Guzzi Gearbox refurb

Simon's - bought in boxes - Le Man 1 gearbox needed a complete strip down, starting with a good clean and the removal of a seized clutch actuating arm pin and then off to the vapour blasters etc

 

MRD Metisse Scrambler

Joe who contacted me recently after I posted a few pics of my friend Rogers Harley engined MRD Metisse Roadster has sent me some pics of his own Buell engined MRD Metisse  - a homage to the Rickman brothers mk III scrambler.

Guzzi Cafe Racer ..............new project

Started this a couple of months back,but it's slow going as waiting for a new alloy seat so that a sub frame can be made and engineand gearbox cases back from the blasters and and..... 

Moto Guzzi Cafe Racer / Cafe Roadster on Ebay

I've finally listed my Guzzi Roadster 'For Sale' on Ebay ......item number 332436685095

Moto Guzzi Roadster Cafe ..........

.............and a few hours of pootling around some fairly local roads.
   A couple of days ago I decided to put a few more miles on the Brown Roadster and to take some pics with a view to advertising it for sale.
   I headed out for the village of Castle Combe - it's only 15 mls from our house, a lovely place as a backdrop and should be relatively tourist free in Oct / Nov. Didn't really have a plan after that, but wasn't intending to be out too long so then went a few more miles onto Biddestone,nearly to Corsham and then back through Slaughterford. This latter place I've passed the sign for many times,but never been to. Turns out that it's a single track road in out of the village so it's very much hidden away. Interesting facts are that there is a old  Rag mill - closed down - there which once turned textiles into pulp and this product went to another local mill where it was turned into paper. Also in AD 879 King Alfred defeated the Danes here.
    I must go back as apparently there is walk where you can get a better look at the Mill and it's 9ft water wheel.

Castle Combe

Slaughterford Mill

Beautiful view which the pic just doesn't do justice to
on a back road by the old Colerne RAF base

MASH & SWM motorcycles

I went for a short spin on my Brown Roadster Cafe today into the Wiltshire countryside out via Avebury Stones and then back through Malmesbury. A few miles outside Malmesbury is the small village of Brinkworth with a m/cycle dealership of DMA m/cycles. Initially I thought it was a classic bike parked up, ut after turning around to take a closer look found it to be a modern build by MASH m/cycles of France. Went inside and had a good long chat with the salesman about them,the SWM's - built in Italy and bikes in general..............a very friendly fella! 
   I thought that the TT40 in particular was a very nice motorcycle and the red model not too different in colour from my own half faired Guzzi.