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Advice for a touring toolkit for Breva?

sn0winSaskatoon

sn0winSaskatoon

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I was going through my stuff the other day and came across my touring toolkit - it had a bunch of triumph-specific bits that reminded me of my dead, written-off deer-killing triumph, which got me enough from the insurance to start my current experiment with the guzzi. And for my ktm, I have lots of specific bits for roadside repairs in the back of beyond... but my girlfriend wants to go for our long trip on the guzzi not the ktm. Which makes me figure I'd better give some thought to the specific little foibles of the guzzi. Which I haven't had long enough to have done enough work on to have built up the expertise and toolkit to match...

So all you guzzexperts, other than the obvious non brand-specific stuff I should take, are there any bits or spares or tools that you would recommend I take with me?

I know where the guzzi dealers are in Sask, Alta and BC, but we're planning to loop into the USA (as long as the american homeland-security cowboys let us in) so can anyone enlighten me as to whether there is any good guzzi service in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington-state?

thanks in advance for the help
Ian
 
Suggestions

7mm in-hex socket in case someone needs to remove the front wheel. The caliper mounting screws are that unusual size.
A pair of outer spark plugs and spanner to install them.
A Plug N Go puncture repair kit with either several cartridges or electric pump.
A spare indicator bulb.
 
GrahamNZ wrote:
Suggestions

A pair of outer spark plugs and spanner to install them.
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I am unsure if the Breva needs it but... I have found that other Guzzis can do a plug cap as well as a plug if they have a lie down. A generic spare will do till you get a proper one.

Check the kit has a spanner suitable for adjusting the mirrors.

Add suitable headlight bulbs. It will be just your luck to lose a bulb and find nowhere that's open has anything like the bulbs you need!

(worse for the Norge than the Breva I think, but check anyway)

Zebee
 
Never enough-more often too much. Packing for the road is part of mystic/joy. Tools, air pump, type of tire plugs, etc., thats what keeps this sport fun. Lean angles define talent, practical touring packing defines something else. I'm an old fart and strive for a balance between the really good fast rider and the to me, whoa pushing it but reasonable caution stage in life. If you do your own m & R ,even on a limited basis, you know what to bring. Guzzis seem pretty damm realible . Pack a spare headlight bulb & a credit card. Have fun.
 
Surely a touring kit should be aimed at things you might need and are in a position to use? Catering for a crash or topple over is a much bigger ask. For that I'd add clutch and front brake levers, and while at it, a gear and rear brake lever. Hang on, we're getting carried away here unless really going bush.

Assuming that the Norge has two dipping headlight bulbs, why carry a spare? The bike already has one!

It's a long time now since I've needed any spares apart from what's needed to deal with punctures and an occasional light bulb failure, although with my Guzzi V11 Sport I did carry a spare electrical relay, although never used it.
 
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