Wanted Moto Guzzi Le Mans

[850]

Wanted Moto Guzzi Lemans,or similar earlier the better. If anyone knows of one for sale please let us know.(cash buyer)

Many Thanks

[Stone_Duck]

Suggest you browse Trademe motors, they have Mk1 to Mk5 's at the moment plus some V11's. There was a mint looking white Mk3 there a week or so ago, might come again.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...ikes/index.htm

Good Hunting

[dangerous]

yeah, love the black Mk5 thats there at the mo, but still ya couldnt bet a Mk1

[850]

hi thanks i had a look at the mk1 great project but turned out to be a cx frame number and engine number starts with vg they wanted $8000 for it and it will need a great deal of money and work if it was a mk1 i would have brought it. The mk5 does look good though.There must be some one out there that has on they can sell thanks

[laRIKin]

Wanted Moto Guzzi Lemans,or similar earlier the better. If anyone knows of one for sale please let us know.(cash buyer)

Many Thanks

They are getting harder and harder to get.

Most guys just hang on to theirs and buy another bike.
As they have owned them for so long.
We did for years until lately.
Sold two for our Le Mans-ers (MKIII and MKIVSE) and kept one MKIII.
We do think about selling it now and then.

I have just started riding it again and my partner does not want us to ever sell it.
And I must admit it is good to ride the funny tractor.
Even after years of sitting, hook up the battery put in some new clean gas and bang, they would rattles back in to life.

And everyone I know with the older Guzzi will not sell theirs and some have owned theirs from new.
They have sold a newer Guzzi but their first ones they still have.

If I do hear of one I will let you know.

I think we would only sell or trade ours for a older Loop Frame type bike.
And a side car would be nice for giggles.

[nudemetalz]

hi thanks i had a look at the mk1 great project but turned out to be a cx frame number and engine number starts with vg

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a cx frame number?
Surely not the "Honda Tractor" ?

[Paul in NZ]

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a cx frame number?
Surely not the "Honda Tractor" ?

Maybe he means a CX100... The Mk2 Lemans did not meet US emission regs so they whacked an SP1000 engine into a Mk2 chassis and made a CX100 - there are a few about in NZ and apparently the loverly soft SP1000 engine makes it a pretty good thing.

Word of warning though - Guzzi frame numbers for Mk1's are a subject of great debate and even the factory has come up with various ranges. Not unusual if you consider the low volume of bikes made by Guzzi...

There was a nice Mk2 on Trademe for a while? What about that?

Ditto what people say about these bikes - you don't use it for ages then one day you do and go all goeey again..... Hugely under rated!

[dangerous]

The mk2 on trademe
the lovely lines of the mk5 on TM love the tail section.
A CX100

[850]

hi lemans i think its time to sell your mk111 I can see this parked in my shed cheers

[laRIKin]

hi lemans i think its time to sell your mk111 I can see this parked in my shed cheers

And I could see me buried six feet under ground if I did.

Here is a teaser.

[dangerous]

And I could see me buried six feet under ground if I did.

Here is a teaser.

... pic with the fairing on please...

[laRIKin]

... pic with the fairing on please...

I can only find ones with half the fairing on, they must be on film.
Will look and have to scan.

[850]

what a cool bike.I can see why you wouldnt sell it.let me no if you change your mind cheers

[Dodgyiti]

hi thanks i had a look at the mk1 great project but turned out to be a cx frame number and engine number starts with vg they wanted $8000 for it and it will need a great deal of money and work if it was a mk1 i would have brought it. The mk5 does look good though.There must be some one out there that has on they can sell thanks

You are right, that bike would take 7K doing eveything yourself to make good, and then it is still a small valve soft cam bike without the rough edges that make the LeMans bikes so much fun (lumpy idle, getting 'on the cam',induction roar etc etc)
And even then it will only be worth about 7 anyway.

That 850T with the Mk1 tank would be my pick of the current listings, or cough up for the mint Mk2, that is a lovely lovely bike that will not devalue from the asking price

Dangerous is right, people hang onto the good Mk1/2's. But everything has a price depending on how deep your pockets are. The last 'tidy-ish' genuine Mk1 on TM went for $18,200 and I would not let mine go for under 20 because I just spent $XXXX.XX on it to basically make it factory new (if the factory was in West Auckland and they had a serious bling fetish)

[Dodgyiti]

Word of warning though - Guzzi frame numbers for Mk1's are a subject of great debate and even the factory has come up with various ranges. Not unusual if you consider the low volume of bikes made by Guzzi...

You bet, no one can seem to give any definitive answer. I expect at the time they grabbed a frame off the line and then it was designated Mk1. Alas all the frames were the same for SP/T-3/Mk1/Convert around 76-79 anyway and they are a small factory and urm.. Italian

If it's got a motor beginning with VE then that is about as sure as you can be that it will either be a Mk1, or Mk2 as even the later (higher) engine numbers have found to be inaccurate as to exactly which one they went into. They knocked up a few later Mk1's at dealer request as the Mk2 was not selling as well.