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Ditto...... Too easy.. I have a spare spring in my tank bag but with 27000 mi I think I'm not a candidate... I went in and had a look around...my spring was loosey goosey so I didn't bother with it but it's easy access... There's lots here about the procedure.. Starter off...tranny cover off...your there.

c"mon...weren't you ever young? Tequila.....the only mind altering thing I ingest...then rarely.. well there was that bottle of Patron last week....

Got my fork springs and new Wilburs at the same time. Yipeeee....gonna be in the 50s Sunday. The beginning of another great season with the Guzzi all spruced up. The springs look like springs but the shock looks really well made. The paper work/ instructions were outstanding. Todd and Guzzi Tech were top notch with service and personal attention. Thanks for everything. LETS RIDE!!

I've been riding with the same great guys for over 30 yrs. We started riding the PACE almost 20 yrs ago after we realized our new GSXRs and Ninjas and FZRs were just too much. We found the PACE by ourselves and I first read it about 6 yrs. ago. It pretty much sums it up. Ride within your ability..leave plenty of room between bikes..keep a big safety margin...don't speed up so much on the straights that you have to break for the corners... Designate a good leader...someone that knows the way and looks in the mirrors once in a while. Then go find a twisty road and use some of those sidewalls you paid so much for.

Huh...... I've never got the buzzy hands...like an old Triumph would give you. I wonder what the concensus is. Maybe a poll? I wonder if it's just a matter of breaking in..the bike and yourself. Are you keeping the RPMs up...above 3500 (at least)? I put on 5 and 600 mile days without my hands bothering me..but I'm made out of mostly shark cartilage. I also have my bars filled with lead shot but your bar weights should do the same thing...then again...maybe thats the ticket.

Oh yea... T-Birds nailed it often.

I gotta agree with rocker. All the people I ride with are hard riding, corner grinding Beemerites. They love their bags like HDers love their chrome. The safety factor is also a big issue. I've seen those hard bags save a lot of expensive plastic and a leg or two. Nope...those bean counters in the front office screwed the pouch for Guzzi on that one too. I don't know if the Nero is the "best" sport tourer but for me it's the most handsome and it's the sportiest.

Hey dog... My forks won't be here till tomorrow. Sorry I /we got ya all confused. It's pretty straight forward as far as I can see...dexpite my efforts to make it otherwise. Basically it looks like pull your front wheel ...then up in the center of the bottom of each fork bottom is an allen bolt ....crank that out. ..unscrew the big aluminum nut up top and the whole mechanism slides up and out. (be sure your supported well ) It turns out the position of the blue nut is very important. If you haven't spun it on the thread ...well fine...but it should be 22mm down from the top of the rod. The conclusion was that nut is intristic to the compression and rebound adjusters on top of the cap. Hold against the blue nut to screw the top cap off. Up top... under the blue nut...on top of the spring.. is a retaining ring with a slot in it. ( looks like a washer with the center detented and a slot ) If you depress the spring you can fenagle the retainer out... Other than that it's a matter of putting it back together...(after you clean them out...don't know how I'm going to do that exactly but I imagine there's evil crud down there) Assemble them ...leave the caps off...collapse the forks all the way...fill with your favorite weight suspension fluid...5 wt and 7.5 seem popular..book says 10wt I belive it was .4 liter (13.5 U.S. ounce) per leg but it's best to set your oil by measuring down the tube to the level of the oil..(after you burp all the air out by pumping them (stay dry ) ...100mm is the accepted air space between top of fork tube and top of oil. ratchethack says 125/150 synth. CARTRIDGE FORK FLUID. Set up per "FuelCooler" (probably from Guzzi Tech or somewhere...looks like what I've seen before) 185 lbs geared-up rider and 1/2 tank of fuel. Rear sag - 6mm bike only -34mm laden Front sag -25mm bike only -35mm laden Rear Rebound -13 clicks out Rear Compression -23 clicks out Front Rebound - 9 clicks out Front Compression - 12 clicks out Forks through upper clamp 10mm. Bitubo damper set minimum. It's a starting point. Good luck.. I'll post when I'm finished with mine. Oh yea...every one here is ya can't expect an intelligent discussion to go on too long. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Actually I consider it a huge benefit to have gone in and make my self familiar with the wiring. A good warm up for when I get a thorough understanding of the injection sys. Then I'll have that warm fuzzy feeling of totally knowing my bike like I have with the SP. Which is the reason I got the LeMans. It's all back together, double insulated and water proofed and I swear the light looks a lot brighter and whiter......in my garage any way. Thanks Gary, dlaing, ratchet, everyone on ths forum an especially Japp for providing this great community. Good luck to you guys starting your conversions. It's a lot easier than I made it.

Man I'd love a set of those bags... How do you spell love ? M O N E Y ...dam........

Yup...... In retrospect I would have definately gone with the E. Beaver in the bucket kit. But I had a plan and it just snow balled. The chance of one relay going is slim and the chance of both going nil. So there really never was a threat of having to deal with it on the road. Chalk it up to yet another exercise in tenacity.

Right...dlaing was there when the inside / outside the bucket light went on in my head. Looking back the problem was my great aversion to burying everything so deep in the fairing/ bucket. raz... I'd go with the Eastern Beaver set up unless you are also very averse to dealing with your fairing too. 6 of one...half dozen of another really. Yes...everything will be hermeticly sealed when I'm done... Here's the pertinent information to help the next intrepid do it yourselfer. First off check out Pyro Dans GEI relays noting the the general flow of things. http://www.dpguzzi.com/relay.htm There will be a relay for high beam and another for low. The 5 pins work like this # 30 Out to high or low beam # 87 Hot from battery/ in # 86 switch gear in and out to ground #85 My wiring was different colors..and I'll post the wiring diag. latter along with other useful files .. Gotta get to work...more latter......

OK.....well ... after getting my head screwed on right by ratchethercule and Jim @ Eastern Beaver http://www.easternbeaver.com/ et al.. and a total understanding (sorta) of the concept, I've moved along while waiting for my fork springs. ( +2 illnesses and garage unfriendly temps below 10 deg.) The Eastern Beaver set up is cool...unless your considering being up by the arctic circle this summer and can't abide the consideration of removing the LeMans faring to replace a bad relay... (UGH! These things used to be "field serviceable! ") I opted to get my "system" outside the headlight bucket. I have no fear of a Ducati- Rubricks cube valve adj. but the convoluted elecrics on my Guzzi makes me dizzy. (or was it the Jagermiester?) The plan was to place the relays someplace where I could pull 'em out and be on my way again in a few minutes should one (both?) fail. In the end I realize this is over kill but I got into it and I wasn't turning back. I hope this gives me the same shock I got when I first hit a 50mph sign at night with my CBR 1000 high beam, or at least frees up enough juice for a heated vest and grip heat. Here's a scary photo journal of the task so far. more ...

Crazy ain't it? This is only the first inkling of the eventual conclusion I've come to that MG like HD is run by a bunch of capitalist pigs (suits) that have no appreciation of motorcycles and only a love of the bottom line (money). Diametrically opposite of Ducati. Luckily we are blessed with the heritage of Carlo Guzzi and have a basically wonderful motorcycle that doesn't require a foaming at the mouth attitude to be enjoyed and the short comings are easily overcome. Wanna check your oil on a Duc? Stand it up and look in the window. Done.. This concept is way beyond the $1200 shoe wearing hollywood dufuses that stay up all night stroking their bean over the bottom line... They wouldn't be caught dead 3000 mi from home with absolutely no chance of meeting Paris Hilton... with their tent and a sleeping bad on the back of a motorcycle. Their W A Y to Kool for that. YEa...I been drinkin'....

Welcome rosscot and JoeV11.... Hal......Exactly...and the destination so far is Putney Vt. Sorry I haven't been keeping up but I've been sick for days.....

I get a pretty solid 160 mi. on my 02 LeMans before the light comes on. (I've seen170) I have gotten 183 mi without running out of fuel. PC III, Stucci and Mistrals. YMMV or YM does V I've got 28000 mi and set the valves "floppy" Your milage should improve as it breaks in...up to 20000 mi. I would think the pipes and PC should eat more gas.

Well so far we got 17 interested riders between the 2 forums. (Glad to see Wild Goose back up!!) East and west so a collective breakfast is out of the question... but a central lunch might be a possibility. Putney still looks like the most central with great roads and I'm still the furtherest away. For myself I'd vote a Pub type place. Yankee Beemers http://www.yankeebeemers.org/YBcalendar.htm has the wing ding April in Sturbridge Ma. I'll be there...So will a couple others I see.. (Y B Normal ?) May 13th Ma. Guzzi http://www.geocities.com/mgnoc_mass/events_page_may.html is having breakfast @ The Vinilla Bean juntion 169 & 224 Putnam Ct. Out of the west: Waspp Albany JohnInVt Vt. Grey Goose Monson Ma. Bobain't stoppin Shelburne Shrek Albany Out of the east: NHmaniac Beverly Ma. witchcity Salem radguzzi Nashua rivetts Groton jreagan Nshua redhunter Surry Me. dhansen Sprucehead Me soloNH Above Manchester... He'll be late for b'fast ;D Central: guzziownr NYC ,,,,,? ! Tom M Worc. Doug inMa. ? SteveC Oxford Ma. silverredspine Worc. Me Mystic Ct. Lets have a look @ the map....set some dates...places for B'fast...in the saddle by 10:00 somewhere in Vt. having lunch by 1:00 ;D The east side guys already have a b'fast half cooked up Bobain'tstoppin is most convieniently located for the Albany crew....with the BEST roads... That leaves us central types to come up with a start... Naw...this wont be confusing... ;D

Dead as a door nail !!??? 2 days now.

I'm thinkin' 6 or 8 out in the Berkshires and 6 or 8 out east and a whole flock up in Putney if we go with that, Kinda screwed up now with Wild Goose down.

OK Joe..we'll get it together.. Just went and scoped out these Ma. Guzzi guys..they got a breakfast thing happening @ the Vinilla Bean May 13th @ 8:30am The Beans a pretty good local spot ..cross rds. of 169 and 244 Pomfret Ct. Great ride for me up 97 or 169.

DouginMa.... East or west?

ya ya ya ya I want that! Hook me up!

Great... I have a similar thread going over @ Wild Guzzi http://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0 There's a handful out east and a handful out west..Albany etc. I'm presently thinking a possible dual and separate breakfast and get together for lunch in Putney Vt. nhmainiac...whats up with these Ma Guzzi riders? I gotta go ferret them out... We can do this...or do sumptin'

!! It's hard to go under 80 down that section....I think they look the other way@80.. Just a theory .... Yea...I was thinkin' we could / should get coordinated for the IMOC thing too. Ain't nothin' regular about any of us......

Ah...I think I see the error of my thinking... I'm thinking "outside the box" as it were. I'm trying to do this outside the housing...right? Er..I mean "wrong"?