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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!

Don't you think it far more satisfying to have to "heave your bike round corners? I like the old fashioned "go where I tell you" as opposed to the almost intuitive way modern bikes seem to take you down and round!

Hi, any idea where I could get the same thing in the UK? My biggewst problem is with the relay that fires up the fuel system: quite often have to spend up to half an hour messing about with it until the bike will even start!

Sometimes mine won't start, other times it "dies" when running along the road. Both symptoms appear to tie in with the relay which "powers" the fuel pump - if I either stop and wiggle it round, or sometimes just turn the ignition off/on again the problem is resolved for a bit!! I have taken to unlocking the seat base at fuel stations these days so that if I don't hear the "whirr" of the pump pressurinsing the system (is that what the noise is?) I can get at and wiggler the relevant relay. As far as i can see, all other connections are OK.

Excellent advice guys. Thanks

I need suggestions for tail tidys and a new seat which is more comfortable for a pillion: mine keeps slipping off the little pad on the standard unit!! Is there an english version of Rossopuro's catalogue by the way?

What about the Rossopuro ones with "bungs" on. There is a thread here somewhere (which includes my very own modified version too!!).

Mine does it ALL the time!! If you don't hear the fuel pump "initiate" itself when you turn the ignition on, it has to be the relay. I have found that this is the ONLY circumstance when the fuel pump won't "initiate" or whirr. Yes, I have also replaced perfectly good relays, but find that wiggling the one for the fuel pump (rearmost on my bike) usually gets a connection, so aim to take out the "block" they all sit in sometime and tighten the terminals. Tested off the bike, the realy is fine, in it, it is intermittent: to such an extent that I remove the seat in resadiness for wiggling almost every time i stop!

Aha, if you want the pegs to sit "flat" when open, just swap them for Oberon ones: thats what I am going to do now anyway.

If you let me have your e-mail I'll send you some detailed pictures. If I recall, I failed to upload the files last time! The pegs end up sitting vertically when closed, and, according to my 15 year old daughter, who is pretty tall, are comfy in use: if a bit higher than they were with the OE cans.

There are loads of good pics on here showing how to fit these by reversing the replacement footpeg/can hangers. Mine are dead level now: the only problem is a bit of "walking" on the RH can when it gets very hot!