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On a completely different topic than my starting and handling woes. When I first rode the Breva 1100 fitted with the touring windshield I found the battering from the air flow completely unsatisfactory. I acted upon a recommendation from the local dealer over here on the west coast of Canada and purchased a 'laminar lip' which I had shipped up from California,then brought it over to the UK, installed it, problem solved. My wife on the pillion even reported a drastic improvement and greatly increased comfort on the rear perch. For the pilot, 70mph visor up, no problem! Highly recommended: http://www.laminarlip.com/

Thanks Antonio That is very interesting. I am not convinced that it is a power problem, but of course hopefully MG themselves know better than I. Can you get your bike to start by moving around in the gearbox as I indicated in my first post on this? Here's another couple of observations that lead me to suspect a gearbox connection somewhere: - Sometimes the bike will start when in gear with the clutch in, sometimes it will not. - Sometimes when I have selected neutral, the neutral light is not on but the bike will start. Strange stuff, and I have to think that this problem has presented itself to other owners, so hopefully there's more feedback to come.

I don't know the Breva but I took a look at Carl Alisons drawing, it shows a starter relay (3) that energizes the solenoid in the starter. The first thing I would do is find the wire from the Relay to the starter and hang a test light or meter from that to ground. This will tell you if it's the starter or the relay. If the relay and the wire is OK the light will go on when you try to start, If it doesn't then you check back the other way. Relay bases have been a problem on the earlier bike. I assume you have checked the main connections, if not pull the main cables off the battery and give the terminals a scrape, sometimes an oxide layer prevents the current getting through, coat them with petroleum jelly (vaseline) to avoid this. http://guzzitech.com/guzzi007/schematics/2005_Breva_1100.gif Hope this helps Roy Thanks Kiwi Roy Your assumption that I checked the battery is correct. I initially thought that it must be a battery problem and checked and cleaned the termonals. The selling dealer agreed that this seemed logical and supplied a new one under the used bike 3 month warranty. The problem did not then reappear for 2 days. When it does crank and start it seems perfectly fine.

Hello again. Touring around Europe 2 up with luggage found we hit the road with (presumably) the centrestand far too easily. Especially those tight bumpy corners in Italy. Could also feel the rear shock bottoming out on the bumps. I have it dialled up to maximum pre-load and wonder if there's an accessory spring available that could be easily installed to fix the problem. Even without my wife and luggage and with it still set as hard as possible it did not feel too much. Are these beasts known to be too soft on the back? Thanks.

Hello hello, Moto Guzzi newbie here. For some odd reason I bought a Breva 1100 ('05) while in the UK for some touring. It has got us around Europe (and back thankfully) but probably 70% of the time when trying to start it, I just get a click and then a few seconds later a 2nd click. I have found that after paddling the gearbox up and down through 1st, neutral, 2nd and back to neutral a few times (sometimes many times) it will then start. Driving me kinda crazy! Is this related to my furious gear lever activities (neutral switch somewhere?) or just a fluke and you guys know what the real problem is? Thanks, the bike is slowly gaining my love, but this is really a pain.