Greg Field
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As an officer in the VME, I can tell you, "Don't worry about it. Ride what you like, behave yourself, and enjoy the event."
Your fellow Canadians always behave themselves and make a good showing. George Dockray's green cafe bike won the People's Choice Award in the bike show. Thanks for joining us. If you ever want to come down the night before, I can probably hook you up with a free place to saty.
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Seriously considering a used Nero in Hendersonville, just a couple of hours north of me. It's been on ebay repeatedly, but they've come back to me with an acceptable second-chance offer. Bike has 16K on it.
Steve at Moto Nexus says it's in good shape for its age, other than being a bit faded. (The valve covers are quite faded, in fact, making the claim of "garage kept" and all that a bit er, worthy of some thought. I'm buying it to ride, mind you, not for other people to admire...) ;-)
Anybody familiar with this one? Any issues with the 04 Neros I should be aware of? Supposedly has Feracci cans and a PC.
Thanks,
C
Those're good bikes. A few had soft cams, but that would've revealed itself by now. Save yourself the angst, and service the forks pre-emptively. Do it yourself if you can, so you can be sure the old fluid and gunk gets thoroughly pumped and flushed out.
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Here's a Dyno chart from yesterday for my racer.
Sport 1100 engine in a Tonti frame. Mike Rich heads,41mm carbs, stock bore and pistons, Megacycle X10 cam. H crossover and JC Whitney mufflers.
Best results so far: 145 or 150 mains, 265 needle jet, needle clip on the middle position. 81hp, 63 ft lbs torque. Power peaks at 7300 rpm.
Tried 130 mains and power dropped by 20 hp.
The baseline runs were with 140 mains and the needle clip on the top position. Note the huge hole in the torque that was filled when I went to the clip in the middle position.
Next time I'll try 268 needle jets.
Yes I am a nerd!!!!!
What needles?
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What kind of puller?
Let's do this when snow is on the ground.........
No luxury of waiting for snow. I need to have the Sport ready for a serious sport-tour in four weeks where I show the BMW/KTM/Triumph and Honda guys how the Guzzi can hang . . . Or, no . . . Again, these guys are like going for a little hike in the woods. With Army Rangers.
I wake up in a cold seat to ,"Your Guzzi breaks down, we're splittin' up your gear!":ninja:
Then, two weeks later, off to Barber's for the Vintage Festival. Fabulous event and I've thought of taking the (almost) old Honda.
The heat and slam it on a block of wood trick obviates the need for the puller. It may be true that you need not remove the pinion first. Like I said, I've never replace that seal on a V11S-type rear drive. On a normal 5-spees=type drive, it's a 45-minute job, including removal and replacement on the bike.
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Greg, I think you're right about the inner seal. It can be changed without removing the outer seal? (I don't really want to do that one again also)
The leaky certainly seems less with the normal G-5, but it definitely hasn't stopped.
I've never had to do this on a V11 rear drive, but it should be similar to the other Guzzi drives. Remove the pinion gear/block from the front. Take off the bolts around the big pltter cover. Remove the cover, along with the ring gear and its hub. Heat the case in the boss around the inner race for the needle bearing. pick up the case with a gloved hand and slam it open side down onto a wood block. That'll usually drive out the bearing race. Then lever out the seal and rteplace with a new one. Drive back in the race. Look at the other race on the ring gear hub. If it's loose, clean everything and red loctite it in place. If it has walked away from the shoulder but is still tight, drive it back in place. Re-assemble the whole works. It should hold the pink stuff fine after that.
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Aprilia Dorsoduro =
Actually it seems to be an interesting - if not amazing - bike, the Dorsoduro. Nevertheless it may be interesting in this context that Wilco started as some sort of hillbilly/country band, at least if I got it right what I found on the net about them.
Hubert
Uncle Tupelo. One of the great bands of the 1990s. A mix of Replacements and Hank Williams. Tupelo broke up too soon and re-formed as two bands: Wilco and Son Volt. IMO, both of those bands produced a few really good songs but generally uninspired albums.
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After my second refill with RedLine Shockproof heavy, I'm sure I overfilled the bevel drive as it would weep at the vent from time to time. I'll bet some 50ml hangs inside the drive even draining when hot. Finally, the red mud started appearing on the wheel after parking up.
I changed the rear large seal, but the drip persists. Less now and not as bright red. One question is, if the inner seal is leaking does it still show up in the same place as if the large seal has failed? Or did I just install my replacement poorly?
I had the exact same problem with mine using Redline. I changed both of the seals and it only stopped the leaking temporarily. I'm guessing your leaks first started only after being on the highway going over 70mph? Then it progressively gets worse from there. Long story short, just use regular gear oil or what the manual calls for. When I drained the redline from my box and put plain gear oil in there the leaking stopped. I'm thinking the redline is just a little too slippery for the rear drive seals.
So, I drained the Redline. Twice now. I keep thinking the drizzle gets better. Did yours take a few miles a change or two to "seal?"
The phot shows a pinkish tone inside the spline area, indicating a possible inner seal leak. I've had RLSH in my rear drive for 26,000 miles without a leak. Or so, I think. It's somewhere in Wyoming right now, being ridden by Aussie Bruce Reader. It may be leaking now, but he hasn't said anything about that.
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RH is not coming back.
How do you know that he is not once more amongst us at this very moment? Keeping a low profile, biding his time....
Ratchethack & Captain Nemo, Masters of Delusion ... If only Ratchethack hadn't given fullest rein to his phobias & prejudices without discrimination & to the point of tedium...I can't remember what happened to Captain Nemo, but I remember him challenging Greg to a race (or was it the other way round?)...& his blue exhaust pipes...
Shame really...but Buzz Lightyear managed to turn it around...there's always hope.
Yes, Nemo and I rode together for a few years and even went to a couple rallies together. He could be very entertaining, but in the end, his behavior caused me to abandon him at a rally. After that, he said all kinds of nasty things about me, and even challenged me to a race. I said, "OK, we'll race to this place and back by this route, and you can even run the race on your RC-51 against my Eldo," and that was the last I ever heard of it. Truth is that once it got twisty, he never could even keep up to my Eldo when he was on his "fastest Guzzi on the West Coast." I haven't seen or heard from him in several years. Last I heard was a rumor that he had joined the Bandidos and was riding a Harley. I do not know if there's any truth to the rumor.
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Hello people,
looking into buying a 2004 v11 ballabio with 10K on it, Gianelli mufflers and a powercommander.
Asking $4900. is this a good price. i had several pics sent to me of the bike and it looks extremmely clean. i have always wanted a Guzzi... i have spent many days reading on this website and now want owners of this bik to please chime in and erad about there experiences on this bike. thanx to all who participate.
Andrew
They are good bikes with relatively few problems. At 10k, the engine is just broken in. If in good cosmetic shape, that's a fair price.
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Sorry. For sale. My mailbox is now no longer full.
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Footwear, schmootwear. Anything south of the morning-dew-on-fur is irrelevant.
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If so, PM me.
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In absence of a lift if you have rope, pulleys, and a couple eye bolts in the ceiling you can remove the seat and haul the bike up. Make sure you secure the front of the bike.
Why not use a CanyonDancer and take both ends up?
In the end, I'm not at all sure that greasing the front u-j matters.
After 6000 miles, the front u-j will be stiff. At 32,000 miles and after a lot of greasing, it is still stiff. I have seen many like it. YMMV.
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Wow, RAZ! I don't think I've ever seen a picture of your Sport. That is magnificent!
Agreed! Nice bike Raz. How's it running after all the engine work?
Thanks, well the pic is taken without exhaust mounted so it looks a bit cooler than it normally does. More pics are linked in my signature. Anyway I think the raised compression was a good thing. I haven't experienced any problems with pinging or such, even with piss poor octane gas from the continental Europe. I get the feeling my front wheel is much more prone to get airborne but we'll never get hard facts on that.
I didn't modify my ignition map. The fuel map was a little modified (enrichened) with my closed loop correction until my sensor recently went tits up. I just finished a long distance ride in open loop and all in all, the bike was just fantastic. Fantastic. It's a pity it's not really a touring bike 'cause I'm a touring guy. Maybe I'll sell it now and buy meself a good old carburetted 1975 1000 Convert.
Edit: Of course, I will bore it to 1100 cc and claim it to be a V11 so I don't have to switch forum
Keep them pink and wet, else, all they strain out is buterflies.
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When the Japanese bike makers were trying so hard to emulate the Harleys, they were doing it with water-cooled twins that emulated the look of air-cooled motors. They ran better, made more power and were far more reliable. And really, really boring. I've always disliked Hondas only because they're too good. It sounds rediculous but it's the truth. Moving to oil-cooling (like the newer BMW's) would split the difference pretty well, wouldn't it? They could get better tolerances, more power, and better cooling and still keep most of the good looks and mechanical clatter...
Not really so. The successful ones ran no better, made no more power, and weren't really more reliable. What the japanese found was, if it looked enough like a Harley to sell with the Harleys, it was no better in any respect than a Harley. This is how we ended up with H-D outselling Honda in the US.
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I don't know.
That all seems very complicated, for Guzzi.
I'm thinking they should just go into the walking shoe business. Lace-up of course.
Slip-ons might be easier.
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I'm sorry, but while a transverse V twin cylinder engine may not be the perfect engine package it is better then Ducati's L twin package. And look how successful that has been. The pro's and con's of Guzzi engine layout have little to do with the fact that Guzzi has been trying to go out of business since 1921.
That is a much larger issue with causes that predate the transverse V layout.
In this I must disagree. The Guzzi engine forces the rider's weight to the rear, unless you make the bike very tall to get knee clearance over the cylinders. Or, they could dry-sump it and lower the engine. Neither of those would work in the modern marketplace, though.
Also, Guzzi was once a prosperous company. Many things contributed to the decline. Among them are an engine architecture that forced so many compromises on the bikes. No one loves that engine more than I do, but it's time to move on to something better, IMO. Yes, a V-8 might be nice. There are many other options, though.
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Those sideways cylinders get in the way of a lot of things and only make sense if they need to be out in the breeze for cooling.
If it were a successful and advantageous engine architecture, some other manufacturer would have used it in modern times.
Do the Honda ST1100 and 1300 engines count as modern? Yes they are 4 cylinders but a twin seems feasible.
Modern, yes, but as you say it's a four. With a four, you can use a shorter stroke than on an equal-displacement twin, which reduces how far up and out the cylinders stick, making packaging much easier than with a twin. If Guzzi's water-cooled motor turns out to be a four, fine. If a twin, there are better packages they should use.
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Hi Matt,
I didn't loctite that pin,just made sure that it was snug.May be a good idea to loctite it.
Docc explains how to adjust the eccentric adjuster to me the best way here, http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15818&st=0&p=171149&fromsearch=1entry171149
Let us know if you have any luck,I can't get to mine for a couple days,...
I'll try the adjuster next. I'll let you know. I wonder if anyone can think of a reason why the shifting degrades when the bike is warmed up? This is puzzling and leaves me skeptical that it is just the adjuster under the acorn nut.
Yes. You may have worn splines on your clutch input hub and on the i.d. of the flywheel, or the flywheel may be packed with clutch dust. You can try cleaning it. This sometimes helps, though seldom for more than a few thousand miles. Then, you have to flush it again.
Here's how:
1) Use a strip of duct tape to cover the weephole on the underside of the bell housing.
2) Put a drain pan under the bell housing.
3) Remove the timing plug and pour a pint of mineral spirits into the bell housing.
4) Plug the timing hole.
5) Start bike and lightly rev it while continually actuating the clutch lever for about 30 seconds.
6) Remove tape and let the goo drain out.
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Odd bikes. Odd numbers. Seems natural to me.
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Those sideways cylinders get in the way of a lot of things and only make sense if they need to be out in the breeze for cooling.
If it were a successful and advantageous engine architecture, some other manufacturer would have used it in modern times.
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I'm not against a water-cooled Guzzi.
I am against a water-cooled Guzzi with a transverse-V twin engine. If they're going to water-cool it, they should start from scratch and make a new engine with an engine architecture that does not create so many other packaging problems that result from the V7 architecture. I love the Guzzi transvers-V engine, but reality is that Guzzi has been essentially bankrupt ever since its introduction. It has not brought success for the company. Why stick with it?
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Subforums usually are counterproductive. Regardless whether you look at it under the aspect of "part of social network" things, lost information because posted in the wrong forum, or simply unnecessary internal rivalry.
Take BFG's CARC problems. In fact they were nothing else but Guzzi problems. So why not posting them under one of the standard categories?
It's the same with "Old Guzzi" topics. No other subforum please.
Hubert
I'm coming in very late on this topic, but I fully agree with Hubert about subfora: They detract, rather than add.
So where's a guy gotta go to buy some Mistral race cans around her
in 24/7 V11
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How 'bout the Moto Guzzi titanium pipes? I have a set lacking the ECU for about hte price of Mistrals.