Lemon Drizzle Coppa Italia

[swooshdave]

It's been up for 3 hours and no one has posted this yet? Slackers. 

Dave even gives a shout out to the forum!

I'd love to find some of that Olins suspension and put it on the Greenie. In my spare time of course. I can't even find time to adjust the valves.

[audiomick]

That's this bike. The photo of the front tire, first photo in the thread, turns up in the video about 20 minutes in.

 

@wavey_davey1 great to see the bike on the road, and on the correct side of the road into the bargain.

Edited Monday at 05:32 PM by audiomick

[swooshdave]

40 minutes ago, audiomick said:

That's this bike. The photo of the front tire, first photo in the thread, turns up in the video about 20 minutes in.

 

@wavey_davey1 great to see the bike on the road, and on the correct side of the road into the bargain.

I assumed there would be a post about it. Now I get to have @wavey_davey1 be mad at me for posting the LDG video before he did. 

[Pressureangle]

Geez I just posted it too...didn't show up in my 'unread topics'. 

Great video.

[wavey_davey1]

Haha I might have known you guys would beat me to it!! To be honest I was flying out to Iceland with the family (where I am now)straight after reviewing the video before publication so was all a bit manic.

The bike is going great after a few, ahem, interesting shakedown runs (E.g. the rear master cylinder seized the rear brake on slowing down on a fast dual carriageway resulting in me being marooned half way on to the hard shoulder)! 

Also, and not unexpected, one fork seal popped on a longer run and covered a disc with fork oil. So forks all rebuilt with new Suzuki seals etc.

Anyway it's rapidly confirming I made the right choice.

The video seems to be going down well and reminding people what lovely bikes they are, hope you enjoyed it?

 

Cheers, Dave 

[gstallons]

Suzuki seals ? What brand are your forks ?

[wavey_davey1]

The ohlins seals are single lipped to reduce stiction, but means they are short lived (especially when the dust seals have disintegrated!). Anyway, a standard mod is to replace them with generic Japanese seals of the same dimensions (without looking it up, mine are for a GSXR1000 from 2000 ish?) but these have double lips which greatly extends their life at the cost of a tiny bit more stiction.

In any case the ride over bumps is waaay better than my original greenie with Marzocchis, and better than I was expecting to be honest, after being spoilt with my Ducati Sport Classic. As standard these were apparently awful but the previous owner fitted Ohlins shocks and very good fully adjustable Showa forks off a Monster S4R. The Coppa can't compete in ultimate terms due to weight, but suspension compliance isn't far off.

Sorry for long reply to short question!😁

[docc]

 

Compliments, @wavey_davey1, on the informative discourse in the video. Quite a relief to hear so much detail about the V11 (and other Guzzi models) well presented.

I would like to thank both @Pressureangle and @p6x posting this video separately to be certain we did not miss it. Thanks, guys!
 
That @swooshdave beat everyone to the punch should be no surprise. The operative term is "swoosh !" 

[gstallons]

The ship of Theseus ! I like that