2006: 1/9 1/11 7/11 20/11 2007: 22/1 10/9 13/9 19/9 23/9 29/9 2008: 12/5 13/5 14/5 15/5 20/5 22/5 The Tragedy

Continuation of the diary:


Additional photos

1. November 2006:

Yet a couple of thousand kilometers. I think it's typical for Morinisti that they rather ride their Morinis than anything else. I really should have written something here a long time ago, but every time my thoughts were on my beauty, I took it for a spin.

Anyhow, a lot has happend since the last entry. Shortly after I bought it, I bought a pair of Hepco Becker panniers (again from ebay). The rack was for a XJ600, so I had to warm up the welding gear, because I wanted to go on a smal camping trip. I quickly made a temporary solution - Temporary, because the way the Morini looks like now is not how it going to stay.

Perhaps I should mention what I have in mind: It is going to have the looks from the early Sport. Why not buy that one, you might ask? Because I wanted the cast wheels with three brake discs and the kinked frame. Also, the later engines has some improvements that I wanted.

I'm going to make a seat in my own design, not unlike the racing-seats from the 50ies and 60ies. And maybe I'll give a fairing, too. The paint job is going to be excactly like the early Sport, and for this to work I need an early type tank - which I already have bought! So much about the looks, details will follow.

One of the first details that I attended to was the foot pegs. I had read and from almost everybody heard that the stock ones just don't work: you sit like a "doubled over hunchback on the toilet", as someone wrote. The foot pegs are too far ahead in connection with the low positioned handle bars. Initially, I thought that it couldn't be that bad, but after a very short period my back started agreeing with all the others. A solution was required.

 Nice low handle bars


Cleaning and paint is coming, of course! ;o)


Luckily you can get some from Tarozzi especially made for the Morini. However, I find the brackets a bit clumsy looking, so I bought Tarozzis without the brackets and, brace yourselfs, welded some brackets to the frame! I spend a lot of time considering whether I should weld in the frame, but aesthetics won over the fear of "ruining" the frame. So now they are situated nicely in the bend of the silencer bracket.

The rear set presents a new problem: There's no room for the rear foot pegs. Most Morinisti just shrug their shoulders, but I wanted the possibility to have a pillion on the bike. The solution was yet again some metal work and welding: Two bolted on arms that at the same time are mounting points for the lower part of the rack. Now I only have to find some Tarozzi foot pegs. The original ones aren't very nice to look at!

Another problem was the non-original handle bars that were mounted. I think they were mounted to minimize the hunchback-problem. But first of all they weren't nice looking (a Sport has to look small and compact) and second of all they were too high and all the angles were out of wack! Off they went and an original on. Now it looks just right and the seating position is finally perfect.
© Søren Høyer Hansen Wellcome sir1@morinist.dk