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Those Griso’s area Really Great looking bikes ! :inlove:

So « just for Fun » I went shopping, and found a few in Canada, a 2007 and a couple of 2013 one for 8k the other advertised at 20k ?
Is this a special edition signed by ???

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So, I go searching for information about this bike and what do I find in a Cycle World write up !

Quote :JohnBurns »I first rode and wrote about the 8V in the March, 2009, issue of Cycle World, when everybody here who rode the new Guzzi was pretty well smitten. In fact, the Griso wasn't new even then, but the 8-valve engine was, complete with 563 new parts (according to Guzzi) that turned the 1064cc four-valver into the current 1151cc 8V. Those parts transformed what Kevin Cameron would call a "chuffer" into a genuine free-revving 90-degree V-Twin that performs a strikingly respectable imitation of a Ducati as the tach needle passes through 5000 rpm on its way to 98.7 measured rear-wheel horsepower at 8300 rpm (and 75 foot-pounds of torque at 6500). That's not Diavel power, but it is 12 horses and 7 ft.-lb. more than the also-air-cooled Ducati Hypermotard 1100SP we dynoed two years ago. Not to mention 17 hp more powerful and 10 ft-lb. torquier than the Honda CB1100 we all fell for in the July issue, in a package only 14 lb. heftier than the Honda.In simple terms, this Guzzi scoots (and if that's not enough, our friend Todd Eagan at guzzitech.com says 110-plus hp is well within reach with very little effort.) »
 
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DeadEye said:
Those Griso’s area Really Great looking bikes ! :inlove:

So « just for Fun » I went shopping, and found a few in Canada, a 2007 and a couple of 2013 one for 8k the other advertised at 20k ?
Is this a special edition signed by ???

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If happily trade my mother in law’s turbo broom for that Griso any day of the week and twice on Halloween 👻 🧙‍♀️
Beautiful ride.
 
Hmmmm, there’s another one at a Pawn shop in Edmonton -

2007 moto guzzi griso 1100 —8100 km 6000$ Canadian that’s like 50 cents US !! (5,900 Cdn = 4,219 $ US)​

But older - so 2 valve motor ?
Hummm, maybe I could trade the R1100S ???
 
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I wouldn't trade your lovely BMW for a Griso.
The one for 20K is ridiculous. They were way less than that new.
 
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John Burns wrote (I miss those printed mags) a couple of tests/impressions of the 8V Griso. One of them ended with the following quote: "This bike is so good, you do not sell it, you pass it on to your children". He was obviously smitten :inlove: . Makes me scared to ride one. It may be the only bike on my bucket list.....I sure love my 2-valver.
 
Nordicnorm said:
John Burns wrote (I miss those printed mags) a couple of tests/impressions of the 8V Griso. One of them ended with the following quote: "This bike is so good, you do not sell it, you pass it on to your children". He was obviously smitten :inlove: . Makes me scared to ride one. It may be the only bike on my bucket list.....I sure love my 2-valver.
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That was indeed this article :
cycleworld.com/2013/07/09/2013-moto-guzzi-griso-8v-se-black-devil-riding-impression/
 
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John Burns wrote (I miss those printed mags) a couple of tests/impressions of the 8V Griso.
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He’s a good friend, and I sure did enjoy (and now long miss) my time with him and the old CW crew. John and I had a nice long conversation about the Griso, during this write up, as I had ridden the 1100 at the factory in 2006 as a journalist. CW wouldn’t publish my thoughts when testing with a Guzzi (or any test with one) “because of my bias” said EiC David Edwards. Dumb.
 
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