I drooled over them but could only afford a Honda 4/4 F1. My mate had a Bennelli sei with a race faring. 15 odd years on I bought a second hand Le Mans MkIII , it was a great bike and I now regret selling it.
JohnV6 2022 CX Plus Four 2025 MG ZS EV aka Trigger
Triking and Aero teamed up years ago to make this. I am not sure why it never made it anywhere, because in my eyes its the best "replica" to date.
Originally Posted By 4/4Boy
Agreed I wonder what happened?
The brief was from a German dealer to build 100 replicas for the Morgan 100 anniversary. This is why it has sliding pillar front suspension instead of the Triking wishbones. We were approached for the supply of engines, gearboxes etc. but said that the quantity was too large and they would be better off talking direct to Guzzi. We then tried to put them in touch with the right person. Unfortunately the then responsible people at Guzzi were too short sighted to realise the potential of the Morgan three wheeler and offered a price that was virtually the dealer price for entire bikes. That is one of the main reasons that the Morgan/Triking project died. (The other was Tony Divey's failing health.)
If Moto Guzzi executives had been more flexible and had offered a reasonable price history may have been different.
I'm Arthur of Aero Cycle Cars, I supplied Peter Dron the photos of the Triking-Morgan. I bought the whole project from Triking with the intention of potentially doing something with it. The first thing was that there was no castor on the suspension set-up, and the rudimentary sliding pillar set-up, was not well thought out. My idea was to used genuine Morgan 4/4 sliding pillars and hubs. I never got around to it and sold it on, however, before I did so, I took moulds from Tony Divey's very basic bodywork, having cleaned it up somewhat, and I then produced some mouldings.
Basically, I can buy a chassis in from Triking and offer up my own mouldings, I'd have to bend up rear rounded top and bottom chassis rails (we do this anyway for my standard cars), then a rather nice hybrid Morganesque Triking would be possible.
A further alternative is to incorporate the Triking-Morgan GRP body components into my own chassis design, thus, an Aero-Triking-Morgan, or maybe I call it simply an Aero-Morgan!
I can do whatever anyone wants. I also have a Triking front end which could be grafted to the front end of one of my chassis as well.
Yes, my nose cones are rather wide, however, it has to be as the throttle bodies of the fuel injection system would foul. Naturally, changes can be made, but I can confirm that every change made anywhere, has a knock on effect further down the line. Unlike Morgan with their 170 employees plus, I am solely a one man band...and 60! I went on a factory tour recently, funnily enough, I had to deliver a used Moto Guzzi engine to a young chap who works in the Aero Racing department, and apparently he is building a special, a 4 wheeler using a 3 wheeler chassis (presumably one of the returned cracked ones) and he is installing a Guzzi engine...not sure which gearbox he is using, but I'll be interested to keep in touch.
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