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Easier to set the TPS if you buy the Casper wiring harness that connects to the TPS and then has leads off it to connect to your voltmeter rather than probing the wires with the voltmeter sharpened sticks. Someone will probably find the link before I can find it... Found it: https://www.casperselectronics.com/cart/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=853&search=109172

Oh i see...to make them more like Swiss cheese so they "flex" a bit? Interesting approach...never heard of that being applied to bushings before on a motorcycle or car. Seems like it would render the structure more unstable and prone to cracking, I suppose it depends on the size of the hole drilled into the rubber.

What do you mean by drill new rubbers? Do you mean the rubber sleeves connecting the throttle bodies? TPS doesn't have any rubber in it but needs to be precisely set at 157 millivolts. Confused by the note above.

You misspelled aluminum again! Not much steel in the engine other than the valve covers maybe? I'm guessing of course...have never run a magnet around the engine to find what's steel or knot (hee hee).

Great find...the rack is hard to find, and a brand new one to boot! Jump on it!

Comparing the VIN # on this one to mine, we are 17 apart... Mine is #287, so this one might be #269 or #270. Bike sounds good, valves seem quieter than mine, looks like I may need to go a bit tighter again! I wonder if it has the 3k cough...but it sounded great! If it sells for $7K, that would be great for us Scura collectors! Batman lives...at the home of Robin(son).

Well...as we all know...looking good vs. feeling good can be two separate and mutually exclusive items. Luckily for us, taste is very individual...otherwise we'd all be married to the same woman and that would be a problem! I don't see the BMW rear drive as any more "bulky" than the CARC...but I'd still like to see how it rides. Having had a BMW K1100 LT for several years before I bought my Norge, I can clearly see the advantages of the Guzzi vs. the BMW in many ways (handling, weight, motor response and a few other intangibles), but this Orange Retro version looks good enough to take for a test ride at the very least!

Add clip-ons and that bike will be irresistible. Love the retro orange color...would like to see and ride one in person. I always that the progression of V11 Scura to Triumph Thruxton and now to this BMW would make a nice progression of Cafe racers.

All of the bulbs with the exception of the blinker (indicator) can be replaced with LED’s making them much brighter. If you also add the jeweled cover the lights will be infinitely better than stock.

Fair enough...although German precision is known for being precise...so that's good to know we have a + or - of a couple of millivolts to play with. It is truly a pain to get it on the nose when tightening up. Valves adjusted properly...that could drive some chuffing or mixed performance perhaps. When you say it runs badly, it's missing or coughing?

Are you 100% certain that the TPS sensor is set at exactly 157 mv?

Surprisingly it doesn't look that "bad" considering the time it was underway with no fluid, and none of the teeth are actually missing. As you've been driving it without any noticeable increase in noise as well since then and no noticeable performance issues either, had you just bought the bike in this condition, you may not have even noticed that it was worn down like this. That suggests this is tough metal to begin with and can take a fair amount of abuse. It's almost a wear and tear item...who knows what it looked like before the mishap.

May be worth inquiring on the Quota Facebook page or on Wildguzzi or MGNOC if anyone has a spare one lying around. Some quota owners have multiple quotas, it wouldn't surprise me if they have stockpiled some parts as well.

The only item missing in this chaotic race was when Alex Marquez went down, he didn't take out Marc. That would have been even more unlucky. Even Marc admitted that they got very lucky...he didn't claim credit for a 3rd place finish as if it were a standard 3rd place...he got a mulligan and was lucky to extend his points lead. But luck has a place in all sports. I truly felt bad for Fabio...the distress at having a mechanical malfunction when he was in great position must have really ticked him off...and as always, Gentleman Zarco got to have a bit more fun...I like his post race interviews the best of all of them...thoughtful, pragmatic, enjoyable. The one catastrophe that keeps occurring with too much regularity is Bagnaia's bad luck/performance...it's now mental even more than mechanical I fear...and that could be a worse curse than a physical injury. Onwards to the next one!

I hope that the Guinness is not what was leaking from the front alternator cover, although it looks suspiciously like an oil change was overdue based on the colour!

How interesting...Single Throttle body with Dual throttle intakes..so there are still then essentially the same issue of balancing the cylinders throttle activity/ignition/combustion, but how do you balance the single throttle body then to compare to what, is there some other mechanical device on the bike that you hook up the manometer to that is not the throttle body itself? Thanks!

Wow....Ebbets pass looks fantastic, the video on the site was excellent.

Funny...I'm not having those issues riding the same roads. There are very good gas stations all along the route...Palestine, Rusk, Huntsville...everyone has Premium, and some of the ones also have Top Tier Gas...in particular the one at the corner right before the Rusk KOA on the main highway at Kim's, which I have found also going towards Tyler and north. I can't recall the last time I was forced to put 87 or 89 into the Guzzi inside Texas.

That's a nice area to ride...I'll be riding thru there from Telluride and surrounding areas the 3rd week of June. Black Canyon is one of my favorite National Parks....great twisty roads on the north side!

Out scouting out sites on a nice warm pre-summer day! The bike always puts a smile on my face even when parked! Got one zerk fitting lubed today on the Scura after putting fresh grease in the motorcycle trailer wheel bearings, now have to work on the other two "awkward" ones with a needle attachment coming soon.

I find that Top Tier gasoline does make the Guzzis run smoother...it's more notable on the Norge and Griso...haven't "felt" it as much on the Scura. Occasionally I'll run some Marvel mystery oil thru it or some LiquiMoly valve cleaner...but to be honest, I don't notice anything materially different. I have had my injectors reconditioned on the Scura and that was well worth it, they had a degraded spray pattern, and afterwards were perfect again. I recall Gstallons recommended it, so I did it and also bought a set of cheaper Ebay sourced injectors which also work just fine on my Norge. Are you noticing some degradation in "smoothness" or performance lately that causes you to want to open this up, or just looking for a fun project. It occurs to me it would be good for us to have a small Spine Raid in Navasota and compare the LeMans to the Scura in terms of engine smoothness to see if they are any different...yours should be better being a 2004 vs. my 2002 ancient Scura that I took out for a fun 150 mile sunset romp today.

Aha...well that's a good live version indeed! I had his record version on the big screen today in fact and in the car...that voice, that guitar picking...never gets old! Time for a return trip to the Mississippi Delta...a few years ago, I stopped thru at the BB King museum in Indianola, and another stop at Sun Studios in Memphis... Time for a Guzzi / Blues Tour baby!

That's a good version of Tin Pan Alley....I also really like the one from Lucky Peterson...truly an epic version.

That might have been a Jackalope...those were fairly common in Arizona when I lived there a while ago.

Now that was exciting in a different way!