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Title: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: usedtobefast on March 01, 2018, 08:41:41 PM
So the internet tells me Moto Guzzi started on March 15, 1921.  97th birthday coming up.

How will you celebrate? 

Hum, that's a Thursday.  Might skip work and ride all day. 
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: twowings on March 01, 2018, 09:46:25 PM
I'm going to ride the Norge to get spaghetti and Italian margaritas!
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: usedtobefast on March 01, 2018, 11:15:10 PM
I was looking at Lake Como area cuisine ... seems they eat a lot of polenta.  Not a fan.  But a lot of dishes are fresh water (lake) fish ... that could work.

I'm thinking a 97 mile ride on my Racer followed by a Northern Italian dinner.  Maybe some tirmisu.   :smiley:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: Guzzi Gal on March 01, 2018, 11:57:04 PM
Thursday's our "ride to the movie" night.  Maybe we'll abandon the kids for an extra hour and go out for a nice Italian dinner. :thumb:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: Huzo on March 02, 2018, 12:08:30 AM
Thursday's our "ride to the movie" night.  Maybe we'll abandon the kids for an extra hour and go out for a nice Italian dinner. :thumb:
'Sounds like the start of a "good evening" :wink: :thumb:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: Huzo on March 02, 2018, 12:10:16 AM
Dunno what I'm doing for 2018, but 2021 is locked in.
Dinner on Lake Como at Camping Spaggia !
Perhaps a few (too many) wines and a burnout (with pics) out front of the factory gates on the Norge... :copcar: :thumb:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: fossil on March 02, 2018, 01:48:18 AM
Well, I got my V7 Stone at 15 March, 2013.
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: chuck peterson on March 02, 2018, 05:12:37 AM
Yep. Started on the Ides of March and going out of business ever since...good thing a Guzzi has the Popes Blessing...
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: Huzo on March 02, 2018, 02:22:32 PM
Yep. Started on the Ides of March and going out of business ever since...good thing a Guzzi has the Popes Blessing...
The Pope's got bigger problems than Guzzi, here in Oz... :embarrassed:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: rocker59 on March 02, 2018, 03:05:52 PM
So the internet tells me Moto Guzzi started on March 15, 1921.  97th birthday coming up.

How will you celebrate? 

Hum, that's a Thursday.  Might skip work and ride all day.

Caesar: "The ides of March are come."
Soothsayer: "Aye, Caesar, but not gone."

I guess I'll enjoy the Feast of Anna Perenna, celebrate Guzzi's birth, and lament the death of Julius Caesar.  Same as every March 15, so that it is possible that the circle of the year be happily completed!

"ut annare perennareque commode liceat"
 

 :thumb:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: Guzzi Gal on March 02, 2018, 03:33:43 PM
Dunno what I'm doing for 2018, but 2021 is locked in.
Dinner on Lake Como at Camping 
Perhaps a few (too many) wines and a burnout (with pics) out front of the factory gates on the Norge... :copcar: :thumb:
:1: :1: :1:
 :evil:  :bike-037:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: twowings on March 02, 2018, 06:06:18 PM
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Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: giusto on March 02, 2018, 07:20:59 PM
I'm going to ride the Norge to get spaghetti and Italian margaritas!


Negronis!!!! Italian Martini.....Italian Sweet red vermouth, Campari and botanical Gin...1/3, 1/3, 1/3 over ice with a slice of orange
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: twowings on March 02, 2018, 07:53:54 PM
I'll take one!  :boozing:
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: guzzi4me on March 05, 2018, 11:57:18 PM
Going to celebrate with hoisting a few Peroni's and making an italian sausage and bell pepper dish for dinner.

If the weather and the new hip co-operates will take a ride around the local back roads for a few hours.

Love my new V7II!

Mille Gratzie Moto Guzzi!!!

Jeff
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: rodekyll on March 06, 2018, 10:55:29 AM
Happy B-day to them!  I'll be trying to make a fist.


Caesar: "The ides of March are come."
Soothsayer: "Aye, Caesar, but not gone."

I guess I'll enjoy the Feast of Anna Perenna, celebrate Guzzi's birth, and lament the death of Julius Caesar.  Same as every March 15, so that it is possible that the circle of the year be happily completed!

"ut annare perennareque commode liceat"
 

 :thumb:

Trivia for the day:

My Latin teacher 'splained us that the Ides of the month (15th), Nones (7th, but only in some months and therefore unreliable) and the Kalends (1st) were paydays for the Roman army.  Time was measured BACKWARDS from these days, since the soldiers were always in debt and X number of days away from payday.  Kalends morphed into "calendar".
Title: Re: March 15, Moto Guzzi's birthday!!
Post by: JJ on March 06, 2018, 02:49:23 PM

Negronis!!!! Italian Martini.....Italian Sweet red vermouth, Campari and botanical Gin...1/3, 1/3, 1/3 over ice with a slice of orange

...and let's not forget another famous Italian classic.....LIMONCELLO!!! :thumb: :cool: :1:


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