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G'day fella's Yeah it started with me about 10 or so years ago in my hands... I couldn't open a twist top bottle because of the pain in my hands! Then I remembered Mum going on about cod liver oil and having to take it daily when she was a girl so thought I'd give it a go.Not the most pleasant thing but thought gotta be a better way so started taking fish tablets 1000g x 4 daily. This really works for me maybe because I got onto it straight away? I have forgotten to take them on the odd occasion and within days the pain returns.... so now I don't forget! I have noticed a few more aches and pains of late and had a touch of it in my toes and feet/ankles as well. At one stage I could hardly walk (left ankle) and thought maybe it was Gout but turned out it wasn't thankfully. I read somewhere that Vitamin C is a good anti-inflammatory as well and have taken to adding the juice of half a lemon to my bottle of water lately and this seems to be quite good too.So far these wee remedies work for me and I'm hoping they continue to do so and I don't have to start taking meds for it! I know others who have to as these natural remedies don't work for them and thank my lucky stars they do for me. This gettin old caper's not funny at times eh. Cheers Guzzler

Cleaned up very nicely!

OK, this is what I have that could be loaned...

OK, all packed up, and it'll be on the way to him tomorrow

New Entry from Abilene Texas; Two constables on Honda Goldwing; The Goldwing is just as ageless as the BMW GS; at least in my opinion. Whoever came up with the concept should have a statue somewhere. The two fellows were friendly and not in uniform. Maybe on a Spring Break trip?

Probably better in "How to . . . " which allows for replies, whereas FAQ does not. I've seen @footgoose's Tenni in person and that tail is tidy, indeed. Combined with the way he groomed the Titanium exhaust, the the entire back of the bike is transformed. Well, certainly compared to mySport that looks like it's carrying a tarped-down high and heavy load . . .

3 kg is the recommendation on overall weight for this configuration. One other item I found useful was to get slightly longer screws to get more purchase on the mounting. Carrying a rear tail bag with a few essential goodies makes for a nice setup.

An older post, but sage advice! And it's also important to realize that the further one deviates into custom territory, the less shared experiences and advice are available to iron out the details. I've learned to live by and offer similar advice to those first acquiring a vintage home, keen to immediately begin changing everything... to instead take a breath and live with the house for a little while. They may soon begin to like it for what it is, and realize that changing it would forever undo what was unique and special about it.

Can't "like" that, @gstallons. I, too, have that affliction, but, as it's on the mild side, I find that aspirin cuts it (enough) to push through. My right wrist is the way more painful of the pair, following a "I laid 'er down" event in 2003. I was attempting to pass an old red pickup on that sweet stretch of ridge-top pavement on Alab. SR 281 near Cheaha S.P. -- yes, flashed lights and tapped horn -- when said bubba turned left without warning of any kind. Told me it was his "reg'lar turn'round point." Bent my right thumb all the way back! Yes, that hurt some. Then rode the EV to a friend's house in Anniston. Said friend's wife was a RN, and he a bourbon aficionado. A nice combo. OK, must go on with (related) Paul Harvey. So, had surgery. Seemed to go well. Then, after wearing cast for a bit, I went in for a checkup. You know it's a bad sign when the doc's assistant starts to heave when she removed the first cast. Next thing I knew, I was in an ambulance headed to the hospital! In the prep for surgery #2, the anesthesiologist -- a stunning darling of a woman who looked (at least in my memory and retelling) like Andie McDowell right out of Groundhog Day -- asked me if there was anything I wanted. I passed over what I wanted to say , and came up with a lame "How about a beer?" She responded with "Let's make it a six pack," and punched the button. Lights out. OK, back to writing that speech on 19th century military law. Call me if you are suffering from insomnia along with arthritis. Bill

this was from a parts bike I had. Hand made. This is stainless so not an easy shop fab, but maybe useful for you to come up with something if you don't find anything. it's made from flat stock and bent. I made a template for future needs. This lighting is ebay. You can make flat portions larger for different lights. the lower bit is just thin aluminum cut to cover the exposed wiring and such under the tail. It all bolts to the existing subframe wiith no mods. Click the pics to enlarge. Hosted on https://imgzeit.com/

Newly purchased 2012 Stelvio home with me now. Bought new by PO in 2014 from local Guzzi dealer in in Canada. His wife worked there as saleperson and it has been serviced there until they closed up shop. 7k miles, very nice shape and true to form it seems with every bike I buy, original rubber. Took almost 1 hour to get through customs since nobody there was familiar with bike imports so they had to read the regs and ask a lot of questions with others. First questions asked of me...Moto Guzzi? Is that Japanese? lol Much thanks to the forum members for answering my questions and giving me valuable info, especially Pete Roper. His information was precise and plentiful. After about 30 emails back and forth, I asked if could remove valve cover to confirm roller tappets. The manufacture date was not able to be verified on headstock because all of the stuff in the way but engine numbers were after cutoff. But Pete said only true confirmation was visual, so I asked and owner obliged. I got it for a great price. 600 miles round trip with two nights at my sister's in Seattle to break up the trip. Plus I took care of stuff at her place so she was happy to have me...especially since I fixed her bedroom pocket door that the roller came out of the plate on top of the door. One thing for sure...this bike is not going to see any dirt. I bought it for the highway and that is where it will stay. Tires and CARC bearing service, oil, filter, valve adjustment and fresh non-E gas is on the menu.

He seems to really like the bike, giving it an 8.5 out of 10. But it is funny to hear him complain about the transmission, especially about finding/determining what gear it is in. This is funny to me in general because new motorcycles have so many electronic aids such as ABS, traction control, ride modes, and gear indicators... none of which I've ever experienced, and never needed, especially a gear indicator. Why? I wouldn't mind the safety features such as ABS and traction-control/ride-modes, but I've always thought things like gear indicators were a bit funny, on cars or bikes, and laugh when younger riders review and find older bikes to be archaic or difficult (in their minds) to ride without those features I FINALLY RIDE A MOTO GUZZI AND IT'S...

A little pearl in the world of vlogs! presented artistically and funnily by FortNine; I hope he will review the V100 at some point....

@al_roethlisberger $15k maybe the start up costs. It's another cost to maintain and keep running.

Although I don't remember the specifications on this rack from when I had one many years ago, it is wise to check the maximum load as I recall it seemed to be pretty limited, probably due to the extreme cantilevered mounting. I think there was a decal on the rack itself noting the maximum weight. One would hate to bend, break, or scratch something if it collapsed under load, or lose your cargo.

This looks reasonably DIY "doable" @docc We should consider putting it in the FAQ section since the options available never were very common even when the V11 was new, and now are dwindling if any are even available anymore commercially.

The bolt in "1st Series" is specified as M10x55, and in that configuration the parts diagram only shows the part # 14 "washer" under the bolt head. So this earlier bolt is 4mm shorter than the later bolt, perhaps to accommodate both washer and spacer? The bolt in "2nd Series" is specified as M10x59, and uses part # 14 "washer" under the bolt head, and part # 19 "spacer" under the nut. The difference in the two M10 nylock nuts is thread pitch, which for "1st Series" is 1.5 and for "2nd Series" is 1.25, so as mentioned earlier that means that the earlier "1st Series" bolt is 1.5 pitch and the "2nd Series" is 1.25 pitch. ...at least according to the parts manual I was consulting

I honestly don't know... I got it "used" at some point. But it says "V11 Sport" on it, and back then none of us were remapping the ECU as far as I know So I think it should have a valid normal V11 Sport map on it, from what year I'm not sure. Can we tell the model year from the numbers on the ECU? P.S. Once I completely familiarize myself with GuzziDiag and EEPROM reader/writer, I'll likely be asking for help from the experts if/how I can clone (copy) both the fuel and ignition maps from my TLM modified ECU to this one as a backup. It seems clear so far from my partial reading the various GuzziDiag threads that the fuel map can (is typically) what is copied, but it isn't clear to me if that includes the ignition map as well.

I have one, but not sure if it is for/from a V11 Sport, and not sure what state it is in. I'll have to go look in the garage to see what model # it is. I bought it from somewhere, probably 10+ years ago, so have no real idea.. I was keeping it to at some point copy the configuration from my TLM tuned-for-dual-plugged-heads-15M (ignition retarded, that's it) to this other 15M as a spare in case I ever fried the TLM unit If it is helpful, I'm happy to loan it.

That's a quote from the Pressureangle post that Al quoted. It is also the reason why I love my V35 Imola. 40 years old, and there's often work to be done on it. But... The speed limit on country roads here is 100 km/h, i.e. about 60 m.p.h. That bike is built for that sort of speed. You can hammer it, use it's potential, have enormous amounts of fun, and never get beyond the pale.

Or maybe one in White...? I reckon it's one of the better looking options. Cheers Ps Bill, it'd be quite the talking point at the next Moto Grappa and of course we fellow reprobates would be keen to hear what you think of it...

A lot of vintage audio equipment chassis that look like they are brushed or "silver" plated are actually cadmium as well. Don't go sanding, grinding on it or licking it

Update: All fixed! Finally had some time to get back to the project, have been busy at work and riding the Tour of Texas and other activities so the Scura was sitting waiting for attention. Anyway, a few weeks ago at Gstallons recommendation I took my fuel injectors to get reconditioned...that was excellent advice and both were in need of it, but the left one in particular was quite under performing vs. the right one. All of the other items, wires, coils all checked out nicely with no need to replace but I had bought spares anyway just in case. At any rate, after all kinds of fun cleaning the throttle bodies once they were off, sorting out stripped screws on several of the mounting spots, putting in new hex head screws where appropriate, I got it all re-assembled, set the new TPS adjusted properly at 157 mv fully closed with throttle disconnected, high idle screw loose and idle screw backed out (TPS measures 4.78v at WOT w/o linkage connected) and the tuning began again. What I found: The air bleed screws needed to be set differently from left vs. right and in all of my previous attempts I had kept them identical as per all of the prior write ups. Playing with each of the settings and watching the results on the Carbtune, despite cleaning the throttle bodies thoroughly and the bleed screws as well, there's some inherent mismatch on the throttle bodies, that with an extra 1.5 turns out on the RHS vs. LHS, they balance perfectly at idle without the throttle body linkage connected and it idles beautifully and no cough either. I managed to set the idle screws at almost identical levels as well w/o the linkage connected using a feeler gauge technique Gstallons had recommended. Once the connecting rod was reconnected and dialed in until just one or two threads were showing from the locknut vs. the plastic cup, the bike maintained its balance at idle and was perfectly balanced also at 3k RPM's on the Carbtune. Well...off on a test run we go, around the block seems perfect, so let's go for a longer run. A 100 miles later on a cold Houston day, and it's absolute perfection, beautifully smooth, not a single cough of any sort, and feels like much lower vibrations than before. Dare I say it runs better than before...I believe so. Will get some more runs on it over the next day and weeks and hopefully it stays as good as today. Big thanks to all and especially Gstallons for the time we spent on the phone...hopefully it's set and I can rack up some more miles on it now!

p6x, I’ve owned 4 Guzzi’s, all big block air cooled, 3-1100, 1-850. I love Guzzi’s with all of their quirks of ownership. I think Giuseppe loves Guzzi’s too, just after production has been vetted out, that’s a fair statement. I’ve got to say, I’m still drawn to the V100 like a fly to a bug zapper, but am trying to refrain till I see them run a little.

That shift indicator statement reminded me of a sarcastic story I read of a BMW rider that rode the Iron Butt in first gear because his shift indicator read 6 .

A glarish bright orange Kubota or an understated grey V100 Aviazione Navale Hmmm Kathi would understand I’d wager

Bill, I promise to capture the moments of the inaugural sKSR (spring Kentucky SpineRaid).

That there is the Coppa Di Merda Limited edition.. An "Enhanced" survivor.. Stripe added for" ultra speed"..Limited edition parts from E. Baye and special Amazonian racer parts from Jaque Bezos. Exquisite. Timeless.. Wait.. Down $1200????? They wanted $7200 at one time for that?!!

I tried to say... Better off just getting a LeMans and a suede seat and making your own. Would be a better bike anyway.. I have a Scura with the racing flywheel and a standard Lemans.. The Scura can be a widowmaker if that rear wheel breaks grip from the clutch grab. IMHO though not as pretty the LeMans is a better bike overall. Dare I say. Who cares if it wasn't a Tenni from the factory unless you're looking to flip it.

I think I saw one. Once. The light was dim and the moment, fleeting . . . There could have been mushrooms involved . . .

I like that edged tray and support stand setup docc, just what I need to keep from loosing all those "roll away" parts.

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 . . .