What did you do with your GRiSO today?

Hey Gregg, I've got the short style crutches. My pits are good. Thanks for asking.

some of my most memorable experiences have been on crutches

I remember when I broke my left leg, just before Christmas one year. Lived on the top floor of a block of unit, no lift. Had to do the stairs thing every day. And the bricks were tose really abrasive ones from the 60s. Ended up with more damage to my elbows by using them as "stabilisers".

We are with you Mark, feel your pain, and wish you the fastest recovery possible. No need to piss of someone who bristles easily











(Ducks for cover)

Just to cheer Mark up, I got a new (to me) red tank for my GRiSO.


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Ethanol is evil, so my two "plastic" tank Guzzis now have spare tanks.  When one swells or get dimples, off it comes to be rinsed, dried out, and shrunk.  

Did that to the Norge in February, and now GRiSO is ready -- tho, knock on nylon -- no significant issues(yet).

Best (especially to Mark),

Bill

I do like a red GRiSO.

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My friend Beverley with mine when she came to visit me from Fort Wayne Indiana last year.

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Beautiful day here, 69 degrees, 50% humidity, barometer 30.18, GRiSO like. Went down to the local Triumph, Kawasaki, Suzuki shop, thought I would class up the place a little. Do they still make those? Where do you go to get it serviced? Tired of that and had a nice ride around the lake. Had to stop at the local pub on the way home.

Nice trip to Kawhia today 470Kms all up.
Good weather
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Found the number plate missing when I got home

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Found a bit of a leak also, this is a reason for not cleaning your bike, the oil leaks show up better

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Spent the week at Bass Lake in the Sierra Foothills...did morning rides on the great backroads, then hung out at the Lake with the wife in the afternoons.   After tourist season, so almost no traffic.  I love these roads, you are either switchbacking up or down a ridge, zipping along the top or following a great twisty river road between the ridges....the tarmac is mostly in great shape and grippy.   I like going to a new area, spending time and doing a few runs to get familiar with the roads.

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Ooh, that looks like some great riding, Fred. Will have to file that one away for future reference.

Pete (Street)

Man, I really miss living in San Francisco. It was always hard to get non riders to understand why you were waking up at 04:30 for the Sunday Morning Ride. Heading north or south, nice.

Very nice.

Well, yesterday, actually, and the (VERY WET) day before, too.

I am in western Kentucky 700+ back-road miles from home to hunt mutton.  

More pix than you can stand in due course, but here's one.


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Lovely roads getting here, and I'll take a different, but equally charming, route home starting tomorrow.

Bill

Bill Hagan wrote:

Well, yesterday, actually, and the (VERY WET) day before, too.

I am in western Kentucky 700+ back-road miles from home to hunt mutton.  

More pix than you can stand in due course, but here's one.

Bill

Bill - that sure looks like tobacco drying in the barn....I pick tobacco a couple of summers to make college tuition - this was before tobacco picking machines - hand picking walking behind a horse drawn cart! Brought pack some old (and painful) memories. This was actually in Ontario - not the south.

barry

First ride after departing the GRiSO Verde 3 1/2 months ago. Ribs all healed, shoulder has full movement but still very weak. It’s going to take  a while to get my confidence back. It didn’t help that the tyres only had 18 psi, felt very squirmy
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Excellent!

Woohoo!

waterbottle wrote:

First ride after departing the GRiSO Verde 3 1/2 months ago. Ribs all healed, shoulder has full movement but still very weak. It’s going to take  a while to get my confidence back. It didn’t help that the tyres only had 18 psi, felt very squirmy
 The  Beetle Map is great. The bike hasn’t been started since a ride last Xmas. Put a battery in, pressed the go button , fired straight up

Great news!

Bill

fredfrenzy wrote:

Bill Hagan wrote:

Well, yesterday, actually, and the (VERY WET) day before, too.

I am in western Kentucky 700+ back-road miles from home to hunt mutton.  

More pix than you can stand in due course, but here's one.

Bill

Bill - that sure looks like tobacco drying in the barn....I pick tobacco a couple of summers to make college tuition - this was before tobacco picking machines - hand picking walking behind a horse drawn cart!  Brought pack some old (and painful) memories.  This was actually in Ontario - not the south.

barry

Yup.

I used to know about the stuff, and my family history with it dates back to 1662 in Maryland, continuing to this day.

Also worked the fields and barns with it enough as a young guy to know then I didn't want to spend my life with it. Naturally, the old hands saw to it that I got the hardest jobs. I'm getting sore just recalling lifting tobacco sticks up and then handing them higher to the top guy in the barn!

This year, the constant rain has made getting it into the right "case" near impossible, and some folks who did not cut it before the latest Ark-building cycle may see their sweat wasted as their crop rots in the field.

As for tobacco-growing regions, I did not know you guys grew it up there! Shouldn't be a surprise, tho, as I have seen it growing where I had no idea that it was raised, e.g., Italy and Switzerland!

Best,

Bill

First ride after departing the GRiSO Verde 3 1/2 months ago. Ribs all healed, shoulder has full movement but still very weak. It’s going to take  a while to get my confidence back.

Great progress! Cheers to you

Well that's good news...
Confidence is just a matter of putting a few more miles back on and you should be golden.

Took her to a Guzzi rally at TWoS in Suches this weekend. About 20 guzzis showed up

Great news, Ron! Back in the saddle again!



Pete

Cognosticator -Thanks for the fire last night, got try that mead again.

Dick Guthrie on his Orange Stelvio and I on my Diavolo Nero rode up to Emerald City Harley Davidson in Lynnwood today to test drive a 2015 Rosso Trophy. Not for either of us - Dick (as the former Washington Moto Guzzi Club Prez) had received a call from a guy in SoCal who's wanting to buy it and wanted someone local to go and check it out. Dick asked me to come along since he has no experience with Grisos and I was happy to oblige. We decided that he would ride mine on the test ride since he'd never been on one before and I would ride the "red" one. Sorry to say, he wasn't bitten by the GRiSO bug himself, finds the riding posture uncomfortable compared to the Fat GRiSO, totally understandable.

The test subject is a 2015 1200 SE in very clean, near-stock condition with just over 5500 miles on the clock and a couple of modifications that I could see, neither of which appeal to me, but to each his own, and an after-market can (I didn't happen to take note of what brand of exhaust is on it - maybe some of you can identify it from my pictures). I find bar end mirrors incredibly uncomfortable to use and way too small. I don't particularly like the way they look either although I know many of you will disagree. The other thing is the exhaust wrap which I simply cannot abide, but again, others are entitled to different opinions. To me it looks cheap and seems like it would hold heat in rather than letting it dissipate. Maybe that's the point, I don't know, but I'd be unwrapping those pipes post haste!

The bike ran well if a bit snatchy at low speeds, but I mentioned to Dick that when he talks to the prospective buyer he should definitely let him know about the GRiSO Ghetto and Beetle Maps! Here is where he can go to get all kinds of good advice from people who know what they're talking about and he can install a Beetle map to get the most out of his new toy.

BTW, we know nothing about the previous owner, perhaps he's a member of this fine forum, but he may have traded it in on a new Hardley so that might explain the pipe wrap...

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