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"Positively Sano !" (I never thought to mount the selector button in the gauge cup.)

Titanio!!

Prelude to a shock eye fracture? They do that. Jus' sayin' . . .

"No Secrets " ! !

Yeah, you would think it would be brighter with the high beams on like that . . .

Since "most" of our V11 (51%?) are assembled, could we settle on measuring the inside of the lock nut? [edit: my chrome nut, 2000 Sport is ~20.3mm inside the lock nut.]

Thanks for the "thanks", @FreyZI, but more >thanks< back-at-ya for posting that poignant image of those two swingarm pivots, juxtaposed. This is not just a difference in measurement method. There is a serious difference in dimensions here for both the pivots and the Frame Side Plates, themselves.. We VeeEleveners do love a puzzle, if not an outright conundrum!

Is this a matter of some of us are measuring the inside of the lock nut and other measuring the outside of the threaded insert?

Pertinent posts specific to this Frame Side Plate/ swingarm pivot variation have been split to a dedicated thread . . . edit: Dedicated thread regarding the reported two variants of the swingarm pivots/ Frame Side Plates:

@FreyZI posted this image of swingarm pivots form a 2002 LeMans, and a spare set of Frame Side Plates. This discussion arose in the non-specific, non-technical thread "What did you do to your V11 today?", but is reposted here for proper sussing out. AFAIK, this observation has not come up before. Pertinent posts have been split to this dedicated thread . . .

I wondered if @FreyZI's spare (19mm) Frame Side Plates might be from an 1100 Sport-i .

Sheesh, who knows? None of us have ever discussed this before. KINDOY2 is reporting one of each on two different 2002 Scura? More Mandello Mystery . . .

A production assembly expedient? (FWIW, my March 2000 built Sport has the 22mm with chromed lock nut.)

So, it’s fine to route the actual vent to the charcoal canister, but I would not want the cap/filler overflow routed there. The overflow should route any spill past the exhaust and away from the tire, I would think.

@ScuRoo for the thread save . . .

Ummm, ✔️

Quota, about 2000. Let me get a confirmation on that . . .

A little something to get " + Guzzi " back in the equation . . . + "stilettos!"

This LED headlamp has been serving well in the Sport: https://vintagecarleds.com/shop/bulbs-only/vcm3-bulbs-only/ [edit: Over 2 years, almost 10,000 miles/ 15.000 km on this LED headlamp "bulb". I see they sell full inserts, as well, but I only installed the "bulb" in my steel-bucket Bosch headlamp.]

GSB . . . "Green SumBitch?

Let's face it, we are a tight and dedicated community. We have our own vernacular. Some of it may not be "web-searchable." (I am often stymied that I search for V11 answers and find = V11LeMans.com !) "colloquial?" I reckon so. There are the traditional V-twin frame monikers (Loop, Tonti, Spine) that have, now, gone by the wayside. Yet, who first coined "Spine Frame?" Not sure that is what Tony Foale called the original?

It gets complicated, I know . . . LuckyPhil designed/ Chuck-made Shift Extender Chuck-engineered/Scud-provided Super-Shift-Spring (that is "S" to the fourth power!)

There may have been "some concerns." Perhaps even a Summit Conference . . .

This writing from Dave Richardson, originally posted on MGNOC at the V11 introduction, should be referenced here, IMO. The date of the writing is unspecified, as far as I can see, but must be very early ~2000 (?) Thank you, MGNOC, for archiving this excellent contribution to the V11 Sport history and origins! (And thanks to our member @ScuRoo for re-posting this excellent reference!) https://www.mgnoc.com/print/print_article_ask_the_wrench.html

The Mighty Scura came to the "Fart-eent'h" South'n Spine Raid in 2018. Y'all come back now, ya hear?