Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

How badly does it run?

As I told you last month, my lovely new-to-me 2014 Moto Guzzi V7 Special runs terrible. There is nothing mechanically wrong with the bike. Everything works just as it should. But...

When the engine is cold, and not just overnight cold, but cold after not running for 45 minutes, it wants to die just off-idle, gasp and die. It won’t run smoothly in slow traffic. It runs erratically in what we’ll call the mid-range, between 3000 and 4000rpm. Minimum happy speed for

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