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johnnybravo12
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 4:16 pm |
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What size rear wheel/tire are you running?
It’s a beautiful build.
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Carlo
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:40 pm |
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Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:44 am Posts: 1795 Images: 7
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Porca puttana che moto!!!
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:31 pm |
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618F1
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:38 am |
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Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:23 am Posts: 1826
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That was funny Lou. Carlo does make me wonder at times,
Great custom parts you’ve got going there.
MikeV
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:47 am |
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Thanks Mike, nice to know one guy on the Forum laughed! Lou
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huit
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:48 pm |
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I have to learn Italian now! More photos please!
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flattop900
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 4:20 pm |
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A few definitions... Whore = a bike that won't start. ( sometimes used with the adjective F N ) Pig = a heavy bike that doesn't go, stop or handle. (also sometimes used with F N ) I don't see that bike ever falling into either one of those categories. Carlo must have confused it with a different marque. Fifty shades of green with envy.... Flattop
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:17 pm |
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piuma14
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:27 pm |
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Hi Lou!
This bike is really cool, it cant be more hotrod with a belt driven engine! And those wheels, I have never seen them before! Where do the come from and what is the background?
/Björn
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: The Alcoa Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 5:28 pm |
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Hi Bjorn, thanks for the kind words. You were nice enough to post all those photos, so I went into my old photos to find you the origins and history of these wheels. I think they are pretty rare, as I have only seen a few bikes with them. I don't think they were a production wheel. The first time I saw these wheels was in a motorcycle dealer in Ohio. They were on a pristine F1b model. Maybe 1988? Never saw them again till early 1994? I saw a pathetic F1 that was in a garage fire. I bought the bike because I wanted a B motor for my A model F1. I always thought that would be the ultimate F1. The looks of the early model with the later 'fine spline' motor. I took the motor out cleaned it, changed fluids and looked her over. Stock but complete. put her in the frame, plugged her in, vroom! started right up. I took the rest of the bike apart. Sold Gary Palmer the frame, which he took and built a championship winning F1, I think that was the frame. The swingarm went to another friend as did the forks. I kept those wheels. Looking at the wheels I realized it was the same bike I saw in Ohio. The guy I bought the burnt bike from said that's where it came from! So sad. They sat on a shelf, were sold to a guy who wanted to use them on a Harley project! Ugh! More years past and a friend of mine (Jane, who did the illustration of my TT1) found these 'cool' wheels at a friends shop and bought them for me for my birthday! I guess they were meant to be on this bike. I just realized that's the history of these particular wheels, not the Oscam history, but I figured you would get a kick out of it. The pictures are cell phone pictures of a print, sorry for the lack of quality. Lou
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