I think I'll need to come up for Oxygen...

[SLDMRossi]

https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/d/1979-moto-guzzi-robin/6404853223.html

No connection to Seller...

Steven Rossi

[oldbike54]

 No snark intended , but one question . Does anyone else think Robins are aero inspired and look like something from the 1930's ? What am I missing ?

 Dusty

[Lannis]

That would certainly be a cheap trip straight to Nirvana for a Robin fan!

Wonder what the story is on a 40-year-old bike in mint shape with no miles on it?   Usually those things were beat to death and left in an alley ....

Lannis

[Chuck in Indiana]

No snark intended , but one question . Does anyone else think Robins are aero inspired and look like something from the 1930's ? What am I missing ?

 Dusty

<holding breath while talking> Hey, I just got this great idea, man.. let's advertise it as art deco..lots of people love that stuff."
Don't you know nothing, Dusty? 

[Roebling3]

Sacre Bleu! Contrary to popular beliefs bleu is the faster color.  R3~

[oldbike54]

<holding breath while talking> Hey, I just got this great idea, man.. let's advertise it as art deco..lots of people love that stuff."
Don't you know nothing, Dusty? 

 I grew up in a city that is the Midwestern home of art deco , that ain't it   

 Dusty

[Tom]

Watch out when they employ "Its a collectors item or show piece (sic)"

[SLDMRossi]

Then again, there's always this alternative...

https://hartford.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1977-moto-gizzi-robin-moped/6407723190.html

SR

[chuck peterson]

Pretty sure those grey flat pieces going from the chain guard to the rear fender will destroy a lot of body work when you hit the first bump....right? Can't be stock...





And then, that rear rack of the cheap non running one has something extra on it....looks like a folding basket of some sort

[Chuck in Indiana]

the cheap non running one has something extra on it....looks like a folding basket of some sort

It looks like an early HF socket set..

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

It has virtually zero miles, but the rear fender has been repaired and that homemade strutt added to reenforce it? (most of them have cracked or broken rear fenders from riding around with a friend sitting on the luggage rack)

Mine looks almost that good, but I do like the blue....  I put lower bars from a bmx bike on mine, I don't do apes ;-)

[chuck peterson]

It looks like an early HF socket set..

Wow they came with that?................... ..............

[steven c]

 So how do you fit the basket without the apes?

[steven c]

 Steve I'll sell you one of mine for half that or trade you for that big old car you have.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

So how do you fit the basket without the apes?

mine never had the basket...  I do have an old wine crate on the luggage rack....  like an upjumped klr/milkcrate sort of look