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Where to find Moto Guzzi production & import numbers?

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I'm curious how many Audace's have been produced and how many have been imported to the USA?
Does anybody know where this info is published? No luck with google.....
 
Good luck. People have been asking questions like this about various models for many years, and there's never been a clear answer that I've seen. I don't think they publish such numbers. The only exception being special limited editions that are actually numbered. I'm sure the info probably exist in the Mandello "Book of Secrets", along with the also-unpublished paint codes.

__Jason
 
Looking at serial #'s of Audace's in the Registry compiled here, I see the lowest # being 0002 and the highest being 0385, so that would give some idea of how many have been produced.
 
Interestingly, out of the 11 MGX-21's listed in the Registry, 7 of them are Salvage bikes. I wonder if this indicates a problem with the handling of this bike, perhaps a design flaw, or operator error due to inexperienced owners buying a bike that is beyond their skill level? Any comments are welcome. There are only 2 Salvage bikes in the Eldorado group, 2 Audace's, 3 Custom's and 3 Touring bikes.
 
I say it's inexperienced people buying them for the looks and then getting into trouble. They are big, very heavy bikes with plenty of power.
I'm sure the middle age crisis gang that buy big ass Harley's don't fair any better.
 
A close friend of mine who is an excellent and very experienced rider, told me in no uncertain terms of how the bat fairing is very poorly designed.

He said that at speeds above 70-75 mph, and especially over 80, the fairing actually lifts up the front end and makes it ridiculously unstable.

I've never been able to confirm this as I have not ridden one.

I can say confidently that my Eldorado 1400 is rock stable.
 
scott_m said:
A close friend of mine who is an excellent and very experienced rider, told me in no uncertain terms of how the bat fairing is very poorly designed.

He said that at speeds above 70-75 mph, and especially over 80, the fairing actually lifts up the front end and makes it ridiculously unstable.

I've never been able to confirm this as I have not ridden one.

I can say confidently that my Eldorado 1400 is rock stable.
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That's a shame, especially when Moto Guzzi built some of the best and most stable fairings in the world using their own one-of-a-kind wind tunnel.

Lannis
 
Lannis said:
That's a shame, especially when Moto Guzzi built some of the best and most stable fairings in the world using their own one-of-a-kind wind tunnel.

Lannis
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Lannis, the rider is Steve Pratel, the recently retired Army Colonel Chaplain.

He sold his MGX because of it.
 
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