GREENWICH, CT – Vintage motorcycle models from Indian and Moto Guzzi were featured Sunday at the three-day Greenwich Concours d’Elegance car and motorcycle show held on the waterfront at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. Indian began in Springfield, MA in 1901 and this year marks 120 years since its founding. Moto …
Read More »Bookshelf: Tome Tracks Moto Guzzi Models Since 1921
Moto Guzzi marks a milestone on Monday – exactly 100 years since the Italian marque launched in Mandello del Lario. Currently owned by Piaggio, Moto Guzzi was conceived during World War I by two Italian Air Force pilots and their gifted mechanic, Carlo Guzzi. It was Guzzi who supplied the …
Read More »Has Moto Guzzi Leaked IMS Dates, Including NYC?
(Update: Dates for the IMS stop in NYC will actually be Dec. 1-3.) NEW YORK – Here’s an item for those riders who like to plan well in advance. Nothing’s been announced yet regarding 2017-2018 dates and tour stops for the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows, but the days for the …
Read More »Glistening Moto Guzzi
EASTON, CT – When Mark Esposito acquired his 1971 Moto Guzzi Ambassador last September, it was a mess. “The motor was in the frame. The gas tank was on it. The rest of the parts were kind of scattered all over the place,” he recalled during
Read More »And Norge Is Pronounced How?
The check is in the mail. Or, more accurately, the bank check is in a Fed Ex envelope on the way to a motorcycle dealership in Ohio. This tale begins roughly two weeks ago when friend Bob Rosen mentioned that he’d been looking online at a
Read More »New Models From Moto Guzzi
MANDELLO DEL LARIO, Italy – Moto Guzzi is out with two new models with an 850cc engine as well as two variants of existing models.
Read More »Week Offers Microcosm Of Riding Season
Sometimes a single week can offer a microcosm of an entire riding season – the highs and the lows, the dangerous and the ridiculous. That such a week would occur during a warm stretch in November may be uncommon but I’ll take it, rejoice and give a two-fingered acknowledgement to …
Read More »Italian Bikes Bask At IMOC
STURBRIDGE, MA – If the brand names on all the bikes on the show ground end in a vowel, it’s a safe bet that you’re at IMOC. The Italian Motorcycles Owners Club held its 32nd annual motorcycle show today at the Hamilton Rod & Gun Club, and riders turned out …
Read More »If You Had Asked, I Would Have Told You…
Every question needs an answer. If you had asked, I would have told you that… – Harley-Davidson has not one but two flops on its hands with the smaller Street 750 and Street 500 models. We’re talking “Gigli” proportion flops. I’ve yet to see one on the road, dealers don’t …
Read More »Moto Guzzi Owners Gather In Deep River
DEEP RIVER, CT – It was only after extracting the 1994 Moto Guzzi California 1100 from winter storage and getting it out on the road for the first time early this month – more than three months after buying it – that the question popped to
Read More »Moto Guzzi Added To Stable
When the best time to buy a motorcycle? The answer to that question has become something of a cliche because “when you see it” seems, at least on the surface, to be just too simple of a response. It’s a sound reason, though, that took me more than 10 years …
Read More »Hamlin Cycles Picks Up Moto Guzzi
BETHEL, CT – The public announcement came in the form of a post on Facebook shortly after 2 p.m. today: Hamlin Cycles here is becoming a Moto Guzzi dealer.
Read More »Moto Guzzi Reveals V7 II
The Moto Guzzi V7 is getting a makeover, and an expanded name. It will now be the V7 II, presumably for
Read More »Hamlin Cycles Now Open In Bethel
The showroom is filled not with new Triumph models, but with the scent of fresh carpeting. The floor of the service department glistens from the newly-applied sealant that still hasn’t cured in one area. A sign on the exterior of Hamlin Cycles in Bethel, CT has a Union Jack as …
Read More »So Many Motorcycle Models That You Can’t Get Here…
Kawasaki W80 It was at the end of last year that I was griping about the fact that Moto Guzzi doesn’t sell its Bellagio mid-sized cruiser here in the U.S. and that got me thinking about other models that never see our shores. While Honda withheld its CB1100 for a …
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