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once I’ve had the frame modded there is no turning back lol, so no point worrying about re-sale…. would never get close to recouping the cost so once done the bike is a keeper till it dies lol
I think the time you have owned it already is a bit of a record for you!
Mid May is a 5 day jaunt to Ireland and Wales.
June a 2 week trip to Corsica.
Both sound excellent. I am hoping to get over to Ireland in 2017 myself at some point
haha, so much sense of purpose none of my bikes had turned a wheel for nearly 2yrs!
I unfortunately have a habit of 12hrs in front of a PC at work, followed by 6hrs in front of a PC at home day in day out at the moment which I need to break the cycle so I thought it would be healthy mentally to do this to the bike. Just wish I had a lottery win to help pay for it as I am already half way to a new Yamaha MT-10 with what I have just spent on parts, once you add in the cost of the frame work, seat and the paint I will be less than £3.5k shy of having been able to buy one.
I think I will need to sell the leftover bits once it is complete to try and recoup some of the outgoings.
We all have our sessions of losing our biking mojo, hard to put a finger on why, Several mates over the years have drifted out of biking, or just laid their bikes up hardly using them. Then one day it just comes back. Odd but true, happened to me in the late 1990’s. I just wasn’t enjoying it. Weird.
Anyway, back to the Guzzi…you have certainly put some cash into by the look of it, but it will be money well spent if it means getting enjoyment out of your bike again. All your mods are well considered and look good. I would hold onto the standard bits if can. You might find the bike sells easier with them back on when the time comes. You then flog the special bits to somebody else to recoup some extra cash.
You can’t win the lottery…it is my turn first!
Well the exhaust needed several holes welding up in the end….
Harder to weld than virgin steel due the surface rust, the bloke who did it had to open out some of the holes to get to good metal, looks ok though
I took advantage of the exhaust been off the bike to give it a decent polish
Access was really fiddly to the nuts that secured the clamps, and I must have dropped the split collets about a thousand times before I got them to hold in place with copious amounts of grease
Got it back on on in the end, my 10mm rachet spanner and a tyre lever from a Mercedez truck did the trick! The old girl doesn’t look too bad nowTime to book it in for the MOT!
I wish I had stuck with my RD project sometimes, but I am too lazy after work to do stuff.
Good to follow somebody else with more sense of purpose
I only think it needs to move up 25mm or so, but as you they whole point of personalised bike is that what you want.
The Duke is still with me, although I have not used it much recently. I think it was from the Kent area, but I bought from a dealer in Norfolk
That looks the mutts nutz. Be interesting to check my Duke tank over carefully in light of your warning too
Coming together nicely Pete. One comment, should the headlamp be a nats higher?
Also my Duke is a HY08 reg, coincidence!
One of the owners on the MV FB page have made themselves this rather smart rack, fits in the place of the passenger seat
Ireland with the lads in May and then Corsica in June
Two cracking trips, look forward to seeing your pictures from them both
I hoping to get over to Ireland on my 600 next year funnily, to visit the birthplaces of my parents in Tyrone and Tipperary. Bit of North and South action
They are even selling them to kids now!!
You will be assimilated!
