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Don't worry mate, you get used to that.

Naa, wouldn't have that. Wouldn't pull the skin off a custard...

From the link in the edit from my post further up....

To the question, of course it does. By the bye, is the "cleveland" designation commonly known in the USA? I'd imagine so, but don't know. "Cleveland" or "Windsor" was a subject of some discussion amongst Ford afficionados in Australia. I'm not that solid on the difference, as I was more interested in Holdens. For the sake of completeness, in case the whole discussion is new to anyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_335_engine#351_Cleveland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_small_block_engine#351W EDIT: just found this section, which brings as back to de Tomaso at the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_335_engine#302_and_351_Cleveland_(Australia) Ummm, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Guzzi#1973–2000:_De_Tomaso_years The early Le Mans models, and the small-block engine and frame that is the origin of the current V7 models, were all introduced during the de Tomaso years.

That sounds good. The way I go at it on the V35, and the one time I've done the V11, is to turn the second one in finger tight whilst wobbling the swingarm to see how much play is in there. The aim is no play, and the swingarm stills moves without any restriction, a bit like head-stem bearings. If you're using a tool with leverage to tighten them, they are too tight.

Yes, but my taste in 4 wheel vehicles is more in this direction

@docc you got it down.

Nice Le Mans.

"Curve", most likely. "Curb" ist the edge of the gutter or footpath on the side of the road.

I've heard rumours that NZ is pretty (apart from the way the locals speak). Apparently there is some substance to that.

Ok, that's not a bad start. What is it powering? Going by the mag wheel, I thought it might be a '70s sports car.

@Tomchri what does that wheel belong to? Looks kind of interesting...

Indeed. I can remember one of the first moments that I started getting interested in Moto Guzzi. It happened here. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2382203#map=16/-37.72292/145.04858 I was walking from the sports fields back to the uni, about where the La Trobe Sports Stadium is, and saw and heard a Guzzi going along Kingsbury Drive towards Plenty Road. It was probably an early Le Mans, that was in about 1985, and quite possibly had the "competizione" Lafranconis on it. The sound...

@Steve Swan bear in mind that some people have a spoked in rear rim offset by as much as 5 mm, or more, to accomodate a wider rim. That seems to work without trouble, although I can't imagine that a really good rider might not notice it. What I'm getting at: putting the swing arm back in the way it was is a good plan, but on an old, second-hand bike there is no garauntee that the adjustment was really accurately correct. Put it back in, @docc 's suggestion works for me, and ride it and see how it handles. If you want to be sure, pull a bit of string past the back wheel such that it touches the back wheel front and back on both sides, but isn't bent out of true by that, and measure the distance from the string to the front wheel, both sides front and back. Take your time, and repeat the measurements a few times. That should tell you if your front and back wheels are aligned, and what you might have to do with the pins to get them aligned if they are not.