Moto Guzzi 1100i sport 'The Pipeline' for Sale

This wonderful bike has been showcased in a number of magazines such as Back Street Heroes, Streetfighters Magazine and has also been shown on Bikesheds forum.

This presents an opportunity to own a one of one collaboration between Moto-Guzzi and Foundry Motorcycles. A fantastic piece of engineering not to be missed out on.

For all enquiries please call 01233 646328.

After a succession of boxer BMW projects and a couple of Harley Sportster’s Foundry Motorcycles were looking for a new ‘shop project and a new direction. The Guzzi’s had always been appealing with their charismatic ‘aero’ style engine that, like the BMW’s is a gradual development of a really old school machine. Not being Guzzi-istas, they bought the 1100i Sport from a couple of photos and assumed that under it’s extensive panel work would be some form of lattice frame as on the Le Mans, lending itself to a café racer update.

Grumpy fuel injection and mega wiring looms are not really café racer attributes so the whole lot was pulled off. It just kept getting better and better! A discussion with an old buddy Richard Oakes of Blackjack Cars seeded the idea of a single twin-choke Weber carb, but our 44 IDF is ‘down draught’, straddling the main frame. Carb balancing was eliminated, but a big hole in the fuel tank was needed. The pipe work for the inlet and the desire to run the exhaust over the ‘heads, started to give the look we were after and The Pipeline’ was christened. There was only one way forward – mega industrial.

From the simple Guzzi frame hangs some pretty cool components, WP53mm USD forks and hefty twin disc Brembos are standard and give the bike a pretty full on attitude. The asymmetric swing arm was sprung by a WP remote reservoir shock, but to keep the clean line of the back end, we’ve replaced it with a Hagon unit. The seating position is per the original bike, as we wanted it to be really rideable and the foot control hangers are one of the main chassis components, so they were staying although removed of all the subframe mounts. Returning the bike to its stock 70 series rear tyre courtesy of Avon, helped with both the stance and look of the bike. Hel, did the new brake lines, complete with their Harley front line splitter, mounted under the bottom yoke.