Moto Guzzi V8 under the skirt - quick service and engine start, with Giacomo Agostini as support :-) 

I met Giacomo at phillip island. He signed my jacket:) Nice man. He let my lad sit on his bike (the Honda six)👍

It’s fantastic seeing Ago still riding , I was a teenager when he was racing and winning at the Isle of Man and the great battles he had with Mike the bike

For their 100th anniversary moto guzzi should have built 100 modern interpretations of this bike, I'm sure they could have asked for as much money as they liked and they would have sold out immediately.

All these years later and it is still impressive.

I was quite impressed with the sounds emanating from the surrounding other bikes, but then I got a bit of a fright when the old V8 Moto Guzzi engine exploded back into life - fantastic!

Superb! I have never seen such close up detail of the Guzzi V8 before. Thanks so much for posting.

0:23 look at the 8 exauhst pipe's with nothing in it,very best sound and this bike is from the 60er!! Big respect for the ingenieur's in the passt! Sorry for my bad english best wish Reiner from Germany

Motorcycling magazine had an artist impression of the engine in 1957 , the crankshaft a masterpiece with all ball and roller bearings with each section splined together.

Ideal for a neighbour you don't like on a Sunday Morning,,& then interview was going on all song, legendary

That fuel tank is a work of art! As for the sound... lost for words

Simply, a masterpiece!

To see G.A. and this Bike = ICONIC !!! Many thanks, its a great Footage !!!

The shape of that tank!!! It needs to be in the Louvre next to Mona Lisa.

QUANDO SI ACCENDEVANO QUESTI MOSTRI SI STAVA TUTTI I IN SILENZIO E SI ANDAVA IN PISTA A VOLARE CON LORO IN PISTA E DOPO SI ANDAVA A CASA CON IL LORO ROMBO INCONFONDIBILE NELLE ORECCHIE . QUELLO ERA MOTOCICLISMO PURO AL 100X100 !❤🇮🇹

Now that’s a rolling piece of art. Looks like it just rolled out of a museum,except for the new modern batteries.

Ago .... ogni volta lo vedo a Varano per l'ASI show un tuffo al cuore

Thank God I was got to see Ago ride the V8 Guzzi in a demo at Calder Park Raceway in Victoria Australia when I was a teenager, must have been around 1975, Ago gave it some stick and it sounded glorious!

Bel video :-) Bello quando il pilota e i tecnici lavoravano sulla Guzzi, e bello quando c’era Agostini. Speriamo che tutti vivano molto più di cento anni, in salute.

That is as good as watching the V6 laverda

Ago, simply king of bike. I discover this Guzz, a masterpiece of engineering, thanks for sharing !

By todays Standard this Bike looks like a Scratchbuilt Bike with all this rough tubing, but when you know how Old it is, it really is a Masterpiece in engineering. Some insanely Features not even many Modern Bikes have are Onboard. Two Stage Springs at the Front, Liquid cooled V8 Engine on the Bike... I cannot even imagine the Bravery of the Riders pushing this Beast around a Racetrack. Also, Giacomo Agostini... By the things he acomplished, i´d call him the Moto Godfather of Racing... Unbelievable how good he suits his MV Agusta at the Age of 80! What a living and riding Legend.

Großartig! und viele Grüße zurück!

Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing😜

Was für ein Sound. Die würde ich gerne einmal fahren. Das beste was ich vorher gehört hatte war eine Benelli 6 Cylinder. WOW

I remember seeing this on a list of greatest ever motorbikes, I think it belonged to Jay Leno, he said it's "like taking apart a watch!". My grandad remembers one screaming down a strait when he watched a race at the Nuremberg in 1955.

Mostro Guzzi!

Che meraviglia.

O na to czekałem ! 😁🔥

Il migliore di tutti i tempi 👏👏👏

👀 Vaya con la abuela!!!impresionante mecánica compacta y rugido bestial. Gracias por traernos máquinas preciosas y alucinantes como esta. Saludos desde el Atlántico. 🇮🇨🏍️🇮🇨

Wow! Class and classic!

The dual wheelchair batteries are nice touch.

Wow ! Compelling viewing

Yes, oui évidement la belle Ducati et son moteur en V, je l'avais oubliée celle ci , mais c'était bien elle. Vu dans les livres moto 🏍 , là c'est clair que nous sommes dans la cour des très grands, il y a du beau monde dans la pipe line, quel bruit, une moto 🏍 GP avant l'heure. Toutes les autres sont en mode sourdine après la mise en route de son moteur en V , plus personne ne bronche ! 😅 Agostini a dû apprécier ! Superbe journée ! Quel pied ! 👍🏍️👌 Bravo. Phil 🏍️ 🇨🇵 gsxr 1000 r L8 origins limited n 14 France 🇫🇷.

That front end is quite remarkable. It's alot like a earls but different.

Fantastic enough said what engineering

Das habe ich auf dem Sachsenring miterlebt...Ago schaut zu..

Ago! A lenda viva, um gentleman!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

amazing motorcycle...

Magnifico

Franchement s'est juste magnifique et monstrueux sur piste, a voir qu'elle double cames avant monter t'il, Grimeca👌 🌞💕💙💛

I met Ago at a Phillip Island GP in the pits. He was chatting happily with Barry Sheene in the late afternoon sunlight and I was clicking away with my old telephoto camera like crazy from four feet away. It was later that night when I found my film hadn't advanced on the spindle. Zero. Oh well...

changed my mind once it fired up.

look at the means of the racer pushing this piccolo mostro - it would seem he could tell this beauty to proceed with such a slight wanting from his fingertips! this perceived agility of the brute.

Ago still getting around quite good these days

Giacomo jejejje impresionante 👏👏👏

Grande tecnica guzzi

OMG!!! I just died and went to heaven....

Beautiful - A work of Art - Is it a 1957 Original or one of the few unearthed by De Tomaso many years later, when he acquired the Race Shop on Lake Como & found enough parts to rebuild a few more Bikes ?

Wow, itu motor tua, tapi suaranya gahar......I like the sound. Maaf saya kurang bisa bahasa inggris. Saya langsung subscribe chanel nya

The bike has to burn a little oil . If not they will score the cylinders . Everything will tighten up when wormed up a bit . These engines are born being loose when cold . If this was unburned fuel the plugs will fowl out .

Was für ein urtümliches Gerät. Der Tank sieht aus, wie aus Grauguss gegossen. Alle Superbikes (oder sind wir schon bei Hyperbikes?) des 21. Jahrhunderts zusammen haben nicht soviel Rennspirit, wie diese Schwermetall-Guzzi.

The Italian company Protar did a 1/8 scale model kit of this motorcycle a few decades ago. I believe they went out of business but the kits show up on eBay etc.

Goran, what a shame, I was in the same pit, visiting Mario with his Ducatis! I already thought you might be there as well, but nobody knows how you look like 😄

I wish the cowling would be so easy to remove on modern bikes.

Giacomo speaks pretty good English

👍✌️❤️❤️❤️

It has a brutal sort of beauty. 1952 so hub brakes and no fuel injection. Looks like a nightmare to work on.

I slightly knew Bill Lomas and he told me about trying the 350 V8. I've quite a knowledge of older machines but have never come across this in the press. Anyone got any information?.

The Italians built beautiful Race Motorcycles, Multi cylinder over head cam....as did Honda. The British built single cylinder Manx Nortons and AJS race bikes (and others) and went just a fast, but were often more reliable. 2 differing philosophies with the same outcome. As did the Germans, Czechs and other Europeans.

Wenn Giacomo mit der MV ankam , von weitem schon zuhören gewesen, da sind die Massen an der Rennstrecke aufgesprungen...

Tony: Hey Gino, I betcha can't make a twin overhead cam 500cc GP bike. Gino: here Tony, hold my vino....

Tecnica unica

at 2:09: LIGHT ALLOY WELDING IN 1952???????????????? Is this a later componet or Guzzi men were SO ahead of their time? It makes me cry to think the very same brand once made starship like this and now uses a 50 years old engine...

Fantastic bike sadly never reached its potential.

One thing I do kind of hate with people that think the fatter the rear tire is the better it looks . There are some people think that it helps and it dont . To me a fat tire only means that a person cant ride a bike with out training wheels . A friend of mine bought a Kawasaki KH400 with stock 3.50 tire on the back . He put 4.10 tire on the back . I pretty much told him WHY . The 3.50 tire would be better there would be some less pattern but that is good in a way on the curves . It give the bike a little bit of drift on the rear and not grab some much . A better thing is to have vary good adjustable shocks would make all the difference in the world . Much much more than bigger tire on the back . I think he put a wider tire on the back like he only going to do is a straight line racing . But not worth a crap on the turns . For those guys that has a crotch rocket . You do realize that these bike are not race ready and for street use right . I have seen a lot of steer bump just because of back tires and bad factory shocks and ill prep bikes . If you people look everything on these bikes is prepped for racing this includes skinny tires . It's about speed and agility both .

OMG , OMG , that my idol OMG , REGARDS Ziggy Canada

A great bike for history of motorcycling. But only noise and smog? I think is better one or two laps, for the bike and racer.

Is that the best looking fuel tank ever ?

I would like to build a half scale model of the engine. Any idea how to get hold of a copy of the drawings?

Opera d'arte su ruote... a raggi.

Ingegnere Carcano!

So that qualifies as 'support' from Ago? And that qualifies as a 'service' on the Guzzi? ; )

かっけー😄😄😄

Ma Gino ! Porkoa tou rajouté pas oun cylindro sou lé fare y oun otro sou la selle ?😂

¡ La posicion de la bateria deja que desear,aunque pensandolo es para una carrera ! 👍👍🤣🤣

Is this an original,, or a new build

italian's bike are the best ! ducati - mv agusta - motoguzzi - moto morini - cagiva - morbidelli - aprilia - benelli

ma và a miscela? fuma come un due tempi. but go with oil? smoje like a two stroke.

How many of these exist?

Wish I had the money to just ride motorcycles

Fa la Guzzi V8 suena mejor que la Honda 1050 6 cilindros bueno dos Hermosa moto 😭😭👌

After the ww2 they decided they couldn't run alcohol in Grand Prix racing because it was so dangerous for the riders! As I'm understanding it can produce invisible flame. So Moto Guzzi decided they had to do something to get the power back. 8 cylinders was their answers!! They built two of them @ equivalent to $50k/. Then they wrecked one. I think that was the end of that program!! I'm not so sure beyond that!!

How come the Dunces who ran the British motorcycle industry not see the writing on the wall when this thing was launched

Show stopper

many do not know that after carlo guzzi the subsequent owners have no interest in moto guzzi otherwise if they knew the history of moto guzzi and really cared about it they would revive it but unfortunately today everyone thinks about making money at all costs......

@Allen millyard take notes🤣

What could possibly go wrong? 🤣

Love vintage bikes but no fan of drum brakes!

4:01 oh no are the mechanicer from this bike are very blind?? There is a very danger problem for the driver and all other bikes on track!! The Oel pipeline have some deep cuts thete are much to old! Very next time there come oel out and run to the rearwheel and on the ground!! Thats big danger for life!! I dont understand why there dont see this,thats soooo dangeres oel on tires or street!! I wish very much that there see this bevor there have a crash!!! Sorry for my bad english best wish Reiner from Germany

Che cosa, no?.

Veramente mal messa posticcia con tubi appiccicati con doppie fascette norma addirittura con legature di fildiferro tubi trasparenti di quelli dei muratori per verificare livello serbatoio sfiato davanti alle forcelle appiccicato con fascette a nastro (anche mal troncate) debbo dire che questo gioiello della meccanica italiana meritava dì più o no'😔

Not Moto Guzzi, but MV Agusta!

Hellcat bike lmao

What is he doing? He seems to have no clue what he is doing.

Honda built a V8 racing bike, was banned from all tracks.......

Non ha senso..tenere la moto a 5000 giri per quasi tutto il tempo. Scemo?

Awfull sound !

Paráda zvuk motoru,nějako dnes,běšte doprdele!!!

A definitive study in bad-assedness (I'll take 2 please) 🥸...👀(Moon equipped)