Subject: RE: new guy
Author: Keith Ruff
Date: May 28, 2002, 5:21 AM
Post ID: 1710330859
Welcome aboard Charles.
I gather you live in CT?? I used to frequent Marcus Dairy many years
back when I lived in North Jersey, rode there with a pack of friends
riding mostly R-Bike Beemers, some K-Bikes too. Great place to hang out
on weekends. I was in awe the 1st time I went there, a sea of
motorcycles...... ahhhhh. Just like the 1st time I went up to Americade
in 1994 and pulled into the BMW Rodeo BBQ event, amazing! Bikes and
chrome as far as the eye could see.
Keith Ruff
71 Police Ambassador - NJ
Charles Peterson wrote:
| In the spirit of any good twelve step program....My name is Chuck Peterson, and I seem to have become addicted to Moto Guzzi... I started with a Convert four years ago. I found it leaking like a sieve in the back of a garage...after working on it for 50,000 miles, I can't seem to find enough things wrong with it to spend all my spare time with it, so... then I found a V700?!?!?!?!?...at least an 7.5, 8 maybe...all the parts were there, dry storage for 15 years by a car collector. I wasn't looking for it, honest...it found me. I thought I was going to get a Cal III... And now, it gets worse. My family EXPECTS me to be at Marcus Dairy, EVERY Sunday. They have seen how surly I get when I don't go. It's hard not to crack under that kind of pressure. I've gotten to know the flock there, as they have all helped ressurect both bikes. It's great to see 10-15 Guzzi from all decades, lined up in the Conn. sunshine for Sunday breakfast... The Convert is nicknamed Big Bottom Betty, what with those DB bags on her, although I've considered hanging iron skillets on it and calling it the Chuck Wagon...the V700, with only 1500 miles on her since ressurection, is still revealing her name... Honest, I can quit anytime....................;} Anyway, I'm glad to be a part of the loopframe list. I do have one question for the techs of you out there.. my V700 engine is #1296. How do I know if it is an "early V7", and should I drop the valve adjustment as small as Richardson suggests for the early V7s. other signs are a 2 part METAL gen cover, Marelli starter and gen, no in line switch on the original front brake cable, 4 looonngg bolts on each valve cover.. Many thanks to MGCycle for parts and phone help on the V700... Many thanks to Cycle Garden and the girls there... Heading for northern New Hampshire/Canada for wed thru sun run with camping gear...on the automatic, too lazy to shift... a friend of mine calls me a shiftless bastard, and I call him a squarehead... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com |