Anyone in Leeds? Another SOB....

I originally had a set of those on mine, very V7 looking with the
windscreen, adorned with "Traffico Civil" or some such.

I took them off and binned them.

My (ex Spanish police) T3 had that big rubbery console. Inside is the
large Veglia speedo and small tacho. What year was the one you saw? The
late model police spec one's were mostly bitsas.

I kept the tacho for checking engine speeds - should I ever need to -
it's hanging on the workshop wall.

 

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Granted no. It was OA£1900 for them over there. Less to you of course.

How are you enjoying having your shoes licked clean every day?

'Hog

 

sweller composed the following;:

Must've been before anyone knew about ebay, I bet someone would pay a
pretty penny for them ..

Heheheh

 

Oh, he's a good lad. Calls me "boss", I noticed eventually. And we're
knocking the tendency to write purple prose out of him....

 

Yep, that was it. Convert/G5 (without the little tacho).

 

82 on an X - so late for a T3.

 

This is where it gets interesting or at least a bit odd.

Mine (an ex Spanish police machine) was dated as having a 1979 frame by
Guzzi.

It has an aluminium plate on the headstock which is stamped 1982
(unfortunately now erased because the overlong wiring loom rubbed on it).
The original wheels (Le Mans pattern) are dated last quarter 1981. The
original switch gear and Bosch electrics were also dated 1981. It also
has the later pattern gas strut forks but oddly without the air assist.

The last of the T3 run were police spec and military models. A lot of
them built using whatever was lying about.

I suspect a batch of out of sequence frames were used for the Spanish
order. There were two other bikes imported from that Lot and both ended
up with '79 registrations because they had 1979 frames but were assembled
1982.

 

I had one that didn't, although to be fair it wasn't bad considering its
age and mileage. And it was ex plod. It:

Developed a persistent misfire caused by cack handed plod maintenance
causing an oil leak into the points housing. This led to a silencer
exploding on the Elephant and Castle;

Wore out its big ends and camchain, but these just led to interesting
noises, I fixed them both before they became terminal. The big ends had
about 1/8" play when I took it apart and the camchain had eaten into the
housing by about the same amount;

Blew the alternator;

Had an electrical fault in a junction box under the tank, causing it to
stop completely;

Dropped a valve. OK, I ignored the "replace the valves at 50K or else" but
that's not "no attention". This did for the top end of course, but a mate
had a spare one.

At this point I gave it away, unfixed, to someone with a family who needed
a chair puller and had no money. My mate gave him the top end. The last I
heard it was still going.

Mind, if "go on forever" refers to forward motion with the brakes applied,
I agree completely, it was one of the R80/7s with the single disk and BMW
caliper.

Regards, Ian

 

hehe.

mine has a TLS drum brake. Mind, I've not replaced valves on mine, either.
don't really know what mileage it's done, as it was assembled from parts and
probably ain't the original speedo.

I suspect it would benefit from some new valve guides - one pot is rather
smoky on over-run.