windchill

Helo sir, at last a question I can answer easily: buy a "Bike Grab"!! They cost up to £90 I think, and hold the bike nicely upright for storage, routine getting ast bits etc, and save the side stand: which I always worry will become floppy over time (doesn't everything?).

Now I know what I want for my birthday!! Where do those cute little lifts come from?

Thanks chaps. I think I will try the dipping stuff: guess something like belzona liquid rubber woud be worth a go. Fotoguzzi's stand looks nice. I use the bike grab version.

I boughty an MG workshop stand a few years ago, the one that goes on the "pork chop" bolts. It is very agricultural, unless I am using it wrongly, and tends to remove the red finsih rather too often: hence doesn't get used. Has anyone fitted "bobbins" to their swing are? There are two 5mm (I think) threaded holes just forwards of the axle. will these take the weight, or is there a way of making them more substantial?

Thanks for that!! Wife won't go near the bikes, son hates the Guzzi now the pillion pegs are so high up, and daughter has just bought herself a 600!! I had hoped someone might have made a nice lightweight aluminum hanger like the one N-W-S do for Triumph. Suppose I could do the hacksaw thing, but......

My 2003 lemon is fitted with MG's own Ti cans, hung, with the hangers that came with the kit, from "reversed" pillion pegs - an idea that someone on here came up with to move the hanging point further aft. Questions: 1. has anyone got any idea where I can buy something better than the hangers that came with the kit - they "walk" the can as the bike heats/cools/vibrates, thereby pushing the rubber protectors out and scratching the surface of the cans. 2. if no, any ideas where I can get a supply of rubber/plastic "channel" section to keep replacing? 3. does anyone know of a company making replacements for the whole pillion peg bracket/plate assembly - preferably without pegs? I want to make her a pure single seater. Thanks.

Buy a bike grab stand, and sit her in a bike bubble.

Mine, irritatingly, does exactly the same from time to time, and is only "cured" at the roadside by wiggling the fuel pump relay. I leave the top loose, and even unlock the seat in readiness now every time I fuel up!! I can usually get her to start by taking the top off the relay and "forcing" the fuel pump to pressure up: always carry a penknife!

"Maybe I misunderstand how you mean - intuitive...but I'd say riding my Guzzi is entirely intuitive especially my old Tonti, it goes where it wants & I know where it's going to go. If I have to fight it then I'm either not paying attention, or I'm trying too hard. Mine likes to be ridden smooth. If clearance is OK, surely only thing that limits lean angle is tyres & confidence? 'dych chi'n siarad Cymraeg? " Ydw wir: Cymraeg y Gogs!! Fight it as in 1980s style riding, as in it doesn't just drop into a turn when you think about it: there is a degree of, very rewarding physical effort, involved. Like my old Triumph Daytona 900 too. The rider has to think about lines and smoothness, the bike doesn't just take over and drop in - predictability perhaps. Turo wants it to be as flickable as a Sporti, not as flickable as a hypersport speed triple. Hey power ranger, do you change wardrobe to ride your speed triple? LOL I don't "DO" matching leathers!! Black / yellow go with red Guz, blue Trip, yellow Daytona (Triumph that is) - oops, colour co-ordination creeping in!!

By the way: we won the game that mattered!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cymru am byth!!!!

OK, so when does flickable equate to lean angle? My 03 Speed Triple flicks intuitively, sometimes scarily, but I can't get it over nearly as far as the Guz: which is well off the edge of its standard 020s. We buy these things because they are pre-historic don't we: to fight with! To persuade around corners manfully If you want to "flick" surely the answer is to buy something that isn't derived from a cultivator, together with a set of matching power rangers leathers!? OR, have I missed the point somewhere?

Cool, thanks guys. So, Ryland, how do I order from/via your good self please?

I like my hybrid LSL/Rossopuro devices, as someone said about the windshield thingy a few years ag, they are "fugly"

They can be made "prettier" with a bit of imagination though!