Sport-Touring.Net - Guzzi 2012 models leaked: V7 Scrambler and new 1400cc California

well at least the responses here haven't been as completely hopeless and negative as they have been on most of the bloody Guzzi boards! FWIW I wrote a response to the whinging on Guzzitech which I'll C&P here. Nothing like having a good spray at whiners Bigsmile

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They can't win a trick!

Everyone moans about how they don't produce enough power, so Noale finally invests the money to design an effectively all new angine that in 1200 cc form will profuce above the magic 'Ton' in HP at the rear wheel. What happens? All the moaners decry it is too complex and it isn't fitted to a 'Cruiser' style bike so they would never buy one.

So what do they try and do? They stick it in a bike like a 'Cruiser' AND they hog it out a couple of hundred extra cc's so that all the Numpties with tiny willies can brag about how they have a nearly litre and a half engine. They even leave it with a hideous, inferior, twin-shock rear end to try and please the luddites! And what happens. They moan!

The rocker covers stick into the tank, (Obviously a cosmetic cover up.) It's water cooled, (Maybe, more likely just a big oil radiator, but water/glycol cooling will have to come eventually to try and shut the bloody thing up!) It doesn't look right! It causes my 'gina to become compacted with sand!!!!

Well bugger me sideways with a prize marrow! Just *exactly* what will it take for some of you blithering old fuquetards to be happy? The brand to disappear so you can twang your suspenders and try and recall the 'Good Old Days' when everything was dirty and unreliable but you could still lynch niggers and be frightened of the big-bad-bogeymen in the Soviet Union????

Jesus wept! Would I want either of these bikes? Shit no! I've never been a fan of 'Cruisers' and I honestly believe that the day that the smallblock is consigned to the dustbin of history can't come soon enough. But fer cryin' out loud! It doesn't seem to matter WHAT the Gnomes of Noale try to do NOBODY will ever be happy. And every time a model is released with a Guzzi badge it is the same bunch of grizzling curmudgeons who pipe up saying "Well? It Just isn't good enough!"

You know what? Sod yers! The fact that 'Guzzi', since the sixties or seventies a 'DeTommaso', 'Brand' has been bought out by first Aprilia and then Piaggio makes not the slightest difference to me. Even where the poxy things are built is really of little consequence as long as it remains in Italy and the people who build them enjoy the benefits of living in a civilized nation with reasonable worker protections.

I want to see the Guzzi badge continue on an Italian built product of some sort. As long as its there the 'Golden Thread' that goes back to the dark days after WWI and covered everything from the rise of fascism and the 'Glory Years' of racing post-war will continue. Maybe not as it has up until now, maybe with different goals and ambitions, but it WILL continue.

The alternative is just to accept that the Guzzi name is dead. Perhaps in a lot of ways that would be for the better. I'd hate to think I had to be associated with such a bunch of miserable, tight-fisted, closed minded whingers.

For what its worth I REALLY like the Noale engine, and the rest of the package that makes up my Griso. It's enormous fun. It's dead reliable and it has style and 'Panache' to die for, even with me on it! For fucks sakes. How's about just cutting Piaggio a little bit of slack once in a while? Do that. Allow the new models to succeed, or not? And we MAY just, eventually, see the MGS-02 that so many of us want to see produced. Shit-canning EVERYTHING is just a really easy way to ensure the curtain comes down on Guzzi.

Pete

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