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Looks really clean! I'm impressed by how sano some of the V11 are, coming up on offer these days. "I'll give you $11,997 for it as soon as the Dr-wife gets home for lunch." Oh, WAIT-wait! I already did that back in August 2000 and the guy said, "Sold. It's yours." Mine still is . . . Good luck on the trade, sunbeamtim! You'll have to keep us in the loop on your "scruffy Tonti !"

Careful just how far you try to follow the likes of Lucky Phil!

@v11_meticcio asked me where to put the links to Mandello's preparations for the Moto Guzzi Centenary. Pretty sure it deserves its own topic! Happy One Hundredth, everyone!

I see I have also taken some liberties with @Admin Jaap's pictorial post, adding some commentary and trying to refine the transitions. I hope this is okay. I don't want to rub our Chief Whip the wrong way! It occurs to me to mention that, although not pictured, there were V11 "Sport" or "Naked" produced through the end of the range with fork mounted headlamp/instruments just like the early Sport. For the differences in the frames and tanks also see:

It seems Mandello is also celebrating Moto Guzzi's 100th in September : Mandello, the 'Moto Guzzi centenary' warms up the engines. [Thanks to @v11_meticcio for the link!]

I want to thank @jrt for originating this thread. It has been a solid reference over all this time. I've seen other web pages attempting to chronicle the V11 series, but none have the quality and accuracy devoted to this one.

Looks like the consignment dealer has this V11 price reduced, $3050US. Have you contacted the dealer directly, @Billguzzi ?

@Billguzzi , I found this link at the shop the V11 was (is?) consigned to: https://www.motorado.com/inventory/details/used/MOTO-GUZZI/V11-SPORT/2000/Lakewood/Colorado/5288692/M12282 I see you're in Florida, so don't fall for any of that Colorado bait-and-switch!

@ColoLee last visited this site November 12, 2020. Sometimes using that "@" link will trigger a notification . . .

I wonder just how small the access window could be? Certainly only as wide as a grease gun tip (maybe 1/2"/12mm) and perhaps even 1/4"/5mm relief from the aft to get the tip on the Zerk from ahead of the swingarm?

FWIW, my odyssey with the Odyssey is chronicled here:

My method has been that when Swampee the Lawn Monster finally needs a new battery, my Sport gets a fresh one!

Yessir. It's my fourth (including the original "Spark 500" which was also an Odyssey PC545). The third is still in service in my Kohler twin cylinder garden tractor at 10 1/2 years old.

Just ran across this post by 4corsa in 2015 regarding the Yuasa :

Yep, Yuasa is pretty common. If it's an AGM (as it should be), there are still specific charging requirements to get best outcomes. Lots of folks have run their Odysseys on common chargers, but I have certainly seen better performance with a correct charger. It can be done manually with any charger 6 amps or more and a careful eye on the voltmeter. My last PC545 (2014) came from Amazon, $99.84 +about ten bucks sales tax.

Not considering the OEM Hawker Odyssey PC545?

So, the the dimensions of the three mounting points of the front subframe are identical to the earlier subframes?

To set brains hurting even more . . . Does the LongFrame, and its front subframe suspending the front of the engine, change the angle of the driveline, fore to aft? Said differently, is the LongFrame engine/gearbox stressed member angled differently from the earlier V11? Was the "polar moment of inertia" changed?

I did find this image, posted by @kglm in Finland in 2015 (page 4 of "that bloody farking front UNI" thread by dangerous). Has me thinking an added collar notch is for access from the front, ahead of the swingarm and not through the tunnel. Sorry it has taken me so long to understand this distinction . . .

I do not see, in the order process, how to specify the English printing of the MotoItaliane book (?)

@Chuck , is the grease gun access on the Scura (LongFrame) through the swingarm tunnel from behind?

"The struggle is real."

Yeah, WTH? What is that different on the LongFrame that this is not really an issue like on the ShortFrames? Access through the swingarm tunnel from behind, correct?

KINDOY2 suggested to me that the big, honking notch in the collar gets the grease gun in > in front < of the swingarm (instead of through it). Like, in from in front of the frame sideplate? All this time and I must have missed that part . . .