With the longer, warmer evenings hopefully on their way I've been looking for a wee project to keep my attention. It couldn't be car-related...my fleet is too big as it is and the crippling increases in tax and insurance, not to mention the rapidly inflating prices of even the roughest of motors, led me to this rather charming FB discovery:
It's a pedal-and-pop 1972 Moto Guzzi 'Trotter' - the name is taken from the Milanese 'Parco Trotter' and not the Del Boy, although the dictionary definition of 'moving at moderate pace with small steps' may well be appropriate.
Here's what I know:
I think it's got good compression so the plan is to check for a spark at the solitary spark plug, get the carb off and give the jets a good clean, put some fresh fuel in it...the usual stuff. Hopefully that can get her put-put-putting along.
After that I'm not sure - she might not even see a public road if I can't get the paperwork sorted, but that's another problem for another day. Happy to hear any pointers/suggestions as details on these seem to be scarce - I've got an Italian parts manual and that's about it!
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It's a pedal-and-pop 1972 Moto Guzzi 'Trotter' - the name is taken from the Milanese 'Parco Trotter' and not the Del Boy, although the dictionary definition of 'moving at moderate pace with small steps' may well be appropriate.
Here's what I know:
- It doesn't run
- It last ran the best part of a year ago
- It has no V5, being imported some years ago with next to know paperwork although apparently it is 'registered in NOVA'
- it comes fitted with 50cc of throbbing Eye-tal-yan horsepower (just under two powers of horse to be accurate
- Nope, doesn't run
- The fuel tank is listed as holding a capacious quart of your favourite dinosaur juice, possibly mixed with 2 stroke
- With a top speed of 25mph I own a faster push bike
- I have no idea what I'm doing
I think it's got good compression so the plan is to check for a spark at the solitary spark plug, get the carb off and give the jets a good clean, put some fresh fuel in it...the usual stuff. Hopefully that can get her put-put-putting along.
After that I'm not sure - she might not even see a public road if I can't get the paperwork sorted, but that's another problem for another day. Happy to hear any pointers/suggestions as details on these seem to be scarce - I've got an Italian parts manual and that's about it!