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43 minutes ago, LaGrasta said:
100% the same as my 2003.
And what is the last part of your framenummer? 3M111xxx?
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Here the side cover of my V11 Sport. Production year 2001. (I dive into the month later this day)
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On 10/31/2022 at 2:53 PM, gstallons said:
Make sure the fork caps on your bike are identical to the one shown in the pics on the advertised forks.
Is that the best way to identify the different versions?
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There is one from a used parts company in NL.
Maybe they ship to Costa Rica :-)
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Always a tricky topic but I wanted to share this interesting test report from Utac Ceram. A rather top end automotive technical service and independent/inpartial under ISO 17025 accreditation (I am not sure if this test was done under the accreditation).
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18 hours ago, Kostarika said:
They are the footrest that came with the Ti kit or the Sport 1100’s
they come up for sale once in a while.
Thanks, I found a set. Great!
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They give it a nice upswept look. 👍🏼
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On 1/9/2020 at 5:00 PM, Kostarika said:
Very happy with my Exan Exhaust
Amazing build quality, eargasm sound.
In the $650 range
@Kostarika,
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I also fell for the color. More or less the first time in my life that I was attracted by a color. @LaGrastaI'm sure you make that bike run like it was new again.
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On 9/16/2022 at 12:57 AM, Kiwi_Roy said:
I swear by plain old Vaseline for switch contacts, its what I have been using for at least the last 60 years.
I also used vaseline. Lately it was not really necessary so no recent experience. I do have a nice anekdote on this however. I had done the righthand switches of my LM2 before going to Mandello a few decades ago. All worked fine and I parked the guzzi outside Il Giardinetto (it was a hotel back in those days) on the side where the ramp to the lake was.
Two days later we were about to return home and everything was packed. I pushed the starter and nothing happened. Kill switch was in RUN, so I pushed again and smoke and a smell of burn came out of the switch. Immediately after a large bunch of ants were evacuating the switch.
Be carefull with vaseline in your switches when parking in Mandello next to Il Giardinetto. There are vaseline eating ants.
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I like to thank all of you for your responses, sharing experiences and urge to rational methods. Very helpful and when it is about engines (particularly Guzzi), I just love to read it.
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10 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:
For general information to anyone reading this thread in the future this methodology is flawed and it's best to stick with the historically tried and tested oil pressure observations for troubleshooting. This LOP light on after the kill switch timing thing has way too many variables to be a troubleshooting tool. .....[cut]....
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@Lucky PhilI didn't mean to have the all covering solution to potential oil pressure problems :-). The methodology is flawed (and then you put it mildly), but so are a lot of methods. When running a test-center back in the past, the accreditation counsel always joked that at the end every sensor is temperature sensor, suggesting that temperature should always in the equation for correction. An incorrect pressure release valve is difficult to find with cold oil (in the workshop). A short blink of the LOP-light in a corner at low revs and the lack of delay in LOP light gave my workshop immediately the hint to first check the valve. I must say, I had never even heard or thought that the valve could be calibrated. Unfortunately, I had driven it to long at low pressure, so harm was done to the bearings of the crankshaft.
But I will order a new pressure sensor for the V11 '99. They turn out to be less than 10 Euro :-).
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But on the topic. Could a oil pressure sensor have some sort of temporary failure? Something like a clothed opening that works like a membrane?
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5 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:
OK, but the question is why would you do that? The time it takes to illuminate is of no empirical value. I don't know of anyone that monitors such things so answers might be hard to come by.
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Well, to me it shows some constant time that I like to relate to the slope of pressure drop when the engine is turned off. I started doing this when I had a pressure problem with a LM3. That light went off the instant the killswitch was off.
It turned to have a bad adjusted pressure valve and worn crankshaft bearings.
I guess a sort of a tick.
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54 minutes ago, Lucky Phil said:
Your description doesn't make sense for the 02 v11. You turn the ignition switch OFF and after a 3-6 second delay the LOP light comes ON? It comes on with the ignition switch OFF?
Here's how it works or is supposed to work. Turn ignition ON, LOP light ON. Start engine, LOP light goes OFF. Mine goes OFF during cranking. Turn ignition OFF,LOP light goes off with engine shutdown along with everything else. Any variation on that and you have an issue.
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Phil, this is indeed not well explained. I switch OFF with the RUN/STOP button, because I like to check the delay in the OIL Pressure Light. That is where the delay is coming from.
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I like to share a little observation with you. It might look familiar and I am interested in your experience.
I used to ride pre-injection Guzzi's like the Cali 2 and LM2 and 3. They have always a very clear oil-pressure-light behavior. Switch-ON(the master-key or ignition-key)--> Oil pressure light is ON. Start engine --> Oil light turns OFF. Engine running --> Oil pressure light OFF. Turn OFF ignition --> 3-6 sec delay and Oil pressure light turns ON.
With my V11 2002 it is like this. So, it satisfies my expectation.
With my V11 '99 it is different. The oil pressure light stays of after the engine stalls(Ignition OFF) and the oil pressure light is sometimes ON when Ignition is ON and engine is not running. But not always. It feels to me like the switch has some hysteresis or something or the oil pressure remains above 0,5 bar near the switch. I use 10w60 oil, the viscosity is a little higher, could this have an effect.
Then we have the V11 LeMans '02 of a friend. I have not seen that light ON for ages, so that will probably be a defect light. We grounded the wire to the oil-pressure sensor and that didn't switch the light ON. Now in the 25 years that I am riding Guzzis, this light has never been the cause (there can always be a first time) .
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On 8/10/2022 at 6:28 PM, Mole said:
Hello Chuck,
the kit received at Monday. The customs want to see it.
Of course they want to see it. Everybody wants te see it.😀
There is a rumour out there about supersonic shifting.
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YIPPIEKAJEE!!
Overseas also received the mods. A new era of shifting is yet to start
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1 hour ago, docc said:
Dead sexy V11. ✔️
Classic red telephone booth. ✔️
“English “ boozer . . . 
This is Wales, they don't drink in Wales 🙈🙈
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On 4/8/2022 at 2:32 AM, docc said:
I once mentioned to a friend how sketchy the tubular spindle is to support the front, especially with the forks removed. Clever fellow found every way imaginable to support the front. While sending me a gloved message . . .
No hammer on this picture?
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4 hours ago, Chuck said:
No need to pay me for fat fingering the order, but if you *want* another I'll put a 3 beside your name instead of 2.
Yes, I want
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Ooh, well if it helps you to cover the costs I like to make my order one more, 3 in total.
Always a good birthday present for the V11 friends in the neighbourhood.
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15 minutes ago, Lucky Phil said:
No it is involved. Here is a calculator for example.
O yes, you are right. This is because the steering head and fork are not parallel.
And I finally understand the difference between offset and rake.
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The work begins...
in 24/7 V11
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Over here in the Netherlands (and other EU-countries) a bike can be produced in 2001 and then be for sale for some years. The dealer can register the bike when sold. So if this takes until 2005, that will be the first registration date in the papers of the bike.
I have a bike that was used as press-demo at the factory (so they say at least). Production was 2001 and registration in 2005, leaving the factory directly to a new owner.