Online Webinar: Italian Design Day 2021; Moto Guzzi: 100 Years

[G5]

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.

[LowRyter]

Funny, all the photos had the designers posing with discontinued 1400s

[Pescatore]

Interesting. Piaggio Fast Forward?  Few miles from me, never heard of them.
Thanks for the link.

[G5]

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.

[Pescatore]

I am hoping they will provide details about the rally at Mandello in September.

[twowings]

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! 

[G5]

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/

[moto]

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! 

Sorry I missed it!

How about recounting the wind tunnel anecdote for us? 

[twowings]

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!