Motorcycles
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Took my Guzzi on a 120 km run (each way) this morning to a mountain town, Samaipata. Beautiful curvy road! It isn’t running smoothly, especially at low rpms. Thought that may be due to old gas (she sat at the dealer, brand new, for 27 months before I was able to ship it home). I filled her with new gas and added a Lucas Oil ‘injector cleaner’ and hoped that may sort out the hiccup. No luck. I’ll ride through two tanks of gas + cleaner and see what happens. If nothing, we’ll start messing with spark plugs and later, injectors.
Anyhow, the ride was totally enjoyable. And she is a nimble bike on tight curves!!!
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Stopped for coffee and “empanadas de queso y guayaba”
The journey is the objective.
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@motojobobo Amazing
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@motojobobo beautiful bike! That a V85tt??
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@FlavourFade yes sir ! Same as @jimcasey ’s, different colorway.
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@motojobobo said in Motorcycles:
@FlavourFade yes sir ! Same as @jimcasey ’s, different colorway.
Got to say I dig the McDonald's styling on yours. I went with the gray and black with the eighties decals because the price was right, and don't regret it, but can see the attraction of yours.
Hope the low revs issue gets sorted. Can see why you thought bad fuel might be the culprit - 27 months is a long time. How many kms had the dealer put on her before you took ownership?
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today I was on my way to a local bike meeting near my hometown with my 1988 Evolution Heritage Softtail Classic. I bought it in 1991 in the US and was crossing the US from the West to the East coast and brought the bike to Germany. This was one of my best travels I ever had. The bike was pimped 10 years ago and since 1991 I never had any troubles with my bike. It runs and runs and runs….
The bike meeting was great, many beautiful bike and a Münch 4 TTS (originally with a car motor). Biult between 1973 and 1979 in Germany, 100 PS, top speed 244 km/h!!!!! Today incredible expensive, around 100.000 Euro!
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@jimcasey only 16 miles; I bought brand new. Shipping it to me took a long time. All of my doing and no fault of the dealer.
I assume yours has perfect fuelling. I’m still in search of a solution.
By the way, do you get a vacuum sound whenever you open your gas tank? Mine does that. Maybe a pinched tank breather hose ?The journey is the objective.
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@motojobobo What are your symptoms? Surging like the bike is running out of gas and then run normally again repeating for the duration of your ride. I think that would describe a pinched tank breather hose. If it is, you might be able to check by loosening off the gas cap slightly.
Just a though and I may totally be off base.
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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@motojobobo Something for you to read re: your vacuum sound https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=119476.0
Might also be a programming/manifold issue: https://www.guzzitech.com/forums/threads/e5-v85tt-running-issues.22614/
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@motojobobo said in Motorcycles:
@jimcasey only 16 miles; I bought brand new. Shipping it to me took a long time. All of my doing and no fault of the dealer.
I assume yours has perfect fuelling. I’m still in search of a solution.
By the way, do you get a vacuum sound whenever you open your gas tank? Mine does that. Maybe a pinched tank breather hose ?Yep, on opening the tank there is a noticeable sound of air pressure equalizing. Nothing dramatic though, and I've not experienced any drama with fuel flow. Good luck with it mate - hopefully nothing serious.
Mine going for the 10k service next week. Looking at a Mistral pipe and removal of the Cat, and some more aggressive tyres. Will let you know how it goes.
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Friday ride
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20 minute ride out of the city at a small town, Porongo. Still working at gradually ironing out kinks in the Guzzi.
Thru checks and trial/error over the week we’ve ruled out several possibilities: inyectors OK, spark plugs OK, compression in cylinders OK, spark plug wiring OK. It seems to lead to a faulty software.
Next step will be to reload SW into the ECU and see if that solves it.
Pain in the neck but bike is a thrill to ride once lver 2500 rpm.
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@goosehd said in Motorcycles:
@motojobobo What are your symptoms? Surging like the bike is running out of gas and then run normally again repeating for the duration of your ride. I think that would describe a pinched tank breather hose. If it is, you might be able to check by loosening off the gas cap slightly.
Just a though and I may totally be off base.
@goosehd I ran it with an unlatched tank cap (risky, not recommendable) and problem continues…
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Swapped out an aging rear tire for a fatter White Wall. Some nice bikes at the shop.
