La Moto Rossa

Stay tuned for some exciting updates...for now here's a couple photos I took when the lighting was good. Fabio Taglioni really designed a jewel of a motor on this bike.

I had some time today to experiment with removing rust from the bike's wheels using Coca-Cola and aluminum foil. Although the frame & engine will be soda blasted at a later date, I always wanted to try this method. I must say the results were pretty decent, especially for the cost. I'll still soda blast the wheels to get rid of some of the deeper rust but it was nice to be able to see the wheel maker's (Radaelli Milano) stampings.

I acquired the carburetor that will go on the bike. It is an Amal 626 Concentric. I have the same model carb on the other bike and it starts, idles & runs much better than the original Dellorto. This time around, I found one that is 'new old stock', in the original box. I had some free time the other day so I borrowed my brother's Dremel tool and with some polishing bits it was buffed out to a nice shine. I'll probably swap out the main jet, needle and float bowl gasket at some point in the future when the time comes to mount it on the bike. But for now it looks pretty good with the accompanying velocity stack.

When removing the existing shocks from the bike, I noticed that the previous owner (or someone else) probably attempted to install standard nuts on the shock studs, which are metric, resulting in what you see below. Rather than replacing the studs, I will try to restore the existing threads.

Got a killer deal on a pair of new Hagon shocks, however I think I'm going to put these on my bike that is currently running, and the shocks on that bike will go on the project bike.