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I forgot to tell you; I checked the prices of same year (1977) motorcycles, currently for sale in Europe. Now, as you know, it is not easy to compare as the USA is its own ecosystem. Now, all the Le Mans 850 around that millesime are well above the 10,000 mark; I found one completely stock in UK with a ask price of 18,000 GBP. Given that his bike has been modified, I would say 10,000 is probably the ceiling.

@4corsa I read all the narrative; This bike, in particular the engine has been heavily modified. I quote: If you are a very handy mechanic, or have access to someone who has a good command on Guzzi, you may go for it. The problem, when you have something which is not stock, you have no written guidelines should something go wrong. You can also see that he has modified the frame for racing. This also maybe cause for concern. If I was in the market for one, I would get somebody with strong knowledge to make an assessment. Such as the guy from 46works in Japan... else, I would pass.

This is a pic of a 1977 model for sale in the UK; brake fluid container is cylindrica.

this is the view of the bike listed for sale from above: its missing the steering dampener too. Front brake liquid reservoir is squared. On older bikes, it used to be cylindrical and see through? it is like that on my own V11. The pics above have it that way.

A quick look at photos of 1977 Le Mans seems to backup your memory. Anyhow, having those upper tubes protruding so much is odd.

If you are ever interested in having a record of your mileage and expenses, if you can be bothered to keep tabs, I recommend that you use the Triplog App. on your phone. I use the free version of the App, and for the first time this year, they sent me a report, to encourage me to subscribe. The main purpose of this application is to record trips and expenses that could be used when you do your federal taxes. I only record the trips I make when I do the Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas, and because it is the unpaid version, I have to start and stop the trips manually in the app. Which is not a big problem. I only log the fuel, but you could also input all the other charges if you were interested in finding out how much you spend on a particular outing.

I looked at the photos, and it is easy to tell they are vector editing works. I have learned a lot when designing the forum's logo to make a patch. Those will remain art projections or exercises; I may be wrong, but I don't see the current Guzzi market ready for a V100 base Le Mans. Of course, I base my opinion of what I see in Texas, which is certainly not a reflexion of the rest of the USA. My frequent travels to France showed that commuters main staple are scooters, or smaller cubed bikes, as required to go through traffic. The bread and butter of Guzzi is its V7 line, or so it seems. Their best seller is the V85TT. I am curious to see how the new V7 Sport will fare. I would have possibly been interested, if they had kept analogical instruments rather than another TFT screen.

I found the lady worth taking a picture in front of my V11... now I just need to make time so she can be blessed with a Guzzi picture... do you see how she waves at me?

Unfortunately, the required accident to enforce changes that otherwise were never considered. This is the sadest part of it. Many pilots, allegedly had already avoided similar incidents in the past, with no immediate action. You see, in my company, some of our annual objectives were to report near-miss incident, so they could trigger mitigation measures before they would become accidents. You can see, that in recent years, we have seen several cases of runway intrusions, aircraft hits on tarmac, and traffic issues. I don't see that many happening outside of the USA. Possibly because they are not reported as much? I don't know. But if you are old enough to remember the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977, when two airplanes collided, we don't want to see this happen again. It just did...

@Tennitragic By the title, I thought you were looking for blue pills....

This channel was created in June 2024.... that says it all!

Since ChatGPT got out, YouTube is rife with those A.I. generated content, complete with robot voice. I have not really dug into it, but from what I have been told by people with access to subscription versions, you can create stuff without much effort. 2025 Le Mans unveilled does not make any sense, because Guzzi would have unveilled it at EICMA 2024, if it had been in the works. The adventure bikes segment is what really works in Europe. I maybe wrong, but I don't see a V100 Le Mans having much traction. Guzzi's best seller was the V7 and V85TT. I don't know how the Mandello and Stelvio are fairing, but out of the two, I would bet the Stelvio is the one.

Today I came upon a lady with a name tag Patrice. This is a male name in French. The female counterpart being Patricia.

Agreed. I know some Michaels around here. But for French names, it works. I can tell that nobody today is named "Gontrand", or Marguerite, Barnabé, or Barnabée, Colette, Clarabelle....

I understand. I forgot to ask you if you were a native English or German native speaker. I am a French native speaker. Born and raised in Paris. When I started to work internationally, my French was the typical Parisian accented one. When I listen to me speaking anything, I hear my French accent. Each time I return to France, I have some people asking me how come I know French so well. I surprise them when I tell I am French, born and raised. Somehow, over the years of expatriation, the lack of speaking French, I am guessing my accent is no longer current; this is most likely why French people that don't know better think I am Canadian. They have clearly never heard a French speaking Canadian. Another dead give away is my first name. From the 50's. Also, I am using expressions which are no longer used today. When you don't live in the country, you don't stay current. Typical. The first names are usually a good indication of the age of a person.

What I have been saying all along!!!!

The best version of "I just died in your arms tonight", with the long guitar impro intro. I remember when I first heard that song, I was in Port-Harcourt in Nigeria... I always found strange how a song can mark time and space in our lives.

Before I realized the guy was in Australia, I did pick the hint of a South African accent. In fact, he does not have the very identifiable Australian accent. Do you speak German with an Australian accent? do the people that don't know you tell you that you don't sound German?

I really enjoyed that guy's narrative... South Africa, Military. He must have played Rugby at some point, and he can say Moto Guzzi properly!!!

I managed to find a welding shop here, that fixed a broken bracket. It was not easy, because many other places I tried told me it was not worth their while unless they could charge me an incredible amount of money. I am going to make my own drawing, and try to get a small workshop to do it. Now that I had a look at the gear selection, I can tell it had been dismantled before, and a missing part lead to the issue I experienced today, which fortunately happened 5' away from home. This is my second time being unable to change gear, with the V11, and now the Quota.

@audiomick do you think Stein Dinse can procure some of the parts shown in the drawing below? their website says they can get you anything. I suspect that for what they don't stock, they get it manufactured because they most likely have the blueprints.

I found sad that MV Agusta's official message was to put the emphasis on being separated from KTM and their financial liability. They should have also stated that under Pierer Mobility, they had one of their best year in 2024, sales and dealerships, parts availability. Sardarov has so far not done that much for them, compared to the short-lived KTM lead. All we heard from Art of Mobility is "good intentions", but I suspect the "good intentions" will stop short of spending too much. It is clear that KTM did not spare expenses to clear the backlog of parts needed to support all their models. As far as I know, this always was one of the main complaint from the owners. Spares scarcity. When I was living in Europe, I had developed a crush on the Brutale, but I was never comfortable with the brand.

Well, the EICAS is required on all planes (737-Max 8,9,10 excepted), which I think helps rather than complicates. Being proposed solutions to a problem rather than relying on the pilot looking for them if there is not much time, should be a great help, and not a nuisance. Sullenberger's instinctive reaction to start the APU immediately after he lost the two engines, could be proposed by the EICAS; maybe it is. There are situations when you do not have the luxury to sort things out by yourself. In my humble professional career, I started logging using fully analogical equipment, trouble shooting problems relied solely on your training and experience and analytic virtues. Today, any deviation from nominal is reported by the tools themselves to the operator. I remember logging hours of well profiles, only to find out after post-job calibration checks, that one of my tool was not working properly. Meaning lost time, and reruns. Having a warning system to detect malfunctions would have helped a lot.

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