MotoKnee

good suggestion, I will pour some Evan Williams and make some changes

Mostly for helping myself to understand the circuit and the suggestions for troubleshooting, might be of help to others. If someone sees errors, I will correct them.

Nice to finally meet you fellows, lots of cool machines and interesting people-watching. Thx for posting about the whole affair, maybe GMC will make the next one.

Mighty fine day to have a retired fellow's schedule.

Thanks for the reminders gentlemen, I have attached a post-it note to my desktop monitor as the fail-safe reminder. I will try to get out bright and early on Sat.

The Street Rod was my favorite version of the V Rods, I must say I really enjoyed it right up to the day it was totaled in a deer strike.

I kid, but had similar experience. My wife bought an entire sheepskin at a garage sale and I promptly stole it for seat covers. Some not too stylish, but cool during hot weather and warm on those brisk mornings. Mine also soaked up water, had to strap a plastic bag on top for nights outside the garage.

Ha you caught that before I could change "mount" to "install"!

I've been doing it wrong all these years, mounting only the hide instead of the entire sheep!

Agreed. The drone shots are a great touch and labeling the bikes for the less informed makes it all the more interesting. I hope to make it next year, which is what I said last year.

Thanks for posting the video, very well done.

Can't see the forest for the trees!

I saw that one on Cycle Trader, it's about twice as far away, a little older, and has a few more miles, but doable. Giving it a second look and it's growing on me. UhOh. I just thinned the herd from 4 bikes to 3 to open up some garage space, but wtf, 3 Guzzis and a '23 Z900RS sounds ok, and I can always put the Greenie in the living room. If it's still for sale next month on my 70th birthday, I'll tell the wife that's what I want.

Congrats on the score, I guess I can delete that bookmark now I've been smooth talking my wife to drive me up there so I could ride that bike home if it was roadworthy for the 100 mile trip, seemed like a great price. Enjoy and post more pics.

This one? https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/mcy/d/snohomish-2004-moto-guzzi-v11-cafe-sport/7868719941.html

The Greenie Conundrum: too beautiful to ride, too fun not too.

Astoria bridge, 4 mi span across the mouth of the Columbia river on the OR/WA border.

Hottest day of the year here today. So, lyrics for a hot day, guitar hot licks, and most importantly, hot wimmins dancing

Correction to my post above re: secondary adjuster gap. I meant to type .7mm (not .1mm) as Phil mentions in page 1 and 2 of this thread. Got out for another ride today in between rain showers and must say I'm thrilled with how smooth and precise shifts are now , should have busted a move on this fix when I first saw this thread.

I rigged mine in a vise this morning to try to determine root cause for shifting issues, primarily downshifting fails. It didn't take long to see that the front hook was hanging at the pin and not dropping. It took a little fiddling with very small adjustments on the main eccentric to get the same clearance at both the front and rear hooks. Immediate improvement, at least on the bench. Adjusted the secondary to about .1mm and called it good. Both are a little fiddly trying to keep the setting while holding the shift lever, a screw driver and tightening the lock nut. I debated whether to replace the 2 springs I had purchased last winter along with doing the other straightening and smoothing steps Phil did. I didn't want to muddy the water with multiple changes so I put the bike back together with only the eccentric adjustments done. Just returned from a test ride and could not be more pleased with the result. Every shift up or down was solid, easy and reliable. Transformed the enjoyability of riding the green beast. My bike had been weeping oil at the second adjuster, I suspect someone tried to tighten the nut with the shifter cover on the bike and just turned the whole unit fouling the setting. As always, enormous gratitude to Phil and the forum for guidance on resolving problems.

Despite assuring there are no issues with the external shifter parts, I still get occasional false neutrals or other funky shifting problems. So, with a heavy heart I pulled the shifter cover to see what's what. Before disassembly, it appears the detent roller could benefit from a tweak and that the eccentric adjustment was done with a yardstick. Downshifts and upshifts bring different points on the shift selector close to the adjuster, will set the tighter one to spec. Will upgrade to the super spring and smooth out the recommended surfaces in search of Japanese shifter delight. I'm sure there will be questions as things come apart.

I guess it's no mystery how this old nugget got stuck in my head.