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In the most insidious way, this thread has made it firmly back to fish . . .

He's in Rome. You have to take the curvature of the globe into account. The green is very nice.

Congrats. You fellas down in the good old U.S of A will have a monster capital advantage buying Guzzis up here now. Not sure what the final tally would be going that way but at present its taking $1.40 plus in exchanges from this side to acquire your machinery...... Your going to love the Stelvio for eating up monster miles in comfort .... enjoy. Ciao

If in Rome, looks like he's pointed in the right direction to get to Mandello

Oh and 4 x 1 g (1000mg) tabletsl Just in case anyone's worried about consuming 8.8lb's of it?? Cheers Guzzler

Cod liver oil, another thing mandatory when real young. And that was the real thing, hardly flowing out of that green bottle. Not the same today, watered out and. Whale meat was usual those days. Cheers Tom.

Cleaned up very nicely!

Docc, bring that to the sKSR tech sessions garage.

I have the impression that all of the bodywork is a bit crooked. Look at the gap between the end of the fairing and the tank left and right, here and here But the impression of "crooked" in the photos is partly exacerbated by the wide-angle lens and the photographer not taking care to be really on axis when he took the photos.

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

Fish tablets ? I would eat out of a litter bow to ease this pain . This gettin' old caper is not funny at all !

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

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

I would love to have one of the Daytonas or a Magni Australia one day before my age and back prevent me from riding one Although that price is steep, the "investment" is probably sound for at least a few more years I bet. So one could probably just "tie up" $14k USD in the bike for a while, then sell it for similar money after a few years. ...that being said, one can do a lot of other things for $14k, and may not have that just sitting around for a toy Regarding this specific bike, is it just a trick of the photography, or is both the seat and rear cowling slightly crooked to the right as if the subframe were bent or somehow misaligned? Note the aforementioned custom paint work on the rear cowling, the crooked Moto Guzzi decal, and that the cowling and brake light aren't square to each other... and maybe crooked exhaust too? It also could just be that the cowling and seat, or subframe, is not mounted correctly or is just another Moto Guzzi manufacturing QA inconsistency as well.

In case anyone is curious how one might have pods but retain the side covers, which are normally bolted to the now-removed airbox; see the following thread where I cut up an airbox and used the portion to which the side-covers affix, then built a simple frame from aluminum bar stock to mount it to the bike. Along with the aesthetic aspect (love it or hate it is fine ), this approach also may help with the issue of rain saturation that some pod users have noted by providing some modicum of protection from the elements. This may not be for everyone, but is one approach.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

And this... yep, if I even were to consider this, I'd wait 2-3 years to see what bugs get worked out, and what other models show up.

K cameron's take https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-news/moto-guzzi-liquid-cooled-v100-mandello-engine-technical-information/

I agree 100% with Giuseppe from the same article- Giuseppe Grisi 20 hours ago All that is well and good. Maybe. Fair question: Can Gooz execute? Fact is they prototyped this motor what 25 years ago? And the look, the vibe of the bike recalls an awkward take on the regrettably failed Terreblanche experiment. They'd be way better off today if they'd had the ball bearings to roll with it. It's all indicative of a company missing the backbone to lead. Yes, Guzzi is sometimes nice on design and dynamics, but just abysmal on execution. At the end of the day Gooz reliably fails and shows contempt for its customers by pumping out poorly assembled, poorly executed, not ready for prime-time bikes. Don't believe me? Three little words. Griso valve train. Look it up. And I'm going to beat on that drum and add: Griso electrics. Griso lubrication. This all applies to Stelvio as well. Don't get me started on dealerships, service, the Roadside Contempt Program. So until someone can persuade me that Mandello has implemented a well-funded and serious program to vet components, vendors, assembly line performance and invests in a serious way on building the dealer network, the answer is: non tra un milione di anni Hey, three time Gooz owner here. Just fired up a couple of them for the first time this year. So I've been there, rode that, got the toolbox to prove it.

I have some blanks that have been run through the water jet and cnc mill. All that needs to be done is form them and powder coat. So, yes.. if you want one, just PM me with your snail mail address, and I'll finish up maybe 5. Eventually. I'm playing with getting my little homebuilt airplane flying right now..

I think that is a sharp looking color combination

That triple (common to the earlier SPOrT 1100 and 1100 Sport-i) was fitted to some early V11 Sport, as well. The different offset is very likely one (major) source of criticism of the handling of the very earliest V11 Sports . . .

So, while not a "one off," the narrow tail looks to be a "custom made" product of Moto International. Cute name with the text compromised by a typographical error: "out [sic] liposuction tail section" should read "our"? Looks like they came unpainted and >some assembly required.< Cool find!

I got this tailpiece from Cadre Cycle in Ohio. They found and sent a bag of hardware that went with it, and the install instructions. It's a Moto International 'flat side' accessory piece, made to facilitate luggage which is what I thought it was from the beginning. Good to add certainty.