Somebody convince me this would be a mistake.

I'd regret buying this on impulse, nest pas?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1981-MOTO-GUZ...9QQihZ012QQcategoryZ43121QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1981-MOTO-GUZ...9QQihZ012QQcategoryZ43121QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'd be wanting a bit more info on exactly how it was "recently restored".
The V50s are a nice little middleweight, but due to their lack of power they
are often thrashed into the ground by riders more used to Jap bikes. I'm
amazed at the very low mileage too (if genuine) having had 6 previous
keepers. I think I'd also like to see some old MOTs too to confirm this.
Doesn't look too bad from the photo though.

JB

 

That actually looks half decent. The V50 was a delightful little bike -
not that fast, mind, as top whack was (effectively) 95mph, though the
later ones and the Monza sports version were slightly quicker.

Lovely handling, good braking, ridiculously easy to service, good fuel
economy. Downsides are a crap gearchange, heavy controls, occasional
gearbox issues, and the usual Italian woes. If it's been properly
restored, it's a good deal at that price, wbut I'd want to see a sheaf
of receipts and talk to wheoever did the work.

 

Compared to a B12 with three full paniers and a tent it's gonna handle
like a dream and stop on a sixpence.

 

Until you put three full panniers and a tent on it ...

 

So you're suggesting I simulate the handling and braking
characteristics of the V50 by removing the heavy luggage carried high
up on my B12.... Cunning.

 

I'd suggest that it met these criteria in the early 80s. Whether it
seems delightful, with good handling and braking, by modern standards,
is up for debate[/QUOTE]


Sir did note the use of the past tense in my posting, didn't Sir? Fair
comment, though. I rode one about 10 years ago, and still thought it
was a sweet little bike then: chronically crude suspension, of course,
but the geometry was good and the frame stiff. And triple Brembos on a
bike weighing little more than 150kg dry are still good brakes.

 

My sister got one when she passed her test. (So it's a tarts bike)

It tipped her over the bars on the way home when the fucking drive pinion
collapsed and lunched itself. (So it wasn't uber reliable)

She got it fixed though and she had it for donkeys years. (So it became
reliable)

She later bought another Guzzi (So she became a lifelong Guzzi fan)

2 "yea's" and 2 "nay's"

Get it, you know you want to.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I'd suggest that it met these criteria in the early 80s. Whether it
seems delightful, with good handling and braking, by modern standards,
is up for debate[/QUOTE]

I suspect TOG has broken out into Sales Patter Mode.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, belched forth and ejected the following:

OMG!

I think I know the seller. Seriously!

 

Whinging Courier says...

It's in Durhamcestershire, do you know many people up that far north?

I had an ex who owned a Guzzi V50 Monza, it looked a bit like a Le Mans
Mk1. It was unreliable, slow, thirsty, handled horribly, and I could
never understand why she loved it so much. Then I rode it and the
vibrations told me all I needed to know. That's when I dscovered why the
V50 was popular with women.

 

5500rpm is the "magic number" and it works best with a CH piercing and
whilst "wearing" a BCR.

Apparently...

Dave

 

Big Dave says...

Oh this was a long long time before those sort of things had reached the
mainstream. I don't even think Ann Summers had left school when she
owned that bike.

 

Mainstream?
When has "mainstream" ever applied to you or your burds?
;-)

Dave

 

Big Dave says...

GPWM

 

Huh?
Don't know that one.

 

Good point well made?

I think it's a play on Bears "Fair point well made" of old.


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B12, ZZR11
A6 2.5TDi V6 Quattro Sport
MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

Thanks. I'm not very good at abbreviations and such.
I'd got it as "Go Play With Marzipan"
Which worried me a lot knowing Lozzo a bit.


Dave

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lozzo belched forth and ejected the following:

I know where it */is/*

I don't but the bird who's bike it is lent it to someone up there while
she went travelling and mentioned last time I spoke to her it was going
up for sale. The eBay username is a bit of a giveaway for anyone that
knows her, too.

 

How the **** can you tell Ann Summers owned that bike? Go on, tell me that.
It certainly wasn't mentioned in t' description.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19