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And mine had a crack in the case. $616 for new cases. I hope yours is just a seal.

A kit to make the V11 Sport look like an MGS? An interesting notion. It would have to be a pretty expensive kit. Tail fairing, tank, fairing and complete exhaust system for starters. And that would be just cosmetic. Full route would be a different swingarm other bits of great expense. I couldn't find any web presence of such a kit using webcrawler. I did find some interesting stuff at http://www.azsbk.com/guzzi-shop-parts.html and some adaptors for lifts at http://www.dunwelllifts.com/Pricing_Accessories.html.

3000 miles in 8 days and every volcano on the west coast of the USA except Mt. Hood. No fairing, just an Air Hawk seat cushion. Longest single ride was only 600 miles.

Well, there's that. They're not the same. Kept lubed, either model should last quite a long time.

The driveshaft on the V11 Sport is essentially the same as the one on the Sport 1100i. May even be the same part number, I don't know. The drive shaft on the V11 Sport is stressed less highly than the one on the Sport 11001 because of angle and rotational speed. Bill Doll has over 80,000 miles on his Sport 1100i. No driveshaft problems. I have 58,000 on mine. Same story. Just keep it lubed properly.

LED headlights will be present on some cars this year, so that technology is here. Likewise the taillights, my 2004 Toyota Prius has the brightest LED's you've ever seen at the rear. Blinding. The higher spectrum lights ARE less useful for vision. The French did use amber headlights for a very long time, until just plain driven out of it by world market pressure. Kind of like Macintoshs' and PC's. We know which one is better and which one has more market share. You can certainly retrofit to the Breva style setup. It's called buying a Breva. That entire frame was designed around fitting an alternator in between the cylinders, obviously not something that could be done with the spine frame.

Hey Jaap, Dave Gross and his wife Relaena know the most incredible hole-in-the-wall restaurant I've ever been to! Do you like Chinese food?

I'm on vacation myself from July 18th through the 31st. I live midway between San Francisco and the west gate of Yosemite, so if you want to spend a day or two or three here (after the 31st), let me know. Yellowstone is huge, the speed limit very slow and the traffic can be intense. It's worth it, but expect to take at least three days just to drive around it in an RV. It will be very frustrating too navigating around in an RV at that altitude. Too bad you won't have a bike along. Personally, I would skip Las Vegas in favor of other parks and sights such as Mt. St. Helens (awesome, fabulous bike ride. Ooops, sorry - no bike). While the only bike I have running currently is the pukey little V65C, I think that we can scrape up a few Guzzis or other bikes to take to Yosemite if you want. Perhaps we can convince Pat Hayes to lend you an EV (probably the same one used on the TV show "Friends"). If you don't want to ride Yosemite (it's a long, full day ride - speed limits are 35 mph), I have a Toyota Previa van or a Toyota Prius that we can go in. If we take the van, seven "Guzzisti" can make the trip as a moving party and/or in conjuction with riders on bikes. When do you think you'll be arriviing in the San Francisco region?

The Veglia instruments, especially the tachs, are prone to the mounting studs detaching from the instrument case. The stud from this one is inside clinging to the magnet on the meter movement. Prior to it's complete detachment, it was just a touch loose and the tach was erratic. Adding the extra wire isn't a bad idea, but I suspect that eventually, the mounting studs will come loose simply because they weren't that well installed to begin with.

It's the case. Seriously. The mounting posts on the tachometer case are press-fit and when they start to work loose, the tach starts to behave EXACTLY as you have described. It can be fixed if you're willing to open the unit. Since I have a broken one (actually two) at home awaiting this exact same fix (I've done it twice before), I will try and get some photos of the process and post the whole shebang on my web page. I'm through with Guzzi schematic diagrams for the time being (47 of them enough?), so it's time to do something else. The tach won't fry or anything like that for the time being (I ran one for two years doing that), so if you're willing to wait, I'll try to get to it within the next couple of weeks.

http://www.daes-mototec.de/, right side under Produkte - Fahrwerk

It took me four weeks of emails before I could get a wire transfer done correctly to Das Mototec. Eventually, the bank got it right and things started rolling, after that, the parts arrived in the usual international shipping time frame. Wire transfers suck big time. The cost at the USA end is usually about $30 and some places charge another $30 to the person picking up the funds. This happened to me at the beginning of the year when I bought a complete set of injectors from a fellow in France. We both got charged for the transfer, bringing the charge fees to 40% of the purchase price. For this stuff, PayPal rules. Unfortunately, Das Mototec doesn't do PayPal or credit cards and their bank is just obscure enough to make wire transfers a major chore. Nice guys though, they sent me actual photographs of they're bikes when they didn't have a catalog.

What's your itinerary Jaap?

Fortunately, he left out some of the other really good ones, so at least they won't be over-squidded.

turn signal extenders currently on eBay

Ooops. My bad.

I don't see why not, I have a shock from a Sport 1100i sitting in the frame of my V11 Sport. The remote is a different length (longer on the Sport 1100i) so that is awkward on the V11 Sport, but since you're going the other direction it should present no problem. But why a V11 Sport shock on the earlier model? The WP stuff on the Daytona RS, Centauro and Sport 1100i is better than the Marzocchi components.

Let me know if you want to sell the dead one. I can use the connectors.

Well, of course it is. Rapid application of the throttle causes the Guzzi to rotate towards the right commensurately stretching the left footpeg bracket which is lagging behind the rotational force of movement. Uh yeah, sure...

No fifth pin does indeed mean that the bike won't work. The "local" dealer just repaired a bike in my area and while he had the bike, he "upgraded" the relays - and used all four pinners. So I spent part of my day with schematics and on the phone until the Ducati dealer the bike got dumped on discovered the incorrect relay. But not until all of the wiring had been tested. I didn't even think of it, but I'll guarantee that I won't overlook that particular symptom again. As to blowing the fuse, well, it is possible that the new relay has the diode protection and if the Guzzi is wired backwards (and why would that surprise us?) from the accepted norm, than the fuse would blow immediately upon activation.

The ECU doesn't have to be in circuit to get the starter to turn over, so go ahead and disconnect it during the preliminary phases of trouble shooting just to be safe.

First off and easiest, remove the PCIII from the circuit. The PCIII is not likely to be the suspect, but it could be, and removing it makes the trouble shooting process slightly easier. The next spot to check is to find the single inline connector (#57 on the 1999 V11 Sport schematic on my web page) and take it apart and put it back together several times to wipe the contact surfaces. After these easy spots, it's time to start trouble shooting the run/stop switches and the ignition switch. How good are you with electical systems and meters - or at least testing voltages with a light bulb?

Metzler M1 Sportecs are my tire of choice for the V11 Sport. YMMV.

I rather suspect that the spring keeps the shaft extended fully into the lower spline section so that the joint doesn't dance free when the suspension is at it's full travel. When I put the swingarm on my V11 Sport this week, I had to compress the shaft about one centimeter before the axle holes lined up. This would probably back up my analysis of the spring function. Then again, I've been know to be so completely wrong that it takes some tall talkin' to set matters straight...