Subject: RE: Hacking an Eldo?
Author: Charlie Mullendore
Date: Dec 26, 2004, 2:21 PM
Post ID: 1718113788
My ultimate winter "motorcycle" would be a Triking/JZR/homebuilt Morgan
style three-wheeler. Guzzi powered of course! Actually if I have to
build one myself it probably won't look like a Morgan, but more like an
Alfa Romeo Disco Volante front end tapering back to a pointed or
boat-tail rear end. Plexiglass engine cover or cutouts so you can see
the heads. Cheers,
Lannis wrote:
GUZZI-@aol.com wrote:
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 |
Charlie
http://www.loopframeguzzi.com/