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Thanks for that link. I'll have a better look at that sometime when it's not 2;00 a.m. However: After a quick glance at the first post there, I can say I have read most of that stuff elsewhere already. I'm one of the administrators in this german forum: https://www.guzzi-forum.de/Forum/ I'll get back to that.... The bloke I bought the Le Mans off had only had it for about half a year, and had been planning to keep it. I know him personally through that forum, and trust what he says. When he bought the bike it was (his words) "in a dismal condition". He put quite a lot of effort into getting the bike back in shape, and I am confident that he went through more or less the same procedure as docc describes there. He only put about 1,000 km. on the bike, so I assume (for now) that it's all good enough to be going on with. Getting back to the aforementioned german forum: Guzzidiag was developed principally by the forum member Beard (his real name is Bernd), with input from a couple of others from that forum. I've met Beard a couple of times, he's a really nice bloke. Even if I don't get around to having a look at the bike with Guzzidiag myself before then, I expect to be at the Forum Rally at the start of next June. There, Beard and Karsten (under whose name the forum is registered) spend the entire Saturday afternoon looking at people's bikes with Guzzidiag and adjusting what needs to be adjusted. So I think I've got that pretty much covered. I'm not an ace mechanic, but I'm dead keen to get into Guzzidiag, and things like keeping an eye on the valve clearances and so on is a matter of course. I"ll be onto it, don't worry.

That's an interesting idea. I might be in form something like that myself. My girlfriend is not very tall, and might be able to deal with the standard pillion pegs. Another friend of ours who quite regularly sits on the back is around 176 cm. tall, very similar to myself. I'll be very interested to hear what she has to say about the back seat. Might need something in that direction for her...

Yeah, I was a bit surprised at how the motor responds at around 5,000 and found I had to try it out several more times to make sure I wasn't imagining things...

I rode the V11 Le Mans for the first time today. It was about 12° C. today, looking like it was going to stay dry, and there was even a bit of sunshine. I'm waiting on a number plate holder that I have odered, so I needed an easy temporary solution for that. I bolted the old plates back on (they were mounted using the screw hole for the plate holder...) and taped the new plates on with gaffer tape. I'm a sound engineer, so that is like the "natural solution" for any problem for me. And then I went for a 40 km. ride before I had to go to work. Lovely. The bike was really the right choice.

Yeah. I was just curious. When the box is correctly in neutral, the input and output shafts should be disengaged from each other. So if the obstruction is before the box, it shouldn't be locking up the output shaft when the box is in neutral, I would have thought.

Hi Pete. I'm not in any way questioning your knowledge and experience. From what I've read here, both seem to be plentiful. But I can't follow the logic. Cash wrote If the flywheel is buggering up the works, but the box was really in neutral, shouldn't he have been able to turn the output shaft?

Without knowing for sure, I assume it is a survey to check if the house is showing signs of damage due to subsidence resulting from mining activity. That is apparently a big issue in some areas in Gemany (Ruhr Valley, for instance...) where black coal has been mined for so long that it is more or less all gone. I saw a documentary on that a while back on T.V. . The spoke of up to 2 metres subsidence.

Assuming "fuel oil" is what the heating plant and water heater in a house uses, yes, i.e. close relative at least. Apparently one can run at least a "low tech" diesel motor on "Heizöl" (= "heating oil", presumably what you mean with "fuel oil") That is highly illegal here, though, and is considered tax fraud. Heizöl isn't subject to the tax that transport fuels are, so using it instead of diesel avoids tax that the government is keen to have. There used to be an oil burner for the heating and hot water in the house where my girlfriend's father lives. The room in the cellar where the old tank still is, still smells faintly of diesel, even though it all got converted to gas a number of years ago. Regarding what it is exactly: the first paragraph of this Wiki article translates thus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteldestillat or this english Wiki article on more or less the same topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil

No, He's pretty clear most of the time.

and 99% of the last 1% can be isolated by systematic troubleshooting: calmly and logically looking at one thing at time, one step at a time, from one end of the circuit to the other. I fixed an antenna combiner once (used to combine the ouput of multiple in-ear monitor senders, so you can send them all off one antenna...), and several younger colleagues were almost bowing down in awe. I had to explain how I did it: "see that big black charcoal smudge behind the power switch? That's not supposed to be there....

To put that into perspective: my de-facto father in law got a letter from his energy provider the other week. In Germany, by the way. He had been paying just over €250,- a month for gas. They informed him that as of Jan. the price "had to" go up to well over €1.000,- a month. Our provider has informed us that the price for electricity is going to double as of January. Don't know what the gas price is going to do, but it wont be pretty. Europe was, before the war in the Ukraine started, getting something over 60% of its gas from Russia. Most of it was going through pipes through the Ukraine. Also, I believe a large percentage of the diesel in Europe was coming from Russian oil. Given that diesel motors are almost the norm here, that is a not insignificant problem So Yes, this is true. One might argue that the european embargo on Russian oil is a foolish gambit in that context. On the other hand, Putin is financing the war to a large extent through fossil energy sales. I don't think anyone wants to keep financing his meglomania. Also, would it be wise to remain largely dependent for energy on a country whose leader has proven himself to be, to put it mildly, somewhat erratic? Much more importantly, to keep the industry running so the economy doesn't collapse. Lights are good too... It is worth noting that at least some of those coal power plants were supposed to be going out of service around now. Also, a couple of nuclear power plants that were scheduled to go off line will be kept going at least until the end of this winter. The bloke who had to decide about that is Robert Habek, vice chancellor and minister for the economy and climate protection. He is a member of the green party. In other words, it's all a bit complicated here right now.

There is a lot of truth in that. A sneaky little bare strand like that can be a bugger to find, though.

Hi Joe. I very seriously considered buying that one. The differences to mine: the "pork chops" on mine are black, as is the seat. The seat on that one might be from a different model, I think. On of the "Sport" variantions maybe, but I'm not sure. Mine has about 20,000 km more on the clock, and was about €1,000 cheaper. And the bloke I bought miine off is someone I have met a couple of times through a forum here. What makes that one interesting, the text from the ad indicates a long term owner who really loved the bike. He's selling because he's giving up riding motorcycles altogether. Here's his text: For those who are wondering "TÜV" refers to the obligatory bi-annual roadworthiness tests here. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the workshop stands in the photos might be original Guzzi parts. I reckon the bike would be a good buy, but I've already got one now. As I said, I seriously considered it, but chose to buy the cheaper, higher mileage bike from the bloke I have met a couple of times. Apart from the red bits, I think it is pretty much the same as the one I got.

This may qualify as slander, but I have decided to not ever buy anything from that particular vendor. He has (thay have...) come to my attention fairly regulary in the course of searches for various parts for my motorcycles. My impression, the price tends to be high, and the assertion that the part is "in good condition" may sometimes be stretching the truth. A couple of examples: a tank for a GTR 1000 Kawasaki in "good useable condition" with a dent in it and obvious rust inside. The price was at the top end of the scale. Some cams for the same bike in "good condition", also for a very healthy price, and with pitting on the cam lobes that was obvious on the photos. So, if anyone is thinking about buying there, have a really close look at the pictures, and look for some other offers to see how the price compares.

Hi Moto Fuzzi. Welcome from one new member to another. I also bought a V11 Le Mans recently. Haven't even ridden it yet, but I'm looking forward to it. Mick

Mate, you can't judge the sound of anything going by a film on youtube that was probably recorded with a telephone. Going by the look of the pipes, they're probably too loud for my taste. It's nice that his blinkers work, but if my horn (the one on the V11 Le Mans) sounds like his does in the video, I will definitely be fitting a proper one instead.

Yeah, no worries. I'll get in touch after new year. Have fun. I hope your mate sorts out his dead Scura.

Hallo Chuck. As far as I can tell, you made a run in November, and about 8 of them were spoken for. Are there any left? I would really like to get one (I'm talking about one of the latest last ever Lucky Phil shift extenders of course.) I'll send a PM as soon as I hear that there is still one to be had. Mick

Ok, he did mention "new tyres" in the Craigslist ad. Hadn't noticed that... Yes, after so much time there will always be something. If it is in "perfect" condition, it probably has seen too little use for it's own good. If it has been used, it is going to show signs of wear. I don't mean to say "don't buy it", particularly if the price is good. Rather, more or less what you say yourself, the thing is old, and is likely to have some issues, no matter how good it looks from the outside. One should bear that in mind.

My two cents: the text in the ad says "Tosser" to me, but maybe that's got to do with me not living in the U.S. Going by the wear pattern on the tyres, the current owner has never, ever given the bike a caning. If he's the first owner, the bike has probably had an "easy" life. The biggest dangers are probably either too much riding around at too low revs, and too much time spent just standing around in a shed somewhere and not being ridden.

No one has mentioned it yet, so here I am: you mentioned in another post, that "it stood like that for a long time". So: don't discount the possibilty that the master cylinder might not be intact anymore. If it's not pumping, you'll never get a pressure point. Regarding strapping up the lever overnight: I've had success with that on a Kawasaki GTR 1000. The magic is not only that the lever ist clamped "behind" the return hole. The pressure reduces the size of any air bubbles that might be in there, and thus they have a better chance of wandering upwards overnight and (hopefully) exiting the system. I.e. this really does work, when the problem is such that it can be addressed this way.

Having lived here since the start of '96, I have to say "mostly". You really don't want to get caught up in the burocracy here. But SD is pretty good, though. I've bought stuff there a couple of times, and it always turned up promptly and was all correct.

Yeah, I thought so. Can happen to anyone...

Hi. I'm convinced from your posts that you really have your head around this. It all makes sense. But... Please look at this again. You described two opposing situations (not enough sag without the rider vs. too much without the rider), but drew the same conclusion (too soft) in both cases. Doesn't add up...

I think there is something wrong here. That seems contradictory. Could it be that the second sentence should have ended with "too hard"?