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Amazing what humor and wisdom can do....

loudviking

Cruisin' Guzzisti
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Mixed in with 4 shots of 1800 Tequlia.
So it has been a trying week at work, as well as home. New garage door
costing a lot, can't hire anybody worth a shit at work to put in a full day of work....
Rain here in South Dakota constantly as of late blah, blah....
Because of storms rolling in(high wind, rain and hail) at lunch to meet another salesman for
the garage door I rode the V7iii Special home as my bikes don't see bad weather per me.
Get home and pull it in the garage with it's sister(the Stornello) and I realize my RPM gauge
needle is down at the bottom of the gauge! Turn bike back on and at idle showing nothing for rpm's.
After talking with garage door salesman(more about the bikes than the door, he has never seen one)
I went back to work, and strangely not mad! Worked the rest of the day with today's society as customers and
came home. Had my shot's of 1800 and walked out to the Special and got a smile on my face! I am now a Guzzi owner
and proud of it, 13,000 miles on South Dakota roads and this is my first issue. I will get it fixed all by my lonesome as no
dealers around here, and I am sure will cuss and get pissed while doing it. But it is Italian, with wine being drank at lunch while being built, and
there is the charm. the damn S.O.B. finally has an issue, and it is up to me to fix it. I am mildly concerned with taking it apart, but all is good...
Still have that shit eating grin as I write this, great damn bikes!!!
 
Your writing made me laugh raucously. You are preaching to the choir here my friend! I finally closed my workshop and retired. I couldn’t get anybody to even appy for two mechanic jobs at $50/hr wages plus full benefits. It was ridiculous. Nobody wants to work anymore. Nobody.

I have to fix my garage door too. Been putting it off for a few seasons and cannot put off anymore.

Now that I am retired, I have my own 9 motorcycles to work on, and unfortunately, while I am still healing from carotid-subclavian bypass surgery, my family won’t let me step foot into my home workshop yet. I am “protected from myself” by 3 adult male family members plus our youngest son who lives just up the road 25 miles.

I am chomping at the bit to repair the cracked and leaking oil breather line leak on my Stelvio, replace the aluminum gearsets in my V-10 Centauro, repair the tip over damage on my X9 Piaggio scooter that my oldest son did, finish the restoration work on my 1991 BMW R100 Classic I just acquired, and then wash and wax my other lovely Moto Guzzi, Ural, and Piaggio motorcycles so I can begine riding again. I want to ride every day as soon as I am able.

Yep…right there with you my brother…yep.
 
After being a Harley guy since the early 1980's it was time for something different. In San Diego you can't go more than a mile without running into a bunch of Harley's that all look the same. So I went different with a Guzzi. Specifically a used 2016 Stone V7 II. I enjoy the puzzled looks when I pull up somewhere and people try to figure out what the hell it is. It really fun doing this at a Harley dealership. So you're my type of idiot and I'll be your huckleberry. I off from riding for a couple of months as I heal from getting my second knee replacement last week. So now I'm bionic with now two replaced knees and a pacemaker. I find out how "hip" people are if a make a six million dollar man reference in talking to them about my situation
 
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