Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: Hacking an Eldo?

Author: Lannis

Date: Dec 23, 2004, 3:03 PM

Post ID: 1718104022




GUZZI-@aol.com wrote:
 GET the morgan back up and driveing,or Donate it to Moto Guzzi
Classics,My
selfish opinion,mark

Mark actually you've got me thinking about it.....

Now it looks to me (as you say) that sidecars are somewhat hampered and
bastardized by hanging a load off to the side of a bike so that it's an
"outfit" and not a bike any more, besides which it won't lean, might
wobble if not set up just right, and is slower than a bike.

ON THE OTHER HAND, women, children, and dogs love sidecars, and most
people think that they're either cute or neat, so they've got that going
for them; they can't be ALL bad. People always look like they're having
a good time as they go down the road on them....

But on the OTHER hand, the Morgan is a lot of fun too. Separate
hood-and-fender car, wooden body frame, real simple, real loud and
bumpy, real old-fashioned, pretty fast, and (with the sliding-pillar
front suspension, lowered chassis, and wide sticky tires) will corner on
a smooth flat road faster than ANYthing I've ever driven, tho' it's not
much on bumpy roads because it spends half its time in the air. Maybe I
shouldn't try so hard to be on the bike 12 months out of the year.

But on the OTHER hand.....

Lannis

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