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  • Tuning For Need, Part 2

    Tuning For Need, Part 2

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    Paul Friday continues his quest to make his old banger sizzle. In this episode, your hero tries to find an ignition system to fit his single-cylinder Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone… Electronic ignition systems are so common now that they are taken for granted. It’s a box with some wires that makes the plug fire. It…

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  • Tuning for Need, Part 1

    Tuning for Need, Part 1

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    Paul Friday’s industrial relic – a Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone – produces a lot less power than it could. In this series of features from the RC RChive, he embarks upon a quest to make the old banger sizzle… My bike makes a lot less power than it could. While we all accept that old…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

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    Nick Adams has been riding the unpaved logging roads through Quebec’s forests on his Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone. Would a modern adventure motorcycle have been a better choice of two-wheeled transport for this trip? As with the road to Parent, the 120 miles of road between Parent and La Tuque was a well maintained gravel…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

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    Last time, Nick Adams set off on his Moto Guzzi Falcone 500 for a quick spin around the logging roads of Quebec. This time, the traffic comes closer than is entirely comfortable… Parent is a typical, small, isolated railway village: a scattering of houses and public buildings bisected by the railway, the heart and focus…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

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    Moto Guzzi’s Nuovo Falcone is a solidly put-together 500 single. It’s far from fast, but it’s famous for going on forever. That’s just as well. When RC’s Canadian correspondent, Nick Adams, goes for a ‘short trip’ on the unpaved roads around Quebec, the miles soon mount up… Whenever I ride the Nuovo Falcone I’m always…

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