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Title: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on October 01, 2020, 10:07:02 AM

Saw this on Facebook and thought it might be of interest here.

(https://i.ibb.co/RzNr51c/Moto-Guzzi-GT-17-WW2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RzNr51c)


The caption reads:
WW2 - Ukraine1941. Column of Bersaglieri Italian motorcyclists in Russia, probably in the suburb of Stalino, today Donetsk. All Moto Guzzi GT 17 , on the first at left there is a Breda Mod. 30. (my colorization)

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: LowRyter on October 01, 2020, 10:10:23 AM

not a good look for Guzzi riders.......

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: pebra on October 01, 2020, 01:40:53 PM

Yes, interesting after all.

Thanks!

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: Guzzistajohn on October 01, 2020, 02:06:41 PM

Naaa, they're just goin' to a new AMA event called a shoot and scoot. It's a flat track/turkey shoot hybrid.  :thumb:

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: janguzzi on October 01, 2020, 02:44:41 PM

The bike that did not won the war.

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: kfz on October 01, 2020, 02:59:14 PM

Quote from: janguzzi on October 01, 2020, 02:44:41 PM

The bike that did not won the war.

They were good bikes well liked, example of good Italian equipment.  Too good in fact, never enough of them. 

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: chuck peterson on October 02, 2020, 07:01:54 AM

Original source of “a feather on his cap..” ???

Couldn’t have been much fun to have those on your helmet...

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: ozarquebus on October 02, 2020, 11:36:02 AM

Those poor fellows.

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: hzbloke on October 02, 2020, 05:00:01 PM

There's a cafe in the suburbs of Hobart that's full of interesting motorbikes. This Moto Guzzi apparently belonged to the cafe owner's father and that's a picture of him sitting on it during the war.
(https://i.imgur.com/G0B4LTx.jpg)

Title: Re: WW2 photo with Guzzis
Post by: Zoom Zoom on October 04, 2020, 08:11:20 AM

Thanks Charlie. :thumb:

John Henry