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Title: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: Groover on September 18, 2017, 09:00:29 AM
Touching eBay listing. Great creativity and motivation to keep riding even when things in life got tough. I didn't know this person, but I feel the need to show this concept off for him now. May not have been legal nor safe, but who cares. He got to enjoy it for a little and that's all that matters.

 :bow:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980-Moto-Guzzi-Convert-/322755152069?hash=item4b25b4c8c5:g:eGcAAOSwjaRZvsFw&vxp=mtr

 


 
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: bettythebear on September 18, 2017, 09:10:12 AM
There was/is a riser in Austin who was wheelchair bound that did the same thing with an old BMW K bike. He rolled the chair into the hack and everything was hand controls from there. He built a linkage that moves the bars over, and I believe he used some sort of air system to shift.
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: Huzo on September 18, 2017, 09:18:31 AM
There was/is a riser in Austin who was wheelchair bound that did the same thing with an old BMW K bike. He rolled the chair into the hack and everything was hand controls from there. He built a linkage that moves the bars over, and I believe he used some sort of air system to shift.
Yep, any cop who booked him orta' get the arse.
Reminds me of when the world was a better place.. :bow: :thumb:
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 18, 2017, 11:10:17 AM
 If I had need of another motorcycle I would snap that up.  Alas I have three sidecar rigs and probably will not live long enough to get it shaped back up.
 But where is it located?

Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on September 18, 2017, 12:04:08 PM
If I had need of another motorcycle I would snap that up.  Alas I have three sidecar rigs and probably will not live long enough to get it shaped back up.
 But where is it located?

"located in NW Minnesota about 45 minutes north of Moorhead"
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: bigbikerrick on September 18, 2017, 12:19:12 PM
Its located in Ida Minnesota.
Rick.
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: brider on September 18, 2017, 12:55:33 PM
That's a lotta project value for a teenage kid. Every good deal is 1000 mi too far for me!
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: craigclu on September 18, 2017, 02:56:23 PM
Its located in Ida Minnesota.
Rick.

Actually, it's "Ada" in case one searches for a map location. 
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: mjptexas on September 18, 2017, 03:47:33 PM
There was/is a riser in Austin who was wheelchair bound that did the same thing with an old BMW K bike. He rolled the chair into the hack and everything was hand controls from there. He built a linkage that moves the bars over, and I believe he used some sort of air system to shift.

Yep, I've seen that rig at the Alamo Cafe south of Fredricksburg.
Title: Re: A great custom story: Convert
Post by: Arizona Wayne on September 19, 2017, 01:02:14 AM
I've seen a number of wheelchair ridin' Guzzista at MGNOC National rallies over the years with sidecar rigs set up so they can ride them from the chair(hack) with all the controls transferred to them in the chair.  :shocked:  How they do it is beyond my comprehension.  But where there's a will there's a way.  I understand how they get on/off the chair, but that is all.  :huh: