Pieces of EIGHT
My 1989 Marco Lucchinelli Replica 888 is back up on its wheels, running and complete. Job jobbed! The past few months have been a bit of a difficult pregnancy but bearing in mind the length of the whole gestation, what’s a few months?
After weeks and weeks of trying to fathom out the wiring (without a proper wiring diagram) and make it spark when it should spark, it finally ran for the first time in 27 years back in February 2017. I knew it was going to be loud but I wasn’t quite prepared for just HOW loud. Partly this was my fault.
About 15 years ago I bought a pair of original reverse-cone kit zorst pipes as spares from the late, great Mark Ward – a fellow Battler of the Twins type. I’m glad I did because these black chrome Lafranconi jobbies are like hen’s fangs now and command 20 or
