"The girl by the lake"

[twowheeladdict]

Raised on Moto Guzzi.
https://youtu.be/trX0KdIWR60

[9fingers]

That was great! Thanks for posting.
Scott

[Huzo]

If that’s real and uncontrived, then it’s just wonderful in all aspects.
I cringe a bit when I see her lovely young face in an open helmet though, it’s maybe the Dad in me or I’m getting old...
(Or both..)

I don’t know if we are collectively BS’ing ourselves, but I can’t think of another bike manufacturer (except maybe Ducati), who can tell the story of how the heart lives alongside the bike, quite like Guzzi.

When I see Mandello and look at Guzzi, I can feel the Sun, smell the Pizza, watch the old fishermen, hear the birds by the lake and am reminded of the time that I was served a pizza and two red wines by the shore at Lake Como on my Norge. The old man would not accept anything as payment for the evening meal, he just nodded and shook my hand then gestured towards the bike and the lake and rested his open right palm on his chest accompanied by a world weary crinkled smile.

A beautiful post.

Here are a couple of shots on the same day..

[bad Chad]

Don't fret Huzo.   The production company and probably Piaggio, certainly asked her to wear an open face (with no eyewear for that matter), as it makes for a much more personable presentation than hiding her away behind a full face helmet.   Just tell yourself she is an agat type if it will help.

[lucky phil]

If that’s real and uncontrived, then it’s just wonderful in all aspects.
I cringe a bit when I see her lovely young face in an open helmet though, it’s maybe the Dad in me or I’m getting old...
(Or both..)

I don’t know if we are collectively BS’ing ourselves, but I can’t think of another bike manufacturer (except maybe Ducati), who can tell the story of how the heart lives alongside the bike, quite like Guzzi.

When I see Mandello and look at Guzzi, I can feel the Sun, smell the Pizza, watch the old fishermen, hear the birds by the lake and am reminded of the time that I was served a pizza and two red wines by the shore at Lake Como on my Norge. The old man would not accept anything as payment for the evening meal, he just nodded and shook my hand then gestured towards the bike and the lake and rested his open right palm on his chest accompanied by a world weary crinkled smile.

A beautiful post.

Here are a couple of shots on the same day..

More than them covering themselves in tattoos which in 15-20 years will look an appalling ill defined fuzzy mess that will be impossible to rid themselves of entirely.
You can't put an old head, etc, etc. Style and image over substance and intellectual rationalisation is the order of the day for the young.
Nice images by the way. I hope to get back there soon myself.
Ciao 

[Huzo]

Yeah guys.
Also I was pleased to see a “real looking” young lady as opposed to the trout pouting  smarmy plastic dolls, that artificially smile as they slither over the displays at bike shows.
I was chuffed to see that she wants to go to the North Cape (Nordkapp) on her V7...

That young lady looks, speaks and acts like the real deal.

[Dave Swanson]

If I was young I think I would head to Mandello and haunt the streets until I ran into her! 

[Huzo]

If I was young I think I would head to Mandello and haunt the streets until I ran into her!

If you turned up on your V11 Sport, you’d be sleeping with me mate...(You know, one good turn deserves another...)
Anyway, she’d see you as a lovely harmless old man and would pester you for a ride on your bike with you on the back..
Now there’s some imagery to keep you warm at night...

[lucky phil]

If I was young I think I would head to Mandello and haunt the streets until I ran into her!

Yea Dave thats called Stalking these days. Used to be called "perusing the fare maiden"

Ciao

[Huzo]

Yea Dave thats called Stalking these days. Used to be called "perusing the fare maiden"

Ciao

I REALLY hope you meant “fair maiden....”

[pebra]

Yes, thanks for posting!

Only occiasionally  -  do I feel well about an ad.

And only occasionally do I enjoy knowing I'm using the product that's being advertised.

[Canuck750]

 

I need to get back to Italy! Maybe take my 72' Eldorado alomg for the ride.

[lucky phil]

I REALLY hope you meant “fair maiden....”

I thought about that spelling and still got it wrong.

Ciao

[Dave Swanson]

If you turned up on your V11 Sport, you’d be sleeping with me mate...(You know, one good turn deserves another...)
Anyway, she’d see you as a lovely harmless old man and would pester you for a ride on your bike with you on the back..
Now there’s some imagery to keep you warm at night...

I can always count on you to burst my bubble! Ha!!

[Huzo]

I thought about that spelling and still got it wrong.

Ciao

Yeah Phil, “fare maiden” would imply handing over of monies at the point of sale...

[cmgies]

What I really loved when my wife and I were there some years back and rented a 2012 V7 Special was when we were returning from the Passo dello Stelio were older gentlemen walking along the road who would smile and wave at us as we went by. A very lovely and friendly part of the world.

[Roebling3]

One or all of them may have built your bikes.
I'd go back in a NY minute - if I could.  R3~

[guzziart]

Nice video

[Kev m]

More than them covering themselves in tattoos which in 15-20 years will look an appalling ill defined fuzzy mess that will be impossible to rid themselves of entirely.
You can't put an old head, etc, etc. Style and image over substance and intellectual rationalisation is the order of the day for the young.

First I don't know what crap tattoos you've been exposed to but you're dead wrong on both assumptions. Though that COULD be the reality it won't necessarily be.

As for the rest, judgy much?!?

Assuming style and image comes without substance or rationalization is maybe worse than the aspersions you throw.

I think sometimes engineers either lack the ability or forget how to see with an artist's eye. And maybe because I've always leaned towards the engineer's viewpoint I envy a true artist's eye. I lack the creativity to see it much of the time. But damn do I know people who can and it can be so wonderful to see things from their perspective for a change other than the clean, neat, orderly, practical, view within my limited head.

Thank God for both types and everything in between.

But to assume that presence of style must equal lack of substance is just silly. Hell it spits on the very face of Moto Guzzi and a ton of other manufacturers (Italian and otherwise) who balance the two.

[sidecarnutz]

Yeah guys.
Also I was pleased to see a “real looking” young lady as opposed to the trout pouting  smarmy plastic dolls, that artificially smile as they slither over the displays at bike shows.
I was chuffed to see that she wants to go to the North Cape (Nordkapp) on her V7...

That young lady looks, speaks and acts like the real deal.

Agreed! Well said! I really enjoyed that. Only her lack of eye pro made me cringe (As a dad).

[twowheeladdict]

I think sometimes engineers either lack the ability or forget how to see with an artist's eye. And maybe because I've always leaned towards the engineer's viewpoint I envy a true artist's eye. I lack the creativity to see it much of the time. But damn do I know people who can and it can be so wonderful to see things from their perspective for a change other than the clean, neat, orderly, practical, view within my limited head.

Thank God for both types and everything in between.

My personal experience with beauty in motorcycles is that the more I find a bike beautiful, the more compromises that were made regarding comfort and ergonomics. 

I have had what I consider a few beautiful motorcycles in my life and they were the ones with the least miles on them when I parted ways with them.  I would see others on the motorcycle specific forums make a lot of changes to make a once beautiful machine more rideable and in the process ruin the look that attracted them to the bike to begin with.

I couldn't do that so I just rode them less often and less miles when I did ride them

Like I said, my personal experience.  Others may have different experiences. 

[twowheeladdict]

Agreed! Well said! I really enjoyed that. Only her lack of eye pro made me cringe (As a dad).

Made me cringe as well, but then I realized it was just for the cameras. 

[lucky phil]

First I don't know what crap tattoos you've been exposed to but you're dead wrong on both assumptions. Though that COULD be the reality it won't necessarily be.

As for the rest, judgy much?!?

Assuming style and image comes without substance or rationalization is maybe worse than the aspersions you throw.

I think sometimes engineers either lack the ability or forget how to see with an artist's eye. And maybe because I've always leaned towards the engineer's viewpoint I envy a true artist's eye. I lack the creativity to see it much of the time. But damn do I know people who can and it can be so wonderful to see things from their perspective for a change other than the clean, neat, orderly, practical, view within my limited head.

Thank God for both types and everything in between.

But to assume that presence of style must equal lack of substance is just silly. Hell it spits on the very face of Moto Guzzi and a ton of other manufacturers (Italian and otherwise) who balance the two.

Judgy, sure that's how I roll. Sorry I didn't read the rest.

Ciao

[Kev m]

My personal experience with beauty in motorcycles is that the more I find a bike beautiful, the more compromises that were made regarding comfort and ergonomics. 

I have had what I consider a few beautiful motorcycles in my life and they were the ones with the least miles on them when I parted ways with them.  I would see others on the motorcycle specific forums make a lot of changes to make a once beautiful machine more rideable and in the process ruin the look that attracted them to the bike to begin with.

I'm just saying that compromises don't equal a complete lack, and fewer miles is not none.

We see these arguments in various forms of form vs function, heart vs head etc.

I'm in NO WAY saying one way is right and the other is wrong.

I'm saying the opposite... that one shouldn't assume the presence of one quality means the absence of the other. That's too black and white.

And it's wrong in most machines, and a stupid assumption if we're talking about people.

[Huzo]

Just look at her expression @ 2:10 sec.
She means it, a wonderful young lady.

[cliffrod]

When you're born and raised into a specialty marque family, it can often be a pia and an endless pissing contest dealing with the many others that are somehow disturbed by the concept because they will never have the same creds.  It's one of those "If I have to explain you wouldn't understand" situations.  Either you've btdt or you will never really know. 

Dad got his first TR3 almost a decade before I was born.  We always had them and always drove them- from when I was a baby & before (ma got too pregnant/big to fit behind the steering wheel of Dad's TR3A)  when both my brother & I comfortably fit in the back seat of the TR3B and then when I drove the saem TR3B through high school & college.  They were the point of reference.  I was looking at his (now mine) TR3B yesterday thinking about when I might finally get it out of the shed & back on the road again.  I was the last person to drive it.  Funny, the other thread about clubs made me think of the couple of sports car clubs I attempted when I was younger.  That cured me for life.  nothing like being endlessly told by the insecure hoards how incorrect your original & unrestored true daily driver machine is, how it's not nice enough to be parked alongside (much less in front of...) their weekend-only bondo wagons, etc etc.  Then add the bureaucracy that always transpires.  Somehoiw your lifelong relationship makes you less objective than those who bought in, for whatever reason, later in life.

imho The best part of "the girl by the lake" is the way I expect MG is part of her family & life experieince like old Triumph TR3's are part of mine.  It's like comparing the relationship to a sibling to the relationship you have with a spouse.  No matter how much I love my wife, I will never KNOW her like I know my brother.  When she rides a Guzzi, she is at home in her self and I bet she would ride a Guzzi (or whatever the given marque was) even if every other person in the world didn't.  That is very cool.