Today I bought myself a new ride. It is a 1968 Moto Guzzi Stornello (Sparrow) 160 in original but technical sound condition. As I have not had much time to work on my bikes due to work and study in the last year, and because all my bikes are in a non riding condition at [...]
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Erik van Dongen
Although I still have not been able to do any work on my Scott, or any of my other bikes or this website for that matter, I would still want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012! I hope that next year my work and study will require al [...]
When I started this blog I intended to post at least once a week. And I have done so for quite a while. But the last few months have been very quiet… I have been on holiday twice, spend a lot of time on my caravan (blogpost coming) and had to completely re-install my Macbook [...]
Today I received an interesting email from Colin Heath… With the 486 flathead cylinderblock that I bought of him came a set of non standard waterdomes. Those could be used to convert these early cylinderblocks that had an aircooled head to a watercooled version. The domes looked pretty professional and we suspected the domes to [...]
Today was a big day in the rebuild of my Squirrel: the engine has finally returned home! I only had a quick look at it so far but it looks very promising! After about 4 months all parts of my Scott are in one place again. So I “only” have to put it together now… [...]
