I have so many questions about this...

[Petrus Rocks]

That is a scrambler style except higher pipes would be nice  for clearance.  A skid plate is easily made to protect the motor and battery.

What the hell is wrong with scramblers?  I live in western NY . 
I'm close to the Finger Lakes, Catskills, northern PA and the Adirondacks. 
Dirt, gravel, seasonal roads everywhere.  Grab a GPS and go hunting.
 
A scrambler is perfect for the gravel and dirt roads.  My '72 Triumph scrambler isn't very fast but it's a lot of fun on pavement and on easier dirt avenues.  The "dual sport " tires aren't as good as dedicated street tires but they're light years ahead of the old trials tires and K81's that used to be on the 70's bikes.  I can ride fast with confidence on them.
Maybe it's just the "stylin" some of you don't like.

Another Pete's opinion.

[stomatomoto]

Off topic- but I would like to propose a daily "irritate Pete" thread. It would be fairly easy from our end- just post some harebrained mod, silly tampering with the factory ECU, needless customization that apes trendy style at the expense of function- you get the idea.  Pete will get suitably torqued and the rest of us will marvel in the power of the internet to generate disgust and contempt from halfway around the globe. One of the really clever guys here should be able to figure out how to hook this unbridled ire to an alternative energy generator.

...then someone else can recommend a way to "mod" the system.  Thereby, the circle will be complete. Voila- a perpetual motion machine: the Ropertron

patent pending
JKK

BOATDETECTIVE, what happened?! It may not be daily but I'm trying to follow through with your proposition here, mostly because I want a cut from the PMM that results. 

Also, the more plastic I shear off this thing, the better, I can't see the fault in that. :| I like Western NY Pete's perspective better though, should've read that sooner!

[pikipiki]

Or here:

https://flic.kr/p/xASwV4

I do like (Or here) on account it looks like it started out as a Breva (hopefully one that needed tidying) New tank, side panels and seat. Rear shockers, basically just what you'd have to change on a regular V7 anyway. Take everything apart, clean, paint and reassemble.

No don't tell me it started as a V7 and a Breva was robbed of its wheels to do this!

[Kev m]

I do like (Or here) on account it looks like it started out as a Breva (hopefully one that needed tidying) New tank, side panels and seat. Rear shockers, basically just what you'd have to change on a regular V7 anyway. Take everything apart, clean, paint and reassemble.

No don't tell me it started as a V7 and a Breva was robbed of its wheels to do this!

You don't actually think someone disassembled a B7 to paint the frame do you?

The photo looks familiar.

Isn't that Peraz's Racer (that he was selling). He's a member here.

The one year black metal tank the US got (not sure about other markets). And if it is, yes, he did liberate the wheels from a B7 for this better purpose.

[kirkemon]

Pousers

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pouser

[rodekyll]

Found the haters!  ANYWAY, someone else opened up another thread on custom Guzzi's, 850T's? So what you're saying is, V7 is not the best platform for a custom ride? Because super sadface if so, I might have to just go maverick somehow on that notion.

EDIT: JoeW, YES, that's even better--not so much into the chrome, but the treatment of the intake and probably battery as well(? can't actually find it in those shots) is better done than in my example, bravo. And no knobedness on the tires; are you personally acquainted with that gorgeous machine, or is that just another awesome find?

*sigh*

If you only do what the peanut gallery approves of you'll never do anything that pleases the guy paying for the job* . . . .


*that's YOU.  Buy a damn bike, cut it up, make it yours.  That's the only opinion that counts.

$2.00

[stomatomoto]

*sigh*

If you only do what the peanut gallery approves of you'll never do anything that pleases the guy paying for the job* . . . .


*that's YOU.  Buy a damn bike, cut it up, make it yours.  That's the only opinion that counts.

$2.00

I really don't like to overuse stuff, but in this case I think it's totally warranted: