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They have a bit for compensating the distance for the brake line. https://voigt-mt.de/3-cm-Verlaengerung-fuer-Bremsleitung-oder-Kupplungsleitung-universal But for a little more you have a new brake line. Also nice after 20 years :-)

I would be happy to add the theme "V11 Spine Raid" to the international rally of the dutch guzzi club. You can benefit of the music and other things we already have and we will add a trophy for the best Spine,frame of the Rally. Next year is also 105years Moto Guzzi, so we poke them up in June to go to Mandello in September as well.

That' s the spirit.I rode back from Berlin to Utrecht allong the coast of the Eastsea Danish border and Northsea coast. All together 1600km in an afternoon and the next day (08:00-24:00 and a bit). ...with a Cali 2. It would have been 4 days on the V11 Sport 😅

Not to far from Rotterdam, on the bank of the river Lek (that reaches the Northsea in Rotterdam), in the little town of Tienhoven we have an International Guzzi Rally the 3rd weekend of June. I help organizing it and all of you are most welcome. Registration is not required, always enough space to pitch your tent. Relaxed atmosphere, Friday BBQ, live music on Friday and Saturday night. Small band to help us through the Saturday afternoon. Food en drinks availble. Small ride out on Saturday, booth sale/used parts an all. We always lack a good portion of spine frames.

So true!

This V11 Le Mans is a beautiful birthday present for your wife. It is a very matury ellegant ballerina with an astonishing first impression, it ages like a flower in her prime. All of it resembles your beautiful wife. How else could you honor her.

Aha, I found the aftermarket rear set topic. I just bought a rear set from Probrake. Only 25mm lower, but it really feels quite a bit more relaxed. https://www.probrake.de/fussrasten-street-moto-guzzi-v11-sport-99-03-ks-kr

Do we have an aftermarket footrest topic on this forum? I recall quite some posts on this, but fail to find it.

It is a pitty you ordered them already. Calling JRE Robers in Hengelo would give you advise on what to buy including the quality of the SD versions. He might have some singles as well. And when you would need a new part for the fairing, check the MGCN.NL forum. Some guys over there sit on enormous piles of NOS.

Now this is something I like to share with you. Some pages ago, I mentioned Iris Dement in a reaction and clearly did not know John Prine. Shame on me but even more a pity. When knowing the name, I all of a sudden saw it popping up everywhere. What a great guy he must have been, great texts, a true poet, mocking himself and enjoying every bit of it. And so much welcome by his fellow musicians. I really like to thank you guys on the forum to point my attention to John Prine.

On the valve clearance,: Yes, it is a little thing to do in the morning with the cold engine and I only do this after I get annoyed by irregular ticking of the pushrods, it is definitely not a daily routine. And the other part: I used to organize trips for the Guzzi Club overhere and it is not that I had all of this in my bags, but we usually had this as a group. The ignition coil helped people back on the road again, just like a spare fuel pump that some one saved from an old Subaru (it worked fine on a EV or Cali 1100ie) and inner tubes and tyre spoons. . It is actually a kind of anekdote. One of us started to run on one cylinder. We removed the side panel of this Tonti Guzzi and one ignition coil was much warmer than the other. Well, you can imagine the guy thought this would be the end of the trip for him, but down in my bag I had this spare ignition coil. Ten minutes later we were going again.

10 and 13 wrench and allen keys 5 and 6 are definitely necessary in the toolbox. I also like to have a filler gauge for setting the valve clearence right (although this is remarkable stable at the V11 Sport). And then you need a 11mm wrench and a something to hold the adjustment screw. And for my friends I bring an additional emergency starter battery, a spare ignition coil, tyre repair kit an extra 18" inner tube, inner cables and mounting sockets, some extra poles for their tents, inflatable mattress repair kit and a canister to swap petrol from one tank to the other. Yeah, we always make it home. :-)

Vinyl records and pick-up players. I offered a Thorens player (including an extra diamant needle) on a local e-bay site for 50 Euro (how stupid can you be?) some 20 years ago in an attempt to clear all the old audio stuff. Towers we called them, on top the pick-up, then an amplifier, the radio and below the double deck cassette player. All seperate units in a 19" rack. We had 3 of them, but this with the Thorens was the best. It was sold in 15 minutes, the guy arrived 1,5 hours later, had driven 200km (and 100km/h really is the max speed overhere. I knew by then that it could have gone for 10 times the price :-). Anyway, In all those 20 years after, I never played the records. So, I think, I should make somebody else happy with them. After all, they are getting popular again and before you know it they end up in a box behind all the windsurfing stuff. Anybody interested in a couple of boards and sails?

Many examples of mutual understanding between me and my California 2. Some years ago coming back from the south of Germany, the right cilinder started to rattle. Idle speed dropped, engine stalled very often. As we (Cali and I) were alone, we took it on our own speed and it said to me to find the engine speed that had the lowest rattle, use as little as possible acceleration and it would try to make it the last 250km. "It hurts, but don't make it hurt more". We made it. Over 200.000km then you hear and see all that you expect and especially what you don't expect. It also sounds a bit like a marriage🙈

You ar right it is close to where I live and I checked with them at there New Years party :-). They will keep an eye out, but do not have a frame currently. Thank Jaap, that is indeed what I meant.