Wednesday's Blast-From-The-Past

[JJ]

A few cool Moto Guzzi's I have owned, ridden, and enjoyed, (in historical order...)  :1:

* 1978 850 Le Mans (first Guzzi @ age 23)
* 2002 V11 Le Mans
* 1993 SP1000-III
* 1983 850 Le Mans-III
* 1998 Centauro GT (current ride)












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[PJPR01]

Nice collection there Monsieur Zhay Zhay!

I can't imagine a good excuse for giving up the V11 however...especiall y in that Champagne color!

I can't believe you haven't color coded those Red horns to match the flaming yellow Centauro!

[Lannis]

I certainly do like all those bikes.

I owned a yellow Centauro for some years (35,000 miles worth) .... I cried when I test-rode John's lovely low mileage SPIII and couldn't fit my knees behind the fairing two-up ... and I've always liked the sporty ones though I've never had a Sport or LeMans ....

Lannis

[JJ]

Nice collection there Monsieur Zhay Zhay!

I can't imagine a good excuse for giving up the V11 however...especiall y in that Champagne color!

I can't believe you haven't color coded those Red horns to match the flaming yellow Centauro!

I sold the V11 Le Mans to a good friend...who still has it...because I moved to Germany 2004-2005 and I was not sure if I could get it registered there, etc.  I wound up buying a mint 1993 Triumph Trident 900 (3-cylinder / 100 HP / 6-speed) - see photo - and that was a BLAST to ride over there for two years.  Bought for 2500 Euros - sold 2500 Euros two years later.  Good bike!

Yes, I added those dual "RED" Hella horns (from Germany) and they blase 111dB, because I can FART louder than most of the stock horns, especially on Guzzi's!!   I take a lot of crap from my fellow Guzzisti for this mod, but it is effective and practical!

On my Victory, I installed a STEBEL (also German) 12-volt Nautilus "Air Cannon" horn and that is a REAL blaster(114dB)  and gets everyone's attention!!    Can be heard >3 blocks away!!










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[Matteo]

So, if you could which one would you like to have back or keep the current ride?

[JJ]

So, if you could which one would you like to have back or keep the current ride?

I have the yellow '98 Centauro GT now...and it's a keeper.  

I would say, for a second cool Guzzi, the original 1978 850 Le Mans....one in that condition today (photo from the Barber Museum) would bring $15-$20K....(sigh)  I believe I paid $3800 (something like that...) brand new in Austin, TX back in the day!

[PJPR01]

On my Victory, I installed a STEBEL (also German) 12-volt Nautilus "Air Cannon" horn and that is a REAL blaster(114dB)  and gets everyone's attention!!    Can be heard >3 blocks away!!










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Had to chuckle, as I've had both of those horns on my Rover in the past...even painted the red ones blue to match my Rover...that's why I was giving you grief about "color matching" to the Centauro Giallo!  They are both good ones...I'd love to have a train horn on the motorcycle too...would clear a path as if Moses were parting the Red sea!

[JJ]

Had to chuckle, as I've had both of those horns on my Rover in the past...even painted the red ones blue to match my Rover...that's why I was giving you grief about "color matching" to the Centauro Giallo!  They are both good ones...I'd love to have a train horn on the motorcycle too...would clear a path as if Moses were parting the Red sea!

I was cut-off a year or so ago on my Vision...by a moron on this cell phone in his huge, white, Cadillac SUV...when I pressed the horn...it went...."Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrt" - - again...similar to a mouse-fart! 

That's when I invested in the Stebel Nautilus Air Cannon.  The first time I blasted someone...they literally almost went off the road....they too, were on a cell phone! 

Next to an "unreliable" motorcycle...there is NOTHING in this world (IMHO)....WORSE.... than a motorcycle with a weak, pathetic, mouse-fart like horn!! 

[Jim Rich]

Nice sequence of cool bikes JJ.