GUTS & GLORY

Famed Italian marque MOTO GUZZI celebrates a century of beautiful machines and devoted enthusiasts...

By DUNCAN QUINN

“Since 1921 every single Moto Guzzi has been lovingly assembled by hand.” I’m brapping around Manhattan on a Centenary Edition Moto Guzzi V7 bedecked in charcoal and olive-green livery. An 850cc V-twin which makes me want to hit the Swiss countryside and find some barbed-wire fence to jump, à la Steve Mc- Queen in The Great Escape. Sadly, the proxy has to be Park Avenue; a venue with its own inherent risks, challenges, and dangers. Madcap taxi drivers, lawless Uber drivers, mafiosi-pot-hole-riddled road surfaces, and entitled arseholes in overpowered German cars fit for the autobahn devoid of respect for other road users around them. I’m not convinced jumping the barbed wire fences is more dangerous. But the V7 with its upgraded 850cc motor more than rises to the task. Once reacquainted with…

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MAXIM New Zealand (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

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