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quota rim cracks

FallonDave

FallonDave

Just got it firing!
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Just bought a 2000 Quota in overall good shape, don't regret it. use to ride an 850 Lemans- should of never sold it. had several bikes since, always wanted back on a Guzzi. After buying it ran across an article about upgrades and the history of these developing rims cracks. Upon looking closer at the rear rim I found about 11 cracks, none in the front rim. Haven't contacted Buchanan's yet (know it will be spendy), any advice/suggestion help, prior experience from other members would be appreciated. Has a Mistrale ehxaust and power commander 3. Runs ok but throttle mapping seams off a bit. Will deal with it later after wheel rim and boat eats up my money.
 
For Power Commander help I suggest you contact Todd direct. He has done quite a bit of Power Commander development. Also he may have up to date information on wheels. You can contact him via the store tab.
 
Thanks John, Hi Dave. Congrats and welcome back to the Guzzi Famiglia. Yes the rims are known to crack. I have a means to do them much cheaper than Buchanans these days. The PC gets a bad wrap a lot of time on older bikes... the bike has to run decent without the PC. If there is an issue, no mapping will correct it. That said, a lot of people who didn't buy from me, ended up with a off the shelf unit with either no map, or a stock map on a non-stock bike. Download the free software to your PC, and "Get Map" - "Save Map" and send to me direct email; Todd at GuzziTech.com
 
A California tubeless wheel, caliper, rotor, hangar, axle is a direct boltup. The caliper, rotor and hangar are different on the quota. A california axle spacer inside the rear end is needed unless you use a 2mm spacer for clearance. A quota axle can be used if use a thinner washer where the axle nut bolts on. The wheel can be found in the $250-450 range. Caliper and hangar in the $100-150 range. The California real brake is really nice. I did this to my Quota. I also converted my front wheel to tubeless. My rear wheel had 19 cracks. My front wheel has none. I bought my rear wheel/rotor from Guzzitech. I bought caliper and hangar on ebay. Because I used a Quota axle. I milled 2-3mm in the hangar to get enough threads. With new setup the caliper is below the swingarm vs abopve on the swingarm on Quota's. I figured the setup is a wash of which is cheaper to do . Buchannon/woody wheel or California wheel . I think I have $525-$575 in my setup.. Good luck
 
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