Bob Bernstein
Cruisin' Guzzisti
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2008
- Messages
- 104
New to me 1980 SP1000
Hi, well I have been studying this board pretty regularly and listening to everybody express their love for the newer, as well as older Guzzi’s. So, I finally bought a friend’s 1980 SP1000 that he has been trying to sell me for over a year. It’s a restoration project that’s about 90% complete-a 2-3 year restoration project. My friend has pretty much gone through the whole bike since he bought it, replacing seals and whatnot, but he is also restoring an old single cylinder MV and I think he is getting to the point he wants to just ride for awhile and is cutting down from 9 bikes.
The SP’s clock says it has about 24.5K and by the look of things I say that is probably true. He has done a beautiful Red and Black paint job, as his first big bike was a Black and Red SP1000. Everything has been gone over and he had the cylinders and heads cleaned and a valve job and everything checked out. They look beautiful. Bike has a black Bubb exhaust system that needs to be repainted and brand new rubber. K&N and newer battery, the and original seat looks just fine for 30 year old bike. Windscreen is original, if a little discolored. A slight problem getting the left turn signal to work, but I sure I can track that down. I know the bike was recently running as my friend was riding it about a few years ago, he really liked and so decided it was worth putting money into himself. At this point most of the money spent was his.
This is the first time I have undertaken a non BMW project bike as I have always been a sucker for an Airhead and have done several older BMW /5,/6,/7’s as well several “newer” Airheads.
I am excited to say the least! Now instead of riding my Stelvio, I’ll probably be in the garage cleaning and what not. I know that these things always end up costing a lot more than I originally planned but I think it will be nice to take out for a spin on a sunny day. I can just hear my 1987 R80 talking back to me.
Bob
Hi, well I have been studying this board pretty regularly and listening to everybody express their love for the newer, as well as older Guzzi’s. So, I finally bought a friend’s 1980 SP1000 that he has been trying to sell me for over a year. It’s a restoration project that’s about 90% complete-a 2-3 year restoration project. My friend has pretty much gone through the whole bike since he bought it, replacing seals and whatnot, but he is also restoring an old single cylinder MV and I think he is getting to the point he wants to just ride for awhile and is cutting down from 9 bikes.
The SP’s clock says it has about 24.5K and by the look of things I say that is probably true. He has done a beautiful Red and Black paint job, as his first big bike was a Black and Red SP1000. Everything has been gone over and he had the cylinders and heads cleaned and a valve job and everything checked out. They look beautiful. Bike has a black Bubb exhaust system that needs to be repainted and brand new rubber. K&N and newer battery, the and original seat looks just fine for 30 year old bike. Windscreen is original, if a little discolored. A slight problem getting the left turn signal to work, but I sure I can track that down. I know the bike was recently running as my friend was riding it about a few years ago, he really liked and so decided it was worth putting money into himself. At this point most of the money spent was his.
This is the first time I have undertaken a non BMW project bike as I have always been a sucker for an Airhead and have done several older BMW /5,/6,/7’s as well several “newer” Airheads.
I am excited to say the least! Now instead of riding my Stelvio, I’ll probably be in the garage cleaning and what not. I know that these things always end up costing a lot more than I originally planned but I think it will be nice to take out for a spin on a sunny day. I can just hear my 1987 R80 talking back to me.
Bob