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Title: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: gmonsen on July 25, 2016, 02:09:17 PM

Hi...  I have searched all over trying to find a Moto Guzzi 254 users manual with no luck.  Does anyone have an idea where to find one?

Thanks much,

Gordon

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: fotoguzzi on July 25, 2016, 02:34:00 PM

What does 254 refer to?

Have you tried thisoldtractor.com?

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: gmonsen on July 25, 2016, 03:05:48 PM

I have a 1979 Moto Guzzi 254 231cc inline 4 cylinder bike.  Obviously, not a well known model.  That's why I'm having so jmuch trouble finding a users manual.  I will try thisoldtractor.com, but am not sure why they would have a manual for this bike?

Gordon

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: LeRoy on July 25, 2016, 03:20:50 PM

Here's a Parts Manual:

http://www.guzzitek.org/parts_list/monos_et_autres/254_101977_PL.pdf

You might want to expand your search to include the Benelli 254. Same basic bike, different badge. Anything you find for the Benelli should apply to the Guzzi. For example:

http://www.benelliforum.com/forum/classics/6037-benelli-254-restoration-blog-part-1-lives.html

http://www.benelli-bauer.com/epages/15039762.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15039762/Categories/%22Benelli%20Ersatzteile%20aus%20Liste%22/254

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmYEEKZhEDI

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: fotoguzzi on July 25, 2016, 03:32:57 PM

(http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/moto_gallery/MOTO-GUZZI-254-8106_2.jpg)

NICE

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: gmonsen on July 25, 2016, 04:07:16 PM

Yeah.  They are very cool little bikes.  They sound like a 60's Honda RC161 4 cylinder.  They scream and wail at 12,000 rpm...  Nothing like my V50 Monza.

Gordon

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: Mike Harper on July 25, 2016, 09:42:35 PM

There's. One coming up in Harper's classic motor cycle  auction on September 8&9

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: Tom H on July 25, 2016, 11:45:26 PM

I just wanted to say: Wow!!!.... Never heard of that one!

Cool,
Tom

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: pete roper on July 26, 2016, 01:22:26 AM

When DeTommasso (Sp?) took over a host of Italian brands in the seventies he planned to produce a whole new line of multi cylinder bikes to compete with the Japanese. Of a 'Modular' design similar to Bert Hopwood's designs for the failing British industry but with more plagiarism of actual Japanese engineering, particularly Honda, hey did come to fruition but he was overstretched.

The 254, 354,(?) and 750 Sei were all products of this time badged in several ways for different markets.

Both Guzzi and Benelli got the 250's and maybe the 350's. Only Benelli got the six cylinder motor. Strangely, in Singapore and maybe Malasia the 254 was sold badged as a MotoBi!

Pete

PS, there may also have been a 504? It was a lifetime ago.....

Title: Re: Guzzi 254 Users Manual?
Post by: Aaron D. on July 26, 2016, 06:00:06 AM

Yes, a 504, lovely to ride. Probably the nicest of them.