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Title: Flat Tire = Blued Pipes
Post by: Red on July 01, 2019, 04:41:59 PM

First off, cheers to Moto Guzzi for it's excellent,traction control system; it alerted me to a flat tire. (It was on the least invasive mode)
Rolling along at over 70 MPH it started cutting out as if I had bad fuel (and I just filled up) Traction control blinking. Pulled over and realized the engine ran fine. Rolled very slowly to find a wide a spot on the shoulder and realized I had a rear flat that was losing air fast.

While waiting for the tow, I noticed my head pipes had turned blue and a smudge mark on one muffler attachment point.   My guess is the fuel management was shutting down flow and it ran lean.
Ever happen to you?  It is a just bought 2017 Roamer V9 with 1400 miles.
(https://i.ibb.co/hBvpp0N/20190701-135628.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hBvpp0N)

Title: Re: Flat Tire = Blued Pipes
Post by: redhawk47 on July 02, 2019, 10:57:22 PM

Good guess.
My guess is that it was not firing, yet it was still providing fuel which was burning in the exhaust pipe.
I had similar results on my V7ii when the plug cap was shorting to the head.

Dan

Title: Re: Flat Tire = Blued Pipes
Post by: Groover on July 03, 2019, 07:26:55 AM

Didn't know the newer bikes had these features. Pipes look actually very cool that way!

Title: Re: Flat Tire = Blued Pipes
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on July 03, 2019, 12:07:48 PM

At least it wasn't flat pipes and blue tires.   Damn auto correct.

Title: Re: Flat Tire = Blued Pipes
Post by: Red on July 06, 2019, 03:05:55 PM

Quote from: redhawk47 on July 02, 2019, 10:57:22 PM

Good guess.
My guess is that it was not firing, yet it was still providing fuel which was burning in the exhaust pipe.
I had similar results on my V7ii when the plug cap was shorting to the head.

Dan

That sounds like what happened. Thanks Dan.  And I am OK with the blues, just not instantaneously!