Chuck

Well, ok.. I'll photobomb you.. We were in the path of totality, so had a cookout/eclipse party. My last apprentice, Austin..now the Indiana MGNOC rep, took these pix. As we approached totality, I went to the house and got my birding binoculars. It "appeared" that we could see eruptions around the corona. The temp dropped 12 degrees, colors changed, and the breeze we had been having dropped to dead calm. Crickets cricketed. I thought, "I wonder what it would look like from the air?" Quickly opened the hanger door, did a preflight, grabbed my flying jacket, silk scarf, and aviator cap, kicked the tires and lit the fires. The spring greens were a different shade, and it looked like a wall of rain 2 miles to the west. The above picture is looking west. When we got there, though, it still looked like rain ahead. Not a ripple in the air. Awesome. You can see some of the effect in this picture taxiing in. Shadows appeared to be cut out of cardboard, and the colors were still "off.: Truly a once in a lifetime experience.. it was good for me.

Attaboy, Tom..

Just eyeballing, the length of the bent tab, it looks ok.. but.. on a "factory" spring, I can see a very small stress riser from the spring winder tooling at about the area this one broke. (!) I don't know if I can get a picture or not, I'll give it a go. When I wound the springs on the lathe, that wouldn't be there. Edit: Ok, here ya go. I'm betting the tool needed to be polished.

With a filter change, I refilled with 3 1/2 quarts. No need to pre fill the filter, IMHO.

I wouldn't think so. It just make the shifting more..uh.. Japanese.

Just checked, and yeah I do. Do you want an extender too? Postage is the same. At any rate, PM me your snail mail address, and tell me what you want. Supplies are *very* limited..

Fronts are easy to find, Art.. rears however.. not so much. The best set I've found so far were Conti scoots. Comma but, they were recalled and they bought me some Angel scooter tires. I *can* get a sport demon front in the proper size for the rear and run it backwards..but I've never tried that.

I wonder if it is water in the fuel related? Probably not, of course.. but that's the first thing that came to mind.

Tell me about it. The AeroLario has 16s on both ends. I'm running a little lower profile than stock scooter tires. A guy's gotta do what a guys's gotta do.

Or you could use Docc's kid. 11 bucks a year, I think. https://imgzeit.com

Foremost. I got it through AARP. Includes break down and towing. Cheap. (Guzzi content)

Peoria, Ill a noise.

Oh, I thought when you said Peoria, it was "the" Peoria..as is "but will it play in Peoria.."

Maybe. I, personally, would go for the V11S, the last of the "real" Guzzis.