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« Last post by Rower30 on Today at 08:37:02 PM »
I changed bikes from a BMW R100RT to a V100S model. You think of any reason no matter how weird to go ride the V100S! It is a puppy dog, and is ALWAYS willing to play any way you want. The BMW was an appliance with no real soul. I wish the V100S was around about two decades ago when I was shopping for the SAME kind of "modern" european shaft drive do it all bike. That bike didn't exist, anywhere, for far too long. The BNW mosel is too big, heavy and ugly. Then Guzzi makes the V100S in 2023! The V100S was a take my money please purchase. The V100S takes the function of the BMW but infuses it with the puppy dog nature of my 1979 CB750F 4 valver. How Guzzi hides all the uglies is Italian art...clearly they care about the bike's visual nature and not just the performance. I walk backwards looking at the bike after I get off it. I'll leave the looks with that.
I just went to the AMA motorcycle museum, about 300 miles round trip. The V100S is even a peach on the de-interest state I70. It run smooth as glass and 54 MPG. So far at 8,000 miles it has been the least trouble of any bike I've owned. My biggest complaint is I'm too light for it, 140 pounds isn't what the suspension was made to work against.
The Guzzi engine sound is intoxicating, that V8 kind of roar is sublime. I was flaberghast with the first run to red-line. The new engine didn't loose that V8 character. I love everything about the general V-design, it just makes sense. That the engine design has so much soul does make it feel like flesh and blood.
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