Subject: Re: The Eldo has landed....
Author: Darrell J Dick
Date: Oct 21, 2003, 7:01 AM
Post ID: 1714940230
Lannis,
You can get a neat parcel rack with a removable seat from Mark at MGC.
These look real nice with solo seats. I've seen them used with the frame
mounted solos, but I would expect them to work OK with a sprung seat too.
Wixom bags are sort of 'de rigeur' for loops. Mike Skaggs may have some
around. He was trying to sell a funky set of "beetle bags" a little while
ago.
I think the stock master cylinder is 15mm bore. To my taste, this is
perfect for dual Brembo F08 calipers. The stock set-up tends to be high
effort and wooden. Another option for increased braking power is to go
with a single Brembo F09 caliper (bigger bore), and possibly a smaller
bore M/C. I used a 12mm M/C from a Convert with a F09 and it works great.
Have Fun!
Darrell Dick
Imlay City, MI
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:35:02 +0000 Lannis Selz <lan-@direcway.com>
writes:
| ...right in my shop. A really pretty blue-and-cream two tone 1975 Eldorado with a sprung solo saddle from Washington State. Picked it up at the Richmond, VA ForwardAir terminal tonight (they were open at 10:00 PM!!) courtesy of Greg Field who took a lot of his own time shipping it for me, and am charging the battery tonight prepatory to gassing it up tomorrow and trying it out. Already planning on things to do to it. Change the ten-year-old 110-profile Avons to 120s, put the stock airbox back on it instead of the K&Ns, find a way to mount a second solo seat and backrest (I bought it for my wife to two-up with me!), find some period hard bags for it...it has a sprung solo seat, windshield, footboards, police bars, and crash bars but no bags. And speaking of disk brakes, it looks like a second disk and caliper would bolt right onto it; the bosses are already there on the fork leg. I'll have to look and see how the wheel is set up, and whether a disk would bolt right on to it, or maybe someone already knows. (I just realized that I have only read the 4-valve paragraphs in Guzziology; I'll have to read the rest of it now.) Ron K was speaking of a bigger master cylinder for double disks....do you have to adapt one off a modern bike or is there one made for this app.? Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun and a good stablemate for the Centauro. Lannis |