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Apologies for the delay but had work issues to deal with and the plates have been ready for a couple weeks.... Behold the beauty of the world famous Roper Plate. I'll be getting some packaging material sorted out for these next week so I can start shipping out shortly thereafter. Thanks for the patience everyone. Cheers

Ha doesn't seem right! Here's another fact for you. To go to a full electric/renewable economy the world will need a 400% increase in the mining and production of Copper alone over and above what we currently produce. It takes on average 17 years from inception to digging the first ton of ore for a copper mine and the people that want to close down fossil fuel energy production are also the people that want to close down mining! Ever seen the steel and concrete used in anchoring down a wind turbine? Go and look on youtube at that and count the energy costs. To give you some idea its a hole in the ground about 75 metres across and 30 metres deep full of concrete and steel reo and we haven't even got to the building of the tower and generator which are high maintenance items even land based. The blades are life limited and currently are disposed of in land fill! Utopian dreaming. Phil

I thought I would add one such Luciano Marabese design. My Coppa with a Lemans fairing. Happy Holidays to ALL.

Just curious if many people on this forum go to the annual Guzzi get togethers? Next year it is in John Day Oregon end of June I think. A fantastic riding area...

I just came back to the screen here after unpacking them and checking the dimensions and the idiots at the waterjet facility cut them from the same 3/16" thick material as my other parts, not the 3mm material (aluminum) I requested. I'll be calling them as soon as they reopen to get it fixed. I should have opened them and inspected them when I picked them up but you expect these people to get things right. But footgoose... you make me ask if there was a prior issue with thickness?? surely a mm or so here or there isn't a deal breaker ... but if there is past experience i am unaware of please tell me asap... Thnaks

are they thicker? Thinking about the kickstand mount issue/non-issue already present with the earlier plates

Without a doubt. Phil

He has one already: https://primabergamo.it/viva-berghem/giacomo-agostini-un-suo-museo-via-quintino-alto-privato/ It is a B&B, run by his daughter. Something I would be interested to do. But the minimum is 8 persons, including dinner with Giacomo Agostini. So far the best YouTube video I found about him. It is not filmed by journalists, it is just a group of Italian admirers listening to him remembering. Obviously, it is all in Italian, but some of it does need translation:

I've seen the SuperVeloce S in person in white, with brown seat and gold frame/wheels. It's a lovely bike, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work in every color. It also looks good in the classic MV red over silver. But I am not a fan of the black in orginal picture - and the angle of that picture accentuates the nose. And I don't think it's a design theft. There are plenty of classic race bikes in MV's history to be inspired by, and only so many ways to make a fairing.

I would hold that this is what sets the Marabese V11 Sport design apart. It was "unasked for" and not a "commercial" design. The original V11 Sport was not a compilation of Committee Derivation. There is a certain, and rare, purity in that . . .

Yea Mick but many, many others do. You only needed to watch OCC to find this out. Phil

Thanks, @Coppa53 for sharing images of your Coppa Italia LeMans ! The Öhlins forks look particularly delicious beneath that gorgeous first year Lemans fairing . .

An oddball among oddballs.

That is a point that is discussed regularly on the german forum, and which came up this evening at dinner with a couple of Guzzi owners here in Leipzig. One of the blokes I was with proposed that there is a "low point" about 25 years after the introduction of a vehicle on the market (assuming it has the potential to remain interesting over the years), after which the price goes up again, at least for a while. The other side of the coin is, the type of person who collects motor vehicles seems to be becoming less common. The younger generation(s) doesn't (don't) seem to have the same interest in cars and bikes, and therefore has less interest in collecting the "dream of their youth" as they get older and more affluent. The older Guzzis seem to be, at least here, stagnating in value. There is a school of thought that says the prices are going to drop in the next years as more and more older owners of several machines sell their collections due to old age, or the bikes are sold by their heirs after they pass on. I think there is a lot of truth in that thought. It will be interesting to see how the percieved value of the various V11 models develops over the next years. I tend to think that there will be a few, maybe very few, enthusiasts who are interested in them. On the other hand, I can see the possibility that the interest will wane as the generation that was young when they came out no longer can or will ride them. Having said that, there was a bloke at the Edersee Rally this year with a greenie. He was only about 30, and seemed to be quite rapt about his V11.

I don't know how many miles the OP's engine has on it, but the valves and valve guides seem to be made of some sort of hard cheese, maybe Parmesan. If you are replacing the pistons I would also makes sure the valves and valve guides are good. It would be a good time to have the port work cleaned up as well. You don't need the ports hogged out or anything, but cleaned up and matched well would be nice. The heads have to come off to do the pistons, so you might as well have the heads done.

Install them. I have them in mine. The only other engine mods besides fuel tuning is an exhaust crossover (FBF), aftermarket mufflers (MAP) and airbox modifications. The power increase is palpable. It will pull to the rev-limiter in 6th gear. I wanted to send my heads to Mike but never did.

I’m not coming over there, you come here LOL Kiwi_roy Griso 1100, 72 Eldorado Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I read this today... Here comes the Tesla battery. To produce it you need to excavate: 12 tons. of rock for Lithium 5 tons. of cobalt minerals 3 t. of mineral for nickel 12 tons. the mineral for the copper Need to move 250 tons. of land to obtain: 12 kg of Lithium 13.6 pounds of nickels 22 kg of manganese 6.8 kg of Cobalt 100 Kg of Rams 200 kg of aluminum, steel and plastic. The Caterpillar 994A used to move this earth consumes 1000 litres of diesel in 12 hours. Here is the “zero emissions” car.