A big boy made me do it ...

After Champ laughed at my handlebars I decided to get my act together and
actually fit the Jota bars [1] Lozzo gave me at the BOSM.

Bike steers as easily, less wafty at high speed and head on filtering is
a lot easier.

http://www.sweller.co.uk/sob/images/guzzi/jotbars.jpg

So many thanks to Lozzo for giving them to me, Mups [2] for carting them
about and posting them and Champ for the motivation.

I may go overboard and fit a new bar end mirror.

A tip for those that may want it, to remove, replace and position bar
grips quickly and easily use an air line. Force the blower nozzle
between the grip and the bar and use to 'inflate' the grip. Makes it
very very easy to move about.


[1] Is it pronounced JOE-ta or YEO-ta?
[2] I haven't forgotten.

 

in a two steps forward, one step back minda stylee.

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

sweller says...

Very nice, they look a damn sight better than that rusty old piece of
metal I threw your way at BOSM. Suit the bike well, don't they?

 

Very nice, suits the bike much better than those motocross stylie bars.

 

Heh, I really liked the look of your Guzzi when I saw it at BOSM, and seem
to have developed a bit of a Guzzi fetish myself, visiting my local
dealerhip about once a week and drooling over the V11 Ballabio they have in
the showroom (only £5k).

Funnily enough, I actually thought of you today whilst having a coffee at
Fox's Diner (next door to M and P). An old gimmer rolled up on a Guzzi,
wearing a piss pot type open face helmet with "Moto Guzzi" emblazoned across
it.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Another trip to Avebury will be in order so Champ can try it out again

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Since the Laverda importers, Alf Grinshall & Sons, were renowned for
being the descendants of a tribe of malformed dwarf folk dancers, they
decided to commemorate this connection by naming the latest 3cyl bike
the 'Jota', which by happy coincidence is the name of a 3-legged Spanish
dog.

Or something like that.

It's pronounced 'Shite, my arse and balls are dead from vibration'.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Ho-ta. It's a Spanish word, name of a dance.

http://www.dantzariak.net/dantzaldizkaria/dances.htm

 

"a Spanish dance in triple time" The name was dreamed up by the Slater
brothers, who developed the Jota from the original 3C.

I thought everybody knew that.

 

I'll be game for another run down in about a fortnight.

But first, Spain...

 

Try this:

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/lav03061600.html

 

As will I, although 16th June looks more likely.

So actually, "another run down in about a month" is more probable.