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Here's the link to their website. The training lasts 8 hours, starts at 08:30 and ends at 16:30, on your own motorcycle. There is a discount given to those who come under the Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas moniker: "Tours" for a minus 25 USD from the total to become 170 USD. I have registered; not so much for the course, since like all of you here, I am the best rider there is, but for the opportunity to meet other fellow motorcycle riders from the USA, possibly participating to the 2023 Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas starting March 1st (hint!). I am certain each state has its own slew of schools, which have no specific certification on their ability to train or teach you, other than saying they are "experienced". In any case, I use this as a reminder to all (if this was ever necessary) that riding a motorcycle or driving a car are the most dangerous activity we do in our lives. Staying on top of them by seeking continuous improvement can only be beneficial. Furthermore, doing it in your local environment is essential. The company I worked for imposed a review of our driving skills every six months with a professional, including what they call a "commentary drive", where you need to describe to the instructor, while you drive, everything you see and everything you do to anticipate or mitigate any possible incident. You should try to do it, it is good practice.

I would like recommend "Bicinlindrica", a quarterly magazine published in both Italian and English, exclusively on Moto Guzzi. They have some left overs which they are selling for 10 Euros for three. You cannot pick which issue you want. They have another magazine dedicated to Ducati. A two years subscription is 40 Euros + 15 shipping.

If you guys like to wear patches on your jackets, I got a V11 Le Mans in Red done; I needed only one, but 10 was the minimum order; If you want one of the 9, please PM me with your address. I give them away, postage domestic and international included. If you want to pay it forward, just make a silent contribution to this site.

@activpop Forget the CARC; this is the one you need?!

You cannot directly upload photos into your thread. The site has no storage capacity. You need to post the link and the HTML code will automatically resolve for the link to embed the photo in the thread. However you need to upload your photos to a site that allow embedding. For example flickr.com; this is what I use, and you can upload 1000 photos. Once you have uploaded your photos, just copy the link into the thread, and the link will resolve to show the photo. Click on the pics below, that will take you to my flickr page test it. @activpop this is the Stelvio I went to test ride. I did not have enough strength to put it on the central stand. But as I told you, I am old and decrepit.

The Auxiliary fog lamps on the '12-'15 Stelvio can occasionally short out the 12 volt supply due to wiring inside the lamp rubbing on the housing. Since the lamps are not fused, the main 30amp fuse blows and the bike will brick until the 30 amp fuse is replaced. This fuse is not located in the bank under the seat, but behind the right hand side cover to make it more interesting when you don't know about it. A popular mitigation is to replace the stock fog lights with high beams, and add a fuse on the wiring.

https://www.bowtex.store/product/elite-shirt-ce-level-aaa/ Some of us have to ride in high temperatures and high humidity for a greater part of the year. BOWTEX specializes in motorcycle riding gear, using technical innovation. They presented a few interesting products at the Intermot exhibition in Germany last year. This "ELITE Shirt" can be worn as a layer or topside, replacing a jacket. Read their narrative. If you consider they ship to the US for free, and that 400 EUR includes VAT which you are exempt from if ordering from outside of Europe, this maybe something to consider. I attached the description, technical details, shipping details. Follow the link to get more specifications.

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Great! this is how you prefer it. I myself want a battery of gauges to survey every aspect of the V11. There is no specific rationale that you would condone, it is just how I would like to do it. Which shouldn't my motorcycle provide me with the same information than my car? I like to know what time it is, I like to know what the outside temperature is. What's wrong with me?

I am not attempting to install an oil temperature gauge in that position. It will give me the oil temperature in the sump, at that is all I am looking for. Just because I am curious to know what it is. Also, I would rather have a pressure gauge to monitor the oil pressure, rather than a warning light.

Hi Scud, Here's why I would like to install an analogical oil temperature thermometer among other things; Let's go back when I was a young boy, growing up in the 60's. At that time, sports cars were invariably coming from the other side of the channel. Jaguar, BL Triumph, Mini, Aston Martin, MG... all these cars had something that fascinated us, envious youth. Dashboards full of these mysterious Smith or Jaeger gauges. We quickly devised a rule; the more gauges, the better car. This is the reason why one of my early car was an Innocenti Cooper, which had those wonderful little gauges, and no or little warning lights. Amps, Volts, Watts, Oil Temp, Oil Press, Water Temp... what not. I even owned a Renault 21 Turbo which had a boost pressure gauge... how about that? I even have an anecdote about oil pressure. The mechanic forgot to put oil in my Cooper. There was no oil pressure light, but the gauge reading was zero. A sensor can fail, a light can fail, an analogical instrument? not so much. Anyway, when I was testing battle tanks, we had additional manometers and gauges. Plenty of pressures and temperatures from various components that we were testing. To finish up with this, I spent thirty five years of my professional life logging oil wells. Initially, all the readings were analogical. All the tools were monitored using oscilloscopes and other equipment plotting the response from the tools. Back to my desire to monitor the oil temperature of the Guzzi today. Nostalgia? wanting to be closer to the V11? who knows. Porsche 911 air cooled had oil temperature indicators. Why not the Le Mans? How useful will it be? I don't know, but I know I will enjoy having one more thing to look at on those long rides...

The Canadian "LedPerf" proposes a complete headlight replacement. https://www.ledperf.ca/led-headlight-for-motoguzzi-v-11-le-mans-round-motorcycle-optics-approved-p-33045.html I don't know if I want the head light to look so extra terrestrial though...

The Vintage Car Bulb is a proprietary design, but if you read the page, they are sold in sets of two. So the price is actually for two bulbs and not a single. I also found this, from Canada: https://www.ledperf.ca/led-conversion-kit-bulb-for-motoguzzi-v-11-le-mans-mini-size-p-23477.html They claim it is a plug and play replacement of the existing H4, and 4500 lumens! 5 years warranty. All these LED lights look identical, one from the other. They may be manufactured by the same Chinese company with different brand names. The one I purchased looked exactly like those shown in the various specifications, and at no time did they inform they had a separate driver that was too large to fit in the bucket. "No OBC" error; they must ignore that the V11 electrical circuit is not connected to the ECU.

@Tomchri Your system works on 12 Volts. I am looking at something completely mechanical. No wiring modification to implement. I only need to confirm the dimensions of the spare port hole. Then I will need to look for something to go from M16 male to pipe/tube connection on the other side. The vendor of the Rochester instrument confirmed that theirs require a JIC 5/8"-18 UNF to seal around the capillary. The other information that would I would appreciate, is the length of capillary I should go for, to set the gauge somewhere at the dashboard level. The gauge diameter is about 51+mm. These gauges are designed to be mounted on a dashboard. I am thinking this should be above the existing Guzzi instruments and lights panel. The European are all offering a fixed length of about 1800mm The Rochester comes in four lengths: 48", 60", 72", 144" (1219mm, 1524mm, 1828mm, 3657mm). I can coil the excess underneath the tank (maybe), but it would certainly help to purchase the closest to what I need.

After two days of driving around, I have a small inconvenience to report. The thermometer gauge vibrates between 65 and 70 mph. Not enough to make the instrument unreadable, but it does look out of focus. Strangely enough, the clock is not affected, and remains unvibrating at the same speed. Now, I do not know why the right side behaves differently than the left side, but I am going to try to find out if I can do something to alleviate the problem. Something I have noticed is in motion, yesterday, the temperature read about 106 degF. After a stop, it was about 101 degF. Since the Formotion gauge has no probe, I am thinking it is not very accurate. Good enough when the bike is not moving.

@docc I am not certain M15 exists in the Metric standard. It could either be M14 or M16 both with 1.50 mm thread pitch. The oil drain in the middle of those two threaded holes, what is it for? the main drain is underneath the sump, is it not? I am asking because this hole is M10, thus, I found one of those mechanical oil temperature gauge which fits an M10 threaded hole. I found an adapter from M14 x 150 male to 5/8"-18 UNF Female. This would work for the Rochester or Smith gauges. https://www.bpsracing.com/adaptateur-de-filetage-femelle-5-8-unf-male-m14-1-5.html

@docc The oil drain plug is m10 x 1mm pitch. The other plug looks larger in diameter, maybe M12. But it is only a matter of finding a crossover to either M10 or 5/8" UNF

@Tomchri@docc I found the drawing from the spare parts catalog. There is a spare hole. Of course, Guzzi does not tell us the dimensions of the adapter to pipe they use. Once I figure out the specs of item 22, then I can check what crossover I can use to 5/8"-18 UNF, or I can go Smith. It does not matter if the Temperature is in C or F. I am familiar with both scale.

This is perfect. Do you know the size and thread pitch of the plug? If it is a the threads are parallel, then there is an o'ring to seal. If the threads are conical, then I just need to install a nipple that fits the hole on one side, and the capillary on the other. The challenge is those threaded holes are metric. What I found metric requires a 10mm diameter hole. The easy way, since 5/8" UNF seems the standard, would be to find an adapter Guzzi threaded hole Male, by 5/8" UNF female. If you can tell me what size it is, I can start looking for a Male by Female cross-over. I found a lot of mechanical oil temperature systems for air cooled engines. A lot of them for airplanes. This is made by Rochester. However the nut is 5/8"-18 UNF, not going to fit a Guzzi. This is Smith; UK based. Those of you who had Jaguars and Triumph cars will know that brand. Another 5/8 UNF-18 adaptor, by 3/8" British Standard Pipe I found this one in Switzerland; the capillary fits M10 x 1.5 mm thread pitch.