Mostly just riding madmuz. The Guzzi has been reliable so far - the only problem I have had was completely self inflicted. I decided I finally wanted to move the key switch to it's proper place in the centre of the transplanted instruments (how hard could it be right?). When I removed the customised aluminium instrument panel, the knurled part of the key switch did not want to unscrew from the rest of the switch. The switch seemed pretty fragile and I was in hurry, so I cut the instrument panel up instead, cable tied the switch to somewhere convenient and called it good. Only it kept receding into the mess of wires near the head stem. So I finally sucked it up and put two huge vice grips on the switch to remove the knurled part, only to have it come apart. There is a plastic base which is where the wires are attached, a kind of plastic circle on top of that which makes the contacts, and the lock itself. I stood there for a good 15 minutes thinking "what did you just do?". Put it all carefully in a box and walked away for an hour or so. With the switch in pieces, I could apply the appropriate amount of violence to the knurled nut and it finally came apart with much swearing at the absent idiot who had glued it together. The knurled part was glued onto the body of the switch with a pile of thread locker. I thought that was because the threading on the fragile switch body was stuffed, but carefully cleaning off the thread locker revealed perfectly good threads. Then I very carefully re-assembled the switch which took a few goes to get the switch plate in the right spot. The body has 3 tangs that bend over the plastic base plate - getting those lined up while the switch was assembled in a fashion that allowed it to work needed 3 hands but I got it eventually. Tested with the key, seemed OK if a little beaten up. Since I had the knurled part off, I could now insert it into the instrument panel. This was uneventful although I noted that the wires were a touch tight as I had inadvertently routed the switch over a bundle of wire where it would have been better off going under. Two weeks of riding like that were uneventful - the key worked well and is obviously much easier to use being mounted solidly. Then, last week, I was climbing a hill near my motor bike friends house and the bike coughed and struggled after I hit a big bump. My first reaction was "hit the fuel reserves" but then I remembered the switch. I gave it a poke underneath and sure enough the bike spluttered back into life. After I got home I removed it again (more carefully), gave those metal tangs a good shove to get it all tighter again and re-routed it so the wires are not tight. It's been fine since then. I ordered a new key switch though. We have extended our weekend ride out to about 90km through some more challenging roads and I'm gradually getting more confident in the twisties. It seems to help to make yourself aware of counter steering as just relying on the instinctual / natural counter steering taught by riding a bicycle needs extending out a bit on a motorcycle. It's been lots of fun. The bike is getting around 6.7l/100km which is too much, you can smell it's running a bit rich so I'm going to have to address that sooner rather than later. I rebuilt the Mikuni carbs in my project Yamaha FJ1200 successfully so hopefully the Dellorto units on the Guzzi will be just as simple. I'm also waiting for the top half of the dashboard to arrive so I can finally retire the bank of stupid warning lights hanging free.