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Tuning For Need, Part 2

15th November 2020 RowenaH Features, Workshop

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 either works or it doesn’t,…

Tuning for Need, Part 1

5th November 2020 RowenaH Workshop

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… Moto Guzzi’s big single is a popular choice for RC regulars.Here’s Editor Westworth aboard one he owned a few years ago……

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

26th January 2018 RowenaH Features

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 highway and not the forest…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

24th January 2018 RowenaH Features

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 of the community. I crossed…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

22nd January 2018 RowenaH Features

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 pleasantly surprised at how easily…