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Title: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: G5 on June 28, 2021, 02:10:28 PM: https://iicchicago.esteri.it/iic_chicago/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2021/07/moto-guzzi-100-years.html

Date: Friday, July 9, 2021
Time: From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm Central Time
Organized by : The Consulate General of Italy in Chicago, Piaggio
Entrance : Free

The Consulate General of Italy in Chicago, Piaggio Group and the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago celebrate Moto Guzzi’s 100th birthday: one hundred years of passion, success, adventure, innovation and the sheer joy of riding motorcycles.

Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University), Greg Lynn (Moto Guzzi factory and museum designer), Miguel Galluzzi (Head of Piaggio Advanced Design Center) and Marco D’Acunzo (Chief Marketing Officer Piaggio Group Americas) introduce Moto Guzzi 100 Years, an inspiring tale of individuals, famous and ordinary who have made the history of the brand.
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: LowRyter on June 28, 2021, 03:49:10 PM: Funny, all the photos had the designers posing with discontinued 1400s
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: Pescatore on June 28, 2021, 07:38:34 PM: Interesting. Piaggio Fast Forward? Few miles from me, never heard of them.
Thanks for the link.
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: G5 on July 09, 2021, 09:52:18 AM: I don't know what this will be like this evening (6 pm Central time).

Hopefully there will be new information from the participants that will be of interest to the well-informed forum members.
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: Pescatore on July 09, 2021, 10:01:55 AM: I am hoping they will provide details about the rally at Mandello in September.
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: twowings on July 09, 2021, 07:30:10 PM: The webinar was very informative and a lot of fun! The anecdote about the wind tunnel was hilarious and a perfect example of the passion Italians have for their fantastic engineering and design...thanks for posting the link, I'm glad I watched it! :thumb:
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: G5 on July 10, 2021, 01:27:01 PM: Interesting mention at the end of Max Lynch riding Fred Wacker's 1950 Falcone in the current
Cross Country Chase --- wrenching by the Guzzi Doctor (Joe Walano).
https://themotorcyclechase.com/rider/86-max-lynch/
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: moto on July 10, 2021, 02:16:00 PM: Quote from: twowings on July 09, 2021, 07:30:10 PM
The webinar was very informative and a lot of fun! The anecdote about the wind tunnel was hilarious and a perfect example of the passion Italians have for their fantastic engineering and design...thanks for posting the link, I'm glad I watched it! :thumb:

Sorry I missed it!

How about recounting the wind tunnel anecdote for us? :grin:
Title: Re: Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years
Post by: twowings on July 10, 2021, 04:09:51 PM: I can't do it proper justice, but when the wind tunnel was to be used back in the day the factory would post signs around Mandello Del Lario stating that the residents could expect to lose household power from X am/pm to Y am/pm as the wind tunnel testing consumed nearly all the power generating capacity the municipal powerplant could handle....instead of grumbling or protesting the inconvenience, the town's citizens just "bought more candles and speculated on what exciting new model the boys at the factory were creating."

Mandello was a REAL company town!