Hello, I'm a returning Guzzi owner, though not much of a Guzzi rider. I raced for 46 years (MX, trials, and RR) and seldom rode on the street.
I had about 100 miles on a friend's V7 Sport (purchased from Rissman Motors in Albuquerque, NM) in the early 1970s, a mile or so on another friend's lightly modded V50 Monza, and then a couple of miles on a V65SP I bought that proved to be suffering from terminal clutch slip.
In 1993 I bought a lightly crashed/singed 1979 1000SP as a project. As is the case with many of my projects, it was quickly turned into a safe (i.e. non-running) motorcycle while I schemed on what I wanted to do with it. Over the next nearly 20 years it sat in storage while various work was (or was not) done and parts were accumulated. I sold it to a friend at the end of 2010 who continued the scheming/accumulation process. There were some issues with outside supplier work that had him stymied and he lost interest, and I've just bought the project back from him. I guess it has been a long enough time that I'm now interested in it again.
It would be nice to get the big Guzzi going, but there's still a fair bit of work to do and the fiddling process is often enough to satisfy me. So I'm working on new grandiose plans for the bike, and hopefully it will actually be done (enough) to ride some day.
cheers,
Michael
I had about 100 miles on a friend's V7 Sport (purchased from Rissman Motors in Albuquerque, NM) in the early 1970s, a mile or so on another friend's lightly modded V50 Monza, and then a couple of miles on a V65SP I bought that proved to be suffering from terminal clutch slip.
In 1993 I bought a lightly crashed/singed 1979 1000SP as a project. As is the case with many of my projects, it was quickly turned into a safe (i.e. non-running) motorcycle while I schemed on what I wanted to do with it. Over the next nearly 20 years it sat in storage while various work was (or was not) done and parts were accumulated. I sold it to a friend at the end of 2010 who continued the scheming/accumulation process. There were some issues with outside supplier work that had him stymied and he lost interest, and I've just bought the project back from him. I guess it has been a long enough time that I'm now interested in it again.
It would be nice to get the big Guzzi going, but there's still a fair bit of work to do and the fiddling process is often enough to satisfy me. So I'm working on new grandiose plans for the bike, and hopefully it will actually be done (enough) to ride some day.
cheers,
Michael