Dave wrote on 05/29/17 at 15:01:31:


I have seen, so this is the link to my blog, there are some exhaust photo
http://www.stuffandthings.it/epages/86069.sf/it_IT/?ObjectPath=/Shops/86069/C...
Tomorrow i buy a 1996 bmw r1100rt for my next project... i have found it in a web site for only 500 euro

thanks Justin!
first of all sorry for my english:
I have a problem with the bmw...some people are so mad...
I have found the motorcycle on a online private sale, this is the bike.

so there isn't the telephone number , only the email, i have send at this guy an email...after some day i receved the answer and this guy said that is his father's motorcycle and he give me his home telephone number....
Saturday morning i call this number and an old man tell my that he was sick and he cant leave his home to make the document to sell me the bike....and i have to phone at his mechanic...i only made a question: did the bike run? so at this point the old man turn into a devil...and he said "if you want, you can go to my mechanic and try to start it!!! i'm so sikkk!!!!!! you dont have to call me again!!!!i'm so sick!!!"
so i don't want to see the bike, i want to buy the bike is not just near home is about 200 km.. id like to say if the bike run or not.
so he turn off the phone...
i call his mechanic and he said that the bike was ok, it's all ok, if i want he can recharge the battery for me, he was really kind.
So i recall the old man and he re said me that he was sik and he can't leave his home to make the document for the propriety of the bike
andi haven't to call again because he was sik....
.....
i don't know.....
So this morning i have work on the savage:
wrap the exhaust:

i have made the spacer for the front pulley:

i have drill and fillet? threaded? i don't know what is the correct word
drilled the oem front pulley, six hole for 8x1,25



made the spacer in alluminium





drilled and milled the Kawasaki pulley





Last photo: sunset at Folgaria

thanks so much!
I have seen your website, i love your motorcycle.
this is my last bmw, an r850r scrambler:

yes but i hate it because it was my job, from 2001 to 2005 i have work in a Moto Guzzi dealer , in that years a lot of engine are converted from meccanic distribution to hydraulic distribution.....that was a drama....
the problem was the high temperature, the oil became liquid and the valves kiss the pistons.....All the people was hungry (so if you buy a 20000 euro California and after 2 day you have find the valves in the oil pan....)
One client buy a V11 Centauro full carbon fibre a lot of racing component to use like a racing bike, first track day the engine exploded.
So if you speak about old guzzi with carburator was great bike, i love the sound of the air when you open the gas...but if are 2000-2005 iniector and hydraulic distribution...i want to dai...

So my wife joke me and remember me that day every time a make fuel....
I have to deliver a brand new California with a touring pack (a lot of money bike...)
so i drive a Ducato like this

after a few kilometers i fill the bike moving but i cant see it, so i stop to the gas station, until the guy make the fuel i open the rear door, i get in and the read door close back me!
full dark i can't see nothing so i start to touch the door but i don't know if there was the handle and the fuel pump make noise into the metal box Ducato.... a lot of panic i start to call help but the fuel noise was  to high...after some minut the fuel guy open the door, he was die laughing...and other peoples laugh.....i fill like a nuts....but i was happy to exit from the Ducato....

yes guzzi use this valve to reduced the engine noise but sometimes the hydraulic sistem dosn't work, or work in late the cam times was not the same of the valve , sometimes the aspiration valve dosent close in time and the fuel explosion damage it.
i have found pices of valve fuse in the piston .
i don't know in english that is the word but it's not for the interference like some honda engine, is for the delay time of the valve.

just a little progress
I made the rear spacer for fit the kawasaki pulley to the Ducati wheel:




i think if you want made good stuff you have to work in a clean place:
so this is my super clean, perfect, work place  





and i drill it for fit the pulley and the (i don't know what is the english word for the secure little screw)



that's all
i was invited at an American car and bike show near Venice and of course i show my......Honda....


California dreaming pics

i don't know, it was the best in show at this american car/bike show.....
but i don't see inside the truck...but i have seen a fisher karma...never seen before....it was a so large car.... it was near a corvette and the corvette looks like a city car
i take that picture just for the USA style....pickup...palms in the background....sunshine... for me this is the "USA stereotype"...
and that was a ax and knife luncher...so it was so funny i like it all day i lunched ax at the target...it's an american tadition? why at american car/bike show there was a ax luncher? is correct lunch? what is the name of the guy that lunch knife?