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2nd Stelvio Playing Up

Belfastguzzi wrote:
Surely the technicians working on the faulty cam bikes would know about this and check for it?
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No. Mechanics working on such things might, (Note the *might*) have a clue. 'Technicians' would be too busy telling their adoring throng how wonderful they are and how it is all very mysterious and full of 'White Man Ju-Ju.'.:laugh:

One of the things that makes me glad I don't HAVE to take work from retards nowadays is the fact that if I get confronted by someone who thinks that a 4 year apprenticeship and 30 years of keeping up with the times is worthless because they wear a suit and I wear dirty old work-gear I can tell them to fuck off and die.

Most of the people who proffes to be 'Technicians', (Unless forced to by their employers or their 'Holding Company') seem to have only the very smallest grasp of their trade and worse yet the laws of physics. Honestly, some of them if you asked them to stand under a crane with a Grand Piano and an Anvil on a hook and told them that when you smeared them with lard the weight would just 'slip off' they'd agree to try it.

De-skill! Un-learn, listen to your fucking i-Pod, read all about it on the 'net', that's fine, but don't then winge when the people who have done the hard yards ask to be paid for it. Biz-nizz is Biz-nizz. You'se gets what you's pays for.

Terrifying though it may be to some Aprilia have just sent out a 29 page 'Tech' bulletin trying to explain the basic precepts of electronic generation to the 'Technicians' who are supposed to be working on their bikes. At least its in the public area. with Honda you;d never hear a peep!

Sod technicians, and the wretched log they floated in on!

Your mate, the slightly pissed Shouting Deafy!:cheer:

Pete
 
You make me want to re-read "Zen and the art ..." once more, Pete! ;)

Could you please be a bit more specific about how to obtain that tech bulletin (or post a link), if it's indeed available to everyone?
 
Thanks, link works and it seems to have some of the information I was expecting. Is it me, or is the English a bit hard to follow at times?
 
RJVB wrote:
Thanks, link works and it seems to have some of the information I was expecting. Is it me, or is the English a bit hard to follow at times?
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Buggered if I know, but it wouldn't surprise me. By the standards of 1970's Laverda manuals it's probably the technical equivalent of Shakespeare:laugh:

Pete
 
Hehe...

Page 17:

3. Disconnect the negative cable from the battery (for safety reasons, operate on the
negative cable), then place it again on the battery clamp with the two multimeter
lugs connected one to the clamp and the other one to the negative cable.
4. Separate the negative cable with the lug from the clamp releasing the other lug on
the clamp, the instrument panel will get activated (in some vehicles) and the
multimeter reading will be adjusted; possible variations of 1 milliampere are
allowed.
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From the picture on the preceding page, I understand they mean to remove the cable from the negative terminal, put the meter's ground probe (black) on the negative battery terminal, and the live (red) probe on the cable... but that's not what the text manages to tell me ;)
 
You will probably find you also require a Unicorn, a jar of fish pickle (Google it, it was a Roman delicacy and really disgusting!) a midget porn star and a wading pool full Eels.

Or you could go out and buy an 'onda!:blink:

Pete
 
actually, it was rotten fish pickle, not the sort of marinated stuff like the delicious herring you can get in the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, rather something that would ooze nuoc-nam like liquids :)

If you have a source for midget porn stars that fit in the space under the saddle, I'd be interested :silly: (Jude, do you really think that spit on the screen is due to wire wheels or maybe rather to higher heels? :D )

Why a Honda? I already own a push bike for when I am fed up with electrical problems (and even there Ohm's law seems to apply only when the moon is in the right phase) B)
 
I agree I hope this is just a temporary Guzzi slip up.
I must admit there was no arguing from Guzzi Italy, complete assembley's were here in a week , and John Carr the dealer , and his staff are excellent.
 
RJVB wrote:
Thanks, link works and it seems to have some of the information I was expecting. Is it me, or is the English a bit hard to follow at times?
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No, it's not you... poor translation, just like the past, often very comical. Not much has changed apparently.
For the U.S. Tech releases, they are actually done/written at Piaggio U.S. Tech in SoCal.
 
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