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I saw, also, one of the Triumph Tigers in the photo gallery presented by one of the Italian "magazines." I see from Wiki.Italia: "Il design della Griso è opera di Rodolfo Frascoli, della Marabese Design." The relationship with the design of the Griso and the Centauro seems more apparent to me now. It would be interesting to see these two bikes parked together . . .

I thought all CARC bikes are discontinued? No idea. No more Stelvio, Norge, or Griso? (I've not been a CARC fan. Just the visual mass, I suppose.)

I think this must be it. I touched it with finger and it's not thick enough to be oil. It's also black and I just changed the oil so it can't be from the engine. Its about 50° here right now so it's definitely cold. Sounds like she would benefit from a good long run at operating temperature. When was the last time the bike covered some miles and stayed really warm?

You know your Scura is in the final stages of darkening when the mating surfaces of the cases are being subdued. This goes much further and it will form a spontaneous black hole and never be seen or heard from again . . .

It may be no coincidence, but my father-in-law used to swear, too . . . That said, no one swears like *dangerous* . . . he has taken it to an art form.

With EICMA coming up soon, and no way I can get there, I hope this thread will be a good place to post your experiences, and links, and photos/videos of the 2016 EICMA in Milan.

Looks like he was 68 years old (if my marginal Italian serves me well enough: "è morto a 68 anni." No wonder the twin-lamp Speed Triple has haunted me. When I rode one, it seemed so familiar and yet so wild. The experience brought me back to my V11 with renewed enthusiasm.

If the basic tune-up (fresh plugs, valve adjustment, CO, TPS, air bypass, throttle body balance) hasn't given good results, I would begin to look elsewhere. What are you using for relays? Have you serviced the ignition switch? Status of the battery/ charging system? (Melted 30 amp fuse? Full service of grounds including Gearbox ground, regulator ground? Status of battery voltages over the functional range?)

Here's to Marabese I think the V11 is his piece de resistance. Apparently, he did too . . . The photos of him with the early production V11 and prototype tail section are precious.

The oil light should come on after shutdown. But an oil drip from the exhaust? Dunno about that.

South'n Spine Raid: Weekend after Labor Day in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, from now on until V11 are so astronomically valuable that no one dares bring them out in public anymore. . . . .or they're declared instruments of destruction (is that a rock song?) and we make them all into Scura and only have Spine Raids under the cover of darkness.

Don't you kids make me me come up there to East Tennessee with my multi-meter!

Not sure where Uncle Not-Fishin' is in Tennessee, but the Fourteenth South'n Spine Raid might bring you closer together! (East Tennessee on the North Carolina line not far from Georgia/ The weekend after Labor Day in Tellico Plains, TN)

Thanks, Neil. Sorry I had to get Big Tony in the mix.. It'll go out tomorrow. For whatever reason, it takes a long time to Oz. Be patient. It's those U.S. Ocean-going Postal Mules.

Who is the manufacturer of the pump assembly itself?

I've been thinking back through this and can't imagine the air screws will make much difference. Seems more likely that if the TPS were off baseline from not being entirely closed when set to (150)-157mV, then the map would not be correctly indexed. Did you reset the TPS baseline again in the second tune-up? Or a sensor that got unplugged might be wreaking some havoc. Does guzzidiag confirm input from all the sensors?

I cleaned up and recombined several of my posts on this thread, so that's all I could pull together for specifications and comparisons. Now, the question remains: Why not cam a V11? My take is that the V11 (1064 Sport) cam is very well optimized for the bike, but surely there are those here who have changed the cam. If so, to what?

Still one of the greatest V11 vids ever, and perfect for this time of year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9BtIUZ-Ss The kind of motivation it takes to get gearboxes back together!

I suppose I would start with the paint strip and inspect the mounting bosses first. I know of two gearboxes that cracked there (mine included) and the leak does exactly as you see. For reinforcement, I added the center frame support to my V11 that was eliminated after the Sport 1100 (not sure if any of the injected bikes got them ?) It certainly makes sense to support the engine/gearbox in three places instead of just the very front and very back. "Piastra Colleg": http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1797&p=17967

I hate to come in raining on the parade, but the frame mounts have been seen to crack and weep. With the crinkle pint, it would be very hard to see, so some paint removal and careful inspection of the mount bosses would be in order . . .

This came after the last "re-tune?" I would think some parameter got changed for the un-better. What are you using for the throttle body balance?

Looks like "SS" could mean four different cams: the original Guzzi P3 (what Raceco calls the "Italian SS"), the Norris SS aka Megacycle 620-11, and the two Raceco cams (SS2 and SS3). Now the trouble doubles. The Raceco duration is specified at closer valve openings (0.5mm instead of the typical 1.0mm opening) which extends the stated duration. EDIT: Best I can figure, with all the vagueries, is (someone should check my work on this): 1064 Sport cam -> 620-10 -> P3 -> SS2 -> 620-11 -> SS3 With lift of 0.446"(!), the SS3 would surely make a rousing difference over the Sport's 0.298 lift cam. Interesting statement by Ed Milch I saw on guzziriders.org posted there by dan_s: "Ed Milich who races guzzis wrote me that no straight drop in cam is worth the hassle."

The Raceco question may be somewhat moot without Kent doing the regrinds. Does Kent offer the specifications of the Raceco SS2 and SS3? Amadeo Castellani of Raceco, apparently, retired in 2014: http://www.raceco.com/contactx.html

I always gently roll the throttle on slightly for a cold start. Typically starts in four "compression cycles" [crank-crank-crank-crank-vrooom] and settles in on the high idle at 12-1500 or so. I've heard Meinolf's Tune will start without throttle application. What does your tach (and guzzidiag) say your idle speed is at operating temperature?