Author Topic: similes and metaphors for Guzzis... (Read 8127 times)

lucydad · « **on:** July 15, 2016, 04:41:26 PM »

Ok ladies and gents. How good are you at the verbal arts? Are you literate and well read? How broad is your vocabulary?

Similes and metaphors are the topic.

My Guzzi is like.... (fill in the blank).

Example could be: my Guzzi is like an eager puppy ready to romp. Or, my Guzzi is like an antique wind up clock, ticks away, but often needs adjustment.

My Triumph is a contrast: my Triple is like a Klingon Warbird blowing into warp drive -- hang on for the hunt...
(I think I need a Klingon Empire sticker for the bike, would not that be fun!)

Give it a go. More examples so you get the concept clearly:

Here is an example from literature I like: 15. �Camperdown, Copenhagen, Trafalgar � these names thunder in memory like the booming of great guns.� � Mutiny on the Bounty, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

Cicero is one of my personal heroes, and a Roman, hence Italian, and likely would have ridden a Moto Guzzi small block: �A room without books is like a body without a soul.�

Einstein had it right: �Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.�

J.K. Rowling has this to say: �Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.� -- reminds me of a lot of people.

Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2016, 04:52:42 PM »

I waiting for Pete Roper.

KraZ440 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2016, 04:54:08 PM »

My Guzzi is like a box of chocolates. I never know what I'm going to get.

pikipiki · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2016, 04:57:33 PM »

Go to Muzzi, Um? Ok that's a Spoonerism.

guzzimatic · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2016, 05:00:08 PM »

The Convert is truly a magic carpet ride! Never fast but deceptively quick...

ITSec · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2016, 05:01:34 PM »

My Norge is named Niccolo - like Machiavelli, he counsels me in the wise use of power!

Kev m · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2016, 06:22:46 PM »

"like a wind from Gelderland"

Reference anyone?

Kev m · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2016, 06:25:28 PM »

Quote from: pikipiki on July 15, 2016, 04:57:33 PM

Go to Muzzi, Um? Ok that's a Spoonerism.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2016, 06:40:04 PM »

The LMIII is like a lovely Missouri mule, sometimes cranky but always runs best when heading back to the barn

twowings · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2016, 07:15:29 PM »

Like a locomotive on the Rio Grande Railroad...headed for the mountains!

Gliderjohn · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2016, 07:31:20 PM »

My T-3 is an in your face honest ride that demands interface in a physical way. in contrast my Norge is is a natural extension of my being...doing my will by telepathically.
GliderJohn

tazio · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2016, 08:43:07 PM »

The frequency of my beating heart as I fire up the Guzzi for an early morning romp
is inversely proportional to the number of Guzzi dealers I encounter on said ride.

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #12 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:17:39 PM »

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on July 15, 2016, 06:40:04 PM

The LMIII is like a lovely Missouri mule, sometimes cranky but always runs best when heading back to the barn

a mule is far superior to a stallion so I ride Guzzi?

lucydad · « **Reply #13 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:23:54 PM »

Big smiles for the similes.

You are doing great. My eldest daughter, the English Major, Summa Cum Laude and BF editor would be proud.

Did I mention there is a competition.

Yes, as in the coliseum. Gladiatorial verbosity wins the "Golden Goose Egg" award.

Competition closes whenever the poodles decide, and they make all final judgments.

Honor and glory can be yours.

Honor, like life, when once lost, never returns.
—Publius Syrus

Tom · « **Reply #14 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:26:39 PM »

Quote from: fotoguzzi on July 15, 2016, 09:17:39 PM

a mule is far superior to a stallion so I ride Guzzi?

A Guzzi is more like a mule or a Morgan. More durable than a thorough bred horse like a Ducati.

PJPR01 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:32:45 PM »

Guzzi Haiku:

Boots, helmet, gloves and pants
Garage door opens quietly
Guzzi patiently awaits his rider
Dials sweep, twins fire, rumble and roll

My Guzzi is a thoroughbred, muscles twitching, ready to gallop, it pulls away from the pack, leans into the turn and heads for the open road…

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:37:36 PM »

Quote from: fotoguzzi on July 15, 2016, 09:17:39 PM

a mule is far superior to a stallion so I ride Guzzi?

I like mules!

wrbix · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2016, 09:56:02 PM »

A pet name for my LM IV - Rocinante - who knows that literary reference and its literal interpretation in Spanish?

poorBob · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2016, 10:41:17 PM »

Quote from: wrbix on July 15, 2016, 09:56:02 PM

A pet name for my LM IV - Rocinante - who knows that literary reference and its literal interpretation in Spanish?

Don Quixote's foremost steed

lucydad · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2016, 07:25:17 AM »

My Guzzi is like Chris Botti playing an accordion.

El Pescador · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2016, 07:54:04 AM »

My Guzzi California is like Sophia Loren in her 40's. All the right curves and sexier for them!

Antietam Classic Cycle · « **Reply #21 on:** July 16, 2016, 08:29:05 AM »

My two Ambassadors are like the Energizer Bunny, they just keep going and going...

Lurking on Wildguzzi is like having lunch on the side porch of the Poor Farmer's Market in Meadows of Dan, VA. (You have to have "been there, done that" to understand what I mean).

v7john · « **Reply #22 on:** July 16, 2016, 11:53:55 AM »

In 1972 a tester with Motor Cycle News in the UK described the V7Sport as being like a racing rhino. Hence the name of my blog. When I ride mine, as I did today, I can physically feel what he meant.

Incidentally, I'm still trying to find a copy of that MCN test, either original or scanned for my site.

MLR · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2016, 11:59:14 AM »

At the heart of every Guzzi lies a glowing ember from the fire Prometheus stole from the gods. The rumble released at the twist of a wrist is a mystery of chaos barely contained, an alchemy of engineering and art, of music and long forgotten magic, that propels you forward beyond yourself and all the artifice of modern daily life. A Moto Guzzi is a motorcycle. And a motorcycle is transcendence.

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2016, 12:55:04 PM »

The rutting rhino called Quota...

ITSec · « **Reply #25 on:** July 16, 2016, 04:18:56 PM »

Quote from: Kev m on July 15, 2016, 06:22:46 PM

"like a wind from Gelderland"

Reference anyone?

A questionable quote from an alleged Chaucer...

"Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Guilderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk... in the garden of his turbulence!"

And who, really, wants to follow someone 'in the garden of his turbulence'?

Penderic · « **Reply #26 on:** July 16, 2016, 04:38:41 PM »

Moto Guzzi?

Well,

Kev m · « **Reply #27 on:** July 16, 2016, 05:15:35 PM »

Quote from: ITSec on July 16, 2016, 04:18:56 PM

A questionable quote from an alleged Chaucer...

"Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Guilderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk... in the garden of his turbulence!"

And who, really, wants to follow someone 'in the garden of his turbulence'?

I prefer to think of it as more of a romantic (and maybe existentialist) allusion to Chaucer wrapped in a loose but fun and poignant pastiche!

And thanks for the correction on GUILDerland which in retrospect seems like a much better place to call home than GELDerland.

As for his garden of turbulence one COULD claim it means the calm of his wake.

Tom · « **Reply #28 on:** July 16, 2016, 05:36:18 PM »

pikipiki · « **Reply #29 on:** July 16, 2016, 05:39:52 PM »

Quote from: Tom on July 15, 2016, 09:26:39 PM

A Guzzi is more like a mule or a Morgan. More durable than a thorough bred horse like a Ducati.

A Morgan is (also) a vehicle with a motorcycle engine.
A Guzzi is by some accounts a motorcycle with a tractor engine.
Guzzi's may be seen to socialize with Ducatis (horses), Morgans with cars (Donkeys)
It seems if the Guzzi is a Mule then the Morgan is a Hinny although if a guzzi engine is then fitted to a Morgan it may become more complicated?

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