Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

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Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

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Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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Foundry Motorcycles are converting a 1996 1100 Sport into a Moto Guzzi Street Tracker.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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As a trained farrier, Tom from Foundry can make castings from aluminum himself.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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This can be used in the breathtaking exhaust system. The melted aluminum donate as a Guzzi motor housing. Recycling with a difference

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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The already extravagant chassis of the 1100 Sport remains standard, is overhauled and its appearance has been refurbished. The tank comes from a Kawasaki H1.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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The two-valve engine is also fundamentally overhauled and the standard carburettors are matched to the new exhaust system.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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The taillights of an old Honda experience their second spring in the Foundry Tracker.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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The engine exhales through these fins.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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The carburettor version of the engine had a good 90hp in series. The performance after the renovation is not known.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles
Foundry / Gary Margerum

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So that the bottom doesn’t melt, Tom worked with heat protection mats from Thermal Tec. A small corner of it peeks out from under the tank.

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Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport conversion
Recycled Guzzi from the farrier

Foundry Motorcycles from England is converting a Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport into a crisp street tracker. The castings are made in-house. The raw material comes from old Guzzis.


Jens Kratschmar

June 16, 2021

In this article:

  • Foundry Street Tracker
  • Deluxe exhaust
  • Carburettor relocated, electrics replaced
  • Conclusion

When colleague Dina Dervisevic looks at a custom bike just a muffled, but pleasurable “Ohhmm” it has to be something great. If she had already known this morning that the Foundry Street Tracker has a strong focus on recycling, I couldn’t guarantee anything. The topics of recycling and custom bikes usually only fit together in this way: “Saved from recycling by the renovation.” Foundry Motorcycles goes one step or another here. As a former farrier, Tom Simpson – the man behind Foundry, is powerful in casting metal in sand molds. For his conversion of the Guzzi, he casts parts of the exhaust system himself, the aluminum for this comes from old engine blocks from small Moto Guzzi models. We like this kind of recycling.

Foundry Street Tracker

The basis for the Street Tracker from Foundry Motorcycles is one Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from 1996, one of the last Guzzis with factory carburetors. It had been standing around at Tom’s for a few years because the tank shape turned him on and he actually wanted to build a cafe racer out of it. But for a customer he removes the 1100 and starts converting it into a street tracker. The chassis of the 1100 Sport has some character traits that it is essential to maintain. The filigree cast rims, the very unique swing arm construction and of course the distinctive cast parts as swing arm bearings and engine mounts: Everything below the tank line is series-produced in terms of chassis, as most custom bikes would like. Tom’s work starts with the tank. He exchanges the long series barrel for the Fuel bladder of a Kawasaki H1, Garnished with a Monza-style gas cap.

Deluxe exhaust

He sends the two-valve engine for a general overhaul and during this time uses a dummy engine as a template to adjust the carburetor position. And of course the unique exhaust system, whose course and end can only be guessed at and then not believed: The mufflers form the cladding of the rear frame, accommodate the taillights of an old Honda and lead outside via vertical fins just below the end of the seat. Just following the run of the manifold with your finger ends in a game of confusion behind the cylinder heads, hidden by the carburetors, covered by the tank and masked by the thigh when driving. Words are – almost – missing. And no: the bottom doesn’t melt while sitting on the exhaust. Tom shields the hump with Thermo-Tec heat shields.

Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport from Foundry Motorcycles

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Carburettor relocated, electrics replaced

Displaced by the adventurous manifold routing, the outdated Dell’Orto carburettors need a new place: Significantly further back and a little further out, they sniff the air through round individual air filters that are located right next to the shock absorber. But Tom doesn’t just work in aluminum and steel, he also knows his trade in copper: The entire electrical system is adapted to the new forms of Street Tracker: the ignition comes from Elektronik Sachse, the ignition coils from Dyna, the ignition cables are assembled by Taylor Leads. Powered by a light lithium battery from Magneti Marelli, which, like the rectifier, has a new place in an aluminum box under the gearbox. The new owner operates the Kellermann indicators in the handlebars with mini buttons from Motone, and a mini speedometer from MMB provides information on engine speed and revs. Let’s connect everything from Motogadget’s M.Unit, which also brings Key-Less-Go as a feature. One last time, cast aluminum from foundry hands can be found in the housing of the headlight between the polished fork bridges.

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Conclusion

Recycling a motorcycle makes a lot more sense than it already does. Problem: Casting metal yourself is not an everyday hobby. You have to have been a blacksmith in your previous life. Like Tom from Foundry, who has only used his skills on motorcycles for several years. His street tracker based on a Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport is an absolute eye-catcher: “Ohhmm”

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