Wall of moronic shame...

[GTM®]

Thanks for showing your true colors here.
And from RB USA…

 

[GTM®]

And the icing on the cake from ‘ol davethewelder posted on our Google Business page.
@scottmastrocinque (and our minions)- sorry you got sucked on on it too.

 

[scott_m]

Wow. I have no idea who this guy, David Spin, is at all.

I’m amazed that I am classified as a “henchman”. That’s comical as in case anybody wants to really know, Todd and I have never met in person, ever. I have no position or power or influence at Guzzi Tech whatsoever. I am just another member. I have donated money to the site to help with it because I have benefited from it. I have received no special treatment or dispensation from Todd or anybody else here.

Also if you actually take the time to read some of my posts, anybody can find posts where I have disagreed with Todd on different things over the years but it has never been rude or uncivilized.

Now, as to “berating members for daring to ask a question”, are you serious? I have more replies to other members for their questions, than just about anybody else on the site. I have written many detailed “how to” guides and detailed explanations of various aspects of Moto Guzzi design, operation, and repair.

What I have done is repeatedly pointed out to people that SEARCH is your best friend because there are very few topics that you can bring up that have not already been exhaustively covered before. Nobody wants a forum of the same thing over and over simply because some idiot isn’t willing to invest any personal effort to find and read the answers for themselves, or at least to familiarize themselves with the current answers before posting a different question.

Lastly, it is true, I have very little good things to say about the drive-by-posters who just want to be spoon fed answer after answer. That type of “helpless individual” or “an overblown sense of entitlement” behavior, is just incredibly rude to go to a forum and act like that. I do hate it.

I’ve told people this before and I am never afraid to repeat it again, “If you have a problem with me, click my name and then select ‘Ignore’. You won’t see anything I wrote or have written. Go live your life in peace and leave me be.”

I’m too old, too independent, and frankly, not interested in people’s bullshit. I couldn’t care less about whatever personal vendetta or beef you have with me. Especially somebody who I cannot even identify.

Those whom I have helped, I helped with joy and goodwill in my heart. If you benefited from my actions, I have never asked for accolades, laurels, or compensation of any kind.

All I have asked is that you “please pay it forward” by helping somebody else.

If that’s “showing off my inflated resume” well that’s some incredible “spin” if there ever was any.

This being said, I don’t understand the nastiness lately of people here and on other forums I have been on.

I’ve taken breaks from this place in the past because of it and I’m beginning to think it’s time for me to completely withdrawal from Guzzi Tech and any other online forum I have been a member of. I don’t need the stress or aggravation.

I can repair any motorcycle in the world. I have every tool anybody could ever need. I own 15 personal motorcycles of my own, have my own gigantic workshop on my property, and those whom I call “friend” know 100% that they can count on me because I know that I can count on them.

Yes, you self-absorbed, over-bloated sense of self-importance, crazy sons of bitches (like this asshole David Spin) who do not know me at all, you can go ahead and tear into me with great abandon for no reason at all. Knock yourself out!

I tell you with a clear conscience and a happy heart, “Go Fuck Youself! I couldn’t care less what you think. You mean absolutely nothing to me.”

At the end of the day, my life is beautiful and the people I allow into my life are some of the most incredible people and I am so blessed to have them in my life. They add incredibly to the richness of my life and I am grateful for them.

I have this on the wall at the entry to my home.

“May those who love us, love us. For those who do not love us, may God turn their hearts, but if he cannot turn their hearts, we pray that at least he turns their ankles, that way we will know them by their limping.”

EDIT NOTE:

Is David Spin, “davethewelder”?

Maybe I missed that connection. If it is, then I am even more dumbfounded because to the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had any negative words.

 

[Grabcon]

It is really unfortunate that people today are unreasonable about most everything. They don't like being held accountable or admitting accountability. I was a software product manager for GE responsible for a multi-million dollar software product. I was held accountable to the customers across the globe. Many different cultures to deal with so at times there was a lot of sensitivity dealing with some customers. But at the end of the day all were reasonable and understanding. If you look at this guys Facebook page he has ZERO friends. Geez I wonder why? Unfortunately some damage maybe done by one dumb ass. I should probably stay out of this mess but I couldn't help myself.

 

[GTM®]

Is David Spin, “davethewelder”?
Maybe I missed that connection. If it is, then I am even more dumbfounded because to the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had any negative words.

Yes it is. I have to wonder if he suffers from bi-polar disorder.

 

[GTM®]

But at the end of the day all were reasonable and understanding. If you look at this guys Facebook page he has ZERO friends. Geez I wonder why? Unfortunately some damage maybe done by one dumb ass. I should probably stay out of this mess but I couldn't help myself.

I’d say 98% of our customers are solidly good people. The more popular the brand has become, the more it opens things like this up for us here, and social media makes it 1000x worse.
After a dozen emails of questions all covered by what he was given, he refused to even try to read anything, instead wanting to be hand held via email. I asked him to download their free software and learn how to pull and send us the map, or mail back the device for us to look at. He refused, in telling me “he shouldn’t have to” and then posted those words on social media, where he hopes to create collateral damage.
I have many good friends around the globe that have my back when they see things like that. So I grabbed it and brought it here where I can respond without time wasting arguments.
I really do try my best to be of help with products I have very little control of functionality. Mapping options (that won't destroy your ECU) is one of them. Rapidbike has made it very difficult for me to protect my intellectual property, that I give away for free with the devices.
Bike state of service and tune on these systems is paramount. He refused to confirm any of those me either, so my fault again. Oh well. Onward.

 

[William H.]

I will say this about Todd
We had a shaky start when I installed his kit on my 1400 but once Todd realized that it wasn't "User Error" he was absolutely tenacious at getting the mapping all straightened out, in fact going by the time & date stamps on his email responses to me I've come to the conclusion that he doesn't sleep or take a day off. I still think the coolest thing ever ( to this old guy ) was watching Todd remote tuning my bike while I sat in my carport having a Beer and cigar.

 

[loudviking]

Hi gang, cant log in at work and it has been shit lately!
Now for Todd and Scott...
Todd, have not been able with workload to download my map on the V7iii Special, will deal with
it soon and send it to you! As for the V7ii Stornello the map I have is working pretty good, not
as well as I would like but I in no way blame Tood! My thought is I need to get off my dead ass
and do some maintenance on it! Scott is just a butthead but I like him. Blah, Blah ,Blah. As far as
I am concerned, the people who are posting shit are exactly that, SHIT! Welcome to the WOKE world where
no one can work with someone to get satisfaction, instead turning into fuckers at the drop of a hat. Since I have
been on this site I have never been made to feel the fool. Probably because I can think for my self and my own actions
and also because I can take the time to look shit up and read!!! I could go on and on, but to Todd and Scott it is very simple.
FUCK THEM!!! When you buy a brand that has its issues, and you dont want to spend the time learning about them, then
SELL IT and get something else!
Okay, I am done for tonight, Merry Christmas and Happy Easter.........

 

[Used2Bfast]

So in the interest of business and time, note to all reading this; The Corsa Corta has been on our website (linked below) since the day they launched it. To also note here, you did not purchase anything from GTM outside of the $29 brake line adapter.
Thanks though for your note here on the rotor and ABS ring, as we recently had a discussion with them on this, and they told us how to order it to ensure no problems that you had. I believe you asked us questions on them via email(?).
We have installed everything, outside of the Axis SS rotor, on many ABS small blocks with ZERO issues, including full upgraded/aftermarket ABS line replacements.
When you order from GTM, we make best efforts to make sure things are plug-n-play, as we almost always purchase them ourselves and install in house to make sure it does before putting it on the site to sell.

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Blah, blah blah, I actually didn't see the Corsa Corta, but it wouldn't matter, by the time you replied to my email I had gotten a reply from Brake Tech, talked with him on the phone, and the rotor and pads had been shipped. You didn't even know what the spacers I asked about were for, which told me you've have never actually seen one, plus as per Brake Tech the Axis SS rotors won't work on this bike, only the Cobra Chrome. Fact is the combination of rotor and Corsa Corta does absolutely confuse the ABS. Also, I'm a former FAA A&P mechanic, a USAF Master Avionics Tech, plus have an Engineering Degree, w/ a PE stamp and 30 yrs experience, I know wtf I'm doing.

Then there was the time you told someone that the Matris fork inserts could be installed w/o removing the tubes- BS - how are you going to measure the oil height when the tubes are not vertical? I even made a thread showing the proper way to install them with limited tools.

The real problem is that almost ever post I have made, simply to help other owners, even when I agreed, you have gone out of your way to act like a dick to me. I've seen you do the same thing to others who were ready to buy but needed further clarification. Pretty stupid for a business owner to bite the hands that feed. I saw where you took my posts and made the "Worthless V9 Tire Thread", you probably thought that you were clever and got a good laugh. Well, that cost you $1000 is business that went to your competitors.

Never said I bought anything but the adapter from you, fact is I will never anything from you unless nobody else has it. You're a control freak with a serious ego problem, this isn't a real forum, it's a marketing tool. I know I'm not alone in my opinion, not hard to find all sorts of negative things about you on ADV rider and other forums.

 

[GTM®]

I moved the above post here so others can see what I still deal with almost daily. I pay for every word posted here, so I pay to provide the platform here to get attacked. I could easily strike back, but I won’t. Jealousy, they say, breeds contempt. Clearly those that do, don’t know me at all. I have zero ego.
I only speak from my personal experience and extensive hands-on knowledge from my life-long time racing and riding motorcycles, working on Guzzis for 25 years now, and my service shop, where we build our full frame up customs.
Yes this is my private website, I formed it 23 years ago and counting. Yes sales from the GTM STORE support this site. The rare few donations we get here helps a little. I don’t hide any of that, it says so on the home page and above. No one reads anything these days.
We’re a tiny operation, wearing many hats, like most Guzzi businesses. We’re not Amazon. I don’t need or want business from anyone like above.
On the site mentioned above, I was also belittled by a ego-maniacal little tool of a Moderator there, and my post deleted for saying that I had purchased numerous V7 suspension parts for testing.

Like Scott, it’s people like above that takes me one step closer to throwing my hands up, pulling the plug on all of it, and walking away.

 

[GTM®]

Another one below. Making custom parts for a 8~18 year old Griso for $100 and people still complaining means I am pretty much done with those. On the whiner below, my coaters twice lost parts and waited weeks to tell me. This was communicated to him, and I offered to cancel and refund, which he refused and said he'd wait. I got this out to him just after the fire took my home.
I have a growing list of people I’ve blocked from ordering on the GTM Store. Do this or dispute a charge without asking for a refund, and we’re done. I am VERY CLEAR that we are online ONLY, we do NOT MAKE OR RECEIVE PHONE CALLS. They are a time suck waste with nothing in writing to document what is spoken of.
When one comes here to further push their point, I will start calling them out. I will not pay for people to lash out here over hand-made one off parts. One step closer to the end.

Griso Fender Eliminator
Product good. Service terrible.
First the product is good. Nice tody work. However it took literally months to obtain. That was after being told they would get it out of me the week after I ordered it. Zero communication at all. No phone number to call to ask about the order. Yes I know it's a small business but customer service is a thing. They almost never replied to my emails. In fact I suspect me posting on their forum spurred them to reply one time. This is the forum posting they actually allowed me to post. Not the one they censored because I was complaining. Anyway it's a good product but I won't waste my time with this company again.

Simon Pearce
simhampea@ gmail.com

 

[Pete BoBeet]

If this site and Todd's shop went away then I and my bike would be snookered. Just a little reminder that if you can give a little, give. Support the Store. FFS. The man lost his house and everything in it and he's still going to work every day to take care of business the best he can. The Shop, and the Website, and the ADVICE, are a labor of love. It doesn't mean he should go tits up making it happen.

 

[Pete BoBeet]

Wow. I have no idea who this guy, David Spin, is at all.

I’m amazed that I am classified as a “henchman”. That’s comical as in case anybody wants to really know, Todd and I have never met in person, ever. I have no position or power or influence at Guzzi Tech whatsoever. I am just another member. I have donated money to the site to help with it because I have benefited from it. I have received no special treatment or dispensation from Todd or anybody else here.

Also if you actually take the time to read some of my posts, anybody can find posts where I have disagreed with Todd on different things over the years but it has never been rude or uncivilized.

Now, as to “berating members for daring to ask a question”, are you serious? I have more replies to other members for their questions, than just about anybody else on the site. I have written many detailed “how to” guides and detailed explanations of various aspects of Moto Guzzi design, operation, and repair.

What I have done is repeatedly pointed out to people that SEARCH is your best friend because there are very few topics that you can bring up that have not already been exhaustively covered before. Nobody wants a forum of the same thing over and over simply because some idiot isn’t willing to invest any personal effort to find and read the answers for themselves, or at least to familiarize themselves with the current answers before posting a different question.

Lastly, it is true, I have very little good things to say about the drive-by-posters who just want to be spoon fed answer after answer. That type of “helpless individual” or “an overblown sense of entitlement” behavior, is just incredibly rude to go to a forum and act like that. I do hate it.

I’ve told people this before and I am never afraid to repeat it again, “If you have a problem with me, click my name and then select ‘Ignore’. You won’t see anything I wrote or have written. Go live your life in peace and leave me be.”

I’m too old, too independent, and frankly, not interested in people’s bullshit. I couldn’t care less about whatever personal vendetta or beef you have with me. Especially somebody who I cannot even identify.

Those whom I have helped, I helped with joy and goodwill in my heart. If you benefited from my actions, I have never asked for accolades, laurels, or compensation of any kind.

All I have asked is that you “please pay it forward” by helping somebody else.

If that’s “showing off my inflated resume” well that’s some incredible “spin” if there ever was any.

This being said, I don’t understand the nastiness lately of people here and on other forums I have been on.

I’ve taken breaks from this place in the past because of it and I’m beginning to think it’s time for me to completely withdrawal from Guzzi Tech and any other online forum I have been a member of. I don’t need the stress or aggravation.

I can repair any motorcycle in the world. I have every tool anybody could ever need. I own 15 personal motorcycles of my own, have my own gigantic workshop on my property, and those whom I call “friend” know 100% that they can count on me because I know that I can count on them.

Yes, you self-absorbed, over-bloated sense of self-importance, crazy sons of bitches (like this asshole David Spin) who do not know me at all, you can go ahead and tear into me with great abandon for no reason at all. Knock yourself out!

I tell you with a clear conscience and a happy heart, “Go Fuck Youself! I couldn’t care less what you think. You mean absolutely nothing to me.”

At the end of the day, my life is beautiful and the people I allow into my life are some of the most incredible people and I am so blessed to have them in my life. They add incredibly to the richness of my life and I am grateful for them.

I have this on the wall at the entry to my home.

“May those who love us, love us. For those who do not love us, may God turn their hearts, but if he cannot turn their hearts, we pray that at least he turns their ankles, that way we will know them by their limping.”

EDIT NOTE:

Is David Spin, “davethewelder”?

Maybe I missed that connection. If it is, then I am even more dumbfounded because to the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had any negative words.

"I’m amazed that I am classified as a “henchman”."

"Henchman" sounds like a cool thing to be. I see you behind the wheel of THIS bad boy, Scott.

 

[scott_m]

Funny! I would love to restore that van!

Reality is ever funnier.

My "Bad Boy" conveyance...

FWIW: My heart goes out to Todd for all the shit he has and continues to take from this place on a daily basis, and this on top of the destruction of his home in the LA wildfires. Truly gut wrenching.

I had to really back away from GT because it was seriously negatively affecting my life and mental state of mind.

I just cannot cope with vexatious people and those who insist on playing the victim or acting helpless.

I come from a time when motorcyclists knew everything there was to know about what was going on with that 2 wheeled monster vibrating underneath their balls.

We are far from helpless and can effect repairs on just about anything on our mounts.

Hell, put most of us in a hardware store parking lot, and we can fabricate just about anything or any repair on the fly! I've done it so many times I've lost count.

Unfortunately, we are a fast dying breed.

 

[Pete BoBeet]

Funny! I would love to restore that van!

Reality is ever funnier.

My "Bad Boy" conveyance...

FWIW: My heart goes out to Todd for all the shit he has and continues to take from this place on a daily basis, and this on top of the destruction of his home in the LA wildfires. Truly gut wrenching.

I had to really back away from GT because it was seriously negatively affecting my life and mental state of mind.

I just cannot cope with vexatious people and those who insist on playing the victim or acting helpless.

I come from a time when motorcyclists knew everything there was to know about what was going on with that 2 wheeled monster vibrating underneath their balls.

We are far from helpless and can effect repairs on just about anything on our mounts.

Hell, put most of us in a hardware store parking lot, and we can fabricate just about anything or any repair on the fly! I've done it so many times I've lost count.

Unfortunately, we are a fast dying breed.


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Well said, Scott.
When we are saying our prayers, let's remember to put in a good word for the mechanics who really know what they are doing, for the small businessmen, for competent educators, for firefighters, for everyone who does the best they can with whatever life throws at them, for farmers and crop pickers, and for the U.S.A.
Let's be nice to each other...especially the henchmen!