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G- There are manual buttons on the face of the unit. I have the manual here...I think. I richened mine a couple of years ago, and my memory.. what was it that I was saying?

It's so nice to see the little nerdy guys helping out the big greasy guys and vice-versa, without any grudges. Sorry about high school. We all get along, isn't it beautiful? Sniff. Thanks, Carl.

My bike has been back together for a couple of months. Did the fiberglas repair, painted, and remounted the fairing. I tried to look at the picture of the recent nakeds in the gallery, but can't really tell if the bikini fairing mounts will interfere with the R90/100S fairing. I'm really not sure if you can mount the BMW fairing as a framed-mounted fairing. I prefer handlebar/fork mounted fairings. Do your fairing brackets detach from the frame? Jason is running a handlebar-mounted R90S fairing with higher handlebars, so it is possible. There are more affordable options, but they are just not as pretty. Has anyone mounted a LeMans I fairing on a V11 Sport? What other simple and sporty frame-mounted fairings are out there? Airtech site has a frame-mounted 750SS fairing, and you might fit that to your mounts, and that would look much like the Magni fairing. There are also a bunch of neat dustbin racing fairings to look at. Another neat site for cafe parts is Omar's in Minnesota. They sell parts to make Yamaha 650s into Norton racers and dirt-trackers, and you might be able to adapt some of that stuff. It's worth a look, anyhow. They have a R90S-like fairing with both 7 and 8-inch holes in there. Also BSA/ Norton style cafe fairing. http://www.omarsdtr.com/cafe.html Sorry I can't be of more help - you get to be creative and blaze a trail and earn our undying admiration and envy. Good luck.

Parallax. Now go to sleep.

I think these kinds of features are great - I like seeing where we all ride - some pretty exotic places. Amazing. We should all do more of this, and Staedler will pioneer the video age.

Allright! You got it back...Dodged another bullet. Does Joe Kenney make the shift lever? You can get it directly from him. See the accessories section - he CNCs the good fin guards.

I got a TB balancer from Evoluzione - is this the Twinmax? I have not yet used it. Is it suitable? - was about $15.

I find that the airstream hits me right at the faceshield at speed, which is good in the rain and not so good for bugs.

I highly recommend Knight Riders with Ed Harris. For you motojousting fans. Cheesey premise with decent script, budget, and acting. Motorcyclists as latter-day chivalric crusaders.

I've always wondered why people religiously obscure their plate number? What's the theory? That some cop or DMV employee is going to track them down and steal their bike?

Maybe we should compare the contents of the '03 vs '00 tool kits - start a thread? That would be a good use of time...

Me too. I just put two nuts on the end of the bolt and tightened them together so they line up, then wrote "Guzzi oil plug wrench " in Sharpie pen on it. The wrench thing in my kit slips before it makes enough torque. No tool box should be without a Sharpie; great tool for touching up chipped or rubbed off paint, too. Axle nut is an elegant solution, too. Diseased minds think alike?

I used the smallest gauge zip tie, tightened it up and snipped the end. Hope that helps.

Look, the Ducati guys are crusty old geezers too... High 3/4-length-textile-jacket-per-capita quotient. They're practically Beemer nellies, for god's sake.

Nice job. It certainly takes a certain amount of courage and/or desperation to take a carving knife to your bike.

A long while ago, someone suggested a standard lamp part as a replacement for the tripmeter reset knob. I can't find the old thread. Any suggestions?

Maybe we should rethink the red background color on this thread? You're all pawing the ground... If you don't stop this nonsense I'm going to extended forks and make a chopper out of my Sport or give it the Earles-type from my Ural and show you all who's a poser. These accusations of poserdom are making this sound like an H-D forum - who's the real, original biker...

On my last interstate transit, I averaged nearly 90 mph from Maine to NY and got better mileage than usual. I have noticed that my mileage gets better with the RPM at 4500-5000. Do you all think mileage is related to the "flat spot" in the HP curve? Does it indicate that the engine or FI works less efficiently there? Does that explain why I get worse mileage at or near the speed limit in 6th gear, why we all get such varying mileage figures? (My bike also wears a R90S fairing.)

Not being defensive, but mine haven't cracked in 2 years...

Did you or anyone else use WD40 or similar to clean the motor or exhaust? I did that once...

I read an article on this very question in MCN a year or so ago, but I can't put my finger on it. I don't think the road crown was their answer - I think it was in the tech questions. Not much help I know. Weary brain cells...

You guys are making me homesick for City Park Rd. Here I am in Brooklyn, a good hour of agressive traffic from the open road. I used to go to the Roadrunners rally every year. We probably know people in common.

One of my carbon canisters is now the coolant overflow tank on someone's streetfighter. I left the nipples in and used a plastic end cap of the right size, secured with a tiny zip tie.

Hey Sean, I just ran down through Worcester yesterday on 290. I go by every few weeks or so between NY and Maine. The only way I can see your brake pedal rotating to that degree is if the bolt securing the actuation rod to the pedal came off or loosened - or if the brake lines lost all compression. As for injection issues, I'm afraid I'm useless. Good luck. I also have reacquired the rear brake groan, worse than ever after remounting my rear wheel after patching a tire. I worry it's an alignment issue. Had THREE nails (thank you NY) in a fairly new rear tire - used tubeless automotive patches from Pep Boys. Held up for the 700 miles I rode it last week. I also have not been able to shake the tank suck--but the bike only stalls in very hot weather, and hasn't done it since last summer. I will try mounting the anti-spill valve vertically when I can get to it. Also see the thread about insulating your fuel line - moving it away from one of the cylinders. Hot fuel line causes fuel vaporization, loss of pressure in line? This is still not a satisfactory explanation... Readjust the shifter - I noticed that shifting got a lot more difficult after adjusting it downward after installing the evoluzione peg relo kit. Moved it back to original position and good to go.

Ghezzi Brian?