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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #30 on: December 31, 2014, 04:20:13 PM »
There are 67 homes in my side of our subdivision.  7 of them have street legal bikes that I know of.  Of the seven, 2 of us ride as much as we can get away with, the 3rd rides a couple times a week, and the other 4, on nice weekends or in one guys case,  :Dwhen he's pissed at his wife!
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2014, 05:26:18 PM »
Indeed.  I went on Google maps, and then counted them from the sat pic!  Pretty cool, 2015 is in many ways a long way from 1970!
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2014, 06:03:20 PM »
Three.
All three are in my garage.

Someone nearby is a biker, not to be confused with a motorcyclist. You know, cruiser, pirate garb, and a flatulent exhaust that he rides to the bar.
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2014, 06:12:14 PM »
My town is the neighborhood.  If we tried to subdivide it the parts would be too small.

I'm guessing 30 bikes in town.  About 10 HDs (two trikes), a couple of squid bikes, and a motley crue of various adv and on/off road, small-displacement machines.  I know of three beemers that run and a Honda being café'd.  One guy on an original-issue triumph TT comes by to borrow my brit tools too.  But as far as I know, I'm the only one in town that actually 'rides' -- that is -- puts the bike on the ferry and heads for an actual highway.

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2014, 06:18:50 PM »
          The bloke across the road acquired a Harley, recently. Methinks I can't be setting a good enough example but to be fair, the Cali was off the road for a month while its failure to start issue was being sorted. 

What? no one remembers how to bump-start?  :-[
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2014, 06:27:56 PM »
Three bikes in my neighborhood.  Three Italian bikes actually.  All mine!  Stelvio, aprilia Futura, and a newly acquired Beta 300rr.
We do have quads and Harleys a little further away...  I can hear them blocks away.

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #36 on: December 31, 2014, 06:43:54 PM »
What surprises me is not the 'bike density' here as much as the MG density. I know of 7 Guzzi locally that are ridden and have heard of another 5. Optimistically: a dozen.
As a ratio: there should be 32 bikes shy of 2300 Moto Guzzi in Maryland and roughly 1100 in Toronto.
Piaggio obviously needs to pay more attention north of 60.  ;)
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #37 on: December 31, 2014, 07:22:37 PM »
38 house my 2 and 1sportser next door

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« Reply #38 on: December 31, 2014, 07:24:11 PM »
Sorry 38 houses

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2014, 07:34:10 PM »
About 60 homes on our block, 2 guzzis, 1 concourse, 1  thruxton, 1 r9t, 1 sportster, so I guess thats two :D
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #40 on: January 01, 2015, 04:39:07 AM »
Just checked the Norwegian Guzzi club's members list.
Within a two-mile radius from me there are 7-8 members, two of whom have two Guzzis.
That's pretty good I think, but on the whole motorbikes are thinly spread around here.
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #41 on: January 01, 2015, 06:36:03 AM »
There are 6 bikes in my neighborhood. My Guzzi and Aprilia, a couple around the corner has 2 harleys and his old v4  Honda cruiser and there is another guy with a small Japanese v twin cruiser.
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #42 on: January 01, 2015, 06:51:08 AM »
 :+=copcar there are 10 within two blocks of me--I have 3--corner guy has 3 hd's and 2 scooters-rides up and down the street on sunday--once--I think he is a mayonnaise salesman--2 occ bikes spend all their lives in a garage 2 blocks away :BEER:

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #43 on: January 01, 2015, 06:51:20 AM »
I live well out in the country. I think I have the only bikes in at least a couple of miles of my house. Now if you want to count tractors, that would take a while.  ;D
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« Reply #44 on: January 01, 2015, 09:55:23 AM »
40 houses and three bikes total. All in my garage. Most of the guys in my neighborhood are milk and cookies.

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #45 on: January 01, 2015, 10:19:12 AM »
7 bikes, I have five and the other two run occasionally in their garages with sporadic exposure to the environment; one sporting a cigar rider and the other a single cylinder BMW with no rider. 
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #46 on: January 01, 2015, 10:56:41 AM »
Other than mine, there are a few within a mile or two of here.  They fall into two categories:  Harleys and big Japanese sport bikes with extended swing arms.
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« Reply #47 on: January 01, 2015, 12:49:17 PM »
I'm going to ball park it and say there's @ 25 houses on my block (counting the side street culdesac(sp?).  No one here rides, but there is a guy about 6 blocks away with a newer Honda cruiser and a guy across the street from him into 70s muscle cars.  I just need to take the old Guzzi out this spring or summer and approach them and strike up a conversation.  It's always good to make new friends who are fellow gear heads.   
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #48 on: January 01, 2015, 07:07:58 PM »
5 houses on my block. 5 motorcycles. All the motorcycles are mine. The neighbors (my folks) have 3 1965-1966 Mustang Convertibles and 2+2s. Small town life rocks!!!!

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #49 on: January 01, 2015, 08:19:28 PM »
3 houses on my road. 3 Guzzis,all mine. Down around the corner, 1 house, guy has a Harley, rides up and down my road once sometimes twice on sunny Sundays. :BEER:
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #50 on: January 02, 2015, 06:24:53 PM »
5 houses, 33 bikes.  All but two at my house.    ;-T

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #51 on: January 02, 2015, 11:24:38 PM »
5 houses, 33 bikes.  All but two at my house.    ;-T
That's a lot of bikes you've got. Riding get them all, or gathering rust?
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #52 on: January 03, 2015, 07:20:37 AM »
I live in an older part of a city in decline. My neighborhood is all three and four decker apartment buildings. The only motorcycle that I know about is the Norge that lives in my garage.
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« Reply #53 on: January 03, 2015, 09:43:32 AM »
3 bikes in my neighborhood, all mine.
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« Reply #54 on: January 03, 2015, 07:58:34 PM »
That's a lot of bikes you've got. Riding get them all, or gathering rust?

There's the bunch that get ridden all the time, and some that I ride once a year, just because I feel sorry for them.  Those will be put up for sale come spring.  Not really into the cruiser style bike anymore. (Its taken a couple years to convince the spouse that we need more space in the shop)  And there are 6 that are in the rebuild stage: 3 BMW airheads, 2 Stornellos and a baby Ninja.  The only one gathering rust, so to speak, is the Scura.  Its got a charging issue that I haven't quite figured out yet.  It'll start right up two or three times, then the fourth time I try to fire it up, it'll have a dead battery.   ???
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« Reply #55 on: January 03, 2015, 08:14:49 PM »
Its got a charging issue that I haven't quite figured out yet.  It'll start right up two or three times, then the fourth time I try to fire it up, it'll have a dead battery.   ???
Sounds more like a *dis*charging issue. ;-)
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #56 on: January 04, 2015, 07:22:52 AM »
I don't really live in a neighborhood, per say, but, just along a rural road.

Aside from my 20 or so (9 are registered, about 6 ridden regularly 9 months out of the year with one or two in use all year), one neighbor about 1/4 mile away has several Honda Shadows, one that he rides, the rest a rotating fleet of fix-n-sell bikes, plus a 70's CB450 he rode "back in the day", just collecting dust.    There is a Norge that lives about 1 mile East of me.   I've spoken to the own once when filling up.   I suggested we get together and ride.   I haven't seen him since, except occasionally riding past.    The only other bike "in the hood" is a loud open-piped ape hangered chopper thing about 1/4 mile North.   Owner is a fair weather rider who, thankfully doesn't ride it often.
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #57 on: January 04, 2015, 08:02:11 AM »
Within 2 blocks of our house there are 8 MC's in addition to mine: 3 Harleys, one Suzuki sport bike, 4 metric cruisers (2 YAM, 2 SUZ). The riders with the metric cruisers seldom ride. One of the Harley guys rides as often as I do; the bike has an unrestricted exhaust. Unfortunately, in warm weather he commutes to work on the bike & leaves very early in the morning, often waking me.

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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #58 on: January 04, 2015, 08:26:51 AM »
Define neighborhood? I now live in a maze of houses and lakes. Most of the houses are small log cabins that were once vacation homes and even though they almost surround my lake and the more modern houses built by my developer they are technically in a different borough.

Anyway, if I roughly call the whole maze one neighborhood I've only seen three other bikes so far, one Harley Softail, one Harley dresser, one Triumph Bonneville. Well, that's all I've seen parked in driveways or garages on a regular enough basis to figure they reside there.

I've also seen an SV650, Ducati Monster, Hyabusa (with stretched swingarm) and an even more hideous FXD with monster apes.

All but the Ducati looked like friends stopping by the homes where those other bikes live. The Ducati was just passing by so I dunno...
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Re: How many Guzzis in your neighborhood? More Guzzi owners than we think?
« Reply #59 on: January 04, 2015, 08:49:38 AM »
Unfortunately, in warm weather he commutes to work on the bike & leaves very early in the morning, often waking me.

I, unfortunately deal with one of those a**holes too.     He goes past our house at 5 AM about 3 out of 5 days of the week in the summer when we have the windows open  >:(
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