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Venier custom NF on Bike Exif
By: JamesNFalconaut Date: July 6, 2019, 10:41 pm
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Gday all
Here's a link to an article in Bike Exif on a custom NF by
Venier Customs
Their main changes appear to be body work. Frame, engine and
running gear remain standard.
HTML http://www.bikeexif.com/guzzi-nuovo-falcone-custom
More pics here:
HTML http://www.venier-motorcycles.com/
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Re: Venier custom NF on Bike Exif
By: banquo Date: July 9, 2019, 9:36 am
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It's quite amazing how what's no more than a styling exercise
can make something as old fashioned as the NF look quite modern.
People always ask how old the Mighty Falcone is, and my answer
always is, "It's 1972, but looks more like '42". And it's true.
I bought a brand new Suzuki T250J in 1972, and if we're to be
brutally honest, you wonder how a company like Moto-Guzzi
survived, when their technology, manufacturing methods, and
pretty much everything else, was decades behind the competition.
But they did, and for me, it's the old-fashioned nature of the
bike that's the attraction, although I do wish they had paid a
bit more attention to quality control, and resolved some of the
weaker parts of the design before unveiling it to the
unsuspecting miltary. Even the BSA B40, that predates it by
almost 10 years, was advanced in comparison, although it can
trace its DNA back to the Triumph Terrier, so had almost 20
years of development behind it by the time the NF was
introduced. It's difficult to think of a less practical military
machine than the NF, unless you include the likes of the Super
Alce, campaigned in the Libyan desert with its exposed valve
gear, but I'm so glad it made it to production, despite its
dinosaur specification 8)
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Re: Venier custom NF on Bike Exif
By: JamesNFalconaut Date: July 10, 2019, 4:27 pm
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".... it's the old-fashioned nature of the bike that's the
attraction..."
I agree completely with this. A bike that somehow looks as
though it could have been built from the 40's through to the
60's.
"..It's difficult to think of a less practical military machine
than the NF..."
I'd love to hear accounts from ex-military people (or law
enforcement) of actual NF use in the services. Australia used
Triumph 650's around the same time I think, as well as BSA
B40's. Had probably only just changed up from the Harley WLA's
and Indians from WW2.
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Re: Venier custom NF on Bike Exif
By: banquo Date: July 24, 2019, 2:15 pm
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Having just returned from taking the Mighty Falcone up the
Stella Alpina, perhaps I was being a bit over critical. It made
it up and back down over roads made of rocks and dust and more
hairpins than a pensioner's hairdo with only a broken sidestand
to show for it.
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