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One more to make sure!

Oh, easy! You just need to get all those pesky extra parts out of the way to get the Q-Tips into the tight spots . . .

The Marabese V11 Sport is a pure work of art! Grazie, Maestro!

I saw some pure copper commemorative coins about the size of a silver dollar for a dollar. Thought, "hmmm, I'm tired of fighting those stupid connections.. made a couple of angled brackets. Cheap. (Guzzi content)

Gotta love the local council's sense of understatement ! Cheers Guzzler

I don't remember where I got mine, but here are some current low cost providers. https://www.batterymart.com/p-ody-adapt.html https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Odyssey+L+Terminal+Adapter&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&_udlo=&_udhi=&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=93422&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=15&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_fosrp=1

Here's some pictures of the mounts on my bike. You can see a bit of paint blistering where I ground some clearance on the mounts for something nearby. Excuse the grime. I've always wondered what Docc does to keep his bike looking so nice? Maybe he can share the secret

Many of you know my celebration of Moto Guzzi's centenary this year is to roll 200.000 km/124,000 miles on my one-owner Sport. What are you folks posting for "mileage?" "kilometerage?" @andy york rocks. Likely the world record for a V11 thus far. @kglm ? @luhbo? @Orson? (I keep my odometer in my signature.)

This is what it looks like "Direct" (address starting with "https") and not "BBCode" (address starting and ending with "[img]" . . . Any of you can change a BBCode image (that will not display here) to "Direct" by Copy&Paste the portion of the address https--->.JPG and leave off the [img] from the front and back.

thank you, and the lowest from amazon was $18. Your listings are the lowest, thanks!

Lovely story. Can we ask for pictures?

Awesome Composition docc

I like the terminal adapters, where can I get some, Odyssey?

That's sweet, @guzzler!

Ha ha Thanks everyone, think i've got it now! Gotta say once you know what you're doing this Imgzeit is bloody great! Cheers Guzzler

Sorry to open an old thread but thought I would carry on with the story. So, it's now 2021, Covid and retirement has given me time to get back to the Ducati 750GT motor rebuild. Some inheritance money has enabled my brother and I to spend a little more than we intended on the bike. Bought a Machine Mart bead blasting cabinet and started to clean up the castings. The raised threaded section on the LH case for the clutch adjuster was broken. Also the RH side case support for the kickstart was broken off. Took them to a welder who complained about my using glass beads as they remain embedded in the metal and ruin his weld so he will have them vapour blasted. Lesson learnt I have now bought some soda blasting medium and recleaned the rest of the parts, at least that just washes off with water. Then found the bevel gear fitted to the crank had chipped teeth. It seems it is a weak part on the 750GT design, any wear and then play in the main bearings mean the bevel gear loses its precise engagement and causes the damage. The later 860 engine has a different layout with a conventional spur gear driving a lay shaft with the bevel gear, any crank endfloat just makes the spur gear slide in and out without upsetting the bevel gear. Luckily managed to get one from Australia, Bevel Heaven put me in contact with Vee Two who kindly parted one out for me. Now waiting for the cases to come back from the welder.

I rode it about 10 miles, only up to about 50mph, didn't notice any shake, but I'm going to replace it anyway. I'm learning a lot about these machines from this project, and I like how they are relatively simple and straightforward to work on.

In my opinion theese SKF-tools (KM 1, 2, 3, etc) has not the perfect form. Put the pipes in a lathe and remove the front 2-3mm. Thereby they will attach the peg screws better. And sometimes I had to reduce the outher diameter to get it into the house to attac the nut. And for the old 5-speed Tonti gearboxes - SKF did not had that dimension - so I ordered about 100 directly from the SKF tool factory to be produced according to my drawings. I hope that Pete still have them. Rolf

Wow, it seems like such a long time since autumn . . . Finally! (just watch out for all that winter road gravel . . .)

Thank you! I don't know exactly because the job was done by my mechanic, but i believe he used the original parts except the turn signal brackets, which he built by hand; i bought the windshield on the german site Steine Dinse

My 2001 Le Mans

Here they went: Still, wanted to keep those nice images of your happy Sport here in her new digs: