Subject: The Eldo has landed....
Author: Lannis Selz
Date: Oct 20, 2003, 9:35 PM
Post ID: 1714935487
...right in my shop. A really pretty blue-and-cream two tone 1975
Eldorado with a sprung solo saddle from Washington State. Picked it up
at the Richmond, VA ForwardAir terminal tonight (they were open at 10:00
PM!!) courtesy of Greg Field who took a lot of his own time shipping it
for me, and am charging the battery tonight prepatory to gassing it up
tomorrow and trying it out.
Already planning on things to do to it. Change the ten-year-old
110-profile Avons to 120s, put the stock airbox back on it instead of
the K&Ns, find a way to mount a second solo seat and backrest (I bought
it for my wife to two-up with me!), find some period hard bags for
it...it has a sprung solo seat, windshield, footboards, police bars, and
crash bars but no bags.
And speaking of disk brakes, it looks like a second disk and caliper
would bolt right onto it; the bosses are already there on the fork leg.
I'll have to look and see how the wheel is set up, and whether a disk
would bolt right on to it, or maybe someone already knows. (I just
realized that I have only read the 4-valve paragraphs in Guzziology;
I'll have to read the rest of it now.) Ron K was speaking of a bigger
master cylinder for double disks....do you have to adapt one off a
modern bike or is there one made for this app.?
Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun and a good stablemate for the
Centauro.
Lannis