po18guy
-
Posts
1,243 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
28
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Community Map
Posts posted by po18guy
-
-
This popped up on my YouTube feed and it's a rather nicely done Tonti - well, 3/4 of a Tonti anyway, as he explains.
-
4
-
1
-
-
Fellow on eBay - someone here may know him - has various clearance Ducati stuff. Also some Guzzi, Triumph, Morini etc. bits. Seems like he shops at the factory or??? The 2000-on Monster CF fairing might just fit with some mods to the mount kit. No windshield screws. Faux Scura anyone? Or a new 748 head for $24.99? Nice coffee table or garage wall conversation starter. New 600 Monster Marzocchi forks for $99.50 (caveat: both are right side). He also has some Duc speedos and tachs - was there any interchange with Guzzi?
-
1
-
-
Well, so much for that idea. On my TX650 Yam, the oil breather dripped constantly. So, I bored a hole in the left case just over the primary sprocket. Rode 15k around the US one summer and the chain was fine.
Guzzi. Well, that's quite another story.
-
After a rocker ate the intake cam in my Kawi 500, I installed an oil drain plug from GoldPlug. Made in USA even. No listing for Guzzi specifically, but they surely have one to fit.
-
What an absolute horror. Despite the enormity of it all, having some experience in the cancer realm, I can say that children are amazingly resilient. They can tolerate levels of treatment that we cannot, and tend to bounce right back. Sending prayers heavenward!
-
On 9/25/2020 at 12:36 PM, jtucker said:
Fun with magnets!
My sump doesn't have a drain plug, per se (due to it being commandeered by the breather return), so no ability to use a magnetic drain plug. I have a handful of rare earth magnets, so decided to play around with putting them on the oil filter. Seems simple enough, but I'm curious if they will stay put on their own, or if they will work their way off - they do slide around the filter fairly easily, so I might have to resort to using something to hold them in place. We'll see.
__Jason
Have any stichery skills? A black nylon bandoleer of magnets wrapped around and velcroed in place would give you that 24/7 tactical all Molle all the time look.
-
It is said that there will always be an England. That aside, there will certainly always be an Italy - their disorder has become such an ingrained structure that it cannot collapse upon itself.
-
1
-
-
I notice how it takes the Dr. John Wittners, the Erik Buells, the @#$$#! Fishers of this world to think far outside the box, to make progress with exciting, desirable motorcycles, and then to fade to obscurity after the powers that be stomp them out like a brush fire.
-
1
-
-
Yes, although it was a 72º V of 1125cc. Erik Buell was crushed by HD while Dan Fischer was euthanized by Rotax, who lead him on as to engine availability.
-
2 hours ago, pete roper said:
The terrible thing is because Jude and I had our flights to the UK cancelled and I didn't buy a Honda CT125 because the shop was so hopeless and it soured me on the whole idea by the time the RS660 arrives here next year I'll have enough money sloshing around to buy one.
I'm hoping the Tuono version won't be far behind as I think the 'Sporty' version will be to radical for my old bones. They are gorgeous though.
I still have all my old V4 tools still too.....
I must admit that, since the original Tuono and Falco, I have not been all that enamored of their offerings. The Shiver was very close but too tepid. But this 660 is still pretty sporty as riding positions go, but I think doable. The Tuono would be the hot seller, as things go these days. Sat on a Duc 937 SS a couple of years ago, and it was one of those few bikes that "just fit." Will have to wait on this one, since they have only teaser ads at this time.
Maybe just me, but something about the 660 seemed familiar - if only by type. And, in an odd twist, Aprilia was involved. Looking at the 660 evoked memories of the ill-fated Fischer MRX. Designed and developed around the Rotax 990 60º V which Aprilia used (in 2004) it was doomed by the very same Aprilia nixing "their" engine being sold by Rotax for use in a potential competitor's bike. So, the few Fischers produced had the Hyosung 650 V-twin and it all fell to ashes. So many twists and turns in the bike world.
-
We are a hard bunch to please. How about this Greenie w/matching wheels?
-
2
-
-
This current generation of smaller, less ambitious, hipster flannel Vs is the first out of Mandello del Lario that are genuine fakes. Intentional fakes. Costume bikes. Oh, one might point to the underachieving LM II and III etc, but it was not for lack of trying. Guzzi had zero cash, ever on the ropes as a seemingly endless succession of owners all pointing in different directions indifferently.
Now that they have the money for a few diamonds, they are turning out rhinestones.
-
2
-
-
15 minutes ago, pete roper said:
This engine from Aprilia is mooted for a new Touareg too if you're into that sort of thing. 😎
If we write enough letters, maybe they'll put it in a scooter. The Scarabeo 660! One could then hold match races with Suzuki Burgmans...
Alright, enough depressing thoughts.
-
1
-
-
7 minutes ago, pete roper said:
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50466759986_53f05eedb2_z.jpg[/img]
Want.
This is what Guzzi should be allowed to build. Not some sclerotic, wheezing, 2V air cooled shitbox.
Simultaneously posted this...
That would have made choosing the V11 much more difficult than it was.
Just coincidentally, Morini is advertizing a "new 660cc twin..." But theirs is an Adv bike :-(
-
1
-
-
I must admit that I hate Aprilia for introducing the 660 twin at this time. As usual, it is cutting edge gorgeous, and has a torque plateau rather than a curve.
In essence, the two front cylinders from the RSV4, but expanded from 535cc to 660cc, 270º crank w/counterbalancer, with a much lower redline. 10.5K peak hp and revs stop at 11K. Only teasers so far, but what a teaser. Bars above the triples, pegs slightly lower. Maybe 400lb all up. An absolute HonKawaYamaSuz killer. The AMA is probably writing rules to limit it as we speak. Price? Yeahhhhh...
-
3
-
-
On 7/3/2020 at 10:21 PM, po18guy said:
Here's a local Washington State example (2004, 4000 miles) that I just noticed. Dunno what his reserve is, but we'll see. Which model came with 1/4 fairing, Marzocchi/Sachs and clipons? The Sport standard?
6 bidders and 49 watchers.
It's now a Seattle CL listing. Asking $6700.
-
14 minutes ago, Gmc28 said:
It’s a great one. Like u say, hard to find in some places, but Then u end up in Montana and see it’s darn near everywhere (or was last time for me), and about the same price as regular. Crazy.
I called the customer service line at (Union) 76 petroleum and actually spoke with a person. She referred me to the puregas website, as their mix is different from state to state.
-
The 90º V is in essence a two-cylinder slice off of a V8 and so has a similar sound. I/ suppose that one could think of a V8 as four V-twins firing 90º apart from each other. The 270º interval between firing impulses is the same: Guzzi, Ducati, Aprilia Shiver/Mana, Suzuki TL-R/SV, Honda RC51, and any paired cylinders of a 90º V8 which share a crankpin. Of note here is that Ferrari and other "flat-crank" V8s sound rather like a four cylinder, as they are essentially two four cylinder engines connected at the crank - i.e. on either bank, they have two up and two down pistons in the traditional inline 4 fashion. The Yamaha TRX850 and now the RE 650, Aprilia 660 and a few others have cross plane 270º cranks, so their exhausts sound just like Guzzi, Ducati, etc. An exception in the inline 4 world is the cross plane YZF-R1 which sounds more V8-like.
An interesting development in the Guzzi V8 is that the early version had the normal V8 cross plane crank and at least one of the final versions had a flat crank.
Some have opined that our love of the "V" sound comes from the "firing interval" of the two chambers of the human heart. Might be something very primal in that. I do know that one is experiencing a cardiac event if the heart goes potato potato potato...
-
2
-
1
-
-
Am wondering how a tank kept full or near full and with a closed cap would attract the massive amount of water to grow the entire tank. Must be an SAE paper on this somewhere. From the source below I read the following:
Nylon 6, produced via the ring-opening reaction of the compound caprolactam is structurally similar to nylon 66 and has similar properties and uses. It is widely used in Europe in place of nylon 66, but not in the United States. (See Figure 5.)
Nylon 6,10 and nylon 6,12 are also commercially available. Because of the presence of the additional methylene (–CH 2 –) groups that are hydrophobic (water-hating), these nylons are more resistant to moisture and more ductile than nylon 66.
-
52 minutes ago, LowRyter said:
I guess my point is am skeptical that it's caused by fuel but just poor quality control due to it being molded plastic.
Plastic contains chemicals which, by class, are known as plasticizers. They lend the flexibility and resilience to the base material. With heat and time, these plasticizers migrate out, through oxidation, heat cycles, sunlight (UV) or exosure to other chemicals and solvents. Thus old plastic of virtually all types becomes brittle. It usually shrinks, as its component parts leech out. But Guzzi tanks expand. That is from the chemical content of the gasoline which they store. Ever clean rubber parts with alcohol? Some types will blow up like a balloon. Add that alcohol to gasoline and you get the same result.
-
2
-
-
At its genesis, the issue is government forcing the sale of gasoline that is detrimental to the entire fuel system of cars, truck, motorcycles, lawn mowers, weedeaters et al.
Cleaner air is one thing. Add up the cost of the millions of cars, trucks etc. whose fuel systems have been damaged (thus emitting excess pollutants) then dismantled for repair, releasing gasoline fumes into the atmosphere. And the required chemicals necessary to clean the components and surrounding framework, etc. Those chemicals contribute to pollution. Then consider the mutiplicity of factories worldwide emitting smog into the air to make replacement parts and the chemicals to clean them. Intent versus impact should direct legislation. But it does not.
-
3
-
-
2 hours ago, KINDOY2 said:
I had an expanded Ducati tank that I put out in our all glass " sun room" this summer..especially on those 100 deg plus days...it is unbearable hot.. I washed it with dish soap first then sat it on a stool for about 2 months during July August turning it over every day..I know it was way over 125 most days. On some days I even stuck a small hair dryer on low inside the fill hole and let it blow thru to the fuel pump hole for hours ( remember I thoroughly wished it with hot water and soap first and blew it out with the compressor) It came down nicely..it looks and fits great , like new now..I've done the same with 2 Aprilia tanks in past years. This time I also put a big sock filled with silica beads inside..not sure if it helped. I've done about 6 Ducati and Aprilia tanks over the years..some I left off and hung on the garage wall for 3-5 months after washing with dish soap...all shrunk down fine for me.
Good information and ery good news. I wondered, since all thermoplastic has a memory effect if deformed. Heat (thermal energy) will aid in the recovery of shape/size. On later tanks with pump in tank, a hair dryer or CPU fan could more easily be used to aid the process.
-
It sounds dangerous, but has anyone heated an empty tank to maybe 125º for some time (hours or days) to take advantage of the "plastic memory" effect? If there is a crash-damaged tank out there, it would be interesting to see if this had any effect.
-
1
-
-
The TRX850 Trixie was Yamaha's first stab at crossplane cranks in their own brand. IDK, but they may also have developed the idea for some other maker, as well. The 850s tended to use oil - dunno if that was ever fixed. In Yamaha tradition, it was probably fixed the year they cancelled it. The current 07 Yamaha is no relation, as it has 4 valves instead of 5, FI instead of carbs and 6 speeds rather than 5. As usual, no US sales.We got the (IMO) butt-ugly TDM850. OK., some liked her, but not here.
-
1
-
Cool 1100 Tonti
in Older models
Posted
I'll certainly e watching more of it.