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building a guzzi 500 replica
« on: May 23, 2018, 11:36:09 am »
last my friend and I went to a visit in Italy and on some exhibition saw this 1956 Moto-guzzi racer, build by the factory but never raced as in this year al of the Italian factory,s decided to withdraw from GP racing, luckily it was saved from scrapping by some enthousiasts and is now only sometimes on display.
we where attracted by its beautifull lines and after some discussion decided to construct a replica.
first we needed to search the Internet for foto,s and info, not easy for there is very little info on this bike, also we needed to decide what kind of engine to use as there are no spare-parts availble.
first we went looking for an older Falcone as this has (some) resemblance , but the horrific prices asked made us look further, so in the end we decided to use and modify a Nuovo falcone engine,our main goal was to get the look somewhat right, but realized it would never be exactly the same, nevertheless, we proceeded.
first task was to produce drawings and correct measurements, after this we started building the chassis,using chrome-molybdanium tube, over the coming period I will submit foto,s of this proces, accompanied with the neccesary comments

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Re: building a guzzi 500 replica
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2018, 08:35:26 am »
hi Rodders,
thanks for reply, we are well on our way (chassis building) I would like to post some pictures but dont know how to? maybe you have some suggestions/advice?
greetings
Hans

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Re: building a guzzi 500 replica
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2018, 09:32:03 pm »
Hi han's if you go on the moto guzzi adv web site you will find a lot of usefull info by a guy  called kater he has done some serious modifications to his nuovo falcones. Regards rodders.

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Re: building a guzzi 500 replica
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2018, 11:07:14 am »
I would like to post some pictures but dont know how to? maybe you have some suggestions/advice?

Interesting project Hans.

This (free) forum has no facilities for uploading pictures. If you want to post pictures, they need to be uploaded to some photo-hosting site, and linked to here. We used to suggest Photobucket, but that has become useless these days. I'm now using Flickr, which isn't perfect, but it's mainstream and it works.
If you don't already have a Flickr account, you can open one here: https://www.flickr.com/
If using Flickr, simply locate the picture you want to post, click on the sharing button, copy the URL, and paste into your post.
You can choose the size of pic as well; medium usually works.
Alternatively, you may already have another online photo storage account that supports remote linking.
Hope that's some help