Speedfrog

An Australian and an American walk into a French bakery. The Australian says....

I feel you mon Ami, that's a panier:

When you wrench on your own bike - or any other such endeavor for that matter - trying to get all the information that you can will help you tremendously to achieve proper results, but remember, information is not knowledge, you need to build your own...

Dang @leroysch that is one nice first bike!

nos·tal·gia| näˈstaljə, nəˈstaljə | noun A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. 14 years old, I was finally getting a real taste of freedom when I graduated from a bicycle and was legally allowed to ride a "Cyclomoteur" on the street... without a license. I literally lived on the darn thing and loved it, from taking me to school in the morning to meeting with my friends afterwards at the café and going on adventures on the week-ends. And when summer came, we'd load them up and go on multi-days camping trips in the backcountry... lots of fun memories. The Italians had Vespas, we had Motobécane, Velosolex and Peugeot. The Peugeot 103 was ubiquitous in the streets of France in the 70's and would become the most sold moped in the world. It was the most popular model back then and has retained a cult following to this day. The Peugeot 103 celebrated its 50 years anniversary in 2021. Here is an article in honor of the event - Sorry but it's in French. https://www.mobylette-mag.fr/4890-peugeot-103-le-cyclomoteur-le-plus-vendu-dans-le-monde.html

Welcome to the club @nakaimoto

That was indeed...... refreshing! I don't know what Maurice would think of it...

That makes 2 for Design Engineering, Inc. They seem to have some good products. Two of them look like they would be appropriate for the replacement of the heat shield under the fuel tank. Reflect-A-Cool: https://www.designengineering.com/reflect-a-cool-24-x-24/ Heat Screen: https://www.designengineering.com/heat-screen-36-x-20/ They both have high-temp self-adhesive backing, come in different sizes, but "Heat Screen" seems a bit thicker and made with higher quality materials. A little pricey of course when compared to anything one might find on Aliexpress and such but this is a task that you would not want to undertake too often and effectiveness and durability should be high priority me-think. And even though, brand name and price alone does not guarantee product quality, the lack of information - and incomprehensibility thereof sometimes - associated with products out of Aliexpress make me a tad leery of buying there. On the other hand, these DEI products have good descriptions and even SDS sheets. I shall take a trip to Autozone and see what I can get my hands on...

Well, I have one already installed on my ‘04 V11 CS, it came to me that way. I don’t know if it’s an original Moto Moda or one of the Rusty Star Picket Project one but I will put my name down for one if only to get the next batch underway and just for the sake of availability. Besides, you never know when a another V11 might follow you home... Thanks Eric!

Here are a couple of hits: https://www.oppracing.com/product_display/30979-brembo-oe-brake-pad-set-ferit-i-d-450ff-pad-kit-for-206800xx-209230xx-caliper-shape-m-107670810/ https://www.accu-products.com/107670810-ferit-i-d-450ff-pad-kit-for-20-6800-xx-caliper.html You would have to inquire for stock though, but almost half the price than AF1 or Cadre (GU01654630)

I believe they are. Look for "Brembo 107670810"

Congratulations on the new toy Tom! What a harem you've got there mate, you're gonna need some help to entertain all those beautiful girls...

Same motor as the Fantic

I don't know if it's been posted here before but John Fish over on WG is selling a nice black 2000 V11 Sport for $3000 and I can't believe it hasn't gotten any taker since he first posted it in January. https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=117324.0 Edit: I found it in the classified https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/topic/28605-2000-v11-sport-3000-sw-pa/

Helluva beak!!

Looks like the ancestor of the modern Beak.

My apologies as well for hijacking @Joe's thread... to my defense, @LowRyter started it... @docc you could migrate the "Fantic Motor / Caballero" content to a new thread if you'd like.

You're right! Fantic Motor was the brand and Caballero was one of their models. Memory fade...!

I can't stand the BEAK!!

https://petrolicious.com/articles/this-restored-fantic-caballero-50-is-a-1970s-dream-realized-in-2020

This article by Marco Panella describes the mood of kids growing up during that period just as I remember it. Caballero! The name is enough Between 1968 and 1971 everything happens: the battle of Valle Giulia, the student protest, the moon landing, the Cagliari championship dragged by Gigi Riva, the Azzurri defeat against Brazil in the final of the World Cup in Mexico City, the hot autumn, Renzo Arbore and Gianni Boncompagni's High Appreciation , Raffaella Carrà's Tuca Tuca , Easy Rider showing us the other side of America, Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart competing for the Formula 1 titles, Giacomo Agostini who wins everything possible in the world championship and the austerity that sends Italians on bicycles. But for a fourteen year old, in those years something happens that will change his dreams and desires. In 1968 the Brianza-based Mario Agrati and the Dutch Henry Keppel Hesselink leave Garelli, the family business of the former and of which the latter was the director for sales abroad, and founded a company with an imaginative and psychedelic name that is all a promise: Fantic Motor . A promise that will be kept. Well the following year, at the Milan Cycle and Motorcycle Show, Fantic Motor presents the Caballero, a 50cc off-road motorcycle, but which for all of us kids of the seventies was simply the motocross bike. Try to imagine a 50cc you can ride without a license and that not only looked like it was a grown-up bike, with its telescopic forks, the high fender, the unmistakable sound, the tires that looked like the carrarmato Perugina put on the road and that name, Caballero, which echoed the gringos, suerte, vamos, sangre y muerte that we read on Tex and that deluded us that we could speak Spanish. Try to imagine it and put it in the Italy of the early seventies and its leaden climate, but at the same time so erratic as to make you believe everything is possible. The fact is that behind the Caballero an entire generation goes crazy, guarantees it an uninterrupted production until 1981 and gives it an aura of legend that time has not tarnished in the least. Perhaps this is why even today each of us, when it happens to come across one of the current versions of the Caballero put on the market by a renewed Fantic Motor , looks at the little boy who drives and smiles. Marco Panella

All I know about this one is from an article I read about Cabellero making a come back as a brand. When I was a kid, Caballero made small displacement bikes (50cc) in scrambler type that we all lusted after. They were Italian, sexy, rare and out of reach for most of us. Along with “Fantic Motor” they filled many a dream of my adolescent years...

Looks like a fresh front tire too!

Yes, I already knew about heat shields being used by the Muscle Car/Hot Rod crowd to insulate blowers in turbocharged engine and keep air intake cool, and we used to have a couple of independent shops around here that were great resources for everything automotive. Unfortunately they went the way of the dodo as everything can now be found with a couple of clicks on a keyboard. The trouble with that is you don't get to talk to anyone with any knowledge of - and even less get to see/touch - the product you're buying. That's why I find personal hands-on experience with a particular product highly valuable.