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Honda (of course) have done this with design of new cruiser based around VTX1800 V-Twin. To keep the skinny, stripped down, classic custom look, they've mounted the radiator in front of the swingarm, where it's hidden by the frame. It's fed by loads of funnels.

A dealer in England, as there is no local dealer, indeed none in Northern Ireland. Your best bet must be with the bike's original supplier. If not, try whoever is responsible in Aprilia (or maybe Piaggio). In U.K., willingness of MG dealers to supply warranty items for bikes that they didn't supply seems to have gone. You can always just buy the parts, or buy a new spring and modify the old pawl arm to correct it. If your spring is ok, but the pawl arm boss is too big, then filing it down means you can do the fix at no cost.

It's the evil influence of Jeremy

Joni Mitchel and Neil Young brush up on their golfing technique with a lesson from renowned Canadian stickman, Al Balding of Mississauga, Ontario.

But it's a two into one. Enzo isn't your average man.

If the parts fitted are the wrong dimensions, then surely they will? I just wrote and said that I needed the parts, gave the bike's warranty number, and I got the parts sent to me. It seems that MG now acknowledge this problem and the two new parts are supplied together as a 'kit'.

Macguzzi, I see you have a 1972 V7 Sport. I wonder what your frame number might be for 1972? I saw a red framed Sport today. I dare say it's not a genuine early bike. I did note down the frame number. I couldn't make out everything, but I think I got the important bit: VK11979. Would that be around 1972, rather than '71? Maybe it's even '73? I've also written down, 30671. That must have been on the engine. DB

I've had a quick look and can't see a lot without disassembly. I don't have any notes / diagrams from the time either, but it is all pretty simple. Unless your specs are different, there is a blue / red wire for the rear stop (brake) light, 21W; and a yellow wire for the 5W tail light. The number plate bulb will also be connected to that. All you need to do is make those two connections. Don't connect into any other spare wires that are lying around the tail end. With the LED indicators: check if there's any info with them to confirm that they have the right circuitry built-in. You could reconnect the original units to check that they (and so the flasher unit) still flash ok.

JRT would know what to make of it – lunch probably. If frying-up Subarus isn't his sole speciality, that is.

I've eliminated fender and have aftermarket leds. All working fine. It is too late, dark, wet & cold to go out and look now, but if you don't have it sorted tomorrow I'll check the wire colours/connections then. Are the aftermarket LEDs made to work as a straight swap for standard bulbs? If not you could need an extra component or two for the system to see the correct load. Again, I'll check that in the morning if I get time, but someone else who is up to speed with these things might post the info meantime. Also, are you sure that the flasher was working ok just before you did this work?

oh yeah I said sludge of course, I meant pasta

You gotta ditch her. She's slowing that sofa down.

Yes. Well done that man. In honour of the record breaking 135mph sofa, as verified by Sigma, we present the Nemo signature 3-seater sofa

Yes you do have to worry. On this, other, side of the Atlantic we're not aware of any 'recall' for this issue, but you can get the parts (pawl arm and spring) under warranty. Take the side cover off and measure the boss and spring to see if your's needs changed, or get someone (who you trust to measure correctly) to do the job for you. It's a good opportunity to clean any sludge out of the gearbox too. The other recall was for a different issue on earlier bikes, though I can't remember what.

Didn't you see his photo on here a while ago? The man's a walking experiment.

Do you have the Workshop Manual or Guzziology? The Workshop Manual shows the special tool for holding the flywheel while undoing the rotor nut – though it does show it with the engine stripped and flywheel exposed. It doesn't mention the seal. Dave Richardson does mention the seal and talks about the technique for removing Saprisa or Bosch alternators. He doesn't go into any detail about removing the Ducati alternator, so maybe it is straightforward, as long as you can stop the crank from turning.

By the way, Nogbad the Bad, talking of DVDs (as I did in another thread), I can't wait to get to get within hailing distance of a BBC shop, now that the 'Noggin the Nog' has been liberated from the archives. Marvelous...'original title' "In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale..." mmmm...yum

Well, that's the beauty of the other suit. When things get a bit hot (and, er, itchy) you just bail off the first pier that you come to and enjoy a spot of underwater coolin' and chillin'. Then it's back to the surface, fresh as a spring daisy. That's how the 'progressive' helmet developed from Ned's original design, after things went a bit pear-shaped in his prototype and he overheated. Take care. At least with 'version 2', even if you can't find a lake or sea in time, you can open a window. As Baldini said, 'Move on'. You'll like the difference.

My name is **Lovely JEREMY** and I HATE Moto Guzzi's. Sheeeeeeeeesh... do I have to everything for you useless biker+s! Here, I'll help you again: V.11 Well that's put this thread to rights. Phew, better go wash my mouth out with soap. Oh, and by the way, that's Spartacus over there. Go get the sandal-wearing hippy.

OK sonny, how dare you mention another tv presenter in MY thread! MarK Evans? Chris Evans? Who's he? He's UNCOOL for sure. And --- PETITION! What petition! Namby pamby waste of time for got-no-life losers. Did Mark Evans start that? Note that Mark rhymes with Park – which is what he should do. If I can publish this codswollop (below) through the BBC about his majesty the Prime Minister then don't you think that I can say just whatever I like about girly bikers. You bet I can: and the Beeb loves it... heh, he, loads of BBC endorsed codswollop, or as I like to call it, Jeremywollop, example: "One day, long before he's too deranged to care, history will judge Mr Blair to have been a lying, two-faced opportunist. That mad grin will go back in its jar and all his friends will have long since deserted him for his replacement, whose New Old Labour policies will undo everything he did in the first place. He'll be left a lonely and broken man whose life's work will have been for nothing. ??And if this come-uppance doesn't get you off to sleep at night, imagine the big-eared clown being transported to his funeral in a big yellow Hummer. Where, instead of a 21-gun salute, the priest will play AC/DC's Highway to Hell... I guarantee you'll be sleeping peacefully by the second verse.' Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Yeah – your poncy stainless carbon-titanium exhaust pipe. Biker

PS Spot the difference. I thought that the level of sophistication in this on-line tv programmes listing description of Top Gear was a pretty good reflection of the depth and sophistication to be found in the programme itself. How many differences can you spot between the short programme description and the long 'detailed' description? Quiz points should be awarded. > Top Gear Short Description Motoring magazine programme that tests and reviews the latest models of cars on the market, as well as covering older 'classic' models and news in the motoring world. Long Description Motoring magazine programme which tests and reviews the latest models of cars that on the market, as well as covering older 'classic' models and news in the motoring world.

I'm just acting the 'Jeremy' with a few straightforward opinions that may or may not be correct! Actually, I kind of agree with Paul – that he has produced probably the most watchable motoring programme for tv, though that's not saying a lot. I don't have satellite, so I bought some of those Discovery Channel dvd's of the Mak Evan's programmes: A Car is Reborn, A Bike is Reborn, A Plane is Reborn etc, where he builds machines from scratch or refurbishes/modifies them from 'scrap'. He does various racing cars, aeroplane, helicopter, chopper bike... I particularly wanted to see the hybrid Land Rover build. So far I've watched the old Harley restoration and the Triumph Bonneville. I like his big workshop.

? Is that anything to do with the time that you and Baldini rode off into the sunset together?

Do you mean coming out from the alternator cover, or from the case behind the cover? If the latter, it's not that pesky timing case gasket leak, is it?

Yep. You only needed to ask and she would have told you that she'd prefer bacon and egg, maybe even a mushroom.