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« Last post by testa_di_formaggio on June 08, 2023, 04:14:05 PM »Hopefully the limbs are thick....I'll guess that the tank with the badges is the original one. Pretty clean choice paint, the white on the badges looks a might weak, faded a bit perhaps, no big deal, maybe just the lighting in the photo. That's why I think that's the original. I gotta believe a bike with the right side brake lever had badges. The last production Sports (and then for a while afterwards from Guzzi), Silentiums had the "bell" mouths, rather than the straight shin busters. I searched all over for those pieces back around "87 or '88, and they weren't to be had. I ended up having the original mufflers rust repaired, stripped, re chromed, and *re engraved*. Headpipes and crossover re chromed too. Had the spun metal reverse cone baffles repaired as well. Not cheap. Around 2000 I think, maybe a couple years later, Stucchi started doing some pretty good re pops of that stuff, and badgeless tanks. Stucchi's mufflers, as well as the rare, occasional original Silentium pairs I saw show up on the market, had those bell mouth ends.
So I'll bet the gent later picked up a tank, had it painted and decaled, and grabbed an exhaust system. Smart play. Up until Stucchi started making those pieces, I don't recall seeing anything else out on the market. I could be totally wrong, if someone has better info, let me know. Good stuff to keep track of.
A couple clues would be the size of the fuel filler in the tanks, the original would have a larger diameter, cap too. If I'm right, the replacement will be smaller diameter filler neck, like all the 850T's and subsequent bikes. Stucchi's filler necks on the re pops were the small diameter type I do recall. As to the exhaust, I don't think Stucchi's mufflers had the Silentium engraving. I think SilMotor was still in business, though they didn't or only on rare occasion made the mufflers anymore. And Stucchi was concerned about trademark violations. So look for engraving on the mufflers, my eyes aren't good enough to see any in the pictures.
I wish I could remember some of these particulars better, I should, I sold lots of these pieces. I do remember grabbing a few pairs of the bell mouth Silentiums that popped up in Germany back around 2010 I think. I figured those to be from some NOS stash over there in Europe.
If it were me, I'd put the original tank back on the bike, as well as the new exhaust system. Sell it as is. Whoever bites, can deal with the quite possible cylinder issue as others have noted. You could clean up the original exhaust, sell that off separately, as well as the new tank. That stuff should bring some pretty good cash. If the lady wants to contact me directly, she could do so by message, and I think I still have access to records back to around 2001, to see if the stuff was purchased from me. Might be possible, as I'm 100 miles west of Milwaukee. Of course if he did all this before '97, 1995 as she says, I'm all wet, sorry to waste the bandwidth.
Still would offer any knowledge I can, and no, I have no interest in the bike. Quite honestly, my interest is to see what it all goes for. I have two Sports I plan to unload, though certainly not as nice as this one. And various spares. It would be good info to see what I might ask for the stuff. That and the two pairs of V7 Sport Gilardonis.....
T d F
So I'll bet the gent later picked up a tank, had it painted and decaled, and grabbed an exhaust system. Smart play. Up until Stucchi started making those pieces, I don't recall seeing anything else out on the market. I could be totally wrong, if someone has better info, let me know. Good stuff to keep track of.
A couple clues would be the size of the fuel filler in the tanks, the original would have a larger diameter, cap too. If I'm right, the replacement will be smaller diameter filler neck, like all the 850T's and subsequent bikes. Stucchi's filler necks on the re pops were the small diameter type I do recall. As to the exhaust, I don't think Stucchi's mufflers had the Silentium engraving. I think SilMotor was still in business, though they didn't or only on rare occasion made the mufflers anymore. And Stucchi was concerned about trademark violations. So look for engraving on the mufflers, my eyes aren't good enough to see any in the pictures.
I wish I could remember some of these particulars better, I should, I sold lots of these pieces. I do remember grabbing a few pairs of the bell mouth Silentiums that popped up in Germany back around 2010 I think. I figured those to be from some NOS stash over there in Europe.
If it were me, I'd put the original tank back on the bike, as well as the new exhaust system. Sell it as is. Whoever bites, can deal with the quite possible cylinder issue as others have noted. You could clean up the original exhaust, sell that off separately, as well as the new tank. That stuff should bring some pretty good cash. If the lady wants to contact me directly, she could do so by message, and I think I still have access to records back to around 2001, to see if the stuff was purchased from me. Might be possible, as I'm 100 miles west of Milwaukee. Of course if he did all this before '97, 1995 as she says, I'm all wet, sorry to waste the bandwidth.
Still would offer any knowledge I can, and no, I have no interest in the bike. Quite honestly, my interest is to see what it all goes for. I have two Sports I plan to unload, though certainly not as nice as this one. And various spares. It would be good info to see what I might ask for the stuff. That and the two pairs of V7 Sport Gilardonis.....
T d F
