Owing up to the world for a hideous mistake...

[callison]

My apologies if the error I made in the schematics for the V11 Sport versions has caused grief. It certainly has for Cliff Jeffries and the gentleman in Germany. Mea culpa. I had the TPS flipped over on the schematic. Not a good thing. The schematics have been updated, but I didn't change the date on them yet.

 

http://home.pacbell.net/guzzi007/schematic...9_V11_sport.gif

http://home.pacbell.net/guzzi007/schematic...4_V11_sport.gif

[al_roethlisberger]

Carl,

 

I don't think you have anything to apologize for, given the great job you've done for everyone by making these schematics available

 

There will always be corrections over time

 

 

al

[Calamarichris]

To hell (respectfully of course) with what Al said, Carl. From the get-go your intentions were clearly malicious, malevolent, malinformed and malingratory. This is clear because why else would someone attempt to help fellow motorcyclists? I hang my head in shame on your behalf.

 

BTW, why is Eindhoven, NL (or is is Flint, Michigan?) significant enough among Guzzisti to warrant its own smiley in this forum? ( )

 

I'm a cherub-cheeked newbie to these parts and I WANT ANSWERS!

 

-CCinC (still riding smooth and efficient Jap-crap with yet a good reason to take the Pepsi-challenge.)

[Martin Barrett]

directions to Jaap's incase you're passing and want to drop in for a chat and tea

[Paul Minnaert]

That is Varseveld. Eindhoven is the dot in this picture.

[callison]

malingratory?

 

You're going to make me break out my dictionary aren't you? If I can find it...

[antonio carroccio]

Yeah, I like the Italian word fonetik speaked in English. I like also the creativity of the Guzzisti.

 

MALINGRATO = -bad, bad- ingrate (maybe)

[callison]

So I guess that malingratory is NOT bad birds flying north for the winter. English is such a grand languuage to mangle...

[Calamarichris]

That is Varseveld. Eindhoven is the dot in this picture.

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Varseveld! NATUURLIJK! Please forgive my buffoonish faux-pas, Paul. Under undue-duress of egregious stress, I'm tempted to cite the copious minisculity of the cartoonish map in our forum's otherwise-substantial selection of smileys, but alas there is no excuse for wandering journeymen such as we to not have copious quantities of geographicity at our casual disposal.

-Calamari Chris in Carlsbad, CA (A big fan of Don King, just a few dozen miles west of the recent hurricane disasters we've been having over here. Ik ook houdt van Nederlandse Grolsch, maar niet de "Grolsch" wij hebben in de U.S. Warrom gezend ons de lelijk biertes?)

[callison]

Better read the scale on that map Chris, the hurricane disasters are more than a few dozen miles from Carlsbad. If the world were scaled as you say, you could stroll over to my house after work and borrow my V65C for a while to at least try out some kind of Guzzi. Keep a track on the SoCal group as there should/may be a ralley in Ramona the first week of December (normally held the first week of October, but things got kind of bollixed up down there).

[Calamarichris]

Hey Carl.

Are you going to Ramona in December? If so, I'd love to meet up.

I was only kidding about the hurricane-proximity, to make light of the human tendency to group distant landmarks together. I was living in Holland during the Rodney King riots and the Northridge earthquake, and all of my (utterly kind!) Dutch friends kept calling, asking if my family were safe, etc. The funny part is that my Ma wasn't even aware that there were riots going on until I called her.

I was just up in Modesto last month when we rode around the Gold Country, then took the 25 down to the Wine Country--mighty nice roads you got up your way!

If you'd like to meet up in Ramona (or Palomar or Borrego Springs, etc.) please ping me. We've got a few decent roads down here that haven't become expressways to casinos (yet.)

 

-Calamari Chris in Carlsbad, CA

http://www.chrisandlisachan.com/

[Admin Jaap]

... I was living in Holland ...

That explains your perfect Dutch!

[tikkanen]

That explains your perfect Dutch!

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In my army days I was working with a lot of Dutchmen. They always claimed "If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much....."

 

Søren

[callison]

I'm trying like crazy to get the V11 Sport together for the San Diego Rally - if it's held. Trouble is, the fairing parts I expected 3 weeks ago didn't get shipped until last Friday from the vendor. They kept meaning to call me, but never got around to that or shipping it until I called them. For $800, I would expect a tad better service.

 

The roads up here ARE nice. I'm going to miss them when I retire and get the hell out of California.

 

The Navy Reserves sent me to Denmark for four weeks in 1986. I grabbed an atlas and started planning where I could go, how far it would be, where my wife could stay, etc. Just a little problem there. The scale. In the westen USA, most towns are about 40 miles apart because that's how far the trains could go before refueling back when the west was being settled. A large part of the U.S. was settled with mechanical transportation and distances between cities can be quite large, Europe however, was settled more on foot or on horseback and a lot further back in history. So, a lot of little towns are really only a days walk apart for someone carrying goods to market or on a horsedrawn cart. In my neck of the woods, the local military airbase was 1.5 miles from it's nearest town, 7 miles from me, and I was 26 miles from the nearest city. Skrydstrup looked the same on the atlas map, little town next to it, nearby town and larger city down the road so to speak. And I took that to mean that the distances were the same as where I lived. It was a bit of a shock when I got there and the town Skrydstrup literlally sits on the fence of the air base, the next nearest town, Vojens, was only 1.5 miles and the "big city", Haderslev, was only something like 11 miles. I'd go back in a heartbeat... I love the Danes, they're just about the nicest group of people I've ever met. Too bad I'm not much for eating fish. I lived on Corn Flakes and potatoes for the four weeks. Danish ice cream cones and hot dogs are top notch though. The version of pizza we had in Tonder was interesting to say the least. Cucumber slices in a small splotch of tomato sauce centered nicely in the center of large pizza shell. Artistic anyway.