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Pic from Wikipedia GB is a kangaroo?

I can't even remember 2 minutes ago! - unless there are chicken goujons involved.

That said, all modern EFI bikes are now held hostage to their state of battery "wellness;" Skeeve, I agree, but I'm sure that the whole rash of starting problems experienced with the newer bikes is not because of the battery charge itself. Certainly the wellness of the grounding should be checked and additional provision made. I still need to do that myself. Also, the additional feed, as in the post above (not the chicken goujon one, the other one). Hubert has kindly re-posted the link.

Well, this morning I went to an important seminar. It was so boring that I left at lunch time, but not before having lunch: chicken sandwhich chicken goujons mini sausage roll thing on a stick, with chicken in it more chicken goujons coffee and one or two other things. Walked back to work and I'm here now. Would you like a further update?

What about a bidet? It would be particularly popular with the Continentals. (And after all, Bill Hagan has a urinal.)

How to turn your V.11, or your Guzzirider, into a .... spud gun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAJOPzKK-M 1) Take your discarded Griso OE exhaust can.......

You'll have all kinds of crap without it. I wash out & regrease sometimes - i needs it. I refit using a load of grease & just clean off the excess. NO, no. Not a 'tipo'. A rear washer is a 'bidet'.

I doubt it

Starting problems with the newer bikes are now well documented. Seems to be a common problem, although your bike is somewhat older. My Griso suffers too. Actually, it is me who suffers. Push the starter and often nothing at all happens: sometimes it works after a few more prods. Sometimes it takes minutes, 10 minutes, or once it never started and I had to leave the bike. Ridiculous and infuriating. The best explanation is voltage drop, on the newer bikes anyway. I haven't checked the schematics but others say that Guzzi are still continuing with their practice of putting the full current up through the start switch. On the newer bikes, a heavier gauge wire down to the starter becomes a lighter thin wire. Significant voltage drop has been measured, as I understand it. A solution would be to put in or parallel in a new wire of good gauge. It could be the same thing with Antonio's bike.

See the screenshot file attached. I do love it each time I open the V11 site and I see this before me. I realise I risk the wrath of Guzzirider, should he react as Ratchet did in a similar circumstance. I was often tickled when a Topic summary, where R.Hack was the last poster, showed something like, 'The best gun for shooting... Ratchethack'. That's what it said folks, but he couldn't see the funny side and insisted that I had somehow fabricated the statement. At least Guzzirider's is 'on topic'. Topic subject, as displayed:

So, you are not interested in punctuation then? Here,.;!&* why don^t you go round to The Club and unleash some knee-trembling General Banter on the populace?/" Show 'em this, I think they'll like it: The production version of the Terrible Blanche concept. Allegedly,.]; I've just seen it, where Mr Roper was frightening the horses with it during the summer. It surely can*t be serious? Ropey was ambiguous. You need to add that you've already put in a pre-order for a new (2011) Aluminium framed Speed Triple. I have. Not. Yet. But.

You said: So I said: 'too busy concentrating on placing the commas' well, it seemed to me like a good description of MG, but, it was the death of the conversation. Ho hum. Where's Roper? Patching-up his boots?

Serious document! Good find.

That would be Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider. More importantly, I've never been addressed as 'Bud' in my whole entire life! Honoured I'm sure. How should I return the compliment?

Starts at Lough Melvin in County Fermanagh, south west corner of N.I. Then down through Sligo to the west coast. Various places along Connemara coast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3ZJQPrJeo

- and a Guzzi eagle on the back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KU1y3fQnY

No :!: JAAP!! Why isn't there a rain (un-)smiley? Besides, that sun one belongs to Kev, er.. Baldini. Can't think why.

I see it's not just false neutrals but also the mysterious box-jamming problem. There used to be a number of threads on this. It came up again here recently and I commented on it again because of Aberdeen Gary's gearbox pics. It's terrible problem. For me, the box would lock in second and often not budge for a long time. It was worst for me on a trip down the length of Ireland, when for a long way I couldn't get it out of second. At one point, when like your example, it jammed setting off from a toll booth, I pulled over and opened the box because I thought that the spring may have broken. In fact I could find nothing wrong anywhere. It started when there was extremely bad traffic congestion and I was in low gear a lot at slow speeds. The bike was hot: other people have connected this problem to the gearbox being hot. As far as I know, there is still not any explanation at all to this problem that plagues some bikes. This is a very long shot, but I wondered, in the other recent thread, if this problem had something to do with Guzzi adding the extra internal plate to late boxes? They must have added it for some reason? Is there a bit of slop/fexibility that allows some mis-alignment and jamming in boxes without that extra bracing. I must stress that I haven't looked at the box to investigate, since learning about the Guzzi mod, so my speculation might be completely wrong and not make sense if I looked again. But - what's the extra part for? It's just a thought and definitely a question, especially in the continuing absence of any other explanation for stuck box. I see that you are trying to do the clutch fluid change. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly how I did that. I'm sure I had the wheel off, but it was done without having a second person to help. Keep at it - something will give eventually. Hmmmmmm...

I'll lend you a bike > if you fix it first, install a Roper Plate (whatever for, I don't know)... and stuff like that.