K0Kid
"No Detail Too Small Not To Obsess Over"
Speedfreak said:Hi KOKID,
Don't have any pics of the electricity parts under the tank, try to make some this weekend and post them here, pics of my Guzzi CR you can find here in Topic; The collection- café racers- pics of members ride before and after- page 91. the alloy with red Guzzi is mine.
The tank is hold down with two rubbers at the front just like Honda tanks only a bit bigger, at the rear is a rubber strap with a little notch in the seat.( 3/8 of an inch) to get it on and off.
Battery is hanging under the transmission.
Until this moment no probs with the electrics under the gastank, the Guzzi has a nice space between the cylinders and lots of air coming thru there.
Grtz Frank,
Speedfreak,
I like your conversion to cafe racer, nice job,however why in the world would you so fundamentaly change a LeMans? I always thought they were pretty quintessential. (not the first to utter this!). Some changes are inevitable, nuances, improvements, cold weather, hot weather adjustments etc. I guess if that is all you have to start with the urge is there to change it.
i really ike the final fullbodied fairing (endurance racer style...where did you get it/ or who makes it ? or your own creation?.
Personally, I would be fearful of battery on bottom, a definite knock off would scare me (here we have really deep swales as rain dips at many intersections so at speed you could easily rip that battery right off when you could occaisionally bottom out, NO BUENO, but I had it happen to me twice. Once was very slowly in a rural driveway with tree roots sticking up from ground and my lower A arm on my XKE lost the outer bolt that held together the 2 piece lower arm and having lost this bolt the rear section dropped its outer tip as it rotated around inner pivot shaft and wouldn't you know it that root grabbed and bent the lower arm back on itself. Fortunately, it was forging so I torched it, rebent it to shape and bored the inner pivot hole and made a bush for it and bolted the whole back together again.
The 1st time I was slow riding a 2 lane black top in rural Connecticut but was going too fast on the back road on an off camber ever tightening radius turn. I wound up crossing over the road crown onto the off camber side and off the road but luckily there was a rather high dirt berm @ 4' high that I was able to stuff bike into dirt crosser style until the foot peg grabbed a very large exposed tree root which bent the Triumph footpeg forging back on itself and stopped the bike dead cold while I went over handlebars. I was wearing Dr.Scholls wooden sandals and I was able to stick a perfect 2 point absolute vertical stand up landing on the tarmac in the center of the far lane, unfortunately the soles of my feet ached for 6 months. In short that is 2 of my 7 close calls while riding. So I am acutely aware of sh....t that hangs down. Look forward to pics sounds like good solution. Scored my Le Mans seat off ebay, good for patterns and modification. I need that winter fairing though! Does anybody know where to get a deep sump for the Guzzi? I have yet to see one?
What did you do with your old Le Mans parts? Keeping them? Not hijacking "bevelhead's" thread just keeping it warm 'til he gets back . OHHH DEAR, I Got REAL LUCKY by resaving his old pics to my files as I see many of his PHOTO BUCKET PICS ARE GONE AGAIN!
Ross