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Here's my old Guzzi, 145x14 studded snow pattern car tyres, car rims dimpled & pierced to lace onto Guzzi spoked hubs, monoshocked, leading link forks & floating calipers set to give anti-dive, left hand exhaust extended to the right hand side, Watsonian Palma sidecar widened 7" and chassis cut & lowered to fit 16" wheel, towball, battery from a Daimler Double Six, rear lights from a Ford D10 (I think) lorry, all the electrics & coils put into weatherproof aluminium boxes by the saddle, Honda switchgear, Oxford Motorcycle Engineering u/j bearing conversion after the old uj broke and smashed its way out of the swinging arm. Had trouble getting the first MOT because the tester said the symmetrical head/spotlights made it look like a lorry at night (and so what's the problem I replied?). The last pic shows it just before breaking, 15" car tyres for summer now fitted and different lights and GL1100 seat. Engine/gearbox went to Mik in Germany, chair to a guy in London, I've kept the frame.

Ian

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