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General Discussion / Re: Best kept secret or early April fools joke?

« Last post by Huzo on Today at 02:26:04 AM »

Huzo, then you sir, won the Moto Guzzi build your bike as you want it to be game.

Congratulations!

Walk around…? https://youtu.be/W9ulUhJgVwk?feature=shared

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General Discussion / Re: Something for the Brain trust

« Last post by Mr Revhead on Today at 01:28:11 AM »

I'd be surprised if you can find any automatic that can be flat towed. Since day dot, you've had to disconnect the drive shaft from an auto to tow then. I've never ever heard of one that had some weird neutral mode that allowed you to tow it

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General Discussion / Re: Best kept secret or early April fools joke?

« Last post by TN Mark on December 14, 2025, 11:11:27 PM »

Huzo, then you sir, won the Moto Guzzi build your bike as you want it to be game.

Congratulations!

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General Discussion / Re: Best kept secret or early April fools joke?

« Last post by Huzo on December 14, 2025, 10:20:08 PM »

Well, many over exaggerated ’luminaries’ are often simpletons. That, like most people, only like or are interested in what ‘they’ want. The ‘not invented here syndrome’ is as real as your heartbeat. Best to accept and then filter their technical input and to discard much of anything else.

If you like it, build it or modify an existing model to get what you desire.

I sort of did…

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General Discussion / Re: Foreign Visitors

« Last post by Moparnut72 on December 14, 2025, 09:39:51 PM »

There are only a few routes over the Sierras. I took the one that goes through Yosemite three years ago. What a zoo. Every parking spot was taken and all the pull outs were packed. I was glad to get the hell out of there. My pass was under the seat, the bike was loaded with camping gear. The gate attendant asked me if I had a pass, I said yes but it was under the seat. He waved me through. I got it when there was a deal for lifetime passes for seniors, I think it cost $80 if I remember correctly. I have only used it twice.
kk

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General Discussion / Re: Best kept secret or early April fools joke?

« Last post by TN Mark on December 14, 2025, 09:02:37 PM »

So why was I roundly criticised by the established luminaries when I suggested that very thing ages ago, when Beetle and Pete Roper were around ?

Well, many over exaggerated ’luminaries’ are often simpletons. That, like most people, only like or are interested in what ‘they’ want. The ‘not invented here syndrome’ is as real as your heartbeat. Best to accept and then filter their technical input and to discard much of anything else.

If you like it, build it or modify an existing model to get what you desire. Ideas are typically easy. It’s the process of making them a reality that stops most people.

The ‘Keyboard Commando’ types often find a perverse joy in shooting down the ideas of others. Ignore and avoid them.

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General Discussion / Re: Something for the Brain trust

« Last post by Wayne Orwig on December 14, 2025, 08:13:29 PM »

I flat tow my Miata.
Works great.

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General Discussion / Re: Best kept secret or early April fools joke?

« Last post by Bulldog9 on December 14, 2025, 07:55:51 PM »

So why was I roundly criticised by the established luminaries when I suggested that very thing ages ago, when Beetle and Pete Roper were around ?
I was always shot down by conventional wisdom gems such as…
“It won’t stand up against the current crop of Japanese stuff…”
“They won’t pass the new emission regs..”
“Good idea…! They will sell at least two dozen of them…”
and a dozen other contrived responses.
Us old farts just want what we want and are not heavily swayed by popular (young) opinion.

A throw back to the Le Mans with a scaled down 850 version of the current V100 motor, would scuttle the sales base of anything else from Mandello del Lario.
 They would not be able to keep up with demand.

Beats me, ask your fellow Aussie Residents and verbal abusers........... 

I'm hugely in favor of a Sporting Road Oriented NON ADV Woody Woodpecker Beaked V85. I'll do all I can humanly possible to ever ride a WC bike again. My C10 Concours, FZ1 and FJR1300's were all fine motorcycles, but I prefer Air Cooled. I'm thrilled with the V85, but wish they would do more with the chassis. Yes, it might/would impact other models, but they could tailor it..... Imagine a V85+ Griso? LeMans? Daytona?  Sport? Heck, though Roper and Crowd insist they couldn't increase the displacement to 951+ (I dont buy it...... a wee bit more bore and change to stroke even if you have to make larger jugs), why not those models called V1000 and expand that range as a more sporting air cooled option, and leave the V7/9 as the classic cruiser?

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General Discussion / Re: V85TT 2020 vs 2023

« Last post by Huzo on December 14, 2025, 07:24:36 PM »

I put this on my 2020 and there are no heat issues at all and the sensors are disconnected.

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General Discussion / Re: Foreign Visitors

« Last post by Dr. Enzo Toma on December 14, 2025, 07:04:24 PM »

RMNP and Arches both have timed entry which has made for a more pleasant visitor experience recently, though it's a gamble to try to plan a trip through it in case you don't secure an entry time. My last time through Arches, on the V7 in September, I didn't have a timed entry but luckily was able to talk my way in.







If any of you have read Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire," he was complaining about too many visitors at Arches when he worked there back in the 1950s... Moab was also too busy for his liking. At that time, Arches didn't have paved roads, which kept a lot of folks out. He did have some interesting ideas though and not just complaints, such as a big parking lot outside the park, no *new* roads in the park, and maintain the existing roads strictly for staff, shuttle, and bicycle use. That has, to some extent (during busy season), been successfully implemented in Zion National Park.

When I visit GSMNP, the most visited of the parks, I tend to take that approach. Ditch the vehicle, travel by foot. It's around 71 miles on the Appalachian Trail to walk in one end of the park and out the other and IMO, if you're able to, that's the best way to experience it. GSMNP has historical legal reasons why it can't restrict access or charge for entry, so timed entry wouldn't be possible there.