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What gorgeous example a real California Highway Patrol bike, even if it's assembled from unrelated period parts (i'm assuming ),just beautiful...I love those real leather panniers also,I can't believe the condition of those bags,very nice,cool licence plate ,1977 nice touch,and very believable as this bike could have still been in service then.What year did the big Kawasaki police bike nudge out the Guzzi's for highway patrol use in California. Could you give me the dimensions of one of those bags,height ,length and width.I would like to try and recreate a set of those for my EV/Eldo project.
Wanna trade for my Lemans? 🤣
Sure plus 17k on top 😂
All right, Moe, quit hiding behind that MGC screen-name ...
hahahaha I thought I was being more than fair 😂😂-Wyatt
Beautiful build!! I really like that old MOTOROLA radio!! I also like that classic 850-T in the background!
I had nothing planned for today so I took a ride down to Mark's shop. Figured I might as well see this in person. Rode my freshly cleaned up/ rattle can painted R75/5 down there, he thought it looked good Well, patina it is. Lots of old stuff and lots of new stuff. Rebuilt everything. Paint was the patina part. Electric siren, all the police goodies, looked ready for the fleet.He fired it up and it purred at idle, revved it and it sounded great! Now I'm thinking I REALLY don't need another bike. He had reset the trip meter since the build and it showed like 1.5 miles, s@#% this is a brand new Eldo!He said you want to take it for a ride, you ride Loops. I'm like naw, don't want to possibly scratch it, you know how the traffic is around here.I visited for a while and he asked again, this time I said yes. Told him my route so he wouldn't worry and off I went. Well not exactly off I went, stalled it pulling away from the curb. Don't you hate it when you hop on someone else's bike with THEIR clutch setup and stall in front of them On my way now, is this really how smooth the trans and engine are supposed to feel???? Wow, I need to get serious on my Eldo. My intended route was going to be mainly large streets, but I took a wrong turn in Albuquerque and ended up on residential. High speed was not in the cards but plenty of shifting, braking and slow speed corners. It felt great! Now if only my pocketbook would allow Thanks Mark for letting me ride it, very cool Tom
I'm interested in which head pipes are used on this 850-T. I recognize the same basic shape as is seen on the loop frames, but these look to be a larger diameter than those. Also they have the finned clamps rather than the screw type connection on the loops. I prefer the swept shape over the more geometric line of the stock pipes.
