My newest purchase, you may have seen it on GumTree 1971 Benelli Tornado 650
Ex historic racer, and has been tickled a bit. Ill be putting it back on the road
Anyone know much about them, there is not much info I can find besides road tests and parts dont seem easy to come by
Ive been lead to believe only 6 or 7 came into Australia back in the day
Last edited by lcgtr; 30-04-2011 at 08:16 PM.
Got no info for ya...but fucking niiice!
Must have spent all ur money cos you only have one shoe
very nice bike btw
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That is one sweet looking bike
Motorbikes run on fire and air. Its elemental -Matt Kelly
take that front fairing off and leave as is...amazing.
Holy crap that looks cool!!!
I'm in love
That is one stunning bike. I beg of you not to change the paint colour- it's beautiful!
Great find- hopefully you can dig up some info on them!
Its looks as if Benellis trademark colour is this sort of green so Ill be keeping it
The windscreen will make way for the original hedlight.
Some others Ive found on the net below
Awesome looking machine and i bet it sounds horn too!
THANK YOU for keeping the green!
I just noticed- what's up with like the second or third photo and the person with only one shoe on (and no sock as well....)??
Good find- and the fact you found photos means someone will know something about them.....so good luck!
saw this bike at the vintage jumble, very nice, not sure if it was a racer or done up to look like one, is it lockwired or do you have history?
There are two questions in life.
1:Which way do I go
2:Whats the lap record.
Nice one ! Nathan knows a thing or two about Benelli's.
Understand the one shoe thing,
I too can be found wondering around the shed in one boot at times.
It's what happens when you own a kicker and your doing a bit of work to them.
These guys are spoilt with that small electric motor.Originally Posted by duc13
Nice one ! Nathan knows a thing or two about Benelli's.
Understand the one shoe thing,
I too can be found wondering around the shed in one boot at times.
It's what happens when you own a kicker and your doing a bit of work to them
This one actually has electric start which is advanced for 71 ( especially considering the 4LS front brake) and it worked very well according to road tests for the day (unlike the 'kick assist' one for the 75 mk3 Commando) but its in a box somewhere apparently
Was set up as a vintage racer by the previous previous owner.
Previous owner is a racer and brought it to race but found his 500 Suzuki was faster and since he had something like 30+ Suzukis there he decided to keep going with them
From all reports these things were built very well in their day but over engineered and therefore quite heavy
Nice ride mate!
sweet bike i noticed the 1 shoe aswell haha whats the go thier
Saw this for sale at the Round The Houses, very cool
Cool old bike.Looks a lot like a Norton Manx. Ive never seen so many cooling fins on a front drum before
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Awsom find man, I would give my left nut for one cause I love my paralell twins. I cant see you pics but I'm guessing you got the 4LS drum, for god sake keep it as they are an awsom brake, not sure if it's a grimica setup but 4LS drums are highly prized but the classic racing crowd. love it love it love it.
I've got a TLS on my front end and I'm having Trojan Classics here in sydney machine the drum and refurbish the shoes as they can machine with the wheel complete (so no warping when hub is relaced to rim as is the normal process) and they also machine the shoes to fit perfectly so you get maximum contact area and the best breaking possible, it should be as good as or better than many early discs.
Last edited by Tbird tracker; 12-05-2011 at 12:45 AM.
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