Cafe for touring and looking for wheels

[Jules Ballore]

You do realize those are borrani aluminum wheels on that bike, don't you?  They look fantastic with some mothers polish and some elbow grease. I put tommaselli condor bars on my 850-T. They are much more adjustable than clip-ons.

I don't know anything about the wheels. I just know i prefer the look of solid wheels to spokes. Do you have a pic you can post of your bars and bike?

 -Jules

[Turin]

Borrani wheels are top of the line items. Ever see an old Ferrari or Aston martin with wire wheels? Borrani. I would guess you are not going to save any weight by switching to something else, and I've hearlester mags have a tendancy to crack ( no personal experience).
here is a link to the handle bars. http://guzzino.com/tococlba.html

[crafty]

I have a pair of Lemans 3 cast wheels- the late ones- not "snowflake" but straight spokes along with the spacers that will move the discs out for a T3 fork. I'll swap you for your spoked wheels.

[Pancake]

Keep the tank. It is a real unique design with good lines. When you sit on the bike with that tank, especially if you have a smaller seat, it is something special. It is also the tank that belongs to the bike. Wire wheels too, very cool. The T3 was a very high quality standard bike, what other machine came with stainless mudguards, allow wheels with stainless straight spokes on Borrani rims as standard? No cheap crap.

Get the bores changed if they are still chrome, and get it running. You'll get a better idea of what needs changing as you live with it. If you're used to Japanese fours this will be different but really engaging.