Fixed my too short speedo cable issue, by reconnecting the 90’ bevel box onto the speedometer. Not sure why both Speedo nor tacho didn’t have the angle drive fitted. I found them amongst the 5 boxes of parts that came with the bike.
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Yes, they’re lovely things. My mate Brian (shy member) has one, and its Benelli stable mate. He keeps them in his living room (tee hee!)
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Great turnout 
I’m new to the club. And new to motorcycling. This particular bike came up for sale in Kent last month. It was near my brother so he went to view it and it was bought. It’s a UNM registration bike. 1981 Monza. I always liked Moto Guzzi and have been to Mandello Del Lario.
I took delivery of the bike last week. Unfortunately, despite my brother running and riding it, it failed to start for me - no spark. I managed to track the issue down to a hidden kill switch that must’ve been stuck on, breaking the circuit. Anyway, got it started today. I reckon one of the previous owners was a lady in Islington. Possibly a member of Moto Guzzi Club GB. She owned it from 1997-2023. It’s been well looked after.
I removed the tank to look for the starting issue and everything looks fine in there. A good honest bike. I’m getting a bit old for working on older cars, so this is a revelation for me. Very happy with it.
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Been up in Northumberland dealing with late father’s estate.
However when i got home this is what i found - for the second time! Annoying as heck.
It was a good turn out, but I managed not to see any of the North Bristol, South Glos people. I must have been outside when you were all in the Museum, then vice versa. 
Malcolm
Your bike is a very similar number plate to mine lt was originally supplied by SHOKKS of Malvern Road N W 6 , so not far from lslington . Andy Shokks was a Guzzi dealership at the time l believe . Cheers.
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I knew Andy Shokks, once went on a mad weekend (called Toff Tours) with a group from Express Dispatch of London, in the mid eighties. Andy came along and I subsequently bought stuff from his gaff in London. Sadly passed away many years ago, don’t remember exactly but I think I heard it was a bike accident. Seemed like a really good bloke as was his mate BJay who rode a Commando.
Yes , l heard it involved an unlit skip at night .Sad story .
Looks like the hose clip is missing/fallen off.
If you are on Facebook and a member of the club group, there is a guy that has been researching the UNM—W bikes, here’s an extract from his post …
"I’ve always been interested in the Coburn & Hughes “UNM” bikes - I own UNM197W. For those of you who don’t know, C&H- the then importer - pre-registered a huge batch of bikes on 31/3/81 to avoid a change in tax that came in on 1/4/81. There are the best part of a thousand Guzzis, Dukes and Harleys with UNM**W registrations out there. *
*Due to the miracle of the online tax and MOT database, i’ve been slowly trawling through the bikes and have got to UNM200W. Here’s some preliminary observations. *
1) Of the 200 bikes UNM1-200W, only 11 are currently taxed and MOT’d; another 7 are MOT’d and SORN’d."
Go to the Clubs Facebook page and search for UNM, the original post is from April 2018.
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In my case nothing so simple. Allmy dodgy clips were replaced by dealer before delivery. In December last year the water pump was replaced as it had deformed. Looking as if it may be same again. Will be taking it to dealer tomorrow for 2nd opinion. Had just done a 300 mile trip yesterday in the heat and the loss of coolant could not have been great as the bikes operating temperaturewas fine throughout.
Sorry Don , mine is UPP. Des from Danum Branch once passed a load of old articles from magazines to me , and one of them was a review of a Guzzi with a UPP prefix . I thought it was a C&H bike . Thanks for you’re info. Cheers.
Glad your trip to Northumberland went well and hopefully your dealer will rectify your bike’s dodgy water pump. Your bike looks great as does the Northumbrian view in the background. Cheers .
Went on my commute to work today, trying out the new position of the ‘jota’ bars- about 2" higher. Now on top of the top yolk (MK1 racing front end) as opposed to under the top yolk. Feels a completely different bike!
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This was the case with my 850T. I had a front end coming together with a car that pulled out on me, I got the bike to Guzzi Overland in Epping and asked them to fit Marzocchi forks, 38mm diameter, stiffer and a great improvement on the originals. Martin fitted them with Marzzochi yokes, only problem was that the top yoke didn’t have handlebar clamps, so he pushed the forks up through the top yoke and added clip ons above just like you have.
Unfortunately, this changed the steering geometry, and made the bike turn in much quicker, which I didn’t like. I moved the clip ons below the top yoke and the steering returned to normal, phew! So began the change to 750S replica that it is today.
If you are happy with the handling then you have found a solution that suits you, personally I found it too unstable.
Best of luck
The fork yolks where already protruding the top yolk by enough to mount the clip-on onto. So the geometry is unchanged, other than me sitting more upright.
Curiously the RH side stanchion was about 4mm higher than the other. After making them the same height the front wheel spindle wouldn’t meet with the opposite side sides’ hole, by a similar amount.
I’ll have to ask club member Ray who used to own them about the discrepancy.
Apart from thinking about my Guzzi I’ve done nothing with it today so technically speaking I shouldn’t be putting this on this section of the forum. It got left in the garage due to rain forecasted
Finished a SW660 ride. Actually did 620 miles & 4 ferries ( I reckon if you did even more peninsulae you could get up to 900 ). Due to all of the seaside resorts and tourists it is hard to average more than 22mph! Considering that and the narrow roads i think this would be ideal for a v50 or v35 run lol.
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