Chuck

Well, ok.. I'll photobomb you.. We were in the path of totality, so had a cookout/eclipse party. My last apprentice, Austin..now the Indiana MGNOC rep, took these pix. As we approached totality, I went to the house and got my birding binoculars. It "appeared" that we could see eruptions around the corona. The temp dropped 12 degrees, colors changed, and the breeze we had been having dropped to dead calm. Crickets cricketed. I thought, "I wonder what it would look like from the air?" Quickly opened the hanger door, did a preflight, grabbed my flying jacket, silk scarf, and aviator cap, kicked the tires and lit the fires. The spring greens were a different shade, and it looked like a wall of rain 2 miles to the west. The above picture is looking west. When we got there, though, it still looked like rain ahead. Not a ripple in the air. Awesome. You can see some of the effect in this picture taxiing in. Shadows appeared to be cut out of cardboard, and the colors were still "off.: Truly a once in a lifetime experience.. it was good for me.

Attaboy, Tom..

Just eyeballing, the length of the bent tab, it looks ok.. but.. on a "factory" spring, I can see a very small stress riser from the spring winder tooling at about the area this one broke. (!) I don't know if I can get a picture or not, I'll give it a go. When I wound the springs on the lathe, that wouldn't be there. Edit: Ok, here ya go. I'm betting the tool needed to be polished.

With a filter change, I refilled with 3 1/2 quarts. No need to pre fill the filter, IMHO.

I wouldn't think so. It just make the shifting more..uh.. Japanese.

Just checked, and yeah I do. Do you want an extender too? Postage is the same. At any rate, PM me your snail mail address, and tell me what you want. Supplies are *very* limited..

Fronts are easy to find, Art.. rears however.. not so much. The best set I've found so far were Conti scoots. Comma but, they were recalled and they bought me some Angel scooter tires. I *can* get a sport demon front in the proper size for the rear and run it backwards..but I've never tried that.

I wonder if it is water in the fuel related? Probably not, of course.. but that's the first thing that came to mind.

Tell me about it. The AeroLario has 16s on both ends. I'm running a little lower profile than stock scooter tires. A guy's gotta do what a guys's gotta do.

Or you could use Docc's kid. 11 bucks a year, I think. https://imgzeit.com

Foremost. I got it through AARP. Includes break down and towing. Cheap. (Guzzi content)

Peoria, Ill a noise.

Oh, I thought when you said Peoria, it was "the" Peoria..as is "but will it play in Peoria.."

Maybe. I, personally, would go for the V11S, the last of the "real" Guzzis.

Better check the wx forecast. There is some seriously bad weather coming to the midwest..

I don't remember that one. Wheels, crossover, but don't remember frame cracks. Oh, one other thing.. the original ECU totally sucked. That may have been the low mileage issues. Just the same, It's one of Guzzi's very best touring bikes ever.

Yeah, that's the issue. They are molded in, and if torqued too much break the tank. I used a full kit of Caswell's epoxy tank liner and spent a lot of time making sure it was heavily applied on those areas. It worked, and repaired the "unrepairable" tank. Darth was capable of 50 mpg.. but I have heard of very poor mileage with the Quotas.. even as low as the 20s. (!!)

Yes, all stock Qs had the single throttle body. Mine was pretty highly modified..it was the infamous "Darth Quota".. the Guzzitech commuter in SoCal. If the tank is full of gas and it's not leaking, it's ok. Mark at MG Classics had *several* for me to choose from when I was going to attempt a repair. It was a common issue, obviously. I made a semi permanent repair of the turnsignals on the MZ using popsickle sticks as a splint and wrapping them with self sticking silicon tape. They were still ok if ugly after a year. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..

The red's turnsignal stalks have failed.. a common malady with them. Failing memory says they are the same as the V11S. My MZ Skorpion had em too.. replaced with some generics from Amazon. Cheap. (Guzzi content) The low mileage black one may have bad wheels? Exhaust cracks? I don't remember the issues exactly. I'm old The single throttle body is a PITA to tune, I think. Mine had dual throttle bodies, so I never had to fool with it. Edit: Almost forgot. One of the things you *really* have to look out for is the 4 screws that mount the fairing to the tank. If they have been over tightened, the inserts inside the tank will break loose and the tank will leak.

from SoCal. All I had to surf the internet out there was my Galaxy Tab 4. For whatever reason, it wouldn't let me post on *this* forum.. strange.

A two or three piece Nord lock or Schnoor washer is just the ticket.

Not that I remember..

Well, lets' face it. They are all just air pumps. The Mighty Scura had Mike Rich flowed heads, which IHMO was the main thing. He told me they were the best Guzzi heads he'd ever done..still had records.

Even the "standard" autopilot is disabled at delivery. The owner has to toggle it on as they are setting up the car, and it clearly says BETA. All the features (driving mode, seat position, mirrors, climate control, speeds in autopilot +- the speed limit, etc. etc. are stored on the various driver's profile. You have to set all that up for each driver, and it is done automatically as soon as the car recognizes their phone as they open the driver's door. I don't know what else they could do..