One of the best parts of building parts for the motorcycles we love is hearing back from the people who ride them. Every so often a note lands in our inbox that reminds us exactly who we’re doing this for — and this is one of those.

We Love Hearing From Our Customers

A longtime Moto Guzzi rider — Bill, who you’ll find on the ADVRider forums — picked up one of our Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems after a spell on the waiting list, fitted it to his V85 TT, and then wrote up a few hundred honest miles with it. With his kind permission, we wanted to share some of his story.

His verdict, in his own words: a “great functional farkle.” We’ll take it.

Plug, Play, and Ride

Bill’s install went about how we hope every install goes. He found the fitment quick and easy — “astonishingly” so, in his telling — and the readout shows up right on the V85 TT’s dash, exactly as advertised. He had kind words for the install video, too: brief and useful, which is the only kind of how-to video anyone actually wants.

The dash display is easy to read and lives among the bike’s “mode” views — he leaves it on the pressure readout and switches away only on the rare occasion he wants something else. He logged the same baseline pressures each morning, watched them climb to riding temps through the day, and settled back down by evening. Exactly the daily rhythm the system is there to make visible.

The Ride (and a Stowaway)

The TPMS arrived the day before a roughly 600-mile run down to West Virginia to meet up with fellow Guzzisti — both tires nearly new, with only about 80 miles on them at launch. Somewhere along the way home, Bill made his first-ever stop at a Buc-ee’s. “Wow; simply wow,” was the report.

But the real test came at a fuel stop, when he spotted this:

Here’s the part we were glad to hear: the TPMS had given no sign of leakage. With a slow, sealed puncture and about 90 backroad miles still to home, Bill kept an eye on the readout and rode on — and, in his words, “the TPMS never wavered.” It held steady the whole way and showed a normal reading when he finally rolled into his garage.

Only once he backed the screw out did the tire finally let go with the tell-tale hiss.

That’s the whole point of a tire pressure monitor: not drama, just quiet confidence that what you can’t see isn’t about to surprise you.

In the interest of the full picture: Bill’s one mild note is that the sensors can take a couple of minutes to report when he first wakes the bike — and that’s by design. To stretch sensor battery life, the sensors transmit only occasionally rather than continuously, so a fresh pressure reading arrives infrequently rather than instantly. We also deliberately don’t hold on to the last reading from a previous drive cycle: showing an old number could give a rider false confidence in a pressure that may since have changed, so the system waits to display a current reading rather than a stale one. A short pause up front, in exchange for a number you can actually rely on. Bill still rates the system a clear win for clearing the “cockpit clutter” that other aftermarket monitors pile on.

You can read Bill’s full write-up on ADVRider here: Bill’s V85 TT write-up on ADVRider.

A Guzzista Through and Through

Bill is, by his own cheerful admission, crazy about Guzzis. He worked alongside the Carabinieri in Italy years ago — “back in the day,” as he puts it — and those guys hooked him for life. That’s exactly why his current favorite is the V85 TT Guardia d’Onore, the model that nods to the Carabinieri’s honor-guard machines, Carabinieri-liveried panniers and all.

After all these years and a garage full of bikes, the V85 TT is still the one he reaches for. It doesn’t do any single thing better than every other motorcycle — it just does everything very well.

That’s exactly the kind of bike we love developing for. Our Wind Deflector for the Moto Guzzi V85 TT and TPMS for Moto Guzzi were built for riders like Bill who put real miles on these machines.

Want to Be Featured?

If you’ve got a story, a build, or a ride you’d like to share — or just want to tell us how a product has worked out for you — we’d genuinely love to hear it. Contact us or email contact@debyltech.com.

Featured with Bill’s permission. Photos courtesy of Bill.