A bit of advice on old jap bikes please

[paturoa]

GS 1000 S

classic jappa!

see my signiture, I know where you can find one cheap (cough cough) that wont break you heart, but needs TLC

[TLDV8]

Never seen it done..... but odd as it might sound,a CX500/650 could make for a great cafe racer?....Remove anything that is not essential,blacked out,bigger fairing,clip on's,seat unit like the GB400/500's and a fruity 2 into 2 with megaphones or 2 into 1 (They rev to 10000rpm)....They are still available for a reasonable sum and are still a good reliable bike so cross country would be no problem.

[Paul in NZ]

I`d like to see a boxer engined cafe racer..... .

All true - but I would be shunned by civilised Moto Guzzi society...

Seriously I HAVE been eyeballing the 65's / 80's coming up on tard me.... You could not buy an old guzzi for some of the prices and they come with panniers... sort of sport touring cafe racer??

[Paul in NZ]

GS 1000 S

classic jappa!

see my signiture, I know where you can find one cheap (cough cough) that wont break you heart, but needs TLC

yes.... well - heavy and expensive to buy and run... Nope - this is a sows ear into a silk purse exercise...

[Paul in NZ]

Never seen it done..... but odd as it might sound,a CX500/650 could make for a great cafe racer?....Remove anything that is not essential,blacked out,bigger fairing,clip on's,seat unit like the GB400/500's and a fruity 2 into 2 with megaphones or 2 into 1 (They rev to 10000rpm)....They are still available for a reasonable sum and are still a good reliable bike so cross country would be no problem.

I reckon a CX500 - Moto Guzzi Lemans Mk1 look a like ought to upset enough people to be worth it....

[TLDV8]

Well worth it.......With 23 years of Ducati ownership,i never could be bothered with those poncey owners clubs...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-75826048.htm

http://www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cx500/history/

[Motu]

Really like the street-tracker look...anyone tell me what the concept is behind it? Is it just the pure simplicity/barebones of it?

Yeah,CX500,make a look alike and sound alike Guzzi.Get someone else to ride it to the Guzzi rally,then stand around feeding the flames of abuse.

Streettrackers are a custom road legal lookalike of a flattracker - (US dirt track racer on 1/2 mile and mile ovals),flattrackers are supposed to be based on a standard road motorcycle,so it's pretty easy to make a streettracker out of a street bike.

[Hitcher]

I reckon a CX500 - Moto Guzzi Lemans Mk1 look a like ought to upset enough people to be worth it....

You are truly an evil man.

[scumdog]

I reckon a CX500 - Moto Guzzi Lemans Mk1 look a like ought to upset enough people to be worth it....

Often referred to by evil people as a "Honda-Guzzi"

[Paul in NZ]

Often referred to by evil people as a "Honda-Guzzi"

I prefer 'Nota Guzzi'

[Bonez]

I reckon a CX500 - Moto Guzzi Lemans Mk1 look a like ought to upset enough people to be worth it....

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[98tls]

Damn....that looks pretty good....

[Macktheknife]

My picks would be the
gsx400, great little mess about bike, nearly indestructable.
The FT500 single, highly underated bike IMO, easy to modify too.
The CX500 could be done.
The RD250/350 can still be found in the hands of the unappreciative, I met a guy a few months ago who had one given to him and hated it, he said he might sell it for 'a few hundy on trademe', I don't know where to find him or I would have got it already.
And of course if you could find an old GT250/400 you would be laughing.

[JMemonic]

In the 250 cc range a GSX 250 ie http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...p-28296649.htm

or if you can find one and old GSX 250E around 1980-83 the early ones ran the old Suzuki standard roller bearings on the crank and were nearly bullet proof

[geoffm]

There is a X7 on TM
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-75260961.htm
which looks damn good
I used to have one of those - good bikes in their day. I couldn't afford an LC, so the X7 was the next best thing at the time. They were supposed to do 100mph in stock trim, but I could never get it to go that fast. When they cam eout they were called a "killer bike" due to the ton up hype. Really, they are not peaky and are pretty easy to ride.
Koni shocks and braided lines made a big difference. They race them in the UK , where the crank is weak if really tuned up.
Geoff