Ouiji Veck
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Dam.... That was my first guess...TB blown off it's moorings.
Happened to me twice in 35K mi....last time about 20K ago.
No idea why. Little raw fuel got somewhere it shouldn't outta...
No harm done and better to blow a boot off than bend a plate.
(don't tighten those clamps too tight
)Set those valves to "world specs" while your (or your fixers) in there.
Your bike will love ya for it.
Good luck and happy motoring.
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Lefty here too. Was known as Southpaw in certain circles. Play guitar
upside down and backwards and fiddle backwards. Play tennis lefty, hockey righty,
bat right, throw left. I got a different way of looking @ everything.
Comes in handy but I haven't made it made a million ....yet.
Of course I own a Guzzi
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Ahh...good Paul.
I'm curious..did you do the ride/ adjust / ride / method?
There's a few more goofy glitches that may pop up
but there as easy or easier fixes.
Clutch cut out...(wire under tank) Kick stand cut out, relays (Get some GEIs or others mentioned
on the "relays" threads). Wheel bearing / spacer foolishness...Floppy instrument cluster..
Get 'em sorted by 20K and enjoy the next 150K.
Now you need to find that 50 / 60 mph Guzzi groove for when your around civilization.
AKA the "patrolled" motorways. Save your license for where you can really play.
Have fun
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Ha!
I hope I don't cause an international incident.
I laughed my butt off....being surrounded by Beemer drivers and 1 Concourse
infidel....
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For those with video capability.
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A nice day in the Bershires w/ Curious bikes and even more curious old coot.
"Save This Date: May 17, 2008
Vintage Trailbike Museum is having Open House on May 17th from 9 to 5.
Located at:
192 Henry Wood Road, Cheshire, Mass.
Hope to see you then."
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Tis a quandry........
All will be reveild this week end I do believe.
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Motorcycling is becoming a lost art.
99% of people getting into it just want to be seen as
a rider not actually be a rider. They're lured into by the promise
of being like the cool people on TV then give up when the reality rings hollow.
That leaves us old coots who started riding before the Fonz came along.
We were lucky enough to find the place you get to in your soul when a ride
all comes together, and to value that above standing around the parking lot posing.
In fact valuing that above all the illusions out there in our ever shallower world
of facade and propped up identities.
Motorcycling is no more noble, cool or groovy than playing music,
painting, crocheting or water skiing. It's just one of the million paths.
Many years ago I realized it's the one constant in my life.
Through wives and and women, fortunes and family come and gone
the road remains. Seductive and beckoning, rewarding and frustrating, dangerous
and thrilling, but always with the answer when I need it. Always brings me back
to square 1. The perspective from the center.
I look up from my crocheting, knit one, pearl two, down shift, throttle, and think "Everything else is an illusion..it just keeps changing...the road is always the road ..Mmm...freshly mown hay."
You don't get that hanging around the parking lot.
It's hard to put on TV. Crocheting...yea that's on TV...but nothing about riding.
There just aren't that many of us...is there?
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Hi Redhog..
Good to see someone older than me here.
and sorry about your misfortune.Removing the back wheel is kinda straight forward.
Drop the caliper, pull the axle, keep an eye on the spacers.
Particularly the 1/2 inch one inside the hub. You might want to do
a search on that, there were some V11s that came through with too short
a spacer causing bearing failure. (while your in there)
The real trick is getting it up in the air...no center stand sucks.
I use a bike lift like Sears has. I like it a lot. Takes a little to secure the bike
on it well but once it's up there it's really neat. I can pull the front or rear or both apart
and still roll it around the garge.
Welcome to the asylum and don't hesitate to ask.....
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Brentt.....
I think your TBs are out of sync. Mine was doing the exact thing. Hiccuping
around 3.5K at flat throttle. It also popped and barked loud on deceleration from higher Rs
(Does yours do this too?)
At risk of derision I'll again post my cure.
I simply ran the bike @ the offending RPM range, reached down and twisted the spigot
(white knob that connects the throttle plates) in tiny micro turns one way then the other
until the offensive hiccup was gone. It took about 10 - 15 minutes of fiddling..
running in 3rd gear(2nd? maybe...whatever is safe) on a secluded road.
Once I got going in the right direction there was noticeable improvement
and it was obvious when I got "there". I made about 6 or seven 1/32nd turns in the
wrong direction. Got off and zeroed back to my starting mark and tried the other direction. It was soon obvious I was on to something.
Disclaimer.....
No halfway decent mechanic would use this method. I think there would be
a possibility of back firing and bending a throttle plate or at least blowing a boot off.
I'm more like Goober from Mayberry.
Maybe I just got lucky but my bike runs flawlessly through all RPMs and I get about 40+mpg. (In the summer ) for the last 30Kmi.If you are a reckless idiot Goober like me and decide to try it, keep in mind ..
tiny turns, mark your starting point. It should be clear if it's improving after 4 or 5 turns.
I accept no responsibility if you blow it up, but will happily accept accolades if it works.
This may be some truly diz-astous advice but it's what I did and it worked for me.
I've read many a post about putting a V11 on a Dyno and squeezing out the n'th degree
of HP only to still have an annoying stumble @ mid 3K. What's up wit dat?
Oh yea...
Euro Specs on the valves first...the only way to fly...it's the singlebest thing you can do to get a Guzzi to run happy.
Now to suffer the slings and arrows........
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Docc.....
Sputtered out?? Or light came on? It's the 4.6 gals to fill that gets me.
That means you had at least 1/2 gal. of usable gas in there. I put 5.2 gals in once.
Who knows...every one of these things is "unique". I've got a good one. Must have been built before lunch. The paint never flaked, the spring never failed, the relays never failed,
I get decent mileage, .....
(knocking on my desk like Gene Krupa ...I do believe in spooks...I do believe in spooks )
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Hey...ya old goat...
Your in the right place.
Off the top of my head.
Relays relays relays.....most running problems go back to them.
Do a search on relays. The stock Siemens suck.
Have a look @ yours ..if their Siemens replace 'em
Under 20.00 for all five from http://www.dpguzzi.com/
Search on 'em anyway. There's a wealth of knowledge there
and it'll give you a good warm up for getting plugged into this site.
The help here is incredible.
Kick stand switch and neutral switch are buggy.
The Neutral problem is a wire under the tank. Left side. Purple on my 02.
Bullet plug sucks. Clean it, goop it w/ dielectric and give it a little squeeze.
There's a shift return spring that not hard to fix but if you got 27K on chances are you dodged the bullet. They were notorious for failure on the 02 but mines been fine for 38Kmi
Rear wheel bearings fail on some of our bikes because of a short spacer on the axle.
Search on that and you'll be well up to speed on most of the glitches and on your
way to being a V11 expert. I really can't say enough about what a treasure this site is.
It truly enhances the pleasure of owning a Guzzi
Oil? There's about a million post on oil. Good luck staying out of the loooooong
ones.
There does get to be some varitable jihads on some subjects. Most of us are running synth somewhere on our bikes. Hey...the holy grail is to put
200K mi on one of these things.
Welcome, good luck and have FUN!
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Yup....I did 198 one day last year. On the slab, consistent 80mph, summer.
Mr.tripple.. When I'm in the Guzzi grove and having fun (most of the time) I throttle
hard away from a stop sign or any time I get in the lower gears just to shake rattle and roll
(just to get the Guzzi grin) then shut it down once I'm doing 60 or 70. (traffic congestion permitting). Most of the time I'm just riding, keep it between 4K and 5K Rs. maybe winding it to 7k
or so out of the corners for a gear.
A lot of the time I'm feeling frisky and don't let it drop below 5K Rs
Sometimes the fangs come out and it doesn't get below 5.5K and is between 6K & 7K a lot.
I imagine on the track it would stay between 6.8 and 7.8 where the power is.
In my experience good aggressive cornering is incumbent upon being @ the RPMs where if
you let off the gas its like hitting the brakes or if you throttle it the front end gets lite.
On a Guzzi thats almost anywhere from 4k to 7k
Thats why I love 'em -
Paul...fear not. Your gonna be real happy when you get it right.
It sure sounds like the Adj.
I ended up just searching on "acorn nut" ...you'll see what I mean
when you read >>>
http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?...ic=5866&hl=
Good luck...have fun.
( I cut a wrench and an allen to do it on the fly and 1/8 turn may be too much at a time)
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Thanks all..
First off..I didn't include the fact that I've noticed this before.
Just not this drastic. Which will be of importance latter...
My 2 favorite explanations. (in no particular order)
Guzzimotos : Evaporation of winter blend. I haven't rode half as much as usual
this winter...ergo...the gas has had longer to evap between rides.
Pete Roper : Yup...an ok convecting temp sensor may get me ok mpg in the summer
but not so much in the winter.
It's warming up so we'll see what the next tank or 3 get and report back.
I've been getting a good 40+ mpg since crossing the 20K mark.
Something for you guys getting less to consider...among other things.
Thanks to everyone.
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My fuel light is coming on early by about 30mi (@ 125-130mi)
Do ya suppose this is just winter gas?
I often rationalized that the denser air would give higher mileage but
I can see that may be only true w/ carbs.
Maybe with the cold days my temp sensor doesn't come up to normal
opp temps too. I HATE getting under 40mpg.!!
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Oo Oo Oo (Dragging my knuckles into the conversation. )
Being a world famous bearing chef ( I like 'em fried in yak fat with a little garlic)
I say over torquing is my favorite method of cooking 'em up to that nice glazed blue
perfection that will keep your friends talking about it for decades.
As you get proficient at it you can tighten just enough to ensurer dinner is done
just as you reach the furtherest destination of your trip.
I've managed this twice in nearly 40 years and I'm sure it will be
engraved on my head stone. (with a hammer and screw driver by my friends)
First time was in 199? on the Prince Edward Island bridge on a CBR and there was a lot of
joking about tightening the axle per length of trip.
Last time it was on the Guzzi and no matter what I said about fromunda cheese spacers
I was voted guilty of over torquing~~again~~ and had to go to remedial torque school and be re-certified by a panel of my drunken, taunting, anal BMW driving piers.
I arrived at the shop armed with a new set of bearings, torque specs and a 12 pack of IPA.
Replaced the offending bearings and torqued the axle back on to my normal
SAE / chimpanzee method. Then the panel of orangutans each armed with their own TW
checked my ball park tightening against the specs. I was in fact nominally over tight but we were all amazed at how low the specs were so we must have been going by the 22 ft lbs.
For the rest of the evening we played "how close can you come to the specs w/o the TW?"
which harkens back some 25 years ago when we used to blindfold ourselves and play "name
that part" when someones tranny or carburetor was apart on the bench.
What's my point? Either I forgot or I never had one except that wheel bearings and gorillas
bring up wonderful memories of side splitting fun and camaraderie.
I now go with 40lb. chimp torque instead of 60lb. chimp and haven't lost the axle nut yet
and I continue to alarm, distress and amuse my friends. Things would be different if any
of them had beaten me on the track back in the day...but they didn't so "nyahhh."
I do live in mortal fear of letting them down on a long trip however but we've all had our turn
@ it. Nothing a credit card can't cure. And we had a wonderful time with my CBR parked in
a good Canadians yard (with a seemingly endless supply of Molson Gold) while 3 guys cruised down to Monkton (!) and had to go to the stripper bar while they waited for the girl to come back from a 5:00 dinner to re-open the Honda shop (!) only to come up with only one of the 2 different bearings. 20 minutes latter we were on the road again. 15 years latter we still laugh about it and that bearing is still on the wall in my shop.
Monkeys and bearings, friends and motorcycles...priceless.
Our first camping trip of the season is 2 weeks away.
8 of us and the twisty mountain roads of VT.
I better grab the duct tape and bailing wire and head out to the shop.
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Nice one Skevee...
Take note all. I'm always blasting my back brakes with air and pulling 'em
off and working them, I just figured it was the unfortunate upside down position
loading 'em up with grit and grime. Timely too. I was just about to flush 'em for the season.
Kudos for the heads up.
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Bloat-o-Glide
That'll get a little mileage around the ol' campfire this summer.
I gave 6 of them a "Nice day for it huh?" out side a pub I stopped at
on our first 70deg. day Thurs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~silence~~~~~~~~ not even a nod.
Tough guys on Bloat-o-Glides, bandannas and sneakers..(really)
Is there a name for their mental disorder?
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It's a Guzzi. Do what you want but your first customizing obligation
is to replace all those zeros on your odometer with numbers.
God those zeros are ugly!!!!
I think a 2 looks really nice in the far left position.
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From what I read they're all good.
People are real happy with the Mettz Z6s. I liked mine well enough.
The Pirelli...I would imagine they're pretty good.
My long ridding Beemer friends like the Michelin Pilot whatever (Road?).
I'm on my 4th set of Contis. They've never done anything stupid.
I think they all get about 7Kmi. I'm waiting on a ride report on
GT Johnny's new Avons.
The one tire I hear dissed a lot is the BT 020
Never tried 'em...probably never will.
I just want one as good as any of the aforementioned
that gets more like 10Kmi.
I ain't that fussy but I surely hate changing tires.
Ha!
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Hey JHH...
Not to worry. 550 first ride is wayyyy over the top.
You'll mold your bones into after a while.
I think you said you've been away from riding a while.?
I bet there's 2 things at work.
1 Your holding on too tight. (Squeezing the grips more than nesc.)
2. You've got too much weight on the bars.
Try loosening your grip if you can and don't lock your elbows.
On long trips I also move my butt around...swap cheeks. It not only spares your
butt but gives your shoulders, back and arms a break from holding a constant position.
The real trick is to do it before you start to ache somewhere.
Congrats on the BillyBob...your gonna have a fun summer.
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hi JHH and welcome to the asylum..
I'm 5'9...200lbs ..29" inseam and my LeMans fits me like a glove.
No matter what you get a 1000mi first trip is going to twist
you like a pretzel but after the V11 breaks YOU in you'll be fine.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Tires, lubrication etc.
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Yea...it's a squeeze getting a 180 in there.
I let the air out... but also went down to a 170... a very popular
move around here. I like it fine.
I also quit balancing my tires at all. I started skipping the back one about
3 yrs. ago...and the front maybe 2 yrs ago. I've never noticed a difference
in handling or wear. I go through 2 sets a year and change 'em myself.
If I ever felt the slightest vibration or feed back that might be a balancing issue
on a tire I just put on I'd be at my buddies shop ..pronto.
So far ...nada.
My other hobby is defying logic.....
Don't try these tricks at home!