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Phil you answered one question for me. I always wondered how the MGS-01 lubed the jackshaft with ball bearings. I heard if used more than 13 psi oil pressure you could cause the ball bearings to skid. Guzzi took it right out of the circuit, problem move to oil cooler with no thermostat. Going through your photo album, oh my but you covered a lot of ground over the years. Phil you certainly persevered to the benefit of us all.

Do we have anything from Derek Trucks?

Don't mean to turn this into a trailer topic but, two wheel trailers for motorcycles can be dangerous. If you run wide on a curve and a wheel goes off the pavement you might have a bad day. Motorcycle Trailers, Motorcycle Trailer Parts & Accessories (unigotrailers.com)

Wouldn't GuzziDiag tell you what ECU you have?

I have mine for my wife she still likes riding cross country with me. The wife will take about 30 minutes on the Centauro and WILL NOT ride on the back of the V11 Champagne. Did do a few necessary upgrades for comfort like a Russell day long seat lowered foot pegs, taller windshield. Now I'm able ride my bike longer then I could sit in any car. Also when traveling with the wife I tow a Uni-go trailer if your on the road 3 weeks with the wife it helps to bring some extras. That's pretty much my kit. Make no mistake the bike is a behemoth, not as heavy as a Gold Wing. We were in Yosemite NP 2018 maybe it was us you saw. The year before we went to Ocracoke Island at the end of Cape Hatteras. Taking the fairy was interesting.

Gritman, I can't tell from the photo are you using some bracing for the transmission?

Ever one has there own reasons for listening to music but I came across a chat session with Molly Tuttle and Tommy Emmanual. This is kind of a three fer one with music at intro, 7:00 minutes, and 17:30 minutes. I got interested in the claw hammer technique she was demonstrating and found a more isolated version of her preforming it.

@Eamonn, you should email Mike Rich and get a list together of questions before hand. Like if you need to check valve to piston clearance or what's the best way to seat rings. You talked about doing some head work he might do that I just know he doesn't want to be a parts supplier. Super nice and his website is up so he can't blame you for inquiring. Let us know what you found for weights on the 2004 Guzzi parts I only had my 2002 for comparison.

Looking through this thread and there is a lot of dead links so I apologize if this gentleman has been submitted before. Just thought the purpose of the thread was to expose people to different artists. It's not rock

I Happen to like Bill's 5 in 1 tool can be used to adjust spokes or that pesky TPS. Can even be rotated 180 degrees for a hammer.

Wishing people a Merry Christmas

Thanks for the picture. I'm surprise at how sharp the valve cutouts are. I'd imagine setting up squish would be very important. The dome is very flat, flatter then the Oem piston got to help with flame spread. Hemi heads are legendary for being able to fill a cylinder. They're also legendary for not being able to burn everything they take in. My Oem piston is lighter @ 457.2 grams the wrist pin was heavier @ 106.9. If you install those pistons do yourself a favor and put some money in the budget for a balance job.

That's a beautiful bike. Tom has the original poster ever tried to contact you? Certainly better looking then picture he posted.

I spoke with Mike Rich right after covid he told me he wasn't interested in modifying bikes any more. His passion or pay check is for cars. So I was wondering if you could post a picture of a Mike Rich piston? It would be interesting to see the difference between his piston and a Fast by Ferracci piston. Kind of curious if they skirt coating on them to. When you mention the pistons are 579 grams is that the entire piston assembly? Does that include piston, pin, ring pack and clips because my 2002 weighted in at 598.6. I don't know Guzzi was able drop 20 grams per piston assembly between 2002 and 2004 but 40 grams off balance would be a no go in my book. Lot of things could make Mike's pistons lighter narrower ring pack, tapered wrist pin. Just asking.

I haven't worn my leather jacket about 10 years. I still dig it to oil it with some mink oil every couple years. It's important to keep it from drying out.

When I first got my R100 RS it suffered from two common alignments. The fairing is really designed for someone with a 30 inch inseam. I'm a 34 inch inseam. I had to remove the knee armor in my Roadcrafter suit. Other wise it would rub up against the edge of the fairing and slice into my suit. Then there was the windscreen that was made to look cool and super sporty. The Lemans fairing suffers from that as well, as you ride down the road you create a low pressure area where the rider is. The air then tumbles off the lip of the windscreen into the chest of the rider. Added a Parabellum windscreen to mine and it became one of the best fairings of all time. Better than my K1600 GT which is saying a lot. Charly Perethian designed the Parabellum windscreen. He has one of his bikes in Smithsonian Museum for its aerodynamic achievements. Also he was involved in a few projects like Vetter fairings and Rifle fairings. Any way the man couldn't say enough good things about BMW's R100 RS fairing so take that with a grain of salt. Buy a BMW R100 RS? A BMW /7 is pretty ancient. I rode mine all over the country it even went to Alaska before me. That was many years ago.

Not sure if the original poster is still here or if he moved to www.centauro-owners.com. Mods? What are plans for the bike and how many miles might you put on her? You might want to check if the previous owner did a ground strap from the voltage regulator to the frame. Speaking of voltage regulators a Shindengen might be a good idea. My Ducati regulator failed on me.

Phil, what kind of pressure do you use? I'm afraid of blowing the hose off with the remote reservoir. A reservoir cast into the master cylinder no problem. Brake fluid sprayed under pressure is a thing for nightmares. Once you introduce air into the system it really takes pressure bleeding to restore that firm action again. I looked at pressure bleeders that work from the bottom up but were way overpriced.

I think that's about sums it up. There is a post about running lean at the end of the post did the AFR of his Lemans and went from crazy lean at idle to about 2500 rpm. After it was fat rich Guzzi didn't want you just wasting gas at idle for emissions. They did fatten your fuel ratio when you need some grunt. So Guzzi probably never wanted you to just lug around below 2500 rpm.

When that bike was on ebay I put in a bid. Went too rich for my blood. The fairing is not original to the Coppa.

Using ethanol is not a government conspiracy, it's very good at killing detonation. Today's engines really benefit from it's use. I think Guzzi wrote their standards before modern fuels. I don't venture too far from what they recommended. Just because you can't detonation doesn't it's not there. Might take microscope to bits of aluminum on your spark plug.

A digital read out is the best investment you can make to a machine tool. I can't tell if you have power feeds if not that would be next on my list. So, is Santa going to bring you a surface grinder for Christmas? Probably no limit to D.I.Y. projects you could do. How'd you come by the Centauro crank? Not to have the correct radius is a testimony that should find another business. I mean if they put too big of a radius in the crank you could at least reduce the width of the big end shells. Now too small is just dangerous.

Phil, I'm surprised not a single person commented about your vertical mill. I remember you mentioned on a post that you wanted one, but you defiantly went large. That doesn't look like some hobbyist mill. Three phase? Nice and shiny, not used and abused. That precision vise and rotary table your in deep. I can't wait to hear of all the great things that come from that.

Quite a weight savings from a single component. All unsprung weight as well. Phil, you have lots of titanium nuts in your builds is galling ever a problem?

Someone mentioned using a newer O2 sensor for improver drivability. They said the reaction time was so much quicker then the old model. Not sure if you go with tweaking your map by using trim. The computer might just override it with the O2 sensor. Meinolf's map might be necessary that the computer is going to have a correct base value. My bike doesn't have an O2 so I might not know what I'am talking about.