Piaggio, based in Pontedera Italy and Europe's largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, unveiled a brand new white Moto Guzzi California and a Scrambler version of the V7 provided an exciting double surprise from Moto Guzzi at the Piaggio Group international dealer meeting in Monte Carlo on Jan 27, 2011.
The annual event for almost two thousand Piaggio motorcycle dealers at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo ended with the unexpected preview, presented by CEO Roberto Colaninno, these two new motorcycle prototypes offering a taste of the Moto Guzzi future product strategy. Read On: http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2011/moto-guzzi-unveils-california-and-scrambler
Newport Beach, Calif.: Moto Guzzis are unconventional. Unorthodox, even.
Just plain weird sometimes. They have V-twin engines, common enough in motorcycles, but unlike the rest of the sportbike and cruiser world, their motors are mounted transversely rather than longitudinally. The biggest of its V-twins displaces a whopping 1,151 cubic centimetres, yet they are quite unhappy running at low speeds. Moto Guzzi builds touring bikes that go fast and sportbikes that go slow. To read the rest of the article: http://www.canada.com/business/2010+Moto+Guzzis+Italian+bikes+lose+some+their+weirdness/3093087/story.html
The Moto Guzzi Stelvio is well built, sounds great, stylish, easy to handle, comfortable, practical and comes with that historic Moto Guzzi badge on the tank. It’s not as focussed as the BMW R1200GS Adventure on road and nowhere as accomplished off-road, but it doesn’t take itself as seriously either, it’s easy to ride and it comes with an air ...F...
After just two years in production the Moto Guzzi 1200 Sport gets a new engine. So it’s out with the old two-valver and in with a new 105bhp four-valve head motor, taken from the Stelvio adventure bike and the Griso 8v cruiser (yes, Guzzi call the Griso an ‘8v’ and all the other bikes in their range with the same ...FG_AUTHORS: Moto Guzzi...
The Moto Guzzi V7 Classic isn’t perfect. It’s underpowered slightly, a tad vibey at speed and the levers aren’t span adjustable. But otherwise we struggle to find fault. The Moto Guzzi V7 Classic is stylish, useful, charismatic and simply a nice motorcycle to ride and own and, for the money, that’s accomplishment enough. We’d have one instead of a...


