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NOT Honda related - Moto Guzzi question...
Athame57:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on August 19, 2025, 08:34:34 PM ---I always liked the V50, I suspect like the 400 they are more comfy if you are the height of an average Italian back in the day.
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What I found remarkable about the Honda CX500 was that they could also build a longitudinally opposed V twin of 500cc with a shaft and make it about twice as big as a Moto Guzzi V50 :o
Bryanj:
One thing i really didnt like about Guzzi is the oil filter is INSIDE the sump
Mikep328:
"One thing i really didnt like about Guzzi is the oil filter is INSIDE the sump"
Guess I'll be learning about these sort of "quirks!" I agreed to purchase the '21 V7 Special. I hope the electrics are better than my experience with two Ducatis!
Re that:
I had a 900SS that I really liked but after a several hour ride where I was caught in heavy rain - I had constant electrical issues of one sort or another until I sold the bike to a shop. My wife's 2015 Duc Diavel had its fuel level sensor replaced twice by the Duck dealer. The third time the sensor failed , the dealer said, "It's a problem..." and suggested installing a "bypass" plug that essentially shut off the fuel sensing circuit and using mileage to determine when to refuel. Just like my 400F only without a "reserve" position on a fuel petcock!
That third time she ran out of fuel with the gauge showing a bit over 1/4 tank. She opted to wait on the side of a lonely road in the Texas Hill Country with the bike while I rode 12 miles to the nearest station, bought a 2 gallon gas can - filled it, rode back. She was not amused.
taysidedragon:
Those sort of problems are not exclusive to Italian bikes. My mate has a BMW K1200s and the fuel level sensor went on that. It cost an absolute fortune to replace and took the dealer a lot of time to get it to work and calibrate it. It's a common fault with that bike, apparently.
SumpMagnet:
Owned an 850 LeMans for a number of years and loved it.
Gearboxes need positive shifts, and once you are used to it, they are fine. Don;t rush the shifts until you get the feel for the gearbox.
Electrics are probably a LOT better now than they used to be. Mine had a few 'quirks' ... like the kill switch power was seperate to the starter button....which took power direct from teh battery. This meant you can crank it with the kill switch off. The Japanese don;t do that....
It also had no plastic shields between power feeds and the handlebars, so when the killswitch shed a wire, it shorted the battery to earth.
Oh, and the starter motors were legendary for sticking. Got so I could strip, clean and reassemble the thing in less than 15 minutes.
But I loved that bike.
Until some utter moron drove into the back of me and wrote it off. I was stopped in traffic....he was gawping at some young lady in lycra cycling shorts.
Would I buy a modern V7? Possibly. They are derived from the old V50 base, and the build quality and QC looks a lot better than of old. Not powerful, and they look faster than they go, so get bought by 'that' sort of rider, who probably gets bored with it quickly and sells it on. But for an everyday modern classic for pottering about on, I think they do well.
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