Badclassicist
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First Skydive.
Paddy was telling Mick about his first sky dive.
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completely inappropriate in almost every way; hence, very funny
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Many years ago 3 women arrives a the Sligachan camp site on Guzzis and in conversation they made it clear their lesbian leanings. To be honest this left me with the lingering thought that Guzzis must be 'dykes bikes'. This was reinforced a year later when talking to a stocky big handed 'woman' at a local university.
Well, that makes it official: Guzzis are butch bikes. As opposed to femme ones.
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If only I could get a perfect colour match for the silver engine!
I've just seen Halfords Satin Silver described as a 'good' match on another board:
http://www.therevcounter.com/uk-motorbike-forum/27788-moto-guzzi-v11-sport.html
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I have been touching up the red frame on the V11, with:
Halfords Tool box red
and I can honestly say it is an absolutely perfect colour match. I'm really pleased with it. I used a touch up stick that as well as a small brush has a needle application for use on tiny chips.!
Paul
Excellent to know! I've been using Hammerite smooth red, which isn't bad, but this is clearly better. And will be cheap.
Gideon
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I don't think I'm the only one that suffers from moto lust; but mine, like many of yours I am certain, has a very specific flavor!
Check it out:
Thank heavens that there's a support group!
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Ha ha Sicily or Orkney in the winter,hmm which,which one?
Glencoe is pretty spectacular in all seasons though
As places to freeze and starve to death go, Glencoe has earned its place in history, alas - but if you're well wrapped in modern kit and have a ticket out of there, it is feckin' gorgeous.
That the Romans never made it that far may suggest some basic common sense - or, then again, a pre-modern sense of aesthetics and a shortage of good ancient motorcycle dealers.
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Is high summer in Oz so dreadful you'd trade it for winter in England? What's gone wrong between your ears, Pete?
It will give him a good sense of why the Romans left.
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This is exactly the answer I needed to find, and where else would I have found it than on the V11lemans forum...
That third bolt (and lack of alternate holes to screw it into) was mocking me, and now I know it's stupid and I can ignore it, I feel much better. :-)
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If you're around the Midlands at all, drop me a bell - I'm in Birmingham and do Greek/Roman stuff
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Scotland, of course. Nevertheless you should have something at least of what could be called Winter.
Hubert
Snow on the mountain-tops, just a bit soggy and cold everywhere else. Quite gusty, too. But as UK winters go, you're right, practically summer.
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Green? It is Scotland, it is wet...
I like those short V11, they're always good for nice pictures.
Is that an actual one, by the way? So green the landscape already? Makes me a bit nervous. The filled up tank is a good thing, you can let it stay closed a bit longer then
Hubert
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Just bought off Pandamonium, who was a perfect gent - a full tank of gas, a bottle of good oil and a stiff upper lip as his baby went away.
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You're all evil. Keep it up. :-)
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I should have added: in Rome, every other bike you see is a Triumph Bonneville. The modern Triumphs are *huge* here - the affordable ones at least. They have a big thing for Minis as well.
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Back to the original question, if anyone is stupid enough to decry Sonja, I usually reply (with a little smugness) 'no I don't think it would be for you'
Mind if I steal this, for personal non-commercial use only (if I tried it at work I'd be fired)? Excellent line, and I can just hear your tone of voice as you deploy it.
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Forum readers who'll be in Rome before the end of January 2012 may wish to check out the Quirinale - the presidential (former royal) palace, which is open in the evenings right now for an exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of Italy as a state. Some info, in Italian:
http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/artecultura/mostre/2011_SantEgidio/SantEgidio_home.htm
The reason I bring this up, other than it's an amazing place to visit and it's free, is that they have a bunch of former royal/presidential vehicles on display in the courtyard, including the most gorgeous 1952 Falcone Sport, used, I guess, for presidential motorcades.
I only have my iThingy here and can't make it post the pics in a forum post - anyone with a proper computer willing to be emailed them and stick them up? Thanks.
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We watched the Swedish versions with English subtitles...very good stuff.
Then again, David Fincher - always interesting to watch...
I'm hoping this'll be another 'Let the Right One In / Let Me In', not another 'Nikita / The Assassin' (or whatever they ended up calling that piece of...). /-)
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Hm, this might be based on a very common misconception of the Alps and the streets there. The point is NOT to be very fast on the straight parts. You normally start low down, in warm and green landscape, and end up very high in a totaly, at least very different environment, cold and rawboned. In-between lays no racecourse but constant search for the correct line, timing the overtaking, smooth shifting, listening to the engine,things like that. Take the hair-pin bends in second, the straights in third, max. fourth. With this concept and on a Guzzi you do a favour to yourself and to the landscape. Besides that you won't be the last one at the top - mostly because of the second gear in the bends.
Hubert
I skipped the Alps cuz I'm a wuss - well, mostly because I was in a hurry to get somewhere - and took the Autotrain from the Netherlands down to Alessandria in northern Italy; if you're ever down that way, the Autostrade (toll roads) in that neck of the woods are *fantastic*. The Italians are great highway engineers and they've had some very dramatic landscape to play around with there.
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Ive had the pleasure of riding Highway 1 and was surprised how quiet it was- stunning views. I enjoyed it so much I proposed to Helen on the beach at a place called Lucia Lodge.
Bonus points for life-changing romance - that's got to be a good road. :-)
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What they're all actually riding as far as I can see is scooters - and they're having a blast doing it, the traffic's very scooter-friendly.
Italian public transport is *paradise* compared to the crap we've got back home - and still very, very cheap. But yes, the price of petrol here makes my eyes sting.
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It's funny you should mention the chromed plastic. That was one of the things that put me off buying a 1200 sport rather than the V11 that I ended up with. Plus, of course, I was simply smitten with the looks of the V11. I can't put my finger on it, but it just seems more classy.
Trev
That nails it for me, too - I'm sure the 1200 is nice to ride and all but it's not really *trying*.
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What a result - good one, hope the damage isn't too bad. /-)
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Yeah, the mule. It's always been the cause of hassle and a big selling handicap. Good to hear that they swapped to a more business oriented type of give aways now. I'm not sure whether this will help in your particular case, being a married teacher, at least it'll make it easier to shed it at your neighbours'.
BTW, are you sure the mule in your dream is not yourself?
Hubert
This plus leather harness could get me in a lot of trouble
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My Strange Moto Guzzi Dream
My name's Gideon, I live in Birmingham (the UK one: home of the people of Beorm); my wife and I both teach at the university there, although we're both in Rome for the Autumn. As you can imagine, this last bit hasn't helped banish my Guzzi cravings at all. I currently ride a yellow Suzuki TLR, which my wife has named 'Buttercup', but there is a black Guzzi V11 in Scotland that is calling to me (hi Mark!) and that I'm hoping to pick up in January once I'm back. Last night I had the strangest dream.
In my dream, I was looking again at the particulars the seller had posted when I saw I'd missed an important detail first time round. The Guzzi came with the official Guzzi accessory of a leather mule harness (a very nicely made piece of kit - recommend it), and a mule to tow it. It wasn't the original mule - that had died after a year - but the replacement was still going strong. I'm aware that Guzzis come with issues character, but I admit this gave me second thoughts. How was I going to get it home? Ayr to Birmingham is quite a haul, and the obvious route is by the motorway, but at mule speed that wasn't an option. Would I have to rent a special trailer?
And what about when I got it home? Where was I going to keep the mule? We don't have the kind of garden you could keep one in (a hedgehog maybe) and I couldn't just leave it on the street. My parents have a vegetable allotment, but they don't live locally, and an eighty-mile round trip to pick up the mule would kind of negate the whole point of better fuel economy.
Anyway, I've given a firm 'yes' to the bike, but I still don't know what I'm going to do about that mule.
Introduction Thread
in 24/7 V11
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two hours isn't nearly enough.
Seriously though, the V11 Sport is one of the most comfortable bikes I've ever ridden. It's just so nicely proportioned.
(a fellow UK rider, if you ever want to compare notes.)