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  1. 28 minutes ago, p6x said:

    Time is what I have the least amount of.....:wacko:

    you will need time to find a good bike and spare parts today 

    rumours say they made from 1992-2001:

    983 bikes Quota 1000 (Mandello)

    889 bikes Quota 1100 ES (Monza factory?)

    registered in Germany 2017 (notorious market for BMW GS contenders):

    29 - 1000

    83 - 1100ES

    prices still very low - but hard to get a bike offered

    very good information here:

    Quota | guzzi-quota (arnes.si)

    Quota - Moto Guzzi - Topics - Gregory Bender (thisoldtractor.com)

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  2. 1 hour ago, p6x said:

    I wanted to bounce back on your remark;

    You can probably change the springs inside the front fork, and put stiffer ones? not going to say that you can also upgrade the front fork, but there are probably some other ways to improve.

    Maybe put a more viscous oil too.

    thanks for the ideas but i decided to keep my quota as factory vanilla as possible. (certain OEM spare parts are a nightmare these days)

    You can do maaaaaany things to fix those quirky issues with the ES1100- i have seen few guys going this path and they all invested quite a lot money, time and emotional energy to make their really unique personal bikes. 

    Worldtraveller (including ABS) , Rallye racer or Supermoto - Quota gives determined guys a space to plot their customizing vision on a quite special bike. I do not know a Quota Tuner that is not satisfied with his artwork outcome. But all those guys admit that using a BMW GS ,Honda Africa Twin or even a Stelvio would have been way cheaper and easier.

    Quota customizing - is a special kind of fever, that i could avoid in my life so far. My bike hording disease does not allow me budget, time and focus to go on this amazing trip.

    You read, if you like to try bit Quota Madness - my only advice is - go shopping for good Quota 1000 or a 1100ES, with all possible upgrades done by the previous owners. It will probably save you a lot - time and money. Have fun !

     

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  3. 2 minutes ago, p6x said:

    Thanks for your thoughts....

    1000 or 1100ES, at this point any would be fine; but silence is all I got from those who posted their bikes for sale.

    I am 6.0, but what really is important is the inseam. The Stelvio I tried was with the seat in the high position, and only the front of my feet touched the ground while sitting. I was not aware of the low seat position at the time.

    I am used to ride without ABS, and with drum brakes. Not saying that ABS is superfluous, but I have done emergency braking with the Le Mans including one that should have required a fresh set of underwear. I am riding on Road 5, so maybe this as something to do with it.

    Not sure I would like the QUOTA, but I am intrigued.

    Ridden both bikes - they feel very different from factory setup:

    Quota 1100ES has a lowered seat height of 840mm compared to the 870mm of the Quota 1000 and way softer front fork. The double disc breaking system on the ES1100 front was infamous for fading and problems with mismatched  brake pads materials.

    The thin larger front wheel and the thick smaller rear wheel, combined with the torque engine - another goofy detail that can lead to interesting driving experiences with the 1100ES - you can drag the bike slowly forward with the front brake 'locked'- the thin front wheel gets simply pushed over.

    So my personal rating of the old big block Guzzi adventure bikes -

    Quota 1000 - biggest enduro made before 2000- for tall guys and hardcore fans - reliable but hard, very good base for tuning

    Quota ES1100 - the quirky one - you need to invest a lot 'to cure' all it´s flaws  - or you accept them and enjoy the feel to sway over the highway with 80-90mph given by the ultrasoft factory setup  

     

     

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  4. 22 hours ago, 80CX100 said:

    I've never seen one in person either,but after reading about them,I'd love to try one,just to sample the power band.

    Greg Field's book, Moto Guzzi Big Twins, doesn't have the production totals but he has comments from Dr John Wittner; he was a major part of the original Quota 1000 in 1989ish.

    Roughly 10 yrs later, late 90's,Dr John was apparently the one that pushed for a variant of our 1064 cc ECU/EFI to create the ultimate guzzi dirt bike Quota 1100ES.

    The 1064 engine was designed & tuned to be the ultimate in tractable torquey power.

    90 percent of peak torque was available from 2800-5800 rpm;the magic apparently came from medium size valves,a single central throttle body EFI with smooth long intake runners & a header crossover.

    I think the Quotas have a good rep, but iirc some of them have problems with some type of cracking exhaust/header/connector issues.

    fwiw

    As a more or less proud owner and rider of the Quota 1100 ES who tried the Quota 1000 of my friends few times - the 1000 is to me the way better and stiffer offroad bike if you are my size or taller. Forget about the Quota if you are below 5`9 - you will have no fun riding it. The bigger you are the better you feel - it was called the Arnold Schwarzenegger Adventure Bike in 1999 here.

    The magic torque block between 2800-5000 is real, if you use the goofy factory central body EFI with the long intake. But beside goofy me everybody here got rid of this and mounted either some highly sophisticated german injection engineering or switched back to Quota 1000 carbs. And they all claim that their bike became way better than my vanilla petrol-champagne dromedario.

    To me the factory 1100ES setup is a nice bike to travel 600mls to mediteranean beaches on tarmac roads but it is way too soft for any real offroad.

    A special problem is the front break (no ABS those days) combined with the soft front fork on gravel - soft break = noooooo breaking (increase break pressure = front dives deep and suddenly without warning you loose the front and feel the amazing heavy bike - time to leave ship.

    The good thing about the big heavy dromedario - it never breaks. I did real stuntman like things with this bike on my trips to italy or france  - including jump from a trailer and frontal crashing into a Fiat Seicento. Only broken parts were the after market panniers and cylinder protectors - frame, exhaust, forks, engine - perfectly fine every time - i had to jump from the back.

    So Stelvio(ABS) is nice, V100 Stelvio with proactive Öhlins - maybe better - but i am too used to my ES1100 dromedario to switch.large.19112011066.jpg

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  5. Summer 1986 i got posession of my older brother´s former commuter simson moped - he had upgraded to 'real' MZ motorbike.large.IMG_0041.JPGlarge.IMG_0032.JPG

    i was 11 years old and had no licence but there was no sheriff ever seen in grandma´s village since the early 1970ies :ninja:

    so a wild summer illegally riding my first bike in the fields - is one of the best memories in my life. I kept the bike running on grandma´s farm but without any cosmetics since this summer - pure  Nostalgia. Often times people asking me when i would get rid of this useless weak cycle - as i had horded so many "powerful upgrades" in between and needed space. Nostalgic me - instead rescuing crashed simson moppeds from junk yards around grandma´s farm. (spare part donors ;))

     20 years later - kids started to go crazy for these simson mopeds and over the next decade this grew into serious bike fashion here.

    - Nostalgia or totally bananas ?

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  6. Looks like Mr. McGregor is back in the V11 owners club, if the Tenni in the clip is from his personal collection. 

    As his old #133 is still in Austin/TX documented in the registry, i guess he was lucky to find somebody willing to part from his piece of guzzi history. 

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  7. hilarious :D 

    especially the overtaking of the bus ! That is so Nordschleife Nürburgring !

    Seriously - i would never dare to ride there with my skills i would be dead crashing the infamous bus or some wannabee jeremy clarkson in his car.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR !

    and thanks for the warm welcome 

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  8. 2 minutes ago, VtwinStorm said:

    I call all motorcycles by female adjectives. :D

    germans usually do the same - hence the difference for BMW - she the bike / he the car

    but i tend to give certain bikes male names - if they are outstanding hardworking pieces of engineering as this V11 !

    It was my first italian bike that was a true brother :helmet:

    7 minutes ago, VtwinStorm said:

    Very cool collection.

    Compared to your collection and the other amazing machines shown in this community most of my bikes are daily rides or just goofy memories with the exception of the old gp maico.

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  9. sister ?  :D

    it is a hard working brother (1999 first series) without much modifications other than parts, broken by crashes on mountain roads within the last 15 years.

    • front wheel, brakes and exhaust collector donated from centauro
    • review mirrors and handlebars- street legal after market parts
    • steering damper from a later Le Mans

    In it´s younger days it was a nearly mint example but 14 years later ...

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  10. i just stumbled across your forum post while researching possible V11 tenni bikes for sale. Just in case you do not know there seem to be a little wave on tenni le mans available here in europe now - i suppose some owners depart after many years to get the new V100 in the same kind of colour style ?

    https://www.dasparking-motorrad.de/gebrauchtmotorrader/moto-guzzi-tenni.html 

    maybe the dutch offer is worth your attention ? Or you try contact https://tlm.nl/brand/moto-guzzi/ - these people are experts in sourcing rare guzzi originals - but you need to pay the price tag.

    hope i do not bother you and sorry for my poor english writing skills

    have a great guzzi time !

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