Project · Moto Guzzi V35 · for Rosario
Red Wing
Moto Guzzi V35. From wreck to little eagle, agile and ready for any terrain.
ScrollChapter 01 — Rosario
A wreck
to rescue
- Base
- Moto Guzzi V35
- Owner
- Rosario
- Budget
- Low budget
- Exhausts
- Hooligan
About a year ago Rosario got in touch through mutual friends and asked me to come and see his Guzzi and give it a new life.
Until then I had always put it off because of other commitments, but in the end, during the summer, I found the time and went to visit him.
I expected to find a bike showing a few signs of age; instead the door swung open on a wreck that made you want to open the skip and throw it in.
“Please, I wouldn't want to spend much,” Rosario says. I tear at the hair I do not have and, deep in thought, load up the V35.
Chapter 02 — The challenge
Low budget,
clear ideas
It is not easy to come up with something original from a low budget project on a bike that has been reinterpreted so widely… but we like a challenge.
Besides the full restoration, we tried to play on simple, harmonious lines with a refined colour scheme.
Chapter 03 — The colour
Historic
amaranth
So the historic Guzzi amaranth is reinterpreted in a modern matt version, paired with cherry red, titanium and anthracite.
The rear shocks are replaced and lengthened, and the knee panels on a CB350 tank create a slim line completed by a two-seater saddle in leather and technical fabric.
Chapter 04 — The character
A little
eagle
The narrow handlebar puts the headlight in the spotlight, and the oversized knobby tyres complete the slightly rugged character of this little eagle.
The battery stays on show in its wooden box, for Rosario's aesthetic pleasure, while two Hooligan silencers break the silence for the pleasure of anyone who hears it go by.
Chapter 05 — Flying again
Like having
wings
In the end the wreck became an agile, go-anywhere bike, with a simple line but refined details, able once again to give Rosario wings.
In the end the wreck became an agile, go-anywhere bike, able once again to give Rosario wings.
Specifications
See the other bikes- Model
- Moto Guzzi V35
- Work
- Full restoration, low budget
- Rear suspension
- Replaced and lengthened
- Tank
- Honda CB350 knee panels
- Seat
- Two-seater in leather and technical fabric
- Handlebar
- Narrow
- Tyres
- Oversized knobby
- Battery
- On show, in a wooden box
- Exhausts
- Hooligan silencers
- Colours
- Matt amaranth, cherry red, titanium, anthracite