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Interesting what will draw a person out and prompt a post!Date Registered: June 19, 2009, 08:01:52 AMI was going to say, "welcome to WildGuzzi". But, I can see you've been here awhile.
Crikey. You need to drag your arses into the 21st Century. Why do you lot get wood for a bike that looks a throwback to the 80's?Give me a rising rate single shock rear, USD forks and wheels without frickin spokes!
well I hope the "new" 850 engine isn't like the mongrel 850 they put in the breva and griso 850. Same lump as the 1100 with shorter stroke... Same weight, less power...
Because motorcycles should look like MOTOR CYCLES and not transformers.WAY too many modern bikes, from Ducs to YamaHonDuKAwaSukis look like insectoids or modern art experiments. Gone are the flowing lines and eye pleasing proportions. Replaced and inorganic irregular crystalline shapes.I'm sure it's POSSIBLE to have an organic shape with a single rate rear shock and USD forks and mags, it's just rarely seen.I wouldn't object to those things, if the overall shape still hearkened to a MOTOR CYCLE.
No, the "new" 850 is a small block.Two test bikes had been seen, but not yet photographed, near to the Aprilia plant of Scorze'. The one that saw them described them as "Between the Bellagio and the Nevada".
Two test bikes had been seen, but not yet photographed, near to the Aprilia plant of Scorze'. The one that saw them described them as "Between the Bellagio and the Nevada".
that does not bode well...
Why not just drop the new mill in the existing & successful V7 lineup? There is no way in hell I'd get rid of my Racer in favor of a "Bellada".
Why not just drop the new mill in the existing & successful V7 lineup?
I'm not giving up hope.Who knows what the production bike will look like.The test mules could just be purposefully ugly.
True. Just grab a primer black Nevada fuel tank off the shelf for the test mule. Could explain it.They should be on the podium in Milan next month. I'm anxious to see what they've done.
I remember the Ippo all too well.
All this is pure speculation, but if they do come out with a small block 850, I would expect them to phase out the 750 as they did with the earlier displacement small blocks.
You have to keep in mind that, putting a new 850 engine in an existing V7 bodywork, none would have been able to distinguish a test bike from a standard V7.
so is this 850 small block all talk or for real? I am not sure how we got here.
so is this 850 small block all talk or for real?
An Ippogrifo can be easily described as "between a Nevada and a Bellagio".
Because motorcycles should look like MOTOR CYCLES and not transformers.
I'm sure it's POSSIBLE to have an organic shape with a single rate rear shock and USD forks and mags, it's just rarely seen.
Sigh.So the MOTO GUZZI GRiSO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI STELVIO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI 1200 SPORT doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI BELLAGIO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?... I could go on.WAside from the Stelvio and Bellagio which have spokes, their seems to be an abundance of Moto Guzzi MOTOR CYCLES with rising rate single shock suspension, and some, by gollies, even have (gasp) upside down forks.Are you saying the above MOTOR CYCLES don't look like MOTOR CYCLES? Yes, I believe that is exactly what you are saying.Go hide thyself.
Sigh.So the MOTO GUZZI GRiSO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI STELVIO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI 1200 SPORT doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?The MOTO GUZZI BELLAGIO doesn't look like a MOTOR CYCLE?... I could go on.Aside from the Stelvio and Bellagio which have spokes, their seems to be an abundance of Moto Guzzi MOTOR CYCLES with rising rate single shock suspension, and some, by gollies, even have (gasp) upside down forks.Are you saying the above MOTOR CYCLES don't look like MOTOR CYCLES? Yes, I believe that is exactly what you are saying.Go hide thyself.