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Palo Alto Speedo Service....... Great work, VERY pricey !

That's life ! Buy an aluminum fuel tank and get it anodized. There is a company (in England)The Tank Shop. Look on the site here and get the web address and look them over. Pricey, yes: beautiful, YES.

You have a pretty good eye for photography.......... I wish I could take photos of my bike there.

Looks good

Anything Joe Kenny makes is perfect!

Watch eBay, there is someone parting out M G stuff all the time. Did you break yours?

Before you go throwing $$$$ out the window, why don't you verify your quazi compression problem? If you KNOW the valves are properly adjusted proceed to this exercise below. # 1 Remove the throttle bodies and the exhaust pipe(s). #2 Take your compression tool ( I assume it has a coupling), remove the Schrader valve, install it back into the spark plug hole.Then apply shop air into the cylinder. #3 With the rear wheel off the ground & the trans. in 6th gear, turn the rear wheel as if the bike were going forward. You will turn the crankshaft until the cylinder comes "up" on the compression stroke. When this happens you will feel it "kick back". #4 While someone else holds the rear wheel in this position listen at the intake and exhaust ports for escaping air. There should be no air coming from any ports. # 5 If this checks out o.k. do the other side just to verify if you are doing this correctly and the other head is o.k. #6 If this checks out, your problem is in the sealing of the piston rings.

mine still has the 16" front wheel. I look like a drunk while riding in town. On the highway it is fine.

I will pm you my address. You send everything to me and your problems are over !

I don't know where you live. I use "Hylomar" sealant on one side of the valve cover gasket.This will keep the gasket from sticking in the future. If you ever start, you will use it from now on.

I would think most things in Christchurch is closed this time of year.....

The way it should be .

CODB is too much. Donelson's is a dealer in that they sell Moto Guzzi. They have a nice little museum there. I don't know how much a person can "bum around" ?

The MGNOC newsletter has gone paperless. I don't know if you can access the Member Directory from the website or not. For those here in the States, it is worth being a member.

And I thought it had to do with violins ?

Ditto...........

If you owned a pre-Flying Brick model that is what would happen. Oil Heads & Flying Bricks, I am not sure of.......

You will trust them more if you don't service the splines frequently enough and lose the clutch going down the highway, then spend a day or two having a new disc installed and lubricating the splines with that special grease you are talking about.

Any air will cause you all kinds of greif. You are dealing with a very small volume so the problem will be magnified.

A professional automotive paint store has a machine that can scan THE color of your component you take into the store and mix THE color for you. Now, that will be the present color of that part. After it has been on the bike and the elements cause fading, it may not be identical. You can discuss that with them. Good luck !

Docc, I think the o-ring on ALL of the crank sensors go bad. Mine did too.

If you decide to teardown, the best thing you could do is: after disassembly (1) clean all rust,grease etc. from the splines of the hub and disc. (2) use a dry film graphite spray(APA or LPS-1 has very good products) and coat everything that has a spline and let dry. Reassemble and bleed the clutch to make sure everything will work correctly. p.s. remove the clutch bleeder and apply anti-sieze to the threads of the bleeder screw. Everything that has threads gets ant-sieze or Loctite.

Do you own a stand you can put the bike on that will hold the rear wheel up off the ground? If so, put the bike in gear, pull in the clutch and try to have someone turn the rear wheel to see if there is any drag. If so, you will need to do something either external or internal.

(1)I would do something a little different with the headlight system. (2) I hope he sells everyone he can build. (3) He should hire me to tour the country n promote the bike. I would be a little more negotiable than King James or Albert Pujols............

ponti, The more I look at this; the more I wish I would stop looking at this...........