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Had the bike on the lift replacing the plugs and doing the valves, decided to investigate why the neutral light was deciding to illuminate when it damn well pleased in neutral. Ultimately, added a M8x12mmx1mm crush washer and with ~20 N-m of torque found the sweet spot statically. Picked 12mm since it seemed to correspond with the boss on the neutral switch doing the crushing.

What sort of lunatic advises on avoiding engine braking! I mean seriously. Avoid "engine braking" to save your drive splines. How are you supposed to ride the bike? Every time you get off the throttle you pull the clutch in? Docc your bike has done a lot of miles, hows the drive splines look? How many have you needed to replace? This advice is up there with not blipping the throttle for downshifts. Maintenance and lubrication is the issue not engine braking which in fact is a minor load on the splines compared to the loads from accelerating the mass of the bike. As for drilling holes in the cush rubbers, well thats a stick your finger in the air and have a guess backyard hackers solution. It's not hard to measure the shore hardness of rubber and if you need something less hard then you can buy liquid Polyurethane in the hardness you desire make a simple mould and mould what you "think" you need. Phil

Wow ! I forgot what I was gonna say. Hop-up(good) = modify , make better , increase horsepower & performance Hop-up(bad) = an attempt to do the first instead fu@king it up and ruining it making it useless.

@PJPR01 you should read this thread by old Guzzi hand @Greg Field if you’re interested in learning more about our V11’s cush drive.

It's Merican for "modify" for performance or a variation on what we would term "hot up" Phil

This is how my 04 Ballabio sings to me about being Special and demanding my Attention

Funny, I stopped by that dealership today and the Scura is #270. I own #269.