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Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #179

72degrees Offline Administrator So many menus and buttons - so little time Posts: 779 Thank you received: 17	Want ! "Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality" 1957 175 Sport

Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #181

Kano Nordi Topic Author Offline Platinum Member Posts: 1728 Thank you received: 22	72degrees wrote: Want ! If his dyno figures are correct that is one strong motor, I wonder how he keeps it all together

Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #183

72degrees Offline Administrator So many menus and buttons - so little time Posts: 779 Thank you received: 17	There seems to be no mention of crankcase strengthening - or did I miss it? "Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality" 1957 175 Sport

Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #184

Kano Nordi Topic Author Offline Platinum Member Posts: 1728 Thank you received: 22	72degrees wrote: There seems to be no mention of crankcase strengthening - or did I miss it? No mention, maybe that's the secret??

Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #198

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If the Gilera factory had survived I think we would have seen a 500cc GFR.
If you look at the frame you will see a few things that seem to have no reason.
Hold a Saturno engine up against it and they begin to make sense.
Difficult to get official confirmation of that but after the factory had closed some of the Gilera guys went to Piaggio. I met one really great guy named Cantini (not sure about the spelling now) several times, he did not speak English but we chatted (difficulty) about a few things and he did suggest that the intention had been to make a new 500 / 560 using the GFR frame.
Sad end to this story, one day he was leaving the factory on an RC600 I think and was in collision with a car and he died. A very friendly and knowledgeable guy.

I came, I saw, I did a bit of biking.

Re: GFR/SP/Piuma 13 years 3 months ago #199

72degrees Offline Administrator So many menus and buttons - so little time Posts: 779 Thank you received: 17	Got a spare GFR. Should have kept the second ratty Nordwest. Do you know what became of the designs and tooling that went to Guzzi. Presumably it came back home when Piaggio bought them. I like the avatar by the way "Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality" 1957 175 Sport