moto guzzi

Ducks and a Goose in the shade!

That’s my kind of parking lot! Thanks to Chris Lewis for the pics!

Postcards from Sturgis! A Guzzi and some Indians!

Our old friend Mr Charles Lathe writes in:

Hey,
You continue to do a great job with your site. You keep telling us you’ll have to ease off, and I understand that, but you keep going.
I’m attaching a couple of photos of a Moto Guzzi Eldorado I saw parked at the curb in Sturgis last Saturday.
I’m also attaching a photo of some Indians I saw in Jeff Grigsby’s shop near Durango, Colorado.
Regards, Chuck Lathe, North Carolina

Now that’s a nice way to stand out in Sturgis! Different AND cool! And that shop is the bomb!
Thanks again Chuck!

A Stunning Cafe (or Kaffee) Moto Guzzi!

I´d be very happy if you´d post my latest project on your famous site.

This custom cafe racer was built for an english customer- John Purser (JP).
The donor bike was his old T3 California. The wasted fat lady was reborn as a skinny supermodel (180kg dryweight)- only the frame lost 3kg of needless metal.
The engine was modified to LM 850 specs, ALL components on the bike are handcrafted. I even modified the few aftermarket parts, to match the optics.
Shocks are Ikon, fork is of a Le Mans 3 with new tubes and FAC dampers. I built a minimal electrical system including a motogadget instrument, electronic ignition and dyna coils.

“Kaffeemaschine” (coffee machine) is my company, building unique cafe racers and bespoke bikes, based on the classic Guzzi V2-engine and frame.
I´d be very glad if you would mention and link my webside “www.kaffee-maschine.net“.

If you have any more questions or need more info, don´t hesitate to contact me.

Best regards from Hamburg/Germany,
Axel Budde

Congratulations on a beautiful build and thank you for the photos!

Ghezzi-Brian Moto Guzzi.

I wish I’d had a better camera (or better lighting) for my visit to Barbers. In person, this bike was just jaw dropping.

How I spent one loooong day of my summer vacation!

I’d been working on deal with a friend to do some bike trading for a while now and we got things settled this Friday. As fortune would have it I got to take a nice long drive, scratch a BIG item off my “must see” list, get a TON of material for the site and come home with a bike I’ve always wanted. It only took 19 hours and 1000 miles of driving but I’d do it again anytime.

So… it started at 4 AM with my RD350LC in the back of my truck ready to go.

I then drove 7 hours northwest to our agreed meeting place which as it just so happens is one of the all time great motorcycling Meccas…

As luck (and my bad geography skills) would have it I had forgotten about the fact that Birmingham Alabama is in the Central time zone which bought me an extra hour to go exploring! It gave me time to go in and see stuff like this…

and this..

and this..

That’s juuust a taste.

I then met up with my friend and we made what I feel was a very fair trade. Loaded her up..

and drove another 7 hours back home…

Where this morning after a 1000 mile day and a restless nights sleep I finally unloaded my ridiculously nice ~3000 mile RZ350. I Am Stoked!

So sorry if posting was a little lame but it will be improving shortly. There will be a LOT more on all of this but for now I’m tired from the drive (and the heat is brutal here too) and I’m still sorting out the additions to the photo library. Please stay tuned!

Reader Ride. Moto Guzzi Mk 1 Le Mans

Alan Blair included this in with some photo’s of another bike that he had. Unfortunately Alan if you’re reading this the bike you intended me to have didn’t include the complete set and what did come through was unusable so please give it another go. It did look interesting. In the mean time..

Moto Guzzi Nibbio. A Small 50cc 2-stroke Moto Guzzi.

Nope that’s not a typo.. Cool little scoot. I believe it’s based on a Benelli model but I’m not sure.
1974 – 1982
1 Cylinder , 2-stroke
Bore X Stroke : 40 X 39
Comp. ratio : 8 : 1
Carberettor : Dell’Orto SHA 14
Front tyre : 2,50X18
Rear tyre : 2,50X18
Wheelbase : 1210
Weight : 77 kg.
5-speeds

At the “split personality” Moto Guzzi Cafe.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find the right camera angle in the cramped area of the display to convey just how stunning this bike was in the flesh.

We have a little of this..

and a little of that..

Long live Italy!

I just love the “inspection” window.

Gorgeous..

Cool Military Bike. Italian Style! 1946 Moto Guzzi.

I love the passenger handle bars.  Something to hang on to while you’re shooting maybe?

 

 

Super Trick Moto Guzzi from the UK

Got these from Harry n the UK who wrote in:

“This is a water cooled 4 valve head moto guzzi that used to race in the Italian battle of the twins, it now lives in the UK, this is all I know of it as it was in a tuning shop I visited. “

Thanks Harry!  What a beauty!  I’ve heard a few big Guzzi racebikes over the years and they are simply glorious!

And hey, do any readers out there know this bike or have any more info on it?  Thanks folks!