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Subject: RE: new subscriber

Author: Ian Adkins

Date: May 30, 2003, 6:49 AM

Post ID: 1713197301


Shawn,

Email Frank Wedge at MGNO-@cox.net. He will give you all the info to set
you up.

 -----Original Message-----
From: shawn walton [mailto:swal-@ca.imshealth.com]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:42 AM
To: 'Loopfram-@topica.com'
Subject: RE: new subscriber


Elisabeth,

Thank-you, for that phone #. I do not need relining yet but when I do I
will go see Brian. Right now I just trying to figure out whether new back
shocks will help on these Quebec roads. I have doubts. As far
as I can see
I will make it out to Utopia to make it five loops!!

How do I get the MGNOC newsletter?
Shawn


-----Original Message-----
From: alacritas [mailto:ej-@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 08:48 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: Re: new subscriber


His name is Brian Henderson. His company is called two wheel specialist,
1919 Cassburn Road, Vankleek Hill Ontario. 613 678 3364.

The email I sent out to the group was actually reprinted in the MGNOC
Newsletter, May 2003 Pg33. He installs Vintage Brake 2520V. Shawn: do you
get the newsletter? I don't have a copy of my post on the computer.

I have not had a chance to try out the brakes yet, which is why I did not
say
anything: discovered another problem that needed to be fixed. I have
finally started taking the front end apart and only hitch so far is that a
plastic component in the instrument cluster broke off - hoping I
can glue it
back together.

Elisabeth

Ian Adkins wrote:

 Speaking of softer brake linings. Shawn...there is a fellow that lives
near Ottawa. He is an old time vintage racer (a REAL character) and
has a company that will set your drum brakes up as good as they can
be. You bring him the whole wheel and they set the brakes so that you
get maximun pad hitting the drum. I have heard they made braking on
the old drums excellent. I was going to do it but left Montreal.

Elisabeth....do you remember his name? I thought you were going to get
your brakes done with him at one point.

...Ian

 -----Original Message-----
From: Michael Jones [mailto:mjon-@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:56 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Cc: swal-@ca.imshealth.com
Subject: Re: new subscriber


Hi, Shawn. Welcome to the club. I used to complain
that the front brake was the only thing I didn't like
about my Ambo. I recently put on shoes with a softer compound, and
it made a big difference. They are approximately as good as the
discs on the older bikes I had (but they do squeel a lot). I am
using the compound from Moto Guzzi Classics, but other shops
sell compounds that they claim are good, too.

-Mike (69 Ambo)

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To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: new subscriber
Hi guys,
I have an 73 850 eldo up here in
Montreal.......................
Also, can anyone give me
directions on setting up the front brake. I
have never owned drum brakes
before as my last bike was a KLR 650 and
before that, a 73 honda 550.

Thanks a lot,
Looking forward to your emails.

shawn

=====
M.Jones, student of philosophy and religion at Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA.

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know." -Blaise
Pascal "With man, instinct and reason avoid each other with
adversity, yet, by repudiating each other they lure each other to
reach mutual correction." -Lucian Blaga

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