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- From: southern@sunny.cgd.ucar.edu (Lawrence Buja)
- Subject: Moto-Guzzi project.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.235711.23194@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:57:11 GMT
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- After wanting a Moto-Guzzi for years, I finally went and bought one up
- last night.
-
- It's a '78 V50 that has one foot in the basket and one on the road.
- It's pretty much complete, but has suffered years of neglect at the
- hands of the previous owner (PO). My winter's project will be a
- complete restoration of it. This weekend I'm hauling it home where it's
- gonna get disassembled down to the bare block, cleaned, measured,
- repaired, flushed, lubed, repainted, buffed and reassembled.
-
- There's some nice bits to it that I wasn't expecting when the PO first
- described it; shaft drive, alloy rims and that nice jewel shaped Guzzi
- gas tank. I'm not looking to make a 105mph canyon-blaster out of it,
- rather it's going to be a low entropy test-bed to restore and learn from
- before giving it to Anne and stepping up to a big displacement project.
- It should be fun.
-
- So, can anyone recommend any sources in the US for either new or used
- Moto-Guzzi parts? Does anyone have a V50 parts bike? And is there a
- national club?
-
- /\ Lawrence Buja Climate and Global Dynamics Division
- \_][ southern@ncar.ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric Research
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