

Dear Al, are you mad? Publishing your graphic details like this. How many times have YOU been told – wiggle your relay in private. The cops are clearly onto you and next time could be the time when indeed they manage to get a good look. Then you've had it. Stick with your own advice and keep everything buttoned up.

This is interesting. Does the 3M stuff remove old Gaffa tape glue? I don't know anything that makes a good job of cleaning that dreadful residue up. Maybe this is it? I wonder where I can get it?

I think that I had difficult shifts IMMEDIATELY before it broke and I have a feeling that it was downshifts that were problematic. It's not great as far as scientific evidence is concerned.

yes, no need to worry, you are quite correct. It's is indeed the proper spelling of it's. Unless you meant it, in which case leave off the 's.

Hey, Bill, you're what Mr. President Bush calls a 'stand-up-kinda-guy'! No messin' about, just do it (whether right or wrong) I'm just wondering if those were signs, or whether it might have been just a new big boot thing? Or you needed the benefit of a gearbox oil change? Did the feel of the up-shifts change as soon as the new spring went in, boots or no boots? You would have had a gear oil change at the same time as the spring went in of course. The thing is that the spring is stressed on the down shifts, rather than the upshifts (as I remember it). I'm trying to picture the bits and pieces of gubbinsmahoobie in my weary mind. Someone whose brain is clearer at the moment might have a better observation on this. I'm not convinced that there would be a long period of poor changes, especially on the upshift, due to the spring working itself towards breaking point. I know your boss was found to be 15mm, surprisingly and disappointingly. Was there any information on the state of the shift plate along the edge where the spring hook locates?

haven't you been following the copious correspondence, Bento! Choose from: A - we have been trying to gather information in order to determine the answer to this very question B - the answer is well known, but we're not telling you and perhaps there is a third – C - Guzzi know but aren't telling any of us

Well of course yes – until a break occurs. And as I have said elsewhere, everything breaks in the end. That, you can count upon.

No. (Besides, if you get in there, you'll just block it up solid and neither it nor you will breathe at all.) But seriously no – it's only a decorative end piece. You would have to cut your way in. With the carbon looky-likey sleeve, if you take the end off, it's a real pig to get back on into the sleeve because of the angle of the end pipe.

Well, decide for yourself, but I would go so far as to say that the 'V.11 Spring' is a mis-judged hoax by Moto Guzzi intended to draw attention to the decline in the standards of intellectual rigour in certain precincts of the Italian moto-academic humanities. Certain scrupulous and intellectually competent elements within Moto Guzzi had seen the deliberate inclusion of this 'piece' in the overall v.11 machine as a subversive attack on the 'Woodstock generation' dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment Americanised hegemony over the Old Italian intellectual outlook. Ultimately this inspired and masterful approach proved to be out of tune with modern times and the point was entirely lost during the take-over by Aprillia. Aprillia merely saw the spring as 'the way things are' in an external world governed by laws of nature which we can understand imperfectly using the scientific method. It is thought that rather than address this matter along with all the greater imperfections such as petrol injected by electricty, fat tyres and so on, Aprillia simply put their energies into convincing Ducati that physical 'reality', as demonstrated by springs and so on, is at bottom a social and linguistic construct. A similar and last-ditch attempt, to reinforce their point, was made by the old-guard Moto Guzzi intellectuals when they altered the temperature at which water would boil out of oil in different models of V.11. With the change to Aprillia, this was missed completely and has only recently been picked up on among the esoteric fringes of post-Woodstock pseudo-scientific motorcycling communities. The only result is that Moto Guzzi seem to be on the back foot and so far this is no agreement on where this will all end.

– the of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; - so used in the philosophy of Kant Rideabyke and his pedestrian followers. I prefer to call it the Stick, or sometimes the oily stick (usually when I put oil in).

.. for now, but just wait...eventually...you'll see...

Are you referring to the previous post? But anyway Docc, I think that you are clutching at straws now. After all, this is the technical diagram of what MG are careful to recommend be used in their motors:–