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Oh, @Scud I'm in La Jolla. A nice meet point could be at the 15&78 and head north to Castle/Lilac/Couser and Palomar. I'm retired so weekdays are good. If you have a nice route from Carlsbad, I'm happy to try it.

Hi @scud, I just saw this. I ordered a plate from GP about a month ago. If it doesn't come in soon, I'll cancel and swing by. In either event, let's go for a ride soon. I have never ridden with another V11 owner. My Lemans is loving this cooler weather, has even stopped using oil! So I have rings/gaskets in reserve.

Brilliant! Thanks @belfastguzzi and @Bill Hagan . When in doubt, hit it with a hammer. Worked. Now, if I can't get the copper cover plate that apparently fell off over the past two decades, I can use my other universal tool - duct tape.

I would be interested in the footgoose bracket if any is making them.

Okay, not always the relays. Went to take my morning ride, and the starter didn't do anything. Not clicks, even. Checked the 30A fuse, was blown. Now fuses are part of my under-hump kit. However, will say that it was sweet enough that it worked fine on my ride yesterday and worked for two water-stops and a fuel stop. So is may be becoming a sweet, thoughtful bike. TPS question - is sometimes harsh coming back on throttle in a turn. Like an aged cush drive so I bought new rubbers and will drill them and install when I next change tires. However I've noted that if I go thru a turn with negligible throttle to reduce slack, there is no harshness. Wonder if it is actually TPS, which is part of Decent Tune? Will find out...

IT IS ALWAYS THE RELAYS. A few days after this, it spit and sputtered at all revs and then died and wouldn't restart. Towed home. Wouldn't restart even after sitting all night on a tender. Replaced the relays and all is well! Had ordered https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XN2VSZM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title same day as previous post. Was cheaper and is 102 pieces. So, I have 100 left. Anybody want some? By all metrics, the bike should not run better without the caps. Will, out of curiosity, remove them mid-ride. Will report if it actually runs better. Plugs indicated it was running a little rich, so maybe the air leak leaned it a little. I thus leaned the mixture, now have mild popping on 5K-6K deccel, but in the good range. The 3K behavior is stellar with current mix and config. Years ago, before I was aware these had EEPROM maps, I got the power commander PC3. Is running so well now, I'm keeping it just the way it is. Riding mostly between 4500-6000rpm, the MPG is 39 on mix of freeway, back roads, SoCal twisties. Next up, a "Decent Tune"

The unrelated work was replacement of the "differential" (ouch) and then another set of rear wheel bearings. When I first noticed the short tubes on the throttle bodies, I thought they looked sort of kludgy, especially since they were open. Silicone caps on the nipples make more sense. Ball bearing method was literally a ball bearing smaller than the inner diameter of the tube being pushed in far enough to block the tubes. The ball bearing size is, you guessed it, the bearings out of the blown rear bearing races. I'll google for silicone nipple caps. Might be a big response.

A data point... For the past several thousand miles, after an exhaust/PC3, I haven't had much 2700-3100rpm problems, until yesterday. 1. Bike came out of shop (for something unrelated), where they noticed the hose stubs for the throttle body vacuum weren't plugged, so they plugged them each with a ball bearing. 2. Costco (great premium gas) line was long, so I bought gas (premium) at Indian reservation on ride. 3. Shortly (5 miles) after getting gas, stopped at store about 10 minutes, for a water. About a mile after that, my V11 Lemans sputtered, backfired, popped, stalled on a moderate hill. So, one of the three above was the trigger. Or none, or all.

Woo hoo! Count me in..am local so will not be camping. Will be great to see ya.

Got a GPR titanium a year or so ago. Single-side with a Y-pipe. No restricters installed. Added a Power Commander III to de-lean. Quiet at idle, loud at high throttle. Deep happy sound all around. Good low-end. Makes a huge difference in power and feel 5k to 7.5k!!! Bike much happier! No more surging at 3k, no more 4K pinging, but sometimes pings at 5k, will adjust the PC again. Wanted to avoid over-rich.

Didn't mention, I don't use a computer with the pc3. Just use the 3 on-module buttons. 1 - I don't want to pull my MSPC out of the closet. 2 - more than 3 knobs is more than I want to learn. Can take to a dyno tuner,but why? Won't track the v11, and I suspect it will like simple,3-knob seasonal adjustments

Just an update. After 1000 miles, the GPR is louder, I guess from glass fiber packing or blowout, but still not anoyingly load. A good neighbor bike. Tone improved. Tweaked the pc3 to avoid richness. Rule seems to be to set for lean stumbles then add 1. So Easy! Bike is such a treat to ride now, may consider other stuff like "decent tune" and "guzzitech" but wanted to get rolling with minimal emotion peeling the onion. A v11 won't be a Japanese appliance, which is just as well, we'd sell it. For those haven't, tweak those suspension clickers. Better ride and less chassis pitching. Happy camper. All is good. Is a great bike!!! Am now mostly swearing at my 2000 Valkyrie. Crazy smog plumbing getting in the way of a cruise control install. Swears, hammering, knuckleblood.

Ah, per champagne, thought you were referring to maybe running "rich"or the flavor of the sound. :-) Per the fit of the mounts, it just connects to the two head pipes in the front, and then hangs off the left passengerpeg/mufflerhanger. Like most aftermarket pipes, uses a sleeve on the muffler, so the fit always works. Have to admit I didn't mount it myself, but I suspected the hardest task was going to be removing the old pipe (swear, hammer, swear, heat, cold, swear, hammer) and removing the crossover bracketry (and California canister). Seemed a good choice to let a mechanic do that for 1 1/2 hours. The PC3 was trivial - remove 4 bolts holding ECU on under the seat, swap connectors, turn the ECU 90 degrees so cables fit nicely, restore 4 bolts. Per PC3 versus 15M, different strokes for different folks! Reflashing the ECU yields ultimate flexibility... but absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'd spend the next 6 years tweaking it and probably making it worse. I'll likely spend no more than a few days tweaking the PC3 (fewer knobs) and probably can't make it as bad as if I had ultimate flexibility. Refuse to dig out my MSPC to do a detailed PC3 mapping, been there, done that. Am a simpleton, now.

Okay, I give up, what does "Aaaaaah! "Champagne!"" mean? :-)