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I'd be up for Scotland and if it takes in an island or two, all the better.

Soren, thanks for the update and good luck with the decision making. I don't want to labour the point about the UK meet and won't mention it again, but as I see it, the reason for having regional or national meetings is simply to enable people to get together for a day or two, when for the rest of the year they may never see another Guzzi. A regional or national meet does not exclude anyone, in fact it is so much better when others are able to travel from other countries to participate. While it is great to have, say, a California meet or an Italian meet, only a few people will be able to travel to attend. There is always primary value in arranging the local meetings, such as the UK meet, to make it easy for people within a few hundred miles distance to get together. However, the regional meets can happen anyway and if people want to focus on a more European meeting as a 'Forum' meeting, that's great. It's a really good development. It's brilliant that Jaap has jumped in and given a date already. Exciting. I've only ever flown to Continental Europe before! I've put the September '10 date in my diary now. (I'm sure there will be something more local for folk too, maybe in May in again?)

Jaap you mentioned another good place that you have used before... in Netherlands?

There's something not right, talking about summer 2010 before summer 2009 has properly arrived, however time flies and more to the point, calendars do have to be planned. At the 2008 V11 UK meet there was some enthusiasm for having a Denmark-Soren meeting. Speculation is that it may be Switzerland now, as Soren is moving there, but it could still be Denmark? Let's allow this thread to float around so that proposals can be mentioned from time to time. An idea can be formed of: what, where, when next year. I've said in the 2009 thread: If a Continental trip is on the cards then I'd need to get a probable date, or possible dates, into the calendar soon. I doubt if I could set aside the required time anyway, but if it could be possible, it would be best for me in July or August. It's more logical to talk about a V11 Forum Rally now, rather than a V11 UK meet. If the main Forum meet is on the Continent, a UK meet could happen at a different time anyway, coordinated through the Forum, and I will probably organise another low-key Guzzi get together in Northern Ireland. Plenty of scope in the blue bits here!

It's pushing the boundaries of the UK a bit beyond breaking point, but seriously, if such a trip was to be on the cards then I'd need to get a probable date, or possible dates, into the calendar soon. As far as I'm concerned, I doubt if I could set aside the required time anyway. If it could be possible at all, it would be easier for me in July or August. Is it time to start a new thread for 2010?

I just mean that's the first thing, as in, that's what was first agreed. Anything else, i.e. a UK meet, can be secondary. Iceland can be third priority, as long as MacHaggis organises it and takes me for a preliminary investigation of suitable sites.

Yes indeed. That was the choice at the time. I was seriously considering a Triumph instead of the Griso.

That's what the above posts are about. Soren had said that he would arrange a meeting in Denmark, but he is moving to Switzerland, I think: so will it be in Switzerland? The other question is just about keeping the V11UK meet going. Depending upon interest and demand, there could be a date earmarked for the UK meet even though the main get-together will be somewhere Continental Europe direction. Again, the point is that not everyone who would normally go to the annual UK meet will be able to go to Denmark/Switzerland. Anyway, for planning purposes, Soren just needs to say what he wants to do and where. That's the first thing.

Yes and that can still happen ok. But it could be good to keep the UK meet going too? Not so many UK / Ireland people will be able to get the extra time / money for the bigger trip – and that was a problem mentioned by people at the recent rally. Of course the problem then is finding 2 different times in the calendar for the people who would want and are able to do both. Just a thought. The non-UK meet could be the main 'official' V11 meet for next year and there could be another V11 UK date arranged at a campsite, that won't require much organisation?

I told Baldi that he's elected to organise it. Guzzirider was at a campsite a week or so ago that looks like a possible base. If it's just a campsite, it won't necessarily need much or any organising although I'll be disappointed if there is not a full website to go along with it. What's more, it will probably be a proper V11 rally again cos all these new-fangled bikes will be broken by then (and the Tennis will have disappeared through the evolutionary process of natural selection)

No nothing 'special'. Because of the whole shoddy mess, I thought that I might as well claim for the substandard parts that I was just going to put up with: • the display of course, which fogs up with condensation so that the info along the bottom half of display can't be seen • the silvered plastic-work which is all covered in a rash of rough dimples – headlight bowl and dash display cover.

Thanks for posting that Paul. On a different matter, I ordered some other parts under warranty, two months ago. There is still absolutely no sign of them!

Some old tat Guzzis at Portaferry

Does it run on Horlicks?

That was bold. You'll have to go to bed an hour early tomorrow, to make up for it.

Funnily enough I've just been looking there, to try to find some TT footage, before I saw this. I can't see how to access any race playback. Can someone post a link to the actual replay section? Or is it only live?

and very nice it is too! Cheers Jaap

Yes, there have been a few variations of that, haven't there? I remember putting that Killinger and Freund in the Quiz Forum some time ago. That's a good article you found.

Most of the pics here before have had the engine turned the other way, have they not?

It seems that Guzzi made the spring with a bigger coil size to allow for the discrepancy in boss sizes. So if you have the bigger diameter coil you shouldn't need to file the boss down. When fitting it, you can manually check that the coil doesn't bind when it's twisted.

Italian green. Irish green. We'll blame Scotland for the grey.

Guzzirider has been trying to persuade people for years that little stumpy ones are best

– because you have been so quiet – because you could spell excused

I think it was a spelling mistake. Macguzzi meant prohibition?

Don't you think zat I took zat into konciderashun? eye tee