New Guzzi V85 looks good.
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Carmel used to be a nice place/area. Would imagine it’s littered with RVs all doing the same thing at the moment. One of my plans is a long bike trip from somewhere like Carmel up through Canada (Vancouver, Rockies) and onto Alaska. V85TT would be an ideal bike for such a trip?
v85tt update
Apparently according to MCN, they are updating the v85tt to include outer rim spoked wheels so tubeless can be run as well as some other mods including more low and top end torque and extra riding modes and heated grips.
Apparently according to MCN, they are updating the v85tt to include outer rim spoked wheels so tubeless can be run as well as some other mods including more low and top end torque and extra riding modes and heated grips.
Plus a gearbox filler on the the right side, in the earlier models this is a pain as it is not easily accessible.
Wrinkly Owlie will kill me for this but after watching all these posts about tubeless rims I got quite enthused but then someone reminded me I'd ridden 800Gs's and GSA's for 10 years around Europe without ever failing to get home. Is it a big issue if you've got some slime on board?
On another topic I've just got a pyramid plastics hugger for the 85TT. The instructions give dire warnings about needing to put heat on the swing arm bolts for at least 5 minutes before releasing them to mount the hugger bracket. Is it that big an issue does anyone know? Have they used araldite?
I fitted my hugger today. The bolts you refer to are encapsulated from the factory with thread lock. The heat is needed to soften the thread lock and/or expand the casing to make the bolts easier to remove. I just waved a heat gun at the casing on its 600c setting for five minutes or so. The casing was warm to the touch but the bolts came undone easy enough. T40 bolts.
It’s fitting the new Allen headed bolts as supplied that’s not so easy. The bracket you fit masks the head of the upper bolt somewhat meaning you can only get either a long thin Allen key on (and then it won’t be straight on) or a very very short one. I cut down the the short leg of a 6mm Allen key so it was only 5mm or so long. That goes on but it’s a sixteenth of a turn each time on a tight fitting thread, with lots of thread resisting turning and against the old thread lock. I put blue loctite on my bolts as that’s all I could get today. The restricted access means there’s no chance of getting a torque wrench on the bolts either. Torque is 25nm so tightish but not gorilla tight.
Hugger looks neat anyway. I reckon it’ll do a good job.
Got the thread lock thing ta but I’ve never had to use a heat gun. Thanks for the hint re the Allen Key 
If it didn’t worry you on the GS/A why would you worry now? It’s just a personal thing, some people prefer one or the other.
As you say, it’s a personal thing. Then again if in the future if someone offered me a pair of tubeless rims would I be tempted?
I think my almost obsession with tubeless tyres comes from once being stuck at Betty Hill with a puncture. It turned out to be a hell of a day,(Not in a good way).
Good news is, I've left my recently converted tyres for around a week now, inflated to 50lb. Still airtight.
Why would you do that?
Those handguard extenders are strange looking things. Headlight looks awful.
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Ah, but does the lego one have tubeless tyres ?
Like it, shall we club together to make a bulk purchase as it seems there is quite a following for the V85 on the forum. LOL
Like it, shall we club together to make a bulk purchase as it seems there is quite a following for the V85 on the forum. LOL
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