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Proud to have won "Best in Show" at 2021 National MG Rally held in Swanzey, NH with my 1973 MG 850 Eldorado. This was my first street motorbike, bought it in July 1978, restored in 2020. Thus began my love of all things Moto Guzzi.

Yup. Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow includes this iconic WWII fighter-bomber aircraft. It is ex-RNZAF de Havilland DH98 Mosquito NZ2308.

Enea Bastianini - Wikipedia - he is quite famous in italy and with kids who are interested in motorbikes - he was expected to be a true contender for motogp worldchampionship this year riding for the ducati factory team. ASI Motoshow in Varano at the Formula 2 race track is the ultimate event for italian motorcycle history afficionados -

A few weeks ago my Lemans got stuck in 2nd gear….oem shift spring failure. I replaced the spring with the Chuck & Scud Super Duper Indestructible Spring. While I was in there, I also replaced the detent roller with a 688-2Z bearing (per Docc’s recommendation, I think) purchased from McMaster-Carr, they’re local to me. Polished the selector shaft, checked preselector plate, boss and cam clearance. Now I’m just waiting on a new shift shaft seal. Big thanks to those guys and the rest of you guys that contributed to the Shift Improvement thread and Re-Engineering the Shift Spring threads. Thank you!

Passo Maniva nord Italy near Garda lake Start to Terrazza del Brivido to Ledro lake to Passo Maniva https://goo.gl/maps/xdwuRPAAgAv19ZA6A

My TENNI after a winter tuning. Painted rear parts of body and spoiler

I posted this after some members were wondering what ecm model was in their bike because the ID tag was no longer visable. Kevin T stated that it can be found with Guzzidiag so, I posted a GD snapshot of my Lemans. ECM type can be seen in the lower left corner. Art

No but I'm right there if you know what I mean...front brake hose almost has no slack with forks fully extended and the start/kill sw wiring had to be rerouted slightly. I don't think I can bring them back any further without replacing hoses and lengthening wiring. Also, it might cause interference issues with the fuel tank. The forks are about a 1/2" higher in the clamps with these risers vs the oem clip ons, i don't notice any difference in handling but the bike sits more "upright" on the side stand because of the risers.

So, the oem shift selector spring broke, after getting the selector plate off the trans I immediately replaced the spring with the Chuck & Scud Super Duper Indestructible spring (barely seen in photo). I then stopped and re-read the Shift Improvement thread and Re-Engineering the Shift Spring threads. After reading the threads again, I was more comfortable taking the assembly apart, washing, inspecting and doing the needful indicated in the threads.

HEY!! Thats MY number from about 13 years ago!!

The first thing I think of here is "crash bars" for the cylinders? ... still liking that side exhaust look though. (But it will never replace my love of the V11!)

Piccoli Guzzisti crescono...

Now THERE is some eye candy!

Hey, I know where that is. Nice pic.

My 1974 Norton 850 MKIIA..built it about 5 years ago..

this is how bike hording starts - you are mentally not able to depart with your totally dead old horse

Here's the trophy!

The venerable green body and red pork chops, and those trick valve covers.....Oh Momma!

New LED tailight carefully frenched into the rear of the tail with a custom made steel number plate hanger carrying the superbright LED micro indicators.. This really helped to tidy up the rear of the bike. The tailight has a clear bottom section which illuminates the license plate.

Thanks for your positive comments guys! Its based on a 2003 Ballabio. It has a much modified replica Ducati fairing with custom mounts. The idea was to create a bike that looked like it could have come from the factory. There a lots of subtle detail changes to give the bike a cleaner more aggressive look. The colour is Kawasaki candy burnt orange code 17L with a charcoal grey centre stripe and airbrushed logos. The centre crossover was custom made in stainless to match the new head pipes (the fronr cross pipe was removed). The silencers are Delkevic 350mm stainless ovals with the dk killers removed. It not too loud but has a lovely deep burble!

In this case, I guess you can have your cake and ride it, too! What an awesome cake! Who made it?

Ah, a Mozzie, my favourite ww2 aircraft! Sadly I've never seen one in real life...

D-Day paint, and RAF markings. What is it? I reckon I should know, but can't think of it.

That's what it's all about.

I believe you! I may have to put my thriftiness on the back burner and get off my wallet for something that has great longevity...darnit!

Vintage car leds is working very well in 3 of my bikes, 3 years now. Cheers Tom.

Ok, I gues it is a Cal 3!

Monthly Guzzi Breakfast rides at Mike's Place in Kent, Ohio this morning, 6/11/23.

La montagne, c'est Chamechaude en Chartreuse. Bonne journée.

Hi Tom, The original owner told me the bags & mounts are HB's. I hear you about the cruise control, I've got cc on my Wing and it is one of the deciding factors in possibly getting my hands on a v85tt. The my V11 has a very light throttle pull imo and I really haven't seen a need for a throttle lock, cc on it. My V11 has bar risers that are as high and rearward as possible without longer br & clutch hoses & wiring mods. Although this bike is great at burning up interstate miles, the most I've ridden it in one day was 450 miles in 2007 when my buddy still owned it. I got it from him in 2015 and the most I've ridden it in one day since then has been about 300 with breaks in between. Art

WOOOO-HOOOOO!!!!!!

Truly! WOW!!

me too, on my '02 LM. 03 good so far

a true bulldog bike shopped used for 600bucks in 2009 - living in a friends farm house in northwest spain now - only 10kms to the atlantic coast. The GB 500 was my initial dream bike !!!! - but as usual totally unaffordable in those days for poor me - 10000 DM was the sticker price Honda dealers asked for in 1992. I drove the 3000km from here to Santiago de Compostela in three and a half days through rain and fog. Today it is , according to the spanish Honda Classic Club, one of 6 XBRs registered in Spain. Cause in the 80ies Spain was not Honda Country as it is today. As outcome of Franco politics they started importing foreign bikes in 1986. Before Guzzi was the only "foreign" brand known. Argentino and guzzi owner De Tomaso had a factory and deal with "el Caudillo and his gang".

this is a different track near Stuttgart https://www.solitude-revival.org/ MotoGP Fan Zone auf Twitter: "Giacomo Agostini on a Moto Morini finished 4th in the 250cc race at Solitude. 1964 German Grand Prix https://t.co/PdwOpD7fxC" / Twitter

XBR 500! I rode my GB500 today! Such sweethearts!

You picky you!!!

Sorry docc it was something for a member in a PM who's sorting out a running issue. It shows the percentage of fuel trim on a std v11 map with regards to engine temp and the temp step points. Ciao

Look at that smile! Bigger than that magnificent Eldorado!

Wow! That's a Greenie on steroids. Love it!

this was the Ballabio donor bike it is based on!

Great looking Rosso Mandello

Hello Kane, My Daughter has been making custom cakes for a while, just a hobby!

superb conversion. and a nice reflection of your talents.

Hello. Yes MY 2003 but made in 2002.

Impressive!

Bellisimo !

Intense! Love it! So edgy!

Yup. But I had to clean up the vector file to get the wing length to center with the tail... and then center the text. Its the little things that make all the difference to me.

The stacks are from PJMotorsports@frontier.com item# pjm-vs4 $29.95 each (they need to be lacquered or anodized but are a perfect fit) The filters are K&N RA-050V (these offer maximum size with clearance all around.) They are fit together by flattening the rolled edge of the velocity stack (mostly for looks) and drilling many 1/16 holes on the flat of the filter to create a mechanical bond for epoxy. They are simple slip fit as I chose to leave the filter neck on to have more bonding area and wanted an easy and positive fit. I know that there will be folks who will rightly poo-poo the underutilization of the flow of stack, to them I say "meh".(the inside diameter of the pod neck is still larger than the i.d. of the stack) The sender is from S and S Classics and is a V-Three unit that has 3 wires 8 pulses and work with almost every electric speedo including VDO. It needed a thread bushing adaptor I had to make ( I couldn't find it anywhere) 7/8-mpt to M16-1.0 to mate to the Motoguzzi output. It also needed the drive key lengthened by 3mm which was done with a TIG and filed back to shape.