Visiting Piaggio HQ and Guzzi Museum this month...

[pocphil]

Piaggio USA is sending 2 of us from ClevelandMoto to Pontedera at the end of this month. We will be touring the Piaggio Museum and Headquarters and then going up to the Moto Guzzi museum and touring Agostini Garage.  I will be able to bring back a small amount of stuff in my luggage, but I'm planning on shipping home a box or two as well.

If anyone has anything they need, but absolutely, positively can't get here, I'm offering to help out.

Also, if any of you are experienced Italy travelers and have recommendations we shouldn't miss, please let me know. This is a 2 week trip and we'll be in a rented Fiat Panda, so we're not opposed to going to out of the way destinations.

[Huzo]

Piaggio USA is sending 2 of us from ClevelandMoto to Pontedera at the end of this month. We will be touring the Piaggio Museum and Headquarters and then going up to the Moto Guzzi museum and touring Agostini Garage.  I will be able to bring back a small amount of stuff in my luggage, but I'm planning on shipping home a box or two as well.

If anyone has anything they need, but absolutely, positively can't get here, I'm offering to help out.

Also, if any of you are experienced Italy travelers and have recommendations we shouldn't miss, please let me know. This is a 2 week trip and we'll be in a rented Fiat Panda, so we're not opposed to going to out of the way destinations.

If you are staying in Mandello, the Camping Spaggia is a two minute walk from Agostini's and is on the shores of Lake Como.
Don't take the shoe box sized cabin on the left just inside the gate, it's like a bloody sauna!
The restaurant on the lake is b e a u t i f u l and in the evening of a full moon and light breeze........
BTW..
If you see a stray bar of soap in the shower with some greying/brown strands of hair (no not short curly ones) stuck fast to it, could you leave it at the reception at the top of the path ?
I'll be back to get it in 2019...
Great offer by the way. 

[Tusayan]

Pisa itself is not a terribly attractive place except for the obvious tourist attraction, but Lucca is very nice.   

When driving from Pisa to Mandello, I prefer the route up to Genova before heading north.

Take the public ferry around the lake to see some of the sights, not expensive and takes you to Bellagio etc which are worth seeing.   If you like older Guzzis and especially if you need odds and end parts, visit Valassi Motofornitura which is a block from the factory.  The whole town is very pleasant.

I did that route from Livorno (just south of Pisa) to Mandello on my trip last year.

[Tusayan]

PS I just noticed you wrote "this month"...  meaning February?   That means it'll be cold in northern Italy...   which would change the attractions a lot.

You might consider a day trip from Mandello (via Chiavenna) over Maloja Pass to St Moritz into Switzerland.   That gets you up into the Alps a bit, and the cultural landscape is completely different than Mandello.

[pehayes]

Pisa itself is not a terribly attractive place except for the obvious tourist attraction, but Lucca is very nice.   

 :1: on the visit to Lucca.  Take time to walk the linear park atop the medieval walls which surround the city.  Easy train access to this city.  Guzzi shop right around the corner from the train station.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[pehayes]

PS I just noticed you wrote "this month"...  meaning February?   That means it'll be cold in northern Italy...

I have just returned last night from a funeral near Venice.  It was +1 to +4 celsius all week.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[slopokes]

Pocphil,please get the the first v85 to come out the door😀

[Trialsman]

Many people are waiting for more information on the V85.  See if you can pry any loose, such as release date for the USA, specs on motor that will be used, if suspension will be Ohlins, true weight and hp, and possibly more pictures - maybe even production ones.  I have mine on order.