Dr John article

[Skeeve]

340lb dry wt.?!?

 

Did the reporter make a mistake & put in the engine wt. for that of the whole bike? If not, where's all the pork on our v11s hiding?..

[jcbooghs]

That's without fairing like seat, tank and frontfairing. Very possible indeed. My bike is 370 lb complete ready to race.

With alternator and starter and a full fuel tank it was weighed at 401 lb.

I even remember a British Guzzi racer (rider was Torquil Ross Martin) of 330lb. So he told me.

[biesel]

What happened to Dr. John?

Is he a dentist again?

[Greg Field]

He's caring for his parents in Pennsylvania. That racer had all three calipers operated off of the front master cylinder, through a proportioning valve.

[mille108]

He's caring for his parents in Pennsylvania. That racer had all three calipers operated off of the front master cylinder, through a proportioning valve.

 

Interesting...but for sure im not going to put the same system on my bikes for sure..

 

Im used on a slipper clutch on my track bike and my Guzzi is now equipped with some radial brembo's... down shifting under braking is a challenging exercise already on the guzzi and i dont need some rear brake with that at all..

 

Maybe with the brakes they had in those days it was a good idea but now im not very sure of that..