RENAISSANCE IN VERMONT. John Stewart?s Restomod MV Agusta 250B
Written by Andrew Jones
There’s more than a few Italian moto designs that are so close to perfection, only Tamburini himself could improve on them. It seems that every line, bolt and curve was placed by the hand of il Dio himself. So to set yourself the goal of restomodding one is tantamount to tweaking the Mona Lisa or restoring the Colosseum. And for it to happen in Vermont – of all places – seems even more surreal. Yet that?s exactly what local retiree and self-confessed internal combustion freak John Stewart has done.
?I have been a motorhead all my life,? says the now-retired John from his idyllic Vermonter man cave. ?If it had an engine on it, I wanted to play with it. Like most of us, my first introduction to motorcycling was minibikes. The first ?real? motorcycle I rode was a Honda Sport 90. It was owned by my sister’s boyfriend at the time. I?ve had various bikes over the years, but knowing that I can’t have them all, I have concentrated on Italian twins from the 70’s. My shop currently occupies the first floor of the house; we have recently downsized, but I still have a few bikes, a small metal shop and a pool table.? Let’s hope he’s on Airbnb.
The donor bike was a 1967 MV Agusta 250B. John?s brief to himself was to create a period cafe racer that could have been built in the late 60’s early 70’s. ?I purchased the components from a friend in Colorado; he was going to build a bike around them, but he ch...
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