Moto Guzzi Garage

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DO NOT VISIT THIS WEB SITE:

http://www.garagemotoguzzi.com/en/

You will lose hours of your precious time. 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Moto Guzzi History: 18 Facts About The Oldest Italian Motorcycles - Thrillist

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BMW has done it: They built a crash proof motorcycle!

No helmet required, because you can't crash it...so they say...
The question is, would you ride it?

For more info, check out this article: BMW's Shapeshifting, Crash-Proof Motorcycle is the Future...

Labor Day 2016 weekend ride

Hurricane Hermine's loss of coherency (what's the weather forecasting term? losing steam...coming unglued...weakening...downgrading...tropical storm...no-longer-a-hurricane?) resulted in a 180^o about face on the local weekend weather forecast. Instead of the predicted rain we got a beautiful temperate, blue-sky, pleasant winds, 3-day weekend. So my wife and middle granddaughter decided to embark on a late-in-the-day Sunday ride to points west.

We began our jaunt heading south on Rte 29, then north on Rte 15 to White's Ferry. We took the Ferry over to Maryland on Rte 28 and other roads to Brunswick for a quick bite to eat. Then, feeling like it was getting late, we headed due south on 287 to Rte 9 to Rte 7 back to Rte 15 to head home. A short ride but fun ride on a beautiful day.

Here are a few pics:

Norton superbike takes aim at Ducati Panigale - Autoblog

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What It Takes to Make a Motorcycle Hit 400MPH | WIRED

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iTank: “A three-wheeled scooter is the future” | TechCrunch

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Sisters Ride: 100 years later, motorcycle sisters ride again - LA Times

Sisters Ride: 100 years later, motorcycle sisters ride again - LA Times:

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Motorcycle ride to breakfast, Mt Weather, and home

My wife and I took a short ride on Saturday before the heat got too oppressive. We had a late morning breakfast at the Marshall Diner--it was good. Then north past Mt Weather on to Berryville and then a round-about way back home through Hume. We spent about 6 hours total trying to stay hydrated and out of the sun as much as possible.

Unlike our last ride, no problems with either the Trike or the Norge. Yea!

GPS stats:

• 156.6 miles
• overall avg 26.6 mph
• moving avg 39.7 mph
• max speed 76.9 mph
• total time 5:52
• moving time 3:56
• stopped 1:56

Video of our motorcycle ride on Rte 211 in June 2016

I've been negligent in updating this blog about getting my Guzzi back from the shop. All is well with the bike. It turned out not to be the horror I thought it might be. What took so long was waiting for a suspension link that was involved in a safety recall. It's all squared away now.

My wife and I got a chance to take a late day ride on Saturday. We started out early enough with our first stop being to get gas. While filling the bikes, my wife said she thought her throttle was sticking. I asked her to move to the parking lot where I planned to look at it after I finished up at the pump. The throttle was ok, but her trike wouldn't start. It was deader-than-dead. A technical term for dead battery.

We spent nearly 4 hours trying to find a Goldwing battery. Finally, at the Springfield Cycle Gear store, we got one and I put it in as quick as I could turn wrenches. It was a late start, but we were determined to have a good ride.

Below is a short video of us riding Rte 211 headed west towards Lurray. I mounted one of those small fish-eye-lens sports video cameras on the right mirror stalk. I also did some video editing and voice over. Despite the camera being in a water-tight enclosure, there's still a lot of wind noise. I considered muting the audio track but then the video looks weird and begs for me to do more talking. the whole video is less than 2-minutes long so give it a watch. :)

All total, we logged just under 200-miles out for a total of 7 hours, 4-1/2 hours on the move and 2-1/2 hours stopped here and there including stopping for a late lunch. 

Here are two photos: the 1st when we started to head out before we knew we'd be tied up looking for a battery. The 2nd at Brookside where we stopped for lunch.