Bought a Stelvio

[Cortina]

I know technically it should work but know nothing about the dealer.(memory like a goldfish)

Barry

Forget the technical ... I made contact , asked the question , and got a positive response.
I also test drove a new one a few weeks ago - and apart from bits about to fall off the 300 mile old ? bike (embarassing for dealer)... I liked it . Suspect one is in my future once I have a house move behind me and life settles down again. It will be a luggaged up yellow one , and I would say £10K will buy one and as usual will be a trip to mainland to get it.

 

[Smartbazza]

Forget the technical ... I made contact , asked the question , and got a positive response.
I also test drove a new one a few weeks ago - and apart from bits about to fall off the 300 mile old ? bike (embarassing for dealer)... I liked it . Suspect one is in my future once I have a house move behind me and life settles down again. It will be a luggaged up yellow one , and I would say £10K will buy one and as usual will be a trip to mainland to get it.

I regularly see a chap on the North coast on a Rwb one and would love to getting chatting to him about dealers and service as I suspect he got it elsewhere.

Barry

 

[Neil W]

Took mine out for a run the other day , did about 130 miles but with the factory supplied panniers in place .

I'm glad they were free with the bike but my god they are rather iffy quality wise , the fixing method is rather Micky Mouse (supplying dealer said a couple of their customers have lost a pannier and the rear seat ) and they are far from secure once fitted and would be easily broken into .

Also they are small and awkward to load and even struggle to take a bike jacket .

I am going to bite the bullet and have bought a set of Givi Trekker Alaska panniers and will get a set of the Givi rails next month and fit them over the Winter in preparation for my trip down to the Alps next year .

 

[adventuredon]

If I recall it also gets quite toasty when in town!

Thats what I said to Dobles after my spin last week. It gets hot, its not a town bike esp with London's bloody 20mph killers all over the place

 

[Neil W]

Last two tanks of fuel I have tried out using E5 fuel instead of the previous E10.

Bike is giving a few mpg better ie 59 plus instead of 56 mpg and it is definitely smoother and more responsive so will be sticking with E5 from now one (in comparison to diesel prices the E5 petrol is a positive bargain )

 

[longdog]

Isn’t A&D in Denbigh? North Wales though and fair distance from Swansea. Two in Bristol and one Gloucester which are lots nearer.

Wasn’t the one in Gloucester a dedicated Guzzi dealership until a few years back? I think the Bristol one(s) maybe Riders? Either way, those are about 2 hours away and I don’t know if they have loan bikes available. I think A&D have a good reputation but it’s getting on for 4 hours each way of rather nice roads on a good day.

 

[Neil W]

All my bikes in recent years have been fitted with Auxiliary fog or spot lights and I prefer it as it does make the bike more visible to blind car drivers and gives you a little bit of an advantage .

Moto Guzzi charge about £100 for the fitting kit for their oem lights and then over £300 for their lights .

Not wanting to pay that I managed to pick up a fitting kit for £80 and then bought a kit of PUIG 2.0 spot lights , made my own bracket to mount onto the crash bars and a wiring loom from the lights to the Guzzi Auxiliary loom (it runs through the crash bars and uses the same connectors as the Moto Guzzi's own )

So for less than £200 I have a set of auxiliary lights that are integrated into the Guzzi wiring , switchgear and tft display

 

[walkingpictures]

All my bikes in recent years have been fitted with Auxiliary fog or spot lights and I prefer it as it does make the bike more visible to blind car drivers and gives you a little bit of an advantage .

Moto Guzzi charge about £100 for the fitting kit for their oem lights and then over £300 for their lights .

Not wanting to pay that I managed to pick up a fitting kit for £80 and then bought a kit of PUIG 2.0 spot lights , made my own bracket to mount onto the crash bars and a wiring loom from the lights to the Guzzi Auxiliary loom (it runs through the crash bars and uses the same connectors as the Moto Guzzi's own )

So for less than £200 I have a set of auxiliary lights that are integrated into the Guzzi wiring , switchgear and tft display View attachment 546054View attachment 546055

Made a neat job of that Neil,like it

 

[MartinK]

I currently have Denali S4 mounted the same.
But wired via a Denali DialDim because they're too bright (as DRL) without a dimmer
Thinking of trying a Denali Pure controller, because it's an odd main beam trigger on the Guzzi

 

[Neil W]

PIcked up a pair of new Givi Trekker Alaska 36 lts panniers for just over half price in a Sportsbikeshop sale and bought a set of Givi rails locally .

After a delay due to them being out of stock in the UK and awaiting a production run in Italy.

When they arrived went to fit them and one bracket was completely wrong , looked like it had been incorrectly placed in the press brake and was fouling the lower bodywork and not lining up with the side rails

Anyhow the supplier contacted Givi who after initially asking are you sure that they were not incorrectly fitted sent out a new kit..

When comparing the original bracket with the one in the new kit it was clear that it was completely wrong and and had been wrongly bent in all three directions.

New kited fited yesterday in less that 45 minutes and normal service resumed

first pic shows the incorrect bracket, second pic shows what it should be like

 

[GSite]

I have found a Givi top box support bracket to have holes that don't line up and a sump guard bracket too short, seems Givi quality has slipped over recent years.

 

[longdog]

I have found a Givi top box support bracket to have holes that don't line up and a sump guard bracket too short, seems Givi quality has slipped over recent years.

Yes, I think you are correct. I have a Yamaha Tracer9GT+ which came with “Yamaha” cases which are actually GIVI. The lock fell out on the M4 and so I bought a replacement lock form Givi, apart from being a nightmare to fit, the whole locking assembly fell apart and 2 springs popped off and are somewhere in my garage. Yes, I have done this before on Givi luggage but this latest farce is going to cost me a new top box if I fail to find the components in my garage and that’s without the trim pieces falling off due to self tapping screws into plastic being overtightened and stripped!

 

[Fluffmeister]

I have a set of SW Motech Pro side carriers for sale for the Stelvio, just saying, perfect fit and can take Givi boxes. Also have a new locking kit for them to

Need to move them along before I take a cutting disk to them and make them into wall mounts for my DUSC cases

They are not offset either because of the low exhaust on the Stelvio so can take two even / full size cases.

 

[Clifton]

PIcked up a pair of new Givi Trekker Alaska 36 lts panniers for just over half price in a Sportsbikeshop sale and bought a set of Givi rails locally .

After a delay due to them being out of stock in the UK and awaiting a production run in Italy.

When they arrived went to fit them and one bracket was completely wrong , looked like it had been incorrectly placed in the press brake and was fouling the lower bodywork and not lining up with the side rails

Anyhow the supplier contacted Givi who after initially asking are you sure that they were not incorrectly fitted sent out a new kit..

When comparing the original bracket with the one in the new kit it was clear that it was completely wrong and and had been wrongly bent in all three directions.

New kited fited yesterday in less that 45 minutes and normal service resumed......

Neil could the first kit have been for a Mandello? The reason I ask is my factory pannier kit (mounts and panniers) was made for both the Stelvio and Mandello. The only difference was two small brackets (included) are added on Stelvios at the passenger footpeg bracket that are not used on a Mandello.

 

[Santa-2512]

Thats what I said to Dobles after my spin last week. It gets hot, its not a town bike esp with London's bloody 20mph killers all over the place

Thought you wanted a panistrada

Try a wing. You'd be surprised

 

[Neil W]

Neil could the first kit have been for a Mandello? The reason I ask is my factory pannier kit (mounts and panniers) was made for both the Stelvio and Mandello. The only difference was two small brackets (included) are added on Stelvios at the passenger footpeg bracket that are not used on a Mandello.

I did think that but the Mandello pannier rails are apparently only for the V35/37 cases so about the only parts shared in the two kits are the lower front brackets that fit onto the rear footrest hangars .

More likely been a case of "Luigi" being half p*ssed form a liquid lunch when putting the bracket into the press brake to form it during production

 

[Neil W]

Then again I am blaming a p*ssed Italian but watch this video , it appears that not all Givi equipment is made in Italy

 

[Neil W]

Or Tunisia

 

[Neil W]

Apparently now according to the internet only the aluminium luggage is made in the Italian factory, everything else is produced in Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil , Tunisia and possibly at the Kappa production facilities in Italy and Spain

 

[GSite]

I have found Shad better than Givi for some items.