Author Topic: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest  (Read 109668 times)

Offline Tusayan

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 1788
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1230 on: February 22, 2023, 09:55:43 PM »
If you’re thinking the V100 valve covers are gold because they are magnesium that’s been treated with e.g. Dow 7 (which would make them gold like a Halibrand mag wheel) that’s unlikely.  Whatever they’re made of I’m pretty confident they will be coated with paint in the gold color the stylist preferred, for corrosion resistance.  I think silver or crinkle black would have been better myself, but to each his own.  The wheels do look pretty good in gold.





I’d imagine the valve covers are gold for the same reason the frame on this 21 year old Aprilia Tuono is gold, Cycle World liked the way the tall bars worked but described the styling on that one as “carbon-fiber car crash”.  Twenty one years on and I think you can still see a theme.





Another Michelangelo moment from Aprilia was the seat cover on the Aprilia-‘updated’ 2002-2005 V11 Sport being painted a color dramatically contrasting with the adjoining bodywork, where pre-Aprilia Guzzi had carefully designed the two part assembly to make it look like one piece.  Scooter kids…  :rolleyes:  They’ve made a little progress since then, the V85TT has me hoping, but they apparently still have some distance to go  :laugh:







« Last Edit: February 22, 2023, 10:27:36 PM by Tusayan »

Offline jrt

  • Gaggle Mentor
  • ****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 997
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1231 on: February 22, 2023, 10:16:30 PM »
That would be disappointing.  In my (so far imaginary) ownership, I would have something like that re-painted/powdercoated. 
I have not seen this point definitively addressed yet, so I withhold any judgement. 
L-720
1973 Eldorado
2003 Yardbird (1100 hydro)
2020 R1250RS

Offline Huzo

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 13202
  • Location: Creswick Australia
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1232 on: February 23, 2023, 05:37:39 AM »
Huzo,  it's a pretty safe bet that you will have one within 2 years.
Therefore Chad, you’ll have no reluctance in wagering USD 10,000 at 10,000:1
If I get one, I owe you $10,000
If I don’t, you owe me $1.00
Wanna’ play…? :popcorn:
After all..It’s a “pretty safe bet…”  :wink:
Let’s see now, I’ll set my alarm for 10:36 pm on Feb 23 2025….(tick…tick…tick…).
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 03:09:40 PM by Huzo »

Offline Bulldog9

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2670
  • Location: United States
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1233 on: February 23, 2023, 07:49:37 AM »
To my Eye Palate, I think the Mandello would look much better with a black motor and trans/swingarm. The Gold Valve Covers make sense with the Gold Rims on the Base Red, but not with other color combos. Over time, the silver gets stained and is harder to keep looking pristine (if that matters to you).

My 07 Griso has a very interesting bronzish color on the swingarm and CARC that I wished translated to the engine and valve covers. But I like uniformity.

As for those who think this is NOT "Guzzi" enough, I'm wondering what else on the market is 'more' Guzzi? I think this is a perfect modern evolution of the Marque, if 5 years late. There is obviously a ton of 'parts bin' happening with Aprilia/Piaggio but it is what it is, and I think they did a great job overall. Will be interesting to see what they do with the Stelvio and possible other derivatives.
MGNOC#23231
The Living: 1976 Convert, 2004 Breva 750, 2007 GRiSO, 2008 1200 Sport, 2016 Stornello #742,
The Departed: 2017 MGX, 2014 Norge GT, 
In Stasis: 1978 XS750, XS1100SF

Wildguzzi.com

Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1233 on: February 23, 2023, 07:49:37 AM »

Offline Phil/TX

  • Gosling
  • ***
  • Posts: 474
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1234 on: February 23, 2023, 08:57:22 AM »
Sure hope I’m not the late order ,as I ordered in October. :violent1:
"You will seldom regret what you have done, but you will always regret what you have not"
2014 V7 Special
20 Guzzi V85TT Coast Guard (super chicken)
23 V100 S Mandello ( wing man)
1973 Puch 175 Enduro
2003 BMW R 1150 RS
1972 R75/5 with sidecar

Offline Tusayan

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 1788
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1235 on: February 23, 2023, 09:17:13 AM »
As for those who think this is NOT "Guzzi" enough, I'm wondering what else on the market is 'more' Guzzi? I think this is a perfect modern evolution of the Marque, if 5 years late.

The V85TT, as mentioned several times.

The V100 looks like a very good mechanical design spoiled to a degree by Japanese/Aprilia styling, particularly the fairing and headlight which are really quite ugly and inappropriate to my eye.  The bike is good but not ‘perfect’,  I think it could be better.

Guzzi’s industrial design ‘thing’ is, or should be, good taste.  The issue there is not parts bin engineering affecting the V100 because I’m not aware of any shared parts. The issue is sharing designers with Aprilia, which at its core is a scooter manufacturer selling to adolescent tastes. 

That is not to say that the V100 is less atttactive than its competitors from BMW, KTM, Ducati etc.  In 2023 those are generally visually horrific and I think the V100 is well above average.  But I think the standards for a Guzzi should be much higher.  I don’t buy those bikes and I do buy Guzzis for a reason.

It would be interesting to know if the V85TT and this one were designed/styled by the same people, or not.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 02:07:14 PM by Tusayan »

Online bad Chad

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 9551
  • Location: Central Il
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1236 on: February 23, 2023, 11:45:15 AM »
Just a gentlemen's bet dear Huzo no money need be placed.   I'll be paid enough when you inevitably announce your new procurement. :azn:
2007 Breva 1100  Red Arrow (and faster than yours!)
2016 CSC 250TT Zongshen
2017 V9 Roamer

Offline Huzo

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 13202
  • Location: Creswick Australia
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1237 on: February 23, 2023, 02:04:02 PM »
Just a gentlemen's bet dear Huzo no money need be placed.   I'll be paid enough when you inevitably announce your new procurement. :azn:
No Chad, not for me and at what point will you concede that you were mistaken ?

I would however like to get my Norge to 300,000 k just for fun. There’s some intangible quality that I seem to need these days regarding a bike, that was not always thus. If I look at the Norge, it looks to me like it’s “my bike”, the same with the V85. I know there are a couple of things with both that lend that particular appeal to me.
It is the “uniqueness” that I perceive in both bikes that I seem to be drawn to these days and I think the V100 for mine, does not possess it.
I have become comfortable in the world that my Norge provides for me and I just seem to have mis placed what used to be my wandering eye. To my way of thinking, the V100 has begun to “compete” with the bikes within it’s design brief and must now go head to head on the spec sheets.
It’s a strange notion I’ll admit, but my bike reminds me a lot of what I hope I am, not fantastic at any one thing but has forged a place in the masses where it seems to have found a comfortable niche’ and have no desire to change or be anyone else.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2023, 03:02:50 PM by Huzo »

Offline Bulldog9

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2670
  • Location: United States
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1238 on: February 23, 2023, 04:21:20 PM »
The V85TT, as mentioned several times.

The V100 looks like a very good mechanical design spoiled to a degree by Japanese/Aprilia styling, particularly the fairing and headlight which are really quite ugly and inappropriate to my eye.  The bike is good but not ‘perfect’,  I think it could be better.

Guzzi’s industrial design ‘thing’ is, or should be, good taste.  The issue there is not parts bin engineering affecting the V100 because I’m not aware of any shared parts. The issue is sharing designers with Aprilia, which at its core is a scooter manufacturer selling to adolescent tastes. 

That is not to say that the V100 is less atttactive than its competitors from BMW, KTM, Ducati etc.  In 2023 those are generally visually horrific and I think the V100 is well above average.  But I think the standards for a Guzzi should be much higher.  I don’t buy those bikes and I do buy Guzzis for a reason.

It would be interesting to know if the V85TT and this one were designed/styled by the same people, or not.

V85? Well of course.... And V7 and V9 for that matter. But those are different (air-cooled) chassis and likely out going. This is a fresh page. To me it's as different to the other models as the CARC bikes were to the Tonti based bikes that preceded.
.
Its all in the eye, but the V100 does not have an insectoid face (Japanese) like most other offerings.

No parts bin on the drivetrain, but suspension, brakes, controls, dash/screen, switchgear, etc etc.... There's loads of it.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 04:25:42 PM by Bulldog9 »
MGNOC#23231
The Living: 1976 Convert, 2004 Breva 750, 2007 GRiSO, 2008 1200 Sport, 2016 Stornello #742,
The Departed: 2017 MGX, 2014 Norge GT, 
In Stasis: 1978 XS750, XS1100SF

Offline blackcat

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 8854
  • Location: USA
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1239 on: February 23, 2023, 04:25:28 PM »
Reported today by a USA owner:


“We are happy to announce your Moto Guzzi V100  Mandello is just a couple of weeks from arriving at your selected  dealer, and you should be receiving confirmation from your dealer  representative shortly.
Once your dealer has confirmed your unit arrival, they will be in contact with you set a specific date on the vehicle pick up.
Thank you for your interest, and congratulations on your new Moto Guzzi.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Moto Guzzi USA”
1968 Norton Fastback
1976 Lemans
1981 CX-100
1993 1000S
1997 Daytona RS
2007 Red Norge

Online ridingron

  • Gosling
  • ***
  • *
  • Posts: 232
  • Location: Florida
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1240 on: February 23, 2023, 04:29:11 PM »
Quote
I would however like to get my Norge to 300,000 k just for fun. There’s some intangible quality that I seem to need these days regarding a bike, that was not always thus. If I look at the Norge, it looks to me like it’s “my bike”, the same with the V85. I know there are a couple of things with both that lend that particular appeal to me.
It is the “uniqueness” that I perceive in both bikes that I seem to be drawn to these days and I think the V100 for mine, does not possess it.
I have become comfortable in the world that my Norge provides for me and I just seem to have mis placed what used to be my wandering eye. To my way of thinking, the V100 has begun to “compete” with the bikes within it’s design brief and must now go head to head on the spec sheets.
It’s a strange notion I’ll admit, but my bike reminds me a lot of what I hope I am, not fantastic at any one thing but has forged a place in the masses where it seems to have found a comfortable niche’ and have no desire to change or be anyone else.
I see this as a bike that could be anyone’s 

This quote pretty much defines my feelings for my "soulless" Honda. Mine is about the same red color even! Strangely, since it's even been said they are too plain Jane vanilla, I would like a white one! I've owned an ST1100 for over 20 years. After a few other bikes, (Guzzi, BMW F650, Suzuki, Yamaha, and a Valkyrie) I still go back to my ST. Now I find myself looking at the V100 wondering, will this be the one to move me?
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 04:38:15 PM by ridingron »

Offline Tusayan

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 1788
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1241 on: February 23, 2023, 05:33:30 PM »
To me it's as different to the other models as the CARC bikes were to the Tonti based bikes that preceded.

Yes, and that's the potential problem.  The first CARC bikes (meaning 2005 Breva) were very ugly and had little Guzzi in them compared to what they replaced - meaning the V11 Sport based spine framed bikes mostly, not the cruisers.  Eventually the whole Aprilia designed BMW-replica range was discontinued and never directly replaced.  It did not take Guzzi anywhere.

The first step in getting Guzzi back on track after that misstep was the 2007 Griso (a Centauro re-do), then the little ersatz-V7 small blocks looked backwards and sold nostalgia + low cost to make some money and eventually the V85TT solidified this much better direction in a forward looking product, gathering lots of positive press and buyer enthusiasm as a result.  Better press than any other Guzzi since maybe 1998 when the EV made Cycle World's Ten Best. 

To me the V100 looks a bit like a repeat performance of 2005 although that's definitely an overstatement and the fix would (will?) take a lot less effort than the 2007-2019 saga because the 2023 engineering appears to have a lot of potential and the styling miscues are relatively minor.  I still would have hoped for better in terms of the overall Guzzi product, building better on the inertia of the V85TT versus looking like an innovative Guzzi driveline in a fairly generic Aprilia package.

Its all in the eye, but the V100 does not have an insectoid face (Japanese) like most other offerings.

All in the eye indeed, because I think the V100 fairing and headlight looks very much like that, perhaps not quite as bad but as mentioned I think the industrial design standard for a Guzzi needs to be higher.  It needs to be the best on the market, especially since virtually every other manufacturer is making really ugly bikes in 2023.  There's an opportunity out there, and the reception to the V85TT proved it.

No parts bin on the drivetrain, but suspension, brakes, controls, dash/screen, switchgear, etc etc.... There's loads of it.

Maybe so, it would be interesting to list the specific parts that are shared - I hadn't noticed that parts commonality with other Piaggio products.  But regardless the parts you mention would have no impact on the the overall design of the bike in the sense that I'm trying to convey.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 06:26:15 PM by Tusayan »

Offline twowheeladdict

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 6149
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1242 on: February 23, 2023, 06:27:51 PM »
Ride on the autobahn.

https://youtube.com/shorts/OAEDj8X5RQo?feature=share

He does do a full review.
2022 Moto Guzzi V85TT Guardia D'onore
2018 V7 III Carbon Dark #0009 of 1921
2018 Road Glide Special
2021 Kawasaki KLX300SM
2017 Suzuki Van Van 200
2009 Harley Davidson Softail Custom

Offline ScepticalScotty

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 1426
  • Banjo pickin' bagpipe playin' fool
    • South East Massive
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1243 on: February 24, 2023, 11:56:07 AM »
I very much liked his review. He is a very "considered" reviewer.
Scotty

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

Offline rocker59

  • Global Moderator
  • Gaggle Hero
  • *
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 24010
  • "diplomatico di moto"
  • Location: NW Arkansas
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1244 on: February 24, 2023, 12:13:16 PM »

No parts bin on the drivetrain, but suspension, brakes, controls, dash/screen, switchgear, etc etc.... There's loads of it.

Italian motorcycles have always used vendors for all those parts  Suspension, brakes, controls, switchgear.

Grimeca and Brembo brakes interchangeable with Ducati and others.  Marzocchi and Ohlins suspension used Ducati and others.  Campagnolo, Brembo, and Marchessini cast wheels used Ducati and others.  It goes on and on, since the 1970s, and is nothing new.
Michael T.
Aux Arcs de Akansea
2004 California EV Touring II
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

Online blu guzz

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 1138
  • Loves to ride
  • Location: Northern Kentuycky
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1245 on: February 24, 2023, 01:52:44 PM »
I liked on the autobahn how well it moved up to and past 160 clicks. my v85 would have been much more deliberate attempting that pass.
Blue Guzz

Online bad Chad

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 9551
  • Location: Central Il
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1246 on: February 24, 2023, 02:56:01 PM »
I guess that's what an additional 35 horsepower will do for you!
2007 Breva 1100  Red Arrow (and faster than yours!)
2016 CSC 250TT Zongshen
2017 V9 Roamer

Online blu guzz

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 1138
  • Loves to ride
  • Location: Northern Kentuycky
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1247 on: February 24, 2023, 05:06:29 PM »
yes, you can feel that in the seat of the pants. a few bikes back, i had a fast 4 cylinder bike with good aerodynamics and it could blow by a line like that as quick as you thought about it.  but, that was its best trick.
Blue Guzz

Online bad Chad

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 9551
  • Location: Central Il
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1248 on: February 24, 2023, 06:21:58 PM »
Me as well.  I had a inline 4 liter bike, the acceleration was intoxicating!  And it was a first gen liter bike, i have no idea what a modern one feels like, but I know I don't want to own one!
2007 Breva 1100  Red Arrow (and faster than yours!)
2016 CSC 250TT Zongshen
2017 V9 Roamer

Offline Bigtime

  • Hatchling
  • **
  • Posts: 152
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1249 on: February 25, 2023, 09:49:04 AM »
Me as well.  I had a inline 4 liter bike, the acceleration was intoxicating!  And it was a first gen liter bike, i have no idea what a modern one feels like, but I know I don't want to own one!
. Totally agree. Last fall a good friend asked me to Ride his 4 cylinder Kaw. to the dealership ( he having a lot of health issues. He didn't feel he had the strength to ride). The power and acceleration was amazing, but uninspiring. I was glad to be back on my Norge.

Offline Bulldog9

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2670
  • Location: United States
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1250 on: February 25, 2023, 06:02:56 PM »
yes, you can feel that in the seat of the pants. a few bikes back, i had a fast 4 cylinder bike with good aerodynamics and it could blow by a line like that as quick as you thought about it.  but, that was its best trick.

I rode IL4 bikes almost exclusively from 1983 till 2015. XS1100's, then a Concours, an FZ1, and an FJR 1300. probably 200K miles all tolled, tons of Iron Buts, cross country, etc. The power and sound was a standard I was addicted to until I wasn't. I had my FJR from 2007-2015, and barely rode it the last couple years. Unless riding at go to Jail or Cemetery Speeds, I found the bike so competent it was boring and without character. The FJR excelled at passing, overtaking and closing gaps. But it sucked my love of riding out of me. I discovered my first Guzzi in a 2007 Griso and was hooked and intoxicated. Added a Norge 3 months later. On my first 2 up ride with my wife her only comment was 'It is VERY slow" lol......

Not that my CARC big blocks are slow, they just make power differently, and FAR less severe than those liter plus IL4s.  To each his own...........
MGNOC#23231
The Living: 1976 Convert, 2004 Breva 750, 2007 GRiSO, 2008 1200 Sport, 2016 Stornello #742,
The Departed: 2017 MGX, 2014 Norge GT, 
In Stasis: 1978 XS750, XS1100SF

Offline Huzo

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 13202
  • Location: Creswick Australia
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1251 on: February 25, 2023, 07:18:14 PM »
I rode IL4 bikes almost exclusively from 1983 till 2015. XS1100's, then a Concours, an FZ1, and an FJR 1300. probably 200K miles all tolled, tons of Iron Buts, cross country, etc. The power and sound was a standard I was addicted to until I wasn't. I had my FJR from 2007-2015, and barely rode it the last couple years. Unless riding at go to Jail or Cemetery Speeds, I found the bike so competent it was boring and without character. The FJR excelled at passing, overtaking and closing gaps. But it sucked my love of riding out of me. I discovered my first Guzzi in a 2007 Griso and was hooked and intoxicated. Added a Norge 3 months later. On my first 2 up ride with my wife her only comment was 'It is VERY slow" lol......

Not that my CARC big blocks are slow, they just make power differently, and FAR less severe than those liter plus IL4s.  To each his own...........
You might want to get your wife to jump on the front on her own and ask her to ride it as fast as it can go around a twisty mountain road with certain death drop offs like in the Tarn Valley in France..(Valley of the Gorges…).
More like the valley of the Norges…. :kiss: :thumb:
Anyway, I’m sure it won’t seem slow then….. :wink:

Offline Bulldog9

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2670
  • Location: United States
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1252 on: February 25, 2023, 08:27:14 PM »
You might want to get your wife to jump on the front on her own and ask her to ride it as fast as it can go around a twisty mountain road with certain death drop offs like in the Tarn Valley in France..(Valley of the Gorges…).
More like the valley of the Norges…. :kiss: :thumb:
Anyway, I’m sure it won’t seem slow then….. :wink:

Working on that with my recent purchase of the Breva 750. Hoping she will take to riding herself. If not I have a fun little bike in the shed.

As for her sense of passing power, when riding as a pillion, the FJR was an absolute beast for passing power and she got used to that. None of my Moto Guzzi's are able to compare. Just a reality.

I have a 150 horsepower Porsche 912 and a 480 horsepower Mustang. There's no comparison  in power and speed of these cars but on any given day I would prefer to drive the Porsche over the Mustang without hesitation equivocation or question.

Besides.. what does a pillion know anyway? :-)
MGNOC#23231
The Living: 1976 Convert, 2004 Breva 750, 2007 GRiSO, 2008 1200 Sport, 2016 Stornello #742,
The Departed: 2017 MGX, 2014 Norge GT, 
In Stasis: 1978 XS750, XS1100SF

Offline twowheeladdict

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 6149
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1253 on: February 25, 2023, 10:20:30 PM »
Looks like top speed is 200.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PndNgP5zqVU
2022 Moto Guzzi V85TT Guardia D'onore
2018 V7 III Carbon Dark #0009 of 1921
2018 Road Glide Special
2021 Kawasaki KLX300SM
2017 Suzuki Van Van 200
2009 Harley Davidson Softail Custom

Offline lazlokovacs

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 1079
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1254 on: February 26, 2023, 01:55:46 AM »
kms not miles right?


Offline Bpreynolds2

  • Gosling
  • ***
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 400
  • Location: Louisville
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1255 on: February 26, 2023, 07:09:30 AM »
Me as well.  I had a inline 4 liter bike, the acceleration was intoxicating!  And it was a first gen liter bike, i have no idea what a modern one feels like, but I know I don't want to own one!

Yeah, I’ve owned several at least.  That’s the thing, I had to work it up to enjoy it and while I do like the sounds of triples and 4s I just don’t personally find them as rewarding for everyday riding.  They are also not good for my health as I often found myself taking them out just to find places where I could go fast and get to that enjoyable part of the motor (for me).  But I’ll say this, the Triumph triples are just plain fantastic motors I have a great amount of appreciation for but I still find them a bit soulless at the end of the day.   
2020 T120 Bonneville

Offline Murray

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 3048
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1256 on: February 28, 2023, 04:49:51 PM »
Looks like top speed is 200.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PndNgP5zqVU

I doubt that, when my old !@#$heap 1100 sport can stagger up to 230, although much after 180 you need some time and space to wind it out and the last little bit takes forever.

Online bad Chad

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 9551
  • Location: Central Il
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1257 on: February 28, 2023, 05:12:37 PM »
I'm sure it's over 200 kph/ 124mph, he just backed off.  I got 200kph on my B1100, and it's heavier, and down at least 30hp to the Mandelo.
2007 Breva 1100  Red Arrow (and faster than yours!)
2016 CSC 250TT Zongshen
2017 V9 Roamer

Offline lazlokovacs

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 1079
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1258 on: February 28, 2023, 05:22:57 PM »
yeah, looked like there was more to go

Offline Bulldog9

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2670
  • Location: United States
Re: V100 Mandello Merged Threadfest
« Reply #1259 on: February 28, 2023, 06:04:30 PM »
I'm sure it's over 200 kph/ 124mph, he just backed off.  I got 200kph on my B1100, and it's heavier, and down at least 30hp to the Mandelo.

I agree, and that was NOT a road to spend much time at those speeds.

I had my Norge to 125 regularly and it had more in the tank, same for the 1200 Sport, but unless it is a clear day on an open road, usually superslab, I don't ride at those speeds. Too much sense these days.

I imagine the V100 would top at the 140 range
MGNOC#23231
The Living: 1976 Convert, 2004 Breva 750, 2007 GRiSO, 2008 1200 Sport, 2016 Stornello #742,
The Departed: 2017 MGX, 2014 Norge GT, 
In Stasis: 1978 XS750, XS1100SF

 

20 Ounce Stainless Steel Double Insulated Tumbler
Buy a quality tumbler and support the forum at the same time!
Better than a YETI! BPA and Lead free.
Advertise Here