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  1. 6 hours ago, audiomick said:

    I believe something similar went through in Victoria, Australia (i.e. Melbourne) some years ago. @Lucky Phil or @guzzler, am I right there?

     

    When I was still living there, it wasn't legal, but was tolerated to a great extent. I know I did it all the time.

    In Leipzig it is a little more difficult. The streets are a bit narrower, and sometimes there just isn't room. And there are drivers who, if they see you coming, will edge over to block you off. Never had that in Melbourne. Bloody Germans... :grin:

    Yes we've had lane splitting for a while now legally. Maybe 7 or 8 years.

    Phil

  2. No idea what you are doing here but if you have moved the selector "hoses" with the cover off then it's just a matter of moving them back with your fingers into a position equally between the fully selected positions on both gears. Then you have the selector in neutral and dry fit the cover to confirm the positioning then carefully remove the cover, apply sealant and fit. 

     

    Phil

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  3. 9 minutes ago, activpop said:

    Thanks for that input. I am going out to the shop now to read the numbers on the spring and try to reference them. I wonder what that smaller diameter grooved wheel at the rear of the shock does? I can't see what it could do. That spring seems compressed greatly by the threaded adjustment wheel. Is it normal to crank that thing so far down?

     

    It's the rebound adjuster. The reason the pre load collar is wound down so far is probably because the shock was originally fitted with an hydraulic per load adjuster that was removed, or another spring was fitted for use with the hydraulic pre load adjuster which are shorter or the wrong spring is fitted from another manufacturer. The spring probably doesn't have as much preload as you think because the spring is short to make space for the hydraulic pre load adjuster.

     

    Phil

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  4. Read Dave Richardsons book "My Life in bikes" if you want an idea of the competency of Guzzi USA. Dave ran the Guzzi dealership Moto international for over 20 years and saw it all. Worth a read for sure if you're into Guzzis and the behind the scenes machinations of running a Guzzi dealership. 

    Phil   

  5. 56 minutes ago, Daveguzzi1 said:

    I have a 2003 v11 Lemans. I have an off idle cough/backfire through the intake that is consistent to 3000 rpms. It is worse when the bike is fully warmed up. When rolling on the throttle and going thru the gears it doesn't occur but holding the throttle steady at 3500 or below it hiccups and coughs. New plugs properly set valves clean air filter. Plugs look good when pulled after running. The exhaust crossover has the special seals so it doesn't leak and headers are tight and not leaking. 23k on odo. She's done this for a while but getting worse. We have a dealer in our town but I have a factory service manual and would prefer to fix myself.  Thoughts????? DaveG

    Inlet manifold rubbers leaking/cracked. Worse when at operating temp because the engine is off the cold enrichment trim and onto the normal fuel mapping and so the air leak makes it lean. The cold enrichment trim helps cover the leanness caused by the manifold leak. I was the first to fit cam gears and it didn't cure my 2800-3200 hick up. A Daytona engine cured that.

     

    Phil

     

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  6. 5 hours ago, audiomick said:

    I found an explanation for that: a forum acquaintance from a couple of german forums turns out to have fotos of my Le Mans from the time it was owned by the owner previous to the bloke I bought it off. According to the papers, he had it from some time in 2017 until the middle of 2022. The bloke before me bought it then, and sold it on to me at the end of 2022.

    Anyway, in the one photo there is a conventional handle bar on it. Also, the mufflers in the photo are light gray coloured, not the purplish ones that are on it now.

    So the old girl is obviously a way off being "original". Unless, of course, one means "original" in the sense of "one of a kind"... :grin:

    It think Mick if your mufflers are the std factory aluminium skinned units they started out black and then have faded through grey to violet.

    Phil

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  7. 5 hours ago, GuzziMoto said:

    You may be able to bend the connection that is supposed to go onto the sparkplug to get it to fit. It is just a metal fitting crimped on the end of the wire. It may have been squished or otherwise bent so it no longer fits. Just bend it back. That should make it work. If you can't bend the end to get it to fit on the spark plug, you could cut the old end off and install a new end on the stock cable. Being less then an inch shorter should make little difference.

    As to replacing the spark plug cables in pairs, that doesn't seem important to me. As long as the cables are the right type, and the same type, it should make little difference.

    Plug caps for plug threaded collar on and plug threaded collar off are two different designs. Collar on plug lead cap has a formed sheet metal internal split sleeve that clips over the spark plug collar and the type that is designed to be used with the plug collar removed uses a machined plug cap internal metal fitting with a spring wire designed to provide the connection and holding friction for the cap. The OP may have 2 different styles of caps fitted. Time to just replace them with some new ones. I have the P/N's somewhere.

    Phil 

  8. On 11/24/2022 at 7:29 AM, activpop said:

    212-380-4400 Piaggio customer service. They can give you all the info on open or closed service campaigns. They were very helpful for me on in investigating three 2001's. Scott is who I dealt with the most.

    So they kept the records of all the VIN's of bikes that had the update completed? Of course then there's the bike with the affected VIN thats had the update done but subsequently been fitted with another gearbox due to a housing crack etc. Or buying a second hand gearbox from the period.

    Phil

  9. 4 hours ago, OuijiVeck said:

    Hmmmm... I was never aware there was any power train problem with this ear V11 ... except the Scura clutch... now that I just bought a 2000 Sport this thread crops up. ... I had noticed some escaped sealant at housing..thought that might be bad but now maybe it's good? Vin seams to fall in the range... M112170. I was going to ignore the sealer until I just got a good ride in yesterday. I had glanced at this thread and didn't care until I noticed I was getting a good SNICK" on about half my shifts into 3rd. Is that SNICK! a precursor of evil times ? I will soon have my side cover off for spring replacement (THANK YOU SCUD !) is there any seeable telltale signs of imminent failure ?

    There is no way of telling if your gearbox has been updated by viewing the components. It was a heat treatment and material issue. There's also the gearbox housing cracking and the recall for conrods as well. Now you're fully informed. Feel better now? :D

     

    Phil 

  10. 4 hours ago, LaGrasta said:

    Being concise and consistent is the first rule of branding. No one will remember a convoluted and changing message.

    The "message" is changing all the time as far as I can see. 

    Phil

  11. 11 hours ago, Weegie said:

    Great stuff Phil

    I'm guessing this is for a another HiCam build, which I'll be following avidly (stalking???)

    It will be interesting to see what differences result from all the modifications on the "HiCam II" over the engine that's now in your Greenie

    Thanks for informing us of the latest and greatest from Joe, I do need to drop him a line at some point.

    One more thing, where did you source the MGS jackshaft from as it would an interesting upgrade to my HiCam?

    John

    I bought it from TLM about 5 or 6 years ago John when they were clearing out all their MGS parts. You can convert a standard one to the MGS ball bearing supported version as it's derived from that. You also need to provide a backstop to the ball bearing in the front bearing bore and seal off the old rear bearing oil feed as well.

    Phil

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  12. 5 hours ago, Kevin_T said:

    Phil you answered one question for me. I always wondered how the MGS-01 lubed the jackshaft with ball bearings. I heard if used more than 13 psi oil pressure you could cause the ball bearings to skid. Guzzi took it right out of the circuit, problem move to oil cooler with no thermostat.

    Going through your photo album, oh my but you covered a lot of ground over the years. Phil you certainly persevered to the benefit of us all.

    No,  no pressure feed to the jackshaft rolling element bearings and yes no thermostat to the oil cooler because the MGS engine was never made for road use. Same as it also went back to the smaller and slower driven V11 oil pump. Last thing this engine needs is an oil pump that delivers less oil at low rpm around town.  

     

    Phil

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  13. These arrived a few days ago from Joe. The latest timing gears and oil pump. The pump now uses a bronze bushing for the main drive gear to minimise oil loss through the needle bearing type. I had Joe make my Jackshaft gear 16mm wide as opposed to the alloy gears 18mm width. I don't see a reason for a wider gear if it's now steel instead of aluminium. Pumps L to R....Joes pump, a std Daytona pump and another brand aftermarket pump. The Jackshaft is an MGS-01 shaft. The MGS got rid of the long jackshaft with the additional plain bearing at the flywheel end of the crankcases. That was a carry over from the 2 valve engine which needed the rear bearing as in that engine it was a camshaft and needed the rear support. The MGS shaft is supported by a ball bearing instead of the plain bearing at the front of the crankcase for less friction but it means the oil supply to the heads and oil pressure switch is now blocked so those are fed from the oil cooler connection. I'm seriously toying with the idea of just chopping the rear bearing and shaft off the jackshaft and running just the front plain bearing. I can't see why this wouldn't work and so preserve the integral oil feed to the heads and oil pressure switch. A bit more friction is all I can see as the result.  Details from Joe   

    Oil Pump gears are Helical Case Hardened and polished and should give a Hardness around 55-60 R

    The Bronze bushes have a 1mm shoulder like a top hat to prevent the bush moving towards the crankcase.

    The large 56 teeth Steel belt pulley large gear is 16mm in gear width compared to the original of 18mm.

    All the gears are made from en36 or 655m13 which is an upgrade from before as I was trying out this new supplier

    and so these are shiny and not the usual black Tuftride finish.

    These are Case Hardened gears which are then polished and so have a harder surface wear finish .

    The black gears are classed as through hardened in the heat treatment and so not suitable for the polishing process. 

    The case hardened gears have an increase of around 10 Rockwell over the Tuftride gears and so I think they might

    sound different too.

     

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  14. On 3/15/2024 at 6:00 AM, GuzziMoto said:

    Honestly, I am not yet very concerned with where Marc Marquez goes. He is not the top guy, yet. And he may never be that guy. Time will tell. Who was really impressive in last weekends race was Bagnia. He was amazing. But I get that many are still focusing on Marc because of what he has done on the Honda in the past. He is doing better then he was at the end of his Honda career. But he still is not one of the fastest guys on the Ducati.

    Side note, how mean is it that Audi gave Marc an RS6 and only gave Alex an RS4.....

    Not as mean as Phillip Island naming a corner after Jack Miller instead of Remy Gardner. I like Jack but he's never won a world title or anything super special except crash a lot. Remy on the other hand has been a Moto2 World Champion at least. 

    Makes me wonder about those that make these PR decisions.

    Phil

  15. On 3/14/2024 at 9:18 AM, LaGrasta said:

    I work in advertising, being concise is an art that none of you have obviously mastered. :lol:

    I've heard many opinions on advertising over the years but "concise" has never been one of them.

    Phil

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  16. 2 hours ago, LaGrasta said:

    Just spoke to Andreani again. They have yet to fit the uncommon 43mm size forks (@luckyphil). It was their impression, this is what I had given them. Although mine have confirmed their 40mm fittings, it did not gain them additional fitment as they had hoped. Anyone with 43mm interested?

    Those with 40mm forks, order with confidence!

    Well not quite. I dont believe their carts will fit the early silver 40mm forks. 99-2000.

     

    Phil 

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  17. 3 hours ago, GuzziMoto said:

    I get why someone would want cruise control on a bike, but I have no need or desire for it. I do use it in 4 wheeled vehicles, where I am just getting from point A to point B. But when I am on a bike I am there for the ride. But others, no doubt, are on their motorcycles to get from point A to point B, or maybe they just have a different idea of what "the ride" is.

    People miss the point of cruise control, it's an anti fatigue device not a motorcycle or car driving/control device. Let me explain. I've been dealing with aircraft autopilots all my working life and the reason they exist is to relieve the pilot of the mental fatigue caused by hours of stick and rudder flying. There's minimal skill required on a commercial jet to hand fly the plane but it does fatigue mentally over hours of doing it. So the concept is to relieve the pilot of that low level mental fatigue that accumulates so he has more resources to focus on the important things like navigation and the upcoming landing. Keep the pilot as mentally fresh as possible. In the commercial aviation world the restrictions of flying a jet with inop autopilots is very severe indeed to the point where we never did it. We just fixed the issue. Commercial pilots don't consider the autopilot system as some sort of slur on their flying abilities which a lot of car drivers do with active cruise control.

    So car/bike cruise control is exactly the same concept. It's mentally draining over medium to long drives/rides keeping the vehicle on the speed limit or desired speed all the time and now with draconian speed limit tolerances and enforcement it's worse than ever. The cruise control is there to relieve the driver/rider of that mentally fatiguing process so he is free to focus on more important issues like the next corner or the road surface or surrounding riders/drivers. The best invention ever, well almost is Active cruise control. My auto cars have it. The car will hold a set speed up hill down dale apply the brakes if needed when it come up behind a slower car etc. All I need to do is worry about the surrounding drivers and dodging the road kill on the freeway and timing my lane changing. Brilliant. The difference in mental freshness on the regular 9 hour drives I do is dramatic. You get to your destination much less fatigued then before. It's not a system designed to insult the rider/drivers skill level which a lot of drivers seem to think it is but primarily an anti fatigue and therefore safety device.

    Other electronic aids such as lane keeping assist which is used to help mitigate inattentive drivers behind the wheel I'm not so thrilled about and I turn them off because they are generally too intrusive and not there for fatigue relief but to assist lazy bad drivers not focused on the task of driving the vehicle. 

    Anti lock brakes are another great aid. Lets face it how many people practice their threshold braking to become or even keep proficient at it.  

     

    Phil

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  18. 6 hours ago, Frenchfrog said:

    I've heard about that theory a long while ago...apparently ,according to the conspirationist who first told me about it , it was first put forward by Russian scientists.

    A quick butchers on wikipedia gives this

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

    the idea has been around for a really long time !

    You didn't open my link obviously.

     

    Phil

  19. Here's something interesting. I was talking to my SIL's father a few months ago about this. He's a retired physicist thats spent a good deal of his career in the oil industry. Our long held beliefs and education of the origins of oil are quite possibly flawed. In the history of all forms of drilling for exploration nobody has ever found fossilised material below a drilling depth of 16,000 feet. So thats the maximum depth ever recorded for buried originally organic material, material that may under the correct conditions be turned into a hydrocarbon or crude oil. So why then is a large percentage of our oil derived from wells between 28 and 32,000 feet? This may be the answer and means that oil reserves are instead of being a finite resource are more like a continuing by product of the earths naturally occurring geological conditions. So oil is the product of dead forests under the influence of pressure and heat? Quite possibly not as it turns out. Saturn's larges moon Titan has also been speculated to have vast subsurface deposits of crude oil by both NASA and the European space agency after reviewing probe information. There's never been forests on Titan as the surface is a sea of Methane.  

    https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889

    As for the death of ICE vehicles, don't worry it ain't going to happen in my lifetime.

    Phil

     

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