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Hello from Savannah GA, USA

K

Kevin912

Just got it firing!
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Greetings all!

I’ve been studying the new Moto Guzzi line for a while and decided to add a V7 Classic to my garage. Only 50 miles on it so far in its first week but work has been busy and I’m not ready for it to be my daily. Can’t wait to see what it becomes and what I can learn from here.

Cheers
 
Welcome. We owned a home in nearby Hooterville; I actually miss the "Coastal Empire," and especially so in winter!

Thanks for the pic. A lovely machine.

When you said V7 Classic with 50 miles, I thought you had found a "V7 I" of 10 or more years ago when the first in that "modern" V7 line appeared. While cool, a mere 50 miles on a machine of that vintage brings, as you likely know, some interesting challenge$.

Best wishes for miles of smiles.

Bill
 
Bill Hagan said:
Welcome. We owned a home in nearby Hooterville; I actually miss the "Coastal Empire," and especially so in winter!

Thanks for the pic. A lovely machine.

When you said V7 Classic with 50 miles, I thought you had found a "V7 I" of 10 or more years ago when the first in that "modern" V7 line appeared. While cool, a mere 50 miles on a machine of that vintage brings, as you likely know, some interesting challenge$.

Best wishes for miles of smiles.

Bill
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Yeah, sorry. Should have said “Special”, as it’s actually called.
 
Hi Kevin, congrats and welcome to the GT Forum & Guzzi Famiglia. I’ll copy your post over to the V7 Pic & Registry thread asking for more info there on it.
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DeadEye said:
Nice !
some changes to the rear from stock and are those bars are flipped or a replacement ?
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The bars are a set of clubman bars I had on the self, just to see what they felt like. So far I like the position much better than the stock bars.
 
Kevin912 said:
Yeah, sorry. Should have said “Special”, as it’s actually called.
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Moto Guzzi has come up with some strange labels for their machines, and especially so in this century.

While I am glad that the marque has not (yet) gone the Harley "alphabet" route for Mandello models, they could have done a better job vetting names such as "Jackal," "Stone," "Titanium," etc. :fubar:

In your V7-on-Steroids' case -- which I think is, officially, anyway, both V7 Special 850, and, as you said, simply V7 Special.

That, of course, causes confusion when my V7 III is also a V7 Special ...

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Bill

... albeit in Miami Dolphins livery, not the more elegant "Blu Formale" of yours. :clap:
 
DeadEye said:
J H C - is that laminate floor in your garage !!!
or do you park the bikes in your living room?
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I have, but not here at the top of Virginia. ;)

When we lived in Atlanta, we built a garage. Called it the "GarageMahalo." Garage for the obvious; Mahalo as a play on the obvious, but with a daily reminder of gratitude. We had lived for several years in Hawaii -- Schofield Barracks -- and always like the near-Italian lilt of the local word for "thank you."

I overbuilt the place. Long story. But had a very fancy coating -- think expen$ive -- applied to the concrete floor. Never liked it. No need to detail that here. Just cost a lot to be disappointing.

When we retired and moved to Fredrick County, Virginia, I converted about a third of an existing (c.50'x28') outbuilding into a shop. Named it the MotoGrappa. The long story -- for those housebound, unable to ride, and reduced to rewatching @tobinh 's vid of his NTH NF :giggle: -- of that build (with initial pix of the GarageMahalo) -- is here: Building the Moto Grappa

The contractor -- a great local bubba -- came up with the idea of the flooring when I told him of my unhappiness with the GarageMahalo's. I was dubious, but (with one exception) have been VERY happy with this after eight years of daily use.

The biggest positive surprise is that fasteners telegraph their escape such that I (almost) never lose them. :)

The biggest negative surprise -- that should not, of course, have been a surprise at all :fubar: -- waqs thatPledge works greatas a quick detailer for motorcycles. It also makes wood floors slick as nasal fluid! :eek:

All things considered, and those are almost endless and good, its' a joy:


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Must go; duty and Kathi call. Same thing around here. :inlove:

It's 6 December, the day we put up Christmas decorations.

Frohen Nikolaustag!

Bill
 
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