guzzi

[grog]

just for you vlad. my mate has 5 of them. the 1930 is worth a lot of bucks. its kept in house next his mv750s, worth more than a lot

[T 24]

Great old bikes!

[essexboydave]

I love Guzzis, this is my one

[froudy]

Nice looking Guzzi "Bacon slicer" there Grog
See one most years at Calne Bike Meet.

[VladTepes]

@grog - thanks mate - beautiful collection there - lucky bugger he is !

@essexboydave - one of those was my dream bike.... until I got my GSX1400.

I don't mind the new ones either...  http://gsx1400owners.org/forum_test/index.php?topic=846.0

[essexboydave]

@grog - thanks mate - beautiful collection there - lucky bugger he is !

@essexboydave - one of those was my dream bike.... until I got my GSX1400.

I don't mind the new ones either...  http://gsx1400owners.org/forum_test/index.php?topic=846.0

Vlad it was my dream bike in the early 90's but way out of my reach until I picked this one up just a couple of years ago for the princely sum of £600! It had been sat in someones back garden for a few years but with a charge of the battery and some air in the tyres it was running again! A quick weekends work changing fluids, renewing leaky fuel pipes and putting on some fresh rubber saw it though an MOT and legally on the road and sometime later I stripped it, repainted the frame, changed a few bits and it looked like this-still doesn't even stand me in a grand yet either  Changing stuff again soon as I have a stainless race exhaust for it and most of the remaining chrome will be powdercoated satin black for durability-and because it tends to rust as soon as it gets wet lol!

[VladTepes]

cool - would never find a guzzi that cheap here... what year is it?  EFI ?

[essexboydave]

It's a 99 injection model - tbh though I would have much preferred carbs!

[VladTepes]

Really? Why's that?
What year did they go to EFI?  I have heard vaguely that the EFI was a bit flaky until they sorted it out but not sure when that was...

[essexboydave]

I think mine is a fairly early EFI model and it has a bloody huge control box which takes up all the room under the passenger seat-that is actually why the pillion seat is so much higher than the rider's!!! Also you can't use a power commander or do any kind of chipping or reprogramming as all it has is a pretty inaccurate slow running mix adjustment and as everything has got older it now always backfires on overrun as the revs bottom out so I have to compensate by pulling the clutch in and relying on the brakes for the last bit of slowing down rather than use the engine braking and scaring the hell out of everyone around as it starts to sound like a warzone! On top of that having owned an earlier carb model I know that they are smoother to ride and far easier to fine tune and balance-even if you did have to balance them on a regular basis.

[VladTepes]

I hope they got the FI better in the later ones.