The Guzzi Bug...

[falconati]

Is nibbling...

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/mcy/1433165133.html

Questions: what did this bike sell originally for?  What is it worth?  What's the maintenance schedule?

I know I shouldn't buy a bike right before I move...it's just....

[atadaskew]

It retailed for $8800.

Retail value now from nadaguides is $3600, kbb is $4700.
But this one has very low miles, and some extra bits.
Nada seems to be too low..

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... there's nothing like having a set of perky jugs quivering inches from your crotch!

[kendenton]

First Guzzi I ever rode was a Stone



Shifting was terrible, riding position awkward, but the sound that thing made  

There will be a Guzzi in my future, probably a Norge

[Dean Rose`]

An '02 Special Sport was my first one then an '02 EV. Now I have a 2006 Beva, can't have enough GUZZU's. Next I want a Loop.

Kinda like potato chips, can't eat just one!


Dean  

[sagerat]

Everyone should own a Guzzi at least once in their motorcycling lifetime.

[atadaskew]

Everyone should own a Guzzi at least once in their motorcycling lifetime.

And if they have an 'unsavoury' experience, they should own another just to make sure the first time was a fluke...
 

[prshguy]

On my first one, and have the bug.  Thinking about a T3 or Eldo now.  

[chas]

This one for Orson;World's fastest rode a Guzzi

 
Photo motoblog.it A Moto Guzzi rider has been ticketed for going 616 km/h per hour by Italian police.

On Oct. 10, Paolo Turina received a fine for the offence in his mailbox in the province of Lecco.

Police admitted the speed assessment was a technical error committed by one of their famously accurate speed cameras.

A photocopy of the ticket now hangs in a local Guzzi shop, proving that nothing touches the Guzzi once it gets rolling.

[Papa Lazarou]

I would be concerned about any 90's Guzzis and Guzzis up to about 2006. Quality issues.

[st ryder]

Everyone should own a Guzzi at least once in their motorcycling lifetime.

I hope to get one one day, but one hasn't chosen me yet.

[atadaskew]

I hope to get one one day, but one hasn't chosen me yet.

To be chosen, you've gotta make yerself available....

Mine chose me after I entered "moto guzzi" into Craigslist find filter...

[Dean Rose`]

I would be concerned about any 90's Guzzis and Guzzis up to about 2006. Quality issues.

Why?

I've got a 2002 California EV and it takes me anywhere I have wanted to go. Got close to fifty thousand miles on it without a peep.

Do you own one, had one, or is this just Internet rumors? I know people who have hundreds of thousands of miles on Moto Guzzi's.

Dean  

 

[st ryder]

To be chosen, you've gotta make yerself available....

Oh, I've made myself available; sprawled over the key board in my riding leathers, sending private e-mails tempting sellers with resitable low ball offers, one for a Sport 1100, the other on a Daytona 2500 miles from home, been hanging out at some shady  Guzzi sites including this den of questionable characters but my advances have been spurned. One hasn't chosen me yet. Maybe they know I'm with another Italian beauty, and won't play second fiddle.   I'm in no position to buy one now any ways, but maybe one day soon....

[Papa Lazarou]

Why?

I've got a 2002 California EV and it takes me anywhere I have wanted to go. Got close to fifty thousand miles on it without a peep.

Do you own one, had one, or is this just Internet rumors? I know people who have hundreds of thousands of miles on Moto Guzzi's.

Dean  

 

There were periods when Guzzi was strapped for cash and mixed and matched bearings-there were some gearbox failures in a few bikes. My local shop dealt with 3 such failures-in one bike, they found 8 different makes of vearing.

[Daniel Kalal]

There were periods when Guzzi was strapped for cash

Really?  I had to chuckle at that one.

The Stone would be a terrific starting point for a new Guzzi owner.  All models of the California series (the ones with that bulbous teardrop tank) are much more alike than they are different.  The Stone was the stripped-down model, which in many ways would make it the better one to have (and cheaper to buy).

[Dean Rose`]

There were periods when Guzzi was strapped for cash and mixed and matched bearings-there were some gearbox failures in a few bikes. My local shop dealt with 3 such failures-in one bike, they found 8 different makes of vearing.

They have been strapped for cash since 1921. That's the reason they decided to get out of racing when the Japanese got into it.
If you only make 7,000 bikes a year each one is a collectors item. Show me another motorcycle company that has the history they do.

I'm DAMN proud that I ride Moto Guzzi's!

Dean

[jsh1120]

I was "chosen" a bit over a year ago. Though I'd always had a soft spot for Guzzis I'd never seriously considered owning one. What I recalled about them from the seventies was a bike that with ridiculously tall gearing. I did have a vague idea that there was an MG dealer with a very good reputation in the Seattle area, but little more.

But I was looking to reduce my "stable" (actually my overpacked garage) from four bikes to three. (Two for me; one for my wife.)  Trouble was that I couldn't find a bike that slotted well between my Triumph T-Bird Sport that was great for day rides but not for touring and my BMW Flying Brick K1200 that could do a quick trip to Salt Lake but was a pain in Seattle traffic.

Then I spied a used 2006 B1100 in black with a beautiful red seat at my local Triumph dealer. Came with luggage and a few thousand miles. Took it for a weekend test and I was truly smitten. Not only did it meet my functional criteria, it was far more alive than anything I'd ridden in many years. A year later and I find myself thinking of a V11 Sport...It's clearly an addiction.  

[Dean Rose`]

I did have a vague idea that there was an MG dealer with a very good reputation in the Seattle area, but little more.

http://www.motointernational.com/main.htm

[sagerat]

As I dimly recall there was an issue with the steel(?) in the self-adjusting lifters in the Stones around 2001-02.  Again, it was not every bike, but enough that I believe they had either a recall or a tech bulletin about it.

A 2002 Stone in red was the first Guzzi I ever rode and to this day I wished I had bought it, but the dealer wouldn't come off of the price.

And despite the electrical gremlins on my '06 Breva, I'm sure I'll have another Guzzi.  There are times I miss the Breva, not many, but occasionally.  Guzzis are a very visceral motorcycle and I liked how you felt you were on a machine.  Plus, following a twisty, sweeping river road with the Guzzi running at 5-7K is just motorcycling nirvana.  

We all have those two or three special rides in our memories out of tens of thousands we have done.  Tearing up the North Umpqua Highway on the Goose is one of mine, the other is a full-moon ride between Idaho and Utah on the Viffer, and the last is riding the KLR through northern Arizona and southern Utah.

And Guzzis are an addiction; if they ever get a bigger tank on the Stelvio I'd buy one.

[Papa Lazarou]

Don't get me wrong, Guzzis are the last proper bikes being made (excluding Urals).

They feel like a bike should, they sound like a bike should and they go quite nicely too.