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I’m actually an advocate for ethanol fuels, in the correct application they have their benefits. Much of the issue people have (setting scaremongering aside) is due to using ethanol fuels in a vehicle not fully designed for it- it’ll run, but how well and for how long is the question. It’s a bit lik...

Hi Garry,

Arthur, the club machine registrar, who you met when you were in the UK to collect the binnacle from can help you.

Drop him an email including photos of the frame number and the bike from both sides and he will be in touch.

Machine_registrar@morini-riders-club.com

The shell is a cev 40687 so if you search for that you’ll find them listed for other bikes of the era and so widen your search from just Morini. I can’t remember the headlamp glass part number off the top of my head but I’ll dig it out. I’m not aware of there ever being a version with a dip for us w...

Yep sounds like ignition switch. Get a new Honda Camino switch for about a tenner. You’ll need to work out which poles to connect to which wires and you may lose the parking light functionality (who uses that anyway) and you’ll need to make a new loom to go from switch to fusebox as the spades on th...

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Ah, I think I know what’s going on. When we transferred the webmaestro role to Barry, the password for the webmaestro account changed and so now the forum can’t send emails on behalf of webmaestro. I don’t know Barry’s password obviously so I can’t change that but I will change the forum email addre...

Strange. Does look to be set correct for you Tim and I can see the forum has your correct email address in your account. Have you checked your email spam to make sure forum messages aren’t ending up there? The forum automated Emails should come from the club webmaestro email address and will have a ...

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How low a voltage were you running do you think? And where do you suspect the low voltage was- in the whole system or just certain components? The delivered injector pulsewidth will be compensated for battery voltage to still deliver the correct fuel mass so won’t have had any ill effect in my opini...

I don’t know but I wouldn’t think so. In its running in period I had a few low pressure warnings (rectified at first service with a new sensor) and I didn’t notice any difference in the way it ran. More sophisticated engine control systems might restrict power to prevent any engine damage that could...

Frame 4639 does not exist in the club record of known bikes but Engine 4639 does with another frame number, and we know a little bit about that bike, which was definitely in the UK in the 1980s. That bike is showing as SORN with a last V5 change in 2017 so a good chance still very much in one piece....

The press pack given at EICMA said for both the 350 and the bobber they would be available first half of 2026. Interestingly it also said the new kanguro (300 single) and Corsaro (750 v twin) bikes would be second half of 2026. Keeping it all crossed, these all look like appealing bikes to bring int...

The crumbling carb trumpets on the early carbs is sadly quite common. They are made of zamak or similar which seems to corrode and crumble over time almost without fail. My advice is to replace them with the plastic trumpets from the later carbs- a straight swap- before the engine ingests a wayward ...

There is a table on page 38 of the blue book which lists all the carb settings for various models. That’s a good starting point, but you may find like many that with modern fuels, wear and non standard parts (especially exhaust syetms) the settings as they were in 1975 may not be exactly as you will...

Interesting comment regarding the camchain noise transmission- I hadn’t thought of that. My bike is a first series so originally had the smaller chains. It recently had the camchains and gears replaced (TR1613050) so it could be that the later type parts make more noise. It’s hibernating for the win...