Subject: RE: Hacking an Eldo?
Author: Lannis
Date: Dec 23, 2004, 3:03 PM
Post ID: 1718104022
GUZZI-@aol.com wrote:
| GET the morgan back up and driveing,or Donate it to Moto Guzzi Classics,My selfish opinion,mark |
Mark actually you've got me thinking about it.....
Now it looks to me (as you say) that sidecars are somewhat hampered and
bastardized by hanging a load off to the side of a bike so that it's an
"outfit" and not a bike any more, besides which it won't lean, might
wobble if not set up just right, and is slower than a bike.
ON THE OTHER HAND, women, children, and dogs love sidecars, and most
people think that they're either cute or neat, so they've got that going
for them; they can't be ALL bad. People always look like they're having
a good time as they go down the road on them....
But on the OTHER hand, the Morgan is a lot of fun too. Separate
hood-and-fender car, wooden body frame, real simple, real loud and
bumpy, real old-fashioned, pretty fast, and (with the sliding-pillar
front suspension, lowered chassis, and wide sticky tires) will corner on
a smooth flat road faster than ANYthing I've ever driven, tho' it's not
much on bumpy roads because it spends half its time in the air. Maybe I
shouldn't try so hard to be on the bike 12 months out of the year.
But on the OTHER hand.....
Lannis