there's a Guzzi on the shoulder [photographs]

[Daniel Kalal]

you guys have got to have more....

[blakebird]

High Park Rd, CO


south of Salmon, ID


Slumgullion Pass, CO


Independence Pass at 12,025'


Squaw Pass


Kansas

[Orson]

Dubrovnik, Croatia



Lofoten Islands, Norway



Sardinia



Cape Sagres, Portugal (no road shoulder)  



Creg-Ny-Ba, Isle of Man

[veefer800canuck]

I dunno why you guys even play this game with Orson. He always wins.  


Oh, and this Moto Guzzi isn't exactly ON her shoulder, but it's close.

[Orson]

I dunno why you guys even play this game with Orson. He always wins.  

everyone wins on a Guzzi  

[JimWilliamson]

everyone wins on a Guzzi  

A quick read had me thinking "where do I sign up!" for this "everyone wins a Guzzi"  

A bunch of nice pix. Squaw Pass pic is great.

[ConPilot1]

I am like really, seriously, jealous of Orson.

[sammyseaman]

Lofoten Islands, Norway



Creg-Ny-Ba, Isle of Man

  You guys have to stop posting these! I can't handle it anymore  

[Orson]

I am like really, seriously, jealous of Orson.

Norway is like a forbidden fruit for motorcyclists.

The crazy speed enforcement is enough to make any self respecting, American, speed-trap running municipality blush in embarrassment.

80 km speed limits everywhere, which is like 55 mph with cops lurking in the bushes.

And the prices are exhorbitant. I bought a sandwich, a Snickers bar and a Coke. Afterwards, I did the currency conversion in my head and it came out to like $28  

A nice place to visit...once

A more friendly motorcycling enviroment...Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France

[Attack Pug]

Sex on wheels

[sammyseaman]

Norway is like a forbidden fruit for motorcyclists.

The crazy speed enforcement is enough to make any self respecting, American, speed-trap running municipality blush in embarrassment.

80 km speed limits everywhere, which is like 55 mph with cops lurking in the bushes.

And the prices are exhorbitant. I bought a sandwich, a Snickers bar and a Coke. Afterwards, I did the currency conversion in my head and it came out to like $28  

A nice place to visit...once

A more friendly motorcycling enviroment...Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France

Sounds like Norway is in dire need of $.

[atadaskew]

Sounds like Norway is in dire need of $.

Nope.

They are the world's 6th largest oil exporter.
They just like to keep 'order' and have priorities different from you and me..

[sammyseaman]

Nope.

They are the world's 6th largest oil exporter.
They just like to keep 'order' and have priorities different from you and me..

I just read that beer is $15 a pint. Different priorities from me indeed

[BobW]

[radlefty]

one of the alphabet roads in Wisconsin along the Mississsippi River.
Looks like a good road to check out the new shocks.

[Calabrese]

you guys have got to have more....

You created a classic for the ages with the second pic. Someday some kid an a stop from his intergalactic trip on a planet called earth will look at that pic and understand it, he may even park his cycletronic in the same spot for a touch thru time.

[WitchCityBallabio]

Here's a couple...

On the shoulder on the Ballabio - Resinelli road. On the rented Agostini Stelvio...



Somewhere in the Chianti region. Just a gorgeous road that cut through vineyards and olive trees.



Lots of Guzzi's on the side of the road in front of the Guzzi factory during the protest rally to block the moving of Guzzi...

[FiremanBob]

Nice to know that somewhere in the world there are still pavement and green grass. All I can see here are snow and ice.

[antvq]

I've heard the all the bashing of Harley, but until I visited this thread I had no idea that Guzzi's broke down on the shoulder of the road so often.  You guys should all just buy FJR's.   They run.    

[WitchCityBallabio]

The riders break down. Not the bikes.

 

[Blunder]

Taken this morning. Somewhere in Shasta County.

[Rincewind]

Great thread.  Thanks for all the enjoyable Guzzi pics,

[Daniel Kalal]

three more...
(from two weeks ago)

[Kraz]

[Kraz]

[jsanford]

Cosick, WA

[Thunderbox]

Getting ready for a full day of hard sport riding.

[rdbandkab]

In our $25 rainsuits, somewhere in WV or VA - can't remember!.  (during a break in the rain)   The Breva lurking in the background wanting to get back on the road.

[Dean]

In our $25 rainsuits, somewhere in WV or VA - can't remember!.  (during a break in the rain)   The Breva lurking in the background wanting to get back on the road.

Saw some of your pics. I live right up the road from there in Hot Springs, Virginia.



Dean

[rdbandkab]

Hey Dean!

I thought it might have been on the VA side of the border in George Washington Nat'l....  We do that route quite a bit.


Here's one of my favorite all time motorcycle pics (from that area).  Right up the road on 39.

[Dean]

Hey Dean!

I thought it might have been on the VA side of the border in George Washington Nat'l....  We do that route quite a bit.


Here's one of my favorite all time motorcycle pics (from that area).  Right up the road on 39.

Yeah, God I hate living here!   We live about two miles from the junction of 39 & 220.

Good thing I have a couple of GUZZI's to ride down the mountain and find some flat straight roads to ride.  


Dean

[jdgretz]

jdg

[Thunderbox]

This is a nice one.

[Blunder]

[Pete Roper]

How many you want Meester???

[Guy]

Time to 'fess up Dan, Pete, and Orson. All three of you have got to be working for the Guzzi PR dept.

[crispiegee1]

Kraz, is that your Ambo?  I didn't know you had one.

Looks great, whosever it is!  

[Kraz]

Kraz, is that your Ambo?  I didn't know you had one.

HAD one.  

Have a V7 Cafe now...    Who knows for how long though... I can't seem to hang on to bikes very long... I have motorcycle ADD.

[Biking Sailor]

HAD one.  

Have a V7 Cafe now...    Who knows for how long though... I can't seem to hang on to bikes very long... I have motorcycle ADD.

ADD might be better than Hoarders disease, or not.  

[crispiegee1]

ADD might be better than Hoarders disease, or not.  

As soon as I have more money, I think I may start showing signs of Hoarder's disease.    I've already decided that I'd like at least one more Eldorado, plus maybe a V1000 G5 or more recent 1200 Sport. And I still need to replace my sport touring rig with some kind of Triumph triple.  

[WitchCityBallabio]

The Ballabio in full Sport-Touring mode on the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia....

[Pete Roper]

Time to 'fess up Dan, Pete, and Orson. All three of you have got to be working for the Guzzi PR dept.

Nah. We are simply old and ugly enough to recognise that riding a race bike with lights doesn't translate particularly well to 'Road' riding and Guzzi make some of the best 'Road' bikes in the world and have been doing so for, with the twins, over forty years. I for one do not have a slavish, dedication to the marque. If they start producing shitters? I'll dump 'em! In thirty years though I've yet to ride a *real* shitter. Although the Nevada skirts around the edge of the septic tank!

I currently run 'On the Road' rather than historically plated a Guzzi 1200 Griso and an Aprilia Mana. Two more different bikes you couldn't want to come across! The fact is though they are both 'Fit For Purpose', and that is what its all about. Guzzi make SUPERB ROAD BIKES. Of course we'll spruik them! Why wouldn't we? They really are 'That Good'!!!!

Pete

[Esaki]

Mt St Helens.


Glacier National Park.


Er, I forget, but it's the lake at the base of Glacier National Park on the Montana side.


Looking back at the park.


Alberta, I think it's the 40.


The 1 in Northern CA. "Warning, Windy Road for 99 Miles"


The Pacific Coast is amazing.


No, no, really.


Crater Lake is beyond that snow bank. It was a "bit chilly" that day.


Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Canada. Looks isolated but the city is directly behind and to the right.


Some great memories.

[Blaufeld]

Yesterday, early afternoon on the panoramic road over Porto Ercole ( next to Orbetello Lagoon, Tuscany).

Up, up and away  



Yes, on the right side just the sea and the sky...



Another stretch toward the summit...



This was the road I travelled almost every Sunday with my first Guzzi... the V65C...  

[Blaufeld]

...and same location with a friend of mine...

[WitchCityBallabio]

Taken this weekend in New Jersey on the PA border. Beautiful roads ( if not laden with freakin' deer). Senor Stelvio with the missus' new Griso SE.

[Daniel Kalal]

Stelvio in the Czech Republic.

[Moto Morphin Power Ranger]

[blackbuell]

The Norge on a recent trip to the USA four-corners area:







Jon

[Blaufeld]

Past Bormio town, toward the Alps and the Stelvio mountain pass.

[Daniel Kalal]

and, more recentlly:

Italy


Sardinia


Corsica


France


Wales

[jdgretz]

IMG_1151-Edit.jpg by jdgretz, on Flickr


IMG_1212-Edit.jpg by jdgretz, on Flickr


IMG_1207.jpg by jdgretz, on Flickr


Matt, Dale and the bikes by jdgretz, on Flickr


Wow - back from when I first got my Norge:

IMG_0095 by jdgretz, on Flickr


IMG_0117 by jdgretz, on Flickr

jdg

[bubba zanetti]

Kootenay Pass BC


Castlegar BC


Keremeos BC


Antelope Or


Lassen Ca


Park Lake Wa


Hell's Canyon


Hood Canal Wa

[boxermoose]

Outside Shiprock, heading toward 4 corners

[Pete Roper]

Consider yourself 'Walloped' 'Sir'!

Pete

[Oxman]

Big Valley Alberta

[NotDeadYet]

My V11 Lemans on the shoulder of Chuckanut Drive along the coast of northern Washington along with my ZX14

[img
IMGP1255 by picante express, on Flickr][/img]

[Virginian]

[ToadRide]

Seems like so long ago.

New Brunswick

Headed for the Cabot Trail

New England

Skyline Chill

With fellow NTXer Pete.

The Keys

[alphabet man]

How did I miss this thread  

[alphabet man]

[Hambonee]

GOD that is a beautiful bike...

I tried stripping the lower plastics on my Norge to make it look a bit more like it a while back but not the same. I need to find one as a project bike..

[bubba zanetti]

I just noticed the Whiskey Jack on your seat cowl Dave !  

I am surprised you took the time to let him on your paint like that !  Poor Princess !

[alphabet man]

I just noticed the Whiskey Jack on your seat cowl Dave !  

I am surprised you took the time to let him on your paint like that !  Poor Princess !

 I don't mind having cute chicks on the back of my bike  

[alphabet man]

GOD that is a beautiful bike...

I tried stripping the lower plastics on my Norge to make it look a bit more like it a while back but not the same. I need to find one as a project bike..

 Thanks, they do come up on CL or Kijiji once in a while if you are not set on an Ohlins model there were  quite a few V11 Sports imported to US and Canada

http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17771


Looks better without the bags

[Oxman]

nice Lemans and they always look better parked inside ..)    I had a 2000 v 11 sport that i kick my ass for selling ...doh !

[Virginian]

   Blasphemy  that you sold that bike!

[WitchCityBallabio]

A couple more from our trip up to Alaska and back to Boston this year.







Some more from this summer...

[Hambonee]

From a little offroad side track during a June ride to Eastern Wash...


It was a bit cold that time of year..

[jdgretz]

Roadside Break by jdgretz, on Flickr


Winter Riding by jdgretz, on Flickr

[WitchCityBallabio]

A dirt road, but a road none-the-less.

[WitchCityBallabio]

[ToadRide]

Gotta say a bike can hardly get any better lookin than a Green Griso.

[Virginian]

[Thunderbox]

 Thanks, they do come up on CL or Kijiji once in a while if you are not set on an Ohlins model there were  quite a few V11 Sports imported to US and Canada

http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17771


Looks better without the bags

Davey That is one of the nicest motorcycles ever produced IMHO Top 3 Ever!

[Rincewind]

That sure is a   nice motorcycle.  

[alphabet man]

Davey That is one of the nicest motorcycles ever produced IMHO Top 3 Ever!

Thanks I have had several motorcycles over the years but I think this one is a keeper, I think my granddaughter will like it, although if I want to retire early and with insurance rates the way they are in BC I may have to thin the herd to one Adv bike and one small dual sport.
Here is a pic on the shoulder with the other MG