As both a V7 owner and a (now discontinued) Harley Sportster 1200 owner... How much longer can Moto Guzzi avoid making the V7 liquid cooled and still meet emissions requirements?
Yep, always a concern, but the same can be applied to any other air-cooled bike currently out there. Some are just better designed to take on the tightening restrictions (and internally, such is the case comparing the small blocks to the recently extinct big blocks). As for Harley, their engineers—at least in their racing departments, perhaps also the consumer-street end, too—seem to be more short-sighted and willing to work more with bandaid fixes.
I’m sure Piaggio has a good idea just how long the small block’s remaining theoretical shelf life is. Someone just needs to ask them nicely