Wild hare vs fairing

[LowRyter]

4 hours ago, Jaide said:

You can still get those Magni fairings? I do really like the look of those, better than the stock Lemans fairing even.
I'll send them an email!

 

They do look good especially on a Greenie.  I think the bars are a bit lower than the LeMans.  

I suppose there is now way to repair the damaged one?   You might check with body shop that specializes with car bumper / fascia repair. 

Edited Thursday at 08:52 PM by LowRyter

[audiomick]

8 hours ago, Jaide said:

You can still get those Magni fairings?...

I don't know for sure that they are still available, but since they are still on the site, it is worth asking.

 

I just looked on kleinanzeigen.de. Perhaps this is what @Tomchri meant. Is it any good to you? It's in Königsbronn in southern Germany.

https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/moto-guzzi-v11-le-mans-baujahr-2001-verkleidung-rechts-/3013469775-306-9058

Königsbronn is here:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2792008#map=7/50.075/9.212

 

EDIT: I just looked at the advert on Kleinanzeigen again, and noticed that the part is "nur abholung", i.e. "pick-up only", so the seller probably wont send it to the Netherlands.

BUT....

as it happens, I am expecting to be going from Leipzig to Altusried and back 3 or 4 times over the next 5 or 6 weeks. That means I will be going past there on the Autobahn A7, and picking it up for you would mean about a 10 km detour. So if you need help, let me know. Posting it on to you is not a problem, and if he wants cash in the hand on pick-up, that can also be done.

EDIT again: thinking about it, it might confuse the seller, or make him supicious, if you contact him and tell a story about "someone will pick it up for me". If you want the part, get in touch with me and I will try and buy it. If I can get it, we can take it from there. If you change your mind, it is no big deal. That would mean I have a spare part that I don't really need right now, but one can never have too many spares, even if they are the wrong colour, so no problem.

Edited Friday at 12:07 AM by audiomick

[Scud]

^ That is an example of what makes this such a great little community. Rapid Rabbit Recovery.

[Scud]

7 hours ago, Jaide said:

The left side and the bottom bit below the headlight are undamaged from the accident, but the fairing was already a little off centered when I bought the bike. I only noticed that recently, but it was like that all along.

 

A lot of things that you would assume are centered or symmetrical on these bikes are actually not. If you ever mix up the RH and LH fairing brackets that attach at the head covers you will the difference clearly.

[audiomick]

19 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

... I mean a Le Mans is a bit of a girls bike unlike a mans bike V11 Sport

...

By the way, @Lucky Phil, you, and the horse you rode in on.

[docc]

19 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

. . .  I mean a Le Mans is a bit of a girls bike unlike a mans bike V11 Sport

 

 

2 minutes ago, audiomick said:

By the way, @Lucky Phil, you, and the horse you rode in on.

I was wondering how the RedFrame Trash talk might settle out on a LeMans forum . . .   

[Pressureangle]

16 hours ago, docc said:

 

I was wondering how the RedFrame Trash talk might settle out on a LeMans forum . . .   

Well, we all know short frames are better frames. I mean, who wants to ride something that handles like a boxcar?

[audiomick]

6 hours ago, Pressureangle said:

Well, we all know short frames are better frames.

Do we? Well there you go, something I know that I didn't know I know.

[gstallons]

I'm lazy , what is the wheelbase of the red frame and the wheelbase of the black frame ?

[audiomick]

19mm different.

 

Edit: 1471mm for the one, 1490 for the other. See here:

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_sport 00.htm

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_cafe_sport 02.htm

 

or here, page 28 and page 421

https://guzzitek.org/gb/ma_us_uk/1100/V11_1999-2003_Atelier(Compil-GB-D-NL).pdf

 

As far as I'm concerned, 1490 is a nice, neat, round number that works very well. 1471 seems somehow insufficient.

Edited yesterday at 12:04 AM by audiomick

[Lucky Phil]

4 hours ago, audiomick said:

19mm different.

 

Edit: 1471mm for the one, 1490 for the other. See here:

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_sport 00.htm

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/moto guzzi/moto_guzzi_v11_cafe_sport 02.htm

 

or here, page 28 and page 421

https://guzzitek.org/gb/ma_us_uk/1100/V11_1999-2003_Atelier(Compil-GB-D-NL).pdf

 

As far as I'm concerned, 1490 is a nice, neat, round number that works very well. 1471 seems somehow insufficient.

Well if you have wet noodle biceps then get a long frame. If on the other hand you have the massive Guns I and other short frame riders are endowed with then hanging onto the odd tank slapper is no problem    

[motortouring]

8 hours ago, audiomick said:

Do we? Well there you go, something I know that I didn't know I know.

Denying and not knowing are two different things.

Did you know that most black frame riders also think the world is flat 

🙈🙈🤪🤪🤪🥳🥳🥳🤣

Edit: I might need to delete this message as it is against forum rules. But please don't take me more serious than I take myself.

Edited yesterday at 07:17 AM by motortouring

[Grant]

4 hours ago, motortouring said:

Denying and not knowing are two different things.

Did you know that most black frame riders also think the world is flat 

🙈🙈🤪🤪🤪🥳🥳🥳🤣

Edit: I might need to delete this message as it is against forum rules. But please don't take me more serious than I take myself.

In places the world IS flat.  

Just another black frame rider :-).

[Pressureangle]

11 hours ago, audiomick said:

 

 

As far as I'm concerned, 1490 is a nice, neat, round number that works very well. 1471 seems somehow insufficient.

Well, we had the War of the Roses and Ivan the Great. 1490 was boring.

[audiomick]

10 hours ago, Pressureangle said:

1490 was boring.

Says you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490