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Denying and not knowing are two different things. Did you know that most black frame riders also think the world is flat 🙈🙈🤪🤪🤪🥳🥳🥳🤣 Edit: I might need to delete this message as it is against forum rules. But please don't take me more serious than I take myself.

Well if you have wet noodle biceps then get a long frame. If on the other hand you have the massive Guns I and other short frame riders are endowed with then hanging onto the odd tank slapper is no problem

In places the world IS flat. Just another black frame rider :-).

Recently, a fellow explained to me that motorcycles are essential to a man's survival, even if they are sitting in the garage just to be gazed upon. His compelling argument? "Dinosaurs didn't have motorcycles. Look what happened to them !"

My Hyperpro one has been on for years and only ever touched when I was trying the settings... Been on +4 for years now. Sorry no idea about greasing it but mine doesn't seem to need any or maybe I'm distantly related to Luigi in Mandello? Cheers

Took mine into work on Friday. Bloody hell, zero to 2 degrees on the Longwarry Flats was BRUTAL. Couldn't get my helmet off at the servo as hands wouldn't co-operate, so the re-fuel took a bit longer ha ha. Anyway, it was a lovely 20 degrees for the ride home and even managed to get round the four wheeled fun barriers to ENJOY the twisty bits.... Cheers

On mine the nuts on the oil line were a hard to turn initially but used a little wd40 and loosen/ tighten and they loosen up. If only one is giving trouble you might consider disconnect all three ends of oil line and take the fitting with the oil line off on the difficult one and then work on it on the bench

I tvisted the line in oposite direction, and managed a straight oil thight line. Tvisted sounds horrible, nice and easy. Cheers Tom.

Thanks Phil, I will do the same, my issue is I cannot turn the Flexi line nut off more than half a turn as it turns the line and distorts it. I am hoping I can free it off but it doesn't feel like a swivel attachment. Was it on yours?

I had the oil leak at both heads ( 2004 Ballabio) where the fitting attaches to the head. It was not the oil line to fitting. If you check out other reports I think that is where the leak is most often There was an aluminum crush washer between the fitting and the head. In my case that was where the leak was. It was all original 20 years old. Looked like some kind of thread sealer or Locktite on the threads. I removed the fitting and glad I did not just tighten them up as the aluminum crush washers were quite distorted from wiggling around. I replaced the aluminum washers with copper washers and used some locktite to ensure threads sealed as well. No more leak so far.

I had the same oil leak problem. The nipple gets loose. Loosen the flexible connection first, holding the nipple. Then tighten the nipple that feeds the oil into the head. Following that, tighten the flexible onto the nipple. This is a metal to metal sealing, and the nut on the flexible will rotate.

Well, we had the War of the Roses and Ivan the Great. 1490 was boring.

Do you mean Jerry Douglass? He’s the GOAT of Dobro.

19mm different. Edit: 1471mm for the one, 1490 for the other. See here: https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_sport 00.htm https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_cafe_sport 02.htm or here, page 28 and page 421 https://guzzitek.org/gb/ma_us_uk/1100/V11_1999-2003_Atelier(Compil-GB-D-NL).pdf As far as I'm concerned, 1490 is a nice, neat, round number that works very well. 1471 seems somehow insufficient.

Well Mick you can cheat the roadworthy buy prying down the dust seals and inserting some absorbent material in the void between the dust seal and main seal. Usually gets you through the test and a few hundred Klms.

Hello, as the title suggests, I have an oil leak and it appears that the oil feed head attachment on the left hand head has loosened off a bit. The problem I have, is that if I tighten the head attachment (long 14mm nut) then my oil line kinks, as the fitting that attaches the line to the head does not appear to be a swivel, or at least, it is not swiveling. So I cant tighten the line to head but as it just kinks the line. Where these ever swivel joints?

Blow torch to the rescue! Yes they do move eventually but channel locks, pipe wrench, nothing was moving it until I got it red hot. Thank you for the advice!

Thanks, I guess mine has seized a bit, as the line is kinking when I tighten that nut back onto the nipple.. I sprayed on some plusgas, I was holding the line with pliers and it still rotated with the nut. I'll leave it to stew for a while.

At the (further) risk of overposting (again), here is some Redneck Jazz that just touches my heart . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHv3chUOygc

Might be kind of late but next time you have the tank off pull the breather hose on the side of the frame. See if you have any mayo in there. If you do vacuum it out don't try to flush it.

Do we? Well there you go, something I know that I didn't know I know.

airplane that's noisy and smells bad.

Well, we all know short frames are better frames. I mean, who wants to ride something that handles like a boxcar?

I was wondering how the RedFrame Trash talk might settle out on a LeMans forum . . .

^ That is an example of what makes this such a great little community. Rapid Rabbit Recovery.

This V11 lives in the northern part of the Netherlands , there’s a lot of Dutch spinies on the forum 💪🏻

Nederland Spine Raid!

Congrats from the Netherlands! Good to see some more young (I was 25 when I bought mine, now 10 years ago) people buying V11's! That is a beautiful color. Feel free to send me a message if you (or anyone else from the Netherlands, but there are not so many) wants to go out for a ride!

I've officially ridden my first 1000 kilometers on the Lemans now!

Two beauties for sale. A Tenni in San Diego and a customized Cafe Sport in PA. Both on MP, didn't see them on CL.

2003 Carryover Sport configuration: 2002 "Long Frame" with early "Short Tank" (chin pad/external fuel pump/filter) and white-face Veglia gauges driven by the "angle drives." Wrinkly, crinkly, fragile black engine/driveline paint. 40mm forks. No front exhaust crossover pipe or "Long Tank" (internal pump/filter), no "tube driven" black-face ITI/hUR instruments, no 43m forks, no left/right turn indicators without a "battery" light. No tight "satin" black driveline paint. (all common to true&actual 2003 and later V11). These are purely 2002 specification V11 that were sold as 2003 "transition" models . . .

Part No. on the tree on mine 01493180. Part No. for the EV 03493100 so I dont know if the fork spacing, diameter is the same. The handlebar support hardware will work though,with the Ballabio tree. Paul B

Hey Foto, Ballabio tree is the same but drilled for bars and all the associated hardware from a Cal stone will work. The previous owner of my 2000 Sport did this to mine. Paul B

Oh, you'll also need some A06 spacers. You'll need to contact Renthal USA for them once you have proof of purchase of your CL003.

No need. On the underside of your top yoke there are the bosses ready to be drilled to take bars. I used Renthal CL003 bar mounts and an 828-50 Fatbar with bar ends and G176 grips.