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Just a foot note to my post above. Had to get a tow truck to bring me home on Tuesday. On a ride through the East Bay hills I suddenly had no shifting. The 6mm bolt that attaches the shift lever to the shift rod on the trans had dissappeared. I had nothing on board I could use to jury rig it, hence the tow truck call (Thanks AMA roadside service!). Lesson learned? Don't be a cheap bast*rd. ALWAYS use a new lock nut. John

Hello Johnny I just put the Motratech pegs on my 2004 Cafe Sport as well. I also printed up some pics from the website to see where things went. Good idea with thinner spacers on the shifter side. I had the same issue with the toe peg being just a bit too far in. Fortunately, the previous owner had experimented with other foot peg set ups and passed along a set of bespoke toe pegs which are longer than stock and that solved the problem for me. I was also concerned about the shifter being adjusted properly but having set it up as per John's instructions it's perfect. Yeah, they're pricey and it took me a while to talk myself in to it but I'm glad I did! Cheers! John

I've got a 2004 Cafe Sport. Both the owners manual and the factory shop manual specify 5-40 which is what I use. Guzziology discusses this change from the recommended 20-50 for earlier models.

2004 Cafe Sport ZGUKTC0244M111147 alive and well in Richmond, CA (SFBay Area). I think I'm the third owner at 11.5K miles. I'd post a pic but, other than the Ferracci slip-ons, it looks just like the rest of them. John

Footgoose, FYI California Sport Touring doesn't normally stock them, just a happy accident. Probably easier if you get them on line. Having said that, Kim and his crew are good guys and have saved my bacon more than once.

Scud, many thanks! That turned out to be the perfect solution. I'd been trying to fit some Moto-D valves which are cool looking but are shaped differently and I wasn't comfortable with how little grip I was getting with the locking nut. Turns out my local bike shop, California Sport Touring, had a set of the Bridgeport/Ariete valves like yours in stock. They had ordered them by mistake for another job and were happy to get rid of them! I put the front one on, 7.2 ft/lbs torque with a touch of blue Loctite, and as you said there's enough thread contact to work. BTW, if anyone reading this is thinking of the same mod note that the Amazon link shows the 11.3mm version of the valve. You want the 8.3mm version. Thanks again Scud!

Marty, I've got a set of those but stopped using them because I found that as I'm unscrewing them from the tire valve it loses air?? Weird. Thanks though.

There wasn't a lot of thread, but they worked. They've stayed on for two sets of tires and they hold pressure. SUPER convenient too. Just yesterday I went to put air in my tires and the valve stem was behind the front brake caliper - and I was still able to check pressure and air without rotating the tire. Aim them to the right of the bike, so they point up a little when the bike is on the sidestand. Thanks Scud, that's reassuring. I think I'll do a trial fit and torque them to spec (something like 7.2 ft lbs) and see what they look like. Maybe even some blue Loctite so I can sleep better.

Scud, Do you recall how much of the threaded base potruded to the inside of the wheel? Obviuosly enough to get a nut on securely.

I'm replacing the tires on my 2004 Cafe Sport and while I'm at it I want to change the valve stems to the 90 degree variety. The problem I'm having is that I can find plenty of angled valve stems to fit the 8.3 mm hole but none that are long enough to pass through the wheel leaving enough thread exposed inside the wheel to get a secure grip on the nut. All the valves I've seen, MotoD, Ariete, K-L and even the factory Ducati valves are about 10mm deep which only leaves about 2 or 3 threads exposed inside the wheel. The Guzzi wheels are made by Brembo but are unlike current Brembo wheels in that they are cast with a very thick section in the middle of the wheel. So if you see a listing for a valve that will fit Brembo wheels it won't fit the Guzzi wheel. Has anyone encountered this and if so what was your solution? I'm tired of wrestling with the air hose and those damned straight valves. Thanks! John

After a day of futzing around in the garage (it's been raining like hell) I think I've come to terms with this thing. I agree with Bogwopit that not much thought went in to the design process. Can't imagine why you'd purposely want a stand to rotate on a hexagonal nut. The poor nut won't be hexagonal for long. Also there's the unavoidable issue of scratching the lower frame plates while trying to place the stand in the correct position on both sides. Finally, at least with my stand, the lifting arm fouls on the left muffler when I try to raise the bike. So here's what I've done to make the stand work for me. 1 - I took a Dremel tool with a grinder head and lightly rounded the the very sharp inside edges of the stand risers to reduce the possibility of scratching. 2- Out of $20 worth of bits and pieces from the local hardware store I built a small fixture which attaches to the stand risers. The purpose of the fixture is to locate and support the stand on two 18mm 3/8" drive sockets which are placed on the frame hex nuts. I got the idea from looking at an image of the BeckerTechnik stand (thanks Nobleswood! I didn't think they were available in the US), 3- Then I put the whole mess on my bench vise and gave the lifting arm a few serious tugs which bent it enough to clear the muffler. And this is how I raise the bike. I put a scrap of 2 x 4 under the sidestand to bring the bike closer to vertical. I place an 18mm socket on each hex nut and, using the fixtures, I attach the stand to the 18mm sockets (doesn't matter which side first). The large 12mm bolts hold the sockets on the hex nut and are just finger tightened. The stand is now attached to the bike. A yank of the lift handle and she's very smoothly up. In the pic you can also see a piece of thick felt packing material surrounding the socket just in case the stand decides to go for a walk which, so far, it hasn't. So now I've got a usable rear stand which is easy for me to use and won't damage the bike in the process. Thanks to all for your suggestions! John (under water in the East Bay, finally!)

Thanks again Chuck. I'll give it another go tomorrow.

Andy, thanks for the sympathy. I suppose by this time I should know better. Never thought I'd miss my Multistrada but that Ducati Performance read stand was bullet proof.

Chuck, thanks for the quick reply. What side of the bike are you standing on? If I stand on the left (shifter) side of the bike and try to lift the arm towards the rear it fouls the exhaust. From this I assumed that the stand works in the opposite direction ie I stand on the right side and the arm is raised toward the front of the bike. I've been down in the garage making a few more attempts with no success. Guy accross the street kinda looks like an orangutan. I think I'll invite him over.

OK I give up. I recently bought a 2004 Cafe Sport which came with the factory rear stand. Front what I can tell it takes two people ( or one large long armed orangutan) to use this contraption. Can someone clue me in on the trick to this thing? Or better yet, direct me to a video. There are scratches and gouges on the bottoms of both pork chops which suggests previous owners have had the same struggle. I've got a list of things I need to do on this bike and need to get it's ass end off the ground. Help! John A

Hello all! I've just signed on to this forum because I'm also on the WildGuzzi forum and have read plenty of positive comments there about this group so tops on my list of things to do after buying my 2004 Cafe Sport was to sign on here. I also own a 1978 Le Mans I, but up until a few weeks ago my daily rider was a 2006 Ducati Multistrada. The Multistrada was kind of a bucket list bike for me and after four years it was time to move on. There's a punch line from an old joke about a monkey and a skunk which pretty much sums up my Ducati experience. Without boring (or offending anyone) with the details of the joke, the punchline goes "It wasn't as much as I wanted but it was as much as I could stand". My search for a replacement ride was going no where. I thought I'd buy a new bike (Yamaha FJ09) so I could finally own a bike that I didn't have to work on, but as a retired slacker I couldn't justfy all those clams. the other alternative was something small, light, short and boringly generic and even though I've acheived geezerhood I'm not quite ready for anything remotely scooterlike (and I'll shoot myself before I'd by a cruising bike). So, thanks to the Flying Spaghetti Monster I stumbled on this beautiful Cafe Sport on the LA Craigslist and the rest is history. Already put the lower pegs on BTW. Cheers! John

I've been thiking the same thing. If I come up with a reasonable touch up paint I'll let you know.

K99, Small world! I just bought the identical bike, 2004 V11 Le Mans Cafe Sport, early this week in Santa Clarita and trailered it to my home in Richmond in the SF Bay area. Same color combo, 11K mikes and I also have an almost identical gouge in the right frame member above the foot rest! Not sure if it came from a riders boot or if some one got clumsy with the factory rear stand. We had a break in the weather so I was finally able to to take it out for a spin around town and guess what? It's different from the 2006 Multistrada it replaced! Feels like an adult version of my 1978 Le Mans I, so this old man's pretty happy. It has the stock exhaust but came with a set of Ferraci carbon slip-ons which I may put on one of these days just to see how loud they are. Anyway, congrats on the new ride!