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What Claudio Dominicali says about the special affinity of people around the Ducati brand, is valid for other brands too. However I believe the charisma behind Italian bikes is special. There is a lot of enthusiasm with BMW and Triumph, and I am not going to ignore Harley Davidson here in the US.
I have been to one of the WDW, and it felt like thanksgiving in the USA. All the family reuniting around the patriarch.
I also attended the LoneStar annual rally in Galveston and the reunion was not HD centered, unlike in the case of WDW. Not saying WDW is better. Simply stating the celebration and team building were different.
To some extent, the V11 forum here does it everyday. It would be interesting if Piaggio was compelled to organize a similar event here, in the USA for the Moto Guzzi fans.
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16 hours ago, loteqv11Naked said:
Hey there, same guy as above just figured out I had a previous account on the forum. Ill delete the old profile. I pay about 1200 Canadian a yr or about 1000 USD roughly. The collectors plate ill hopefully get is about 160USD a yr, which would be great because I usually only ride about 1000 kms a yr on the v11.
I pay 355 USD for 12 months.
Compared to what I pay for my car, it is nothing.
In Europe, motorcycle insurances are more expensive than car's. And if you just got your driver's license, some companies refuse to insure you. So here in Texas, it is less expensive to insure a motorbike than a car. I don't get it.
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7 hours ago, GuzziMoto said:
I'd drink a beer or two with her.....
She gives out the impression to be a happy lady. Something too rare nowadays....
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1 hour ago, guzzler said:
True dat..
However I like Miss V85's smile betterer !!
Cheers Guzzler
You can't really see it under the helmet.
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Even if you are not following the MotoGP racing, Valentino Rossi has made official that he will hang his leathers at the end of this season.
He started racing in the 125cc class in 1996, then 250cc, then 500cc and continued when the racing switched to four stroke engines and was renamed MotoGP.
9 World title won, he put motorcycle racing on the map for a lot of people who did not even know it was a sport.
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2 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:
Honestly the last thing I would be looking at on a bike with that mileage would be the pump.
The usual suspects leaving out a mechanically damaged engine are.
the switch
The filter and gasket
A missing section of sump plate gasket on the oil module
a poorly seated oil pressure relief valve
A blocked oil pickup screen, maybe.
faulty wiring to the switch.
A V11 pump is pretty bullet proof. I know lowrider has an issue with his Cali? and the dealer mechanic changed a pump after a priming issue but I'd have loved to see the old pump.
Ciao
My thoughts exactly about the oil pump. I mean gear pumps are indestructible.
The only time when I had a failure of an oil pump, was on my Kawasaki S2, which caused the engine to seize. It was a trochoidal pump, but on a 2 stroke, the requirements are different.
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4 minutes ago, Lucky Phil said:
I would just change the switch. I've had switches fail to open on start and leave the light on and it wasn't on a Guzzi. My GSXR1000 track bike did it once. That was enough for me, I just changed out the switch and it was fixed.
Just for the sake of accuracy a v11 doesn't use a trochoidal pump. It uses a gear pump.
Not saying there mightn't be a more serious issue but do I need to remind everyone of Occams Razor?
Ciao
Gear pumps are usually pretty solid... however, it is a bike with only 3000 miles on the meter? perhaps a manufacturing defect?
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25 minutes ago, ScuRoo said:
Good grief... I’ve just seen my ruby helmet!
Is this a ruby helmet?
Yes indeed! good catch...
Ruby helmets; I did not even know that brand.
Since you recognized the helmet, is the owner someone you share Guzzi rides with?
I went on their website, and they advertise themselves as "haute-couture" helmets.
French design, carbon fiber, top quality accessories.
Since you have one, how different is it from the mainstream brands?
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1 hour ago, Scud said:
Here's a link to the pressure vs flow topic:
I just read it again... there are a lot of smart and helpful people on this forum.
So you are riding your bike with that large dial attached to your rear-view mirror?
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On 8/5/2021 at 10:53 AM, LowRyter said:
It looks like the sensor was doing it's job since you have no oil pressure. Once you change oil, install a new filter and start the engine, you'll know you have pressure if the light goes out. If not, you have problems, most likely the oil pump.
In my Guzzi ownership I've had both problems of two different bikes: 1) loose filter, 2) bad pump.
What I can't really figure is why the low oil pressure light would not stay lit if the issue was a ruptured seal, or a malfunctioning trochoid pump.
If it was an o'ring failure, it could make sense. Some o'rings seal with pressure. But if they don't seal properly, the oil flow past them would wear them down, causing the permanent leak.
The flat gasket on the oil filter would keep leaking if it was not sealing properly.
But when cold, the oil viscosity is higher, so you would have a better sealing ability.
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22 minutes ago, LowRyter said:
^^^^^^^
jail bait!
The Jackal lady has the best smile...
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My Le Mans is mainly fastened by hex socket screws black, so I supposed they were initially protected by phosphatation, but they have now started to rust.
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Would it make sense to test the oil pressure sensor which would only consist of applying pressure and using an ohmmeter, checking the resistance between zero pressure and work pressure applied?
Making the test jig is a small investment though, for just that one time.
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Just curious...
How much do you actually pay for insurance for a V11 in Canada? are the rates different depending which state you live?
Today, I pay less in insurance premium than I used to when I lived in Europe. I was just amazed at how cheap it is.
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7 hours ago, Paradiso said:
They were JIS fasteners rather than Philips. What you needed was a JIS screwdriver and all would have been well.
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This got me thinking a bit more....
We are in the 70's, the Japanese bikes are suddenly flooding the European traditional market.
I am a Japanese designer and all the fasteners on the engines are cruciforms JIS which as we now know look like any other cruciform but cam out when the proper screw driver is not used.
What were the chances of finding a JIS compliant screw driver in Europe? the hex socket standard was the same in both worlds. It would have been a better choice.
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4 hours ago, Paradiso said:
They were JIS fasteners rather than Philips. What you needed was a JIS screwdriver and all would have been well.
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Thanks to you, I found the description of all head drives and the JIS B 1012.
I am pretty certain that I was certainly impossible for me to find the appropriate tool for a JIS B 1012 cruciform head. Hence, the reason why we exchanged them all with hex socket heads.
Anyway, I was totally unaware the Japanese had their own standard, but why not....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#JIS_B_1012
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The world is changing, and electric cars are starting to pop up more often than before. We have some major cities setting dates after which only EV's will be allowed in. We have car manufacturers which are setting objectives to cease internal combustion engine production.
While I am fine with driving an electric car, and I am likely to replace my dearest 911 Porsche with a minuscule Smart E, I would never purchase an electric motorbike, nor ride one.
This is not about autonomy, but the simple core pleasure of having a thermal engine heavily breathing, and the ability to change gears myself to negotiate curves.
As far as I understand, an Ebike will never be that.
The actual pleasure of driving is being redefined and I am certain our children may not need to learn to drive in the near future. Cars will drive themselves. They will be dull and uniform.
Yesterday's and today's cars will be relegated to history and museums.
Would you trade your bike for an electrical one if it became law?
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17 hours ago, po18guy said:
I remain surprised at the number of odd-sized and oddly-designed fasteners I encounter. I realize that there is a reason for each of them, but it has been said that we cannot avoid using reason - we can only avoid using it well. The Japanese are known for sizing the fastener to the task, while the Germans are known to employ the fewest sizes so as to simplify design, supply and manufacture. In the north of Italy, it seems that the fasteners are produced in accordance with a national law which mandates that 7, 9 and 11mm fastener companies are kept in production. I think it was a post-WWII reconstruction thing. Or not.
We could have a long conversation about fasteners.
In the 70's, the Japanese bikes that got in my hands were all equipped with "Philips" heads. This type of head is notorious for being prone to wear. So we replaced them all with hex drive fasteners. Back then, we could only get the non stainless ones. It still costed a little fortune.
There there is the usage of the washers. I was taught that a fastener would always sit atop a washer to distribute the torque on a larger surface, and a saver measure. For example, you would never install a split lock or tooth lock washers without a flat washer in between.
Last, there is the metallurgy of the fastener itself.
German steel always was the best. I have screws that broke as I was trying to tight them up using a torque wrench.
Today, we have even more solutions with heads, but socket remains the standard for motorbikes, I guess?
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13 hours ago, Scud said:
Docc - I seem to recall you being a bass player. Isn't musical notation in base 8? An octave is 8 steps, right?
In music, they say an "interval" is the distance between two notes. The smallest interval in Western music is the half step, the largest the whole step.
Here is Texas, we prefer to use the "two steps".
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Here's my 6 cents;
In your narrative, you report the issue was initially intermittent. The light would not always go off after a restart. The work around was to shut down, and restart after a cool down.
The analysis would be the pressure switch is the culprit.
If the oil flow path was the root cause, it would not have been intermittent. A failure of the oil pump, or a short path circulation created by a non sealing component would have been permanent once established. I may be wrong, but it reads this way.
A malfunctioning pressure switch could fail the way you described.
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