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Lots of threads get like this every year when it snows most people in, even happened on hunting forums years ago. People stuck home, can't ride, or whatever they usually do to consume time and energy.
"Valve clearance check:12,000 km (7,500 m)"What does that cost?
On the ABS point, they are not all the same. Take the R1150GS for instance, it will send you through an intersection with studder bumps, also on gravel and dirt, doesn't work. Super Tenere and KTM, ABS (and TC) works very transparently on dirt or bumps or whatever!
I was staying away from the valve check cost part of the equation but, for me, it is a significant advantage Guzzi has over just about any other marque. Peter Y.
That 7500 mile quote I posted was from one of the current Monsters taken from the Ducati website.
can't think of a single marque that has valves that are easier to check than a Guzzi.
Well...... 2 of the 3 of us are wise and intelligent ;D Just to be clear , not sure what the bone of contention is here , but the I find myself confused by about half of what happens on WG anyway , so carry on :D Dusty
I was out in California riding with some hooligans. 2 of us were stopped at a downhill dusty intersection waiting for the rest to catch up, when the guy on a Multistrada almost hit us. :o He said the ABS let go..I really don't want that kind of stuff. ~;
Why don't you send them an email and ask? I did that a couple years back asking about availability of then new 8v Norge. I received a reply back within a couple days.
Announcing a delivery date for the new bikes sounds like a great way to screw dealers who have the current bikes on the floor. Guzzi is offering incentives on the V7 right now.
O K just to drift a bit and bring back some civility, how does Piaggio expect to build a brand when they don't attend any shows? No presence in Seattle, no appearance in New York? Are we a secret cult? :BEER:
Interesting question, one that I asked of Triumph for several years. Yet, they seem to have grown very well despite not doing any US shows for years???
I was going to bring Triumph up as an example.Personally I have thought that show was useless for more than a decade.
Moto Guzzi Established 1921 , going out of business since 1922 This pretty much explains the situation Redge :D Dusty
I believe the valve interval on the last 796 (Jay has one) is the same as on our 696, and is the aforementioned 7500 miles.
Thought you were being serious until the term "significant manufacturer" ;) :D Is Ural going to have a booth ? ;) Dusty
Hi Dusty,Sorry, I assumed (apparently erroneously) that most people here would know the difference in scale between Piaggio and Ural.If you do a search via Duck Duck Go (or even Google) you'll get up to speed pretty lickety split.
Oh , thought we were talking about MG , not the current owners of said company . Of course , mention the name Piaggio to the average American , pay close attention now , because you are gonna get a brief flicker of recognition , followed by , "hell , don't they make them fancy coffee pots" ::) Sorry dude , if you want to best someone in general motorbike knowledge , I might not be the one to start with :D Dusty
I haven't got a clue what you are talking about."Coffee pots"?You know, I have a Piaggio bike in Italy, where I spend a good deal of time, that I bought from a Piaggio dealer in Sicily who has been working with Piaggio bikes since 1976 and who maintains my bike.I don't know where to begin with much of what's in this thread. It's so divorced from the reality of owning a Piaggio bike, at least in Italy, that I think that the prudent course is to just bow out.
Seems to me the problem here is a lack of geographical knowledge , Italy is a medium sized country that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea , America is a largish place some 4,200 miles to the West . O course there is Florida, which from space looks a bit like Italy , but is a whole lot flatter . My point is , Italy , and the motorcycle culture there isn't the same as America . Not many scooters here ;D Dusty
I want a scooter. A 1950's/'60's Moto Guzzi Galletto. They're hard to find here.
I still believe the US MC shows are relatively insignificant.I guess it's nice that Triumph is participating again, but they didn't for quite a few years.I believe their philosophy was they thought it better to put that marketing money into a mobile demo fleet that toured dealers around the country.Perhaps that philosophy was part of why they, in only a decade or two, have far surpassed MG US (and worldwide) sales.And perhaps the fact that they have at so much more significant US sales is why they can finally justify spending that kind of money on that show again.Maybe if Guzzi ever reaches that level (5 figure US sales instead of 3-4 figure) they'll participate too.I thought it was smarter that with the release of summer other recent models in the US (including the 1TB V7 and the Cali 1400) that they had an official demo program through their dealers. A step in the right direction towards growth and better marketing.I just don't think it is fair to hold them to the marketing standards of companies with 10's to 100's of thousands more in US sales units.That's like comparing the ad campaign of your favorite micro brewery to Budweiser.
