L’ULTIMO: A GHEZZI-BRIAN 1100 BUILT BY A YORKSHIRE ENGINEER

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Re: L’ULTIMO: A GHEZZI-BRIAN 1100 BUILT BY A YORKSHIRE ENGINEER

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Front fairing looks like it has been stopped far too short...but other than that I'm in.

Edit. Oh and that carbon is a disgrace. I'm only half in now.
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Forks look too long
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:27 pm Forks look too long
any shorter and the wheel would be off the ground.
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Petrol tank looks like it's too short at the front.

Random red tat's not great either.

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Quite smart but what's going on with that swingarm? Is it just the way the light catches the welds? It makes it look a sort of scruffy job on it. :hmmm:
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I like that.
I’d prefer the fairing a bit shorter- about the depth of where the black comes to, and also the swingarm would look better if it was the same colour as the frame.
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The problem is, no matter how hard you try to build a sporty looking Guzzi, it'll never look as good as the MGS-01.
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That's gorgeous.....
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:24 pm The problem is, no matter how hard you try to build a sporty looking Guzzi, it'll never look as good as the MGS-01.
'tis true. Factories tend to make a better job of modifying their own stuff :D

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:33 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:24 pm The problem is, no matter how hard you try to build a sporty looking Guzzi, it'll never look as good as the MGS-01.
'tis true. Factories tend to make a better job of modifying their own stuff :D

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And used a much more fun motor too 😀
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Jolly good effort.
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I thik it looks great. Right up my street. Compared to the endless diet of warmed over IL4s/flat trackers/bobbers etc that we get, this is a breath of fresh air. If he'd connected the tank and top fairing a la MGS-01 it would be close to perfect. It certainly out-blings the factory effort in the bolt-on goodies. Those PFM discs/calipers knock spots off the Brembos on the MGS-01. But I suspect that the creator might have a slight twinge of regret that he didn't use the V100 Mandello as the platform for his mods.

Perhaps he's just waiting until all the aftermarket bits come available...
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Post by Mr. Dazzle »

The Moto Guzzi exhaust manufacturer actually owns a pipe bender though. Its not like they're even that hard to come by :lol:

OK so shoddy carbon and loads-of-bits exhaust. I'm down to 3/8ths in :(
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:32 pm The Moto Guzzi exhaust manufacturer
Lafranconi at a guess.
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LOLZ!

I just looked at the webshite.

http://www.lafranconisilenziatori.com/

They make exhausts for two types of vehicles.

Motorcycles... and tractors.
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You laugh, but I better tractor exhausts have to put up with some proper shit (literally sometimes) without breaking.
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The OEM exhaust on my K-RS is a Lafranconi, you could extrapolate from that that a similar vintage R series has a Lafranconi exhaust too. There's your tractor link right there.

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If you click the 'Quality' section, the picture is of my K-RS exhaust!
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Pretty good!
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Post by Dickyboy »

Was wondering why it used an old engine, then read the blurb, guys owned the original 1100 sport from new, makes a lot more sense now. Good effort & fair play to him.