Anyone with an email address knows that the internet is rife with scammers. It’s easy to get hoodwinked if you’re not vigilant—but luckily this particular story has a happy ending. It starts with a scam, and ends with a stunning Moto Guzzi street tracker from one of the UK’s best custom builders.
Before this Guzzi’s owner commissioned it, he was trawling eBay for a new whip, and stumbled upon a Moto Guzzi V65 that Tom Simpson at Foundry Motorcycle had built. But something felt off, so he reached out to Tom to verify that the advert was legit. It wasn’t.
The phone call wasn’t a total waste, and the guys ended up connecting. “I let him know that I had a number of the ingredients to make a very similar bike waiting in the donor bike-slash-parts cupboard,” says Tom.…