2021 Guzzi lineup. Verona show

[elvisboy77]

https://youtu.be/NNb4IY8PimE

Very nice

[chuck peterson]

Thanks good video coverage of the anniversary models..i see what their thinking now w the colors

[Vagrant]

They just can't get the message! Flat paint sucks! Small gas tanks do too.

[Dave Swanson]

They just can't get the message! Flat paint sucks!

Unless you like it!   

Jim Hamlin had the pretty blue 2021 Special, and Centenario demos at the NH rally and I was able to compare side by side.  Surprisingly my vote was for the one with that sucky flat paint job.   

[Vagrant]

A vote is called for.

[Tkelly]

Silver and green!

[JJ]

Bottom line - 8 new models - Glad to see Moto Guzzi is still in business!!

[bad Chad]

All gas tanks?  The V7 line has massive fuel capacity, v85 has a 6 gallon tank.  Only the v9 has a moderately sized tank at 4 gallons.   But with fuel mileage in the 50-60 a gallon range it works just fine for me.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

They just can't get the message! Flat paint sucks! Small gas tanks do too.

Opinions are like assholes etc etc.. I think the shiny blue v7 special with the chrome and the 850 graphic on the tank looks terrible. Beauty in the eye of the beholder etc etc etc 

[Joliet Jim]

I've had a flat white tank on the Stone for 20 years. Kind of used to it now. That said I like the pearl white Bassa better than mine.

[Alfetta]

A vote is called for.

my votes:
don't mind the silver and green, just gloss it please.
i prefer spokes over cast wheels,  i have no issue with tubes...
i don't like the blacked out pipes, if you want them dark - a blue chrome would be nice.
i prefer exposed aluminum on the cylinder fin edges.
still not sure why the small blocks are split horizontally, but i would prefer the mono block construction, like a big block (if even possible).
Still take one over a CB1100 any day. don't want to ride an appliance, even if it is technically better..

[Murray]

So ummm where were the "new" models? Updated V7 yes, a harley esq tank fender paint job shuffle on the 85TT and the frankly still ugly Roamer and possibly the most optimistic use of the word fast in the history of  the English language. There was a rumor of a new bike for the GMG 100th which is not that far away, I suspect we've just seen it.

[krglorioso]

They just can't get the message! Flat paint sucks! Small gas tanks do too.

My sentiments, exactly.  $10K out the door for a bike in flat brick red--or is it primer?

Granted I'm hopelessly biased, but my recently-acquired '04 Breva with its charcoal/medium silver gloss paint gets onlooker applause that half the 2021 Guzzis never will.  Has Piaggio ever tallied what paint finishes most leave earlier models sitting on the dealers' floors?

Yech!

Ralph 

[kingoffleece]

Here's something we refs say every now and again to a mouthy player: "I could change my call, but then we'd both be wrong."  Kind of like motorcycle paint.............. .........

[blackcat]

So ummm where were the "new" models?

Paint is not a new model.  Guzzi use to try and keep up with BMW, those days are long gone.

[mechanicsavant]

In general I don’t care for mat finishes . (One of the 1st things bone to my 17 V7II was a paint job ) . The finish on my 21 V7 centanario does get lots of positive reactions . Sometimes it starts w/I don’t like matt paint but that looks cool . And I admit it’s growing on me . Now the challenge is to maintain it .

[chuck peterson]

I think the nod towards zinc chromate is pretty cool..

It just reminds the world of a certain 500cc V8..

I wonder what a complete paint job with it would look like?

[elvisboy77]

If you understood the history of Guzzi you would understand the green paint.  Unlike some companies, they don't care whether you like shiny or not.  They are more interested in giving a nod to their history.  I like that.

And as far as new, I think a new engine on the V7 counts as "new".  Their marketing is so bad they have only been in business for 100 years, in spite of all the experts predictions otherwise LOL

[kingoffleece]

Much to the horror of half the forum, I own a (the nerve!) a matt finish bike (but a shiny one, too).
GuzziTech offers, hands down, the best matt paint product available.  MUCH different from the others, which I have tried and passed on from.  Only paint heathens need to take account, mind.



Looks like he's sold out for now.  Glad I have back-ups.

[moto-uno]

  There's nothing there but dinky little bikes  .  Peter

[vintagehoarder]

So sad to see the 1400 gone.

[guzzisteve]

I think it's some SAD stuff for a Co that has made supercharged 3's & 4's and a V8 to rely on a 50hp smallblock and be 100yrs old. The thing is they think this will be all OK, FAIL,FAIL.

This just shows Piaggio's priorities.

I'm glad to own older ones when they had their head on strait(sort of).

[guzzi771]

I really like the racer #37 especially the exhaust

[fotoguzzi]

Much to the horror of half the forum, I own a (the nerve!) a matt finish bike 9but a shiny one, too).
GuzziTech offers, hands down, the best matt paint product available.  MUCH different from the others, which I have tried and passed on from.  Only paint heathens need to take account, mind.

if you also own a camera let's see some pics!

[fotoguzzi]

What's that expression?

 meh?

[kingoffleece]

Pics of what?  matt black V7?

[Bpreynolds2]

Roamer best looking bike there.  Not even kidding.

[Murray]

Roamer best looking bike there.  Not even kidding.

Your guide dog licked it very much? :-P

[fotoguzzi]

Pics of what?  matt black V7?

yes and the shiny one too.

[Bpreynolds2]

Your guide dog licked it very much? :-P

He’s not a guide dog, we just put that service vest on him so he can eat in restaurants with us