North Cape by GTL

sfcpiet said:
As can be expected, the GTL is grimy af. The pressure washer will make short work of that.

Total distance covered just shy of 8000km, Wokis odo shows slightly above 8000... chinese km maybe? :unsure:

Casualties are the mentioned rear indicator and that stupid clutch cable, the RH fork leg shows some oil weeping from the gaiter. Chain required some lube and one tensioning over the distance. Oil consumption less than a liter. A squirt of grease into the swingarm pivot, lube for the levers and pedals, the primary chain needs adjusting, valves checking, that seems to be it. Oh, and a new clutch cable, the replacement is a tad too short to route as desired. I'll just knock up some nipples in brass and solder a new inner, the broken one was perfect. Not sure about the steering head bearings, I think I feel a little movement, maybe an adjustment will suffice.

Overall, not too bad for a 50-year-old old clunker with 70000+ on the odo.

piet



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The Eagle ( :LOL: ) has landed..............
 
I guess we all have been on rides when someone crashes. That initial shock and thought of Did I just see what I saw. Positive thoughts to all, love to ride, hate when it goes south.
 
I travel 200,000’s + KLMs a year.

I see single car and truck sites where vehicles have left the road, for seemingly no reason.

I did a little test.

I don’t use Starlink, but most single vehicle accidents that I see the results of are ….. just as mobile phones come back into reception after being out for hours.
 
Sorry to hear of the accident, we have been very lucky on club rides over the years, more problems with skin cancer than crashing.

Great gear lever Piet! Did you make that yourself?
 
My last experience with a bike accident was arriving at the scene at the top of The Putty, where a young woman had come off. Not serious, but she was lucky considering what she was wearing. She had either tights or leggings on, some kind of thick pantyhose and one of her knees was swelling up and causing her pain, and her friend was asking for either a knife or scissors to cut them clear of her knee. I left as the Ambulance arrived. I am a big fan of body armour over limb joints after a knee incident and months of rehab for me.
 
martymoose said:
Great gear lever Piet! Did you make that yourself?
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No Marty.

Back when I was re-building the bike, I found 3 of these in the Moto Witt stock. Fits perfectly, so I figured it might have been part of the police special equipment.

Strangely, the bike with the following VIN, which lives "just up the road" from me, has an alloy rocker-type lever made from what looks like a lever off the 125 Sport from '64. I have seen this type of lever on several GTs. This bike served with the Bassano del Grappa police force and is pictured in Tim Parkers book "Italian Motorcycles" together with the later police chief of Bassano, from whom we bought the bike!

These 2 GTLs seem to belong to the earliest examples of the model. My bike #17936 is pictured in Giovanni Laverdas book "la Diva" and was apparently used for press and brochure photos and is possibly the very first example, ending up as a cop bike in Kuwait. #17937 was shipped up the road from Breganze and spent its working life there. According to "la Diva", GTL production occurred within the #18000 range.

piet

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All cases are individual, but my brother has 3 compressed vertebra fractures from a dump in the surf, non-displaced. He got sent home after X-rays for a month's bed rest. extremely uncomfortable. Hope it's the same for her.
 
A trip up to the North Cape from Northern France in the spring of 27 seems to be on the books. First a ride down to the Lago Maggiore next September via Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. That would leave me 6 months to give the SF2 engine a once over.
Early days yet.
On verra.
Paul
 
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