Some people have no luck.....

[pete roper]

And some would seem to have luck running into the negative!

One of my customers has a lovely 8V Sport 1200. Ever since he bought it its been a catalog of disasters.

It had to be rollerised obviously but it had always fuelled up oddly but even before I got to that it had the leaky rear flange that took several go's to get right, then it transpired that the TB's had been fiddled with but the paint must of been reapplied, not fiddled with a lot but over time the inconsistencies in balance wore the RH butterfly spindle and it started sucking air and the bike started 'Sneezing' at idle and running like crap at small throttle openings. I managed to fix that with a spare set of unmollested TB's but by now he was getting very lairy of the bike.

This weekend he went down to Philip Island for the GP and I get a call from down there. It's rattling when it gets warm.... The bloody thing has gone and blown out the block to spacer gasket 650km from home!

I've arranged for it to get looked at early Tuesday by Rob at Guzzi Spares Australia workshop who is familiar with the problem because I diagnosed it for him on a bike they had in a while back. I'll send him the new 'Thicker' gasket and John should be on his way back by Tuesday arvo but I just know the bike will be for sale next week which is a crying shame!

Knowing his luck though it'll strip the teeth off its oil pump gear on the way back up here just to ensure he experiences the full quadrella of known screw ups! Poor bastard.

Pete

[oldbike54]

 Perspective matters here , some would say he is very lucky getting to attend the motogp race at Phillip Island , and to have Pete in his corner .

 Hope he gets it sorted .

 Dusty

[Zinfan]

He did get to see one heck of a race though!  Actually 3 great races.

[pete roper]

I hope he did. He may of been trying to get the bike transported to a decent shop I recommended in Melboring.

Dusty, it has bugger all to do with me. It's just bad bloody luck with a garnish of shaved apery. What pisses me off is it's exactly this sort of shite that will ensure that Guzzis reputation will remain in the terlet. Spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar! Mandello, (and now Piaggio/Pontadera.) policy for all of my adult life.

While I regret the demise of the 1200/1400 8V I'm going to take great pleasure in seeing how the post rollerisation models hold up. I reckon they'll be more reliable and robust than virtually any of the 2V's but they'll never be given any credit for it and if Guzzi survives they'll be a footnote in the company's history. I find that truly tragic. They were, and remain, a bold attempt to drag Guzzi into the twentieth century. Unfortunately the market was either senile or stupidly shallow. Such is life......

[Arizona Wayne]

It seems to me the factory should better test their new motor designs before they offer them to the public, or get smarter engineers who design this stuff.