All power to you and I hope you’re still riding in good health 👍🏻 I’m the same about Moto Guzzi. The colour of the countryside looks amazing. Where was it shot?
Great POV on motorcycling and why Moto Guzzi evokes so much passion. Great CT roads too. Some of my local favorite roads to boot! Love the Monza paint scheme on your bike. Ride safe, ride long.
I also love Guzzi`s and have had three of them. A 1969 Ambassador 750, a V65sp, and a V50lll. Maybe twenty years ago I passed on a mint 1000S out in Denver, and have kicked myself ever since. To me, your bike is the most beautiful of all Guzzi`s, followed by a red and white 1000SP. Ironically it had been almost a year since I have ridden, and I took my beautiful Dyna out for about an hour ride this morning. It started right up, and the ride was a joy for me at 74 years old.
Somebody once paid me the compliment about my Le Mans "You ride that as though you were born on it". It felt like it as well, an organic bike, bloody brilliant.
Great video thank you!! New MG owner just last week, long time Ducati owner love the MG there's nothing like it and I get a kick out of the tractor reference. Some mc trivia for you, Ducati started out as a radio manufacturer so I think the early references just add to owner appreciation!! Love your bike ride safe.
The Company MOTO GUZZI was founded from Carlo Guzzi in 1921. Next Year it has his Birthday, 100 Year. I also drive a CALIFORNIA III. 2 Years ago i went from Cologne Germany to Italy. Mandello del Lario at the Lake of Como, there is the Factory from Moto Guzzi. Every Year in September is a big MOTO GUZZI PARTY and there are thousends of Moto Guzzi Driver from all over the World. Mandello del Lario is a real beauteful Place, sourended by the Alps. Good italian Food, excellend Whine and good Poeple, it is worth to go there. Many Greetings from Cologne Germany from DANIEL. John 3, 16
Nice photography. I have always loved Guzzi's but never owned one mostly because they cost a lot. But I have one contention to offer. If you think twins sound better than Japanese bikes then you haven't heard a Busa with Two Brothers mufflers.
I share your love for Moto Guzzi but you need to recheck your facts. Moto guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer and the oldest European manufacturer in continuous motorcycle production. Moto Guzzi was a project developed between a mechanic, and two pilots and investors, Carlo Guzzi, Giorgio Parodi, Angelo Parodi that started with motorcycle and nothing else, in 1921, in Mandello Del Lario, north of Milan. It’s was a labor of love that still endures after almost a century. You fell that each time you start one and ride. Ps: of course I have a V7 also. Ps:”Moto Guzzi was conceived by two aircraft pilots and their mechanic serving in the Corpo Aeronautico Militare (the Italian Air Corp, CAM) during World War I: Carlo Guzzi, Giovanni Ravelli and Giorgio Parodi. Assigned to the same Miraglia Squadron based outside Venice,[9] the three became close, despite coming from different socio-economic backgrounds. The trio envisioned creating a motorcycle company after the war. Guzzi would engineer the motor bikes, Parodi (the son of wealthy Genovese ship-owners) would finance the venture, and Ravelli (already a famous pilot and motorcycle racer) would promote the bikes with his racing prowess. Guzzi and Parodi (along with Parodi's brother) formed Moto Guzzi in 1921. Ravelli, ironically, had died just days after the war's end in an aircraft crash and is commemorated by the eagle's wings that form the Moto Guzzi logo (...) Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi, along with Giorgio's brother Angelo, created a privately held silent partnership "Società Anonima Moto Guzzi" on 15 March 1921, for the purpose of (according to the original articles of incorporation) "the manufacture and the sale of motor cycles and any other activity in relation to or connected to metallurgical and mechanical industry". From: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Guzzi
Thanks for the video Jordan. There's quite a few problems with it, however. Firstly, the name which isn't pronounced "Motorgoosie" as you say it. I'm not Italian either, by the way, but I do know how to say this old & proud company's name properly. Its "Mow" as in "mow a meadow", "toe" as in "toe the line", "Goot" with th "oo" sound as in "book" (sort of) & "tzee" as in how some north americans pronounce the last letter of the alphabet. Put together it becomes "Mow-Tow Goot-Tzee", with a semi-pause between the 1st & 2nd syllables of each or the 2 words. Almost like a musical lyric; i.e. in a sing-song phrasing. Secondly, without denigrating you in any way, I can tell that you're not Italian. I can also tell that you're not Irish either. Not just by your alien (North American?) accent, but also your phrasing & cadence which aren't typical of any part of the Emerald Isle. Why claim to be something that you obviously aren't? OK, maybe you were born there, but you've obviously been raised elsewhere since before puberty (when speech patterns become fixed). It doesn't make sense. It would be like the dark-sinned negro races of the americas claiming to be "African" due to some tenuous ancestral links many generations out-of-date. In other words, utter nonsense. To claim this would be to make every single living person on the planet "African" due to our universal common genetic links to the dark continent. What of the white tribe of South Africa then? They have a unique African culture, language and identity. If they're not African (after 400 years of indigenous heritage) then what are they? My own heritage is" Hebridean & St. Kildan, but it would be a lie to call myself a Western Islander. I'm Tasmanian, & will be from birth to death, irrespective of where I roam. My cultural identity became indelibly locked during puberty. The company's origins are from 1921, not "the early 1800s" as you claim. Are you perhaps thinking of Husqvarna, the Swedish armaments manufacturer that was founded in 1689 that made motorcycles from the early 1900's to the late 80s? You're not doing the company any favours by talking BS about them. Guzzi's Vee-twin motor was never developed for, nor as far as I'm aware ever fitted to a tractor. Where does the concept of the V twin being "a tractor engine for farming" come from? Guzzi never made tractors, & never supplied engines to any tractor manufacturers. Lamborghini made tractors. Are you maybe thinking of that company instead? For many years MG made small 3 wheeled trikes that were used as delivery vans or what we in the antipodes call utility vehicles. I think you north american fellows call this class of vehicle "trucks" so I suppose in theory it could perhaps be called a "truck motor", but they also made tiny little 192cc 2-stroke trikes for town deliveries for butchers, bakers, milkmen & the like... are these "trucks" too? Many of the early Ercoles & Ercolinos were readily convertible back into motorcycles simply by unbolting the rear tray & substituting a single wheel subframe. Some had semi & even fully enclosed cabs. The Ercoles were no more like a "tractor" than is a Land Rover, which fulfils a similar role to the Ercoles. The Guzzi V-twin was originally developed for, but never fitted to, Fiat's famous little" Cinquecento" cars. Fiat eventually produced their own power plant for the 500 in-house. Guzzi instead fitted the engine to their bikes, their Ercoles and an ingenoious little 3x3 "Mulo Meccanico" derivative (with a drive shaft running down the front steering fork) for delivering artillery ammunition to the Italian Army Alpine troops. Ingenious it might have been: successful it was not, developing an alarming tendency to tip sideways when loaded with 500kg of high explosive ordnance! I don't doubt the affection you hold for your Guzzi bike, but you really should check your facts before spouting such a load of arrant nonsense about the company. MG has a long & proud history of industrial heritage, inventiveness and innovation for which it can be justifiably proud. It really doesn't need anybody to invent bullshit stories and fake facts when the reality is so great anyway. Instead of "respect' your diatribe sounds more like misinformation.
