Comments on: Hints That Moto Guzzi May be About to Put the Strada Concept Into Production (Bike Reports) (News)

By: MGNorge

MGNorge — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:09:41 +0000

That front end is for show purposes and does little more than look further toward the future. I doubt seriously that many of the tacked-on aesthetics seen here would show anytime soon, especially on a Guzzi. It’s the overall package in its form and function that interests here, not the farkles you see on a show bike.

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By: bikerrandy

bikerrandy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:03:55 +0000

I have seen and know of 1 MGS-01 that is legally ridden on the roads of California.

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By: billy

billy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:37:23 +0000

Please don’t.

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By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:10:04 +0000

+1 this was a beautiful sport bike. It would have gotten bigger/heavier with road bits (lights, mufflers, fenders, etc.) but it could’ve been great still. I suppose the market is not yet ready to buy a sport bike that is not “competitive” with other’s in it’s displacement class on the dyno. There are plenty of nice, used Ducati 900ss and Honda Superhawks out there to answer that market I guess.

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By: Reinhart

Reinhart — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:19:34 +0000

Got to agree. The mgs-01 was the last Guzzi that I would seriously consider buying as it was just done right. Too bad it was never really offered. The bike pictured above has all kinds of aesthetic issues, yet people are gushing about how wonderful it is! I can’t look at the front end of this bike without wondering what Guzzi was thinking about when they released this bike on the show circuit….is this the best they can do? I like Guzzis but this thing should be put down like bad dog and dumped out in the alley behind the factory so the scrap guys can crush it!

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By: vfr999999

vfr999999 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:29:27 +0000

mgs-01 please

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By: Agent55

Agent55 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:45:09 +0000

I will forever be disappointed by Guzzi’s inability to put the stunning MGS-01 into production. There were a few “closed-course” models built, but sadly no street models.

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By: MGNorge

MGNorge — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:47:41 +0000

Years ago I had a Honda CX500. At the time I knew of Moto Guzzi but didn’t really consider them as my style of bike. They shared a basic engine architecture but somewhere in the back of my mind Guzzi was a sort of big brother to the CX. Must have stuck with me as when looking for my next bike I kind of latched back onto them, went and took a long test ride and the hook was set. It’s been a real joy. I bought a Norge and it’s very comfortable, has loads of soul, sounds sweet and puts a smile on my face.

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By: mark

mark — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:47:52 +0000

My first bike MANY years ago was a Honda SL 100. A friend and I were spinning donuts in a vacant lot and somebody called the cops on us. A motorcycle cop on a Guzzi rode out into the field and told us with a sheepish look on his face that we had to ride somewhere else. It was obvious he thought it was a ridiculous complaint but he had to chase us off none the less. I thought he was pretty cool for taking it easy on us. I also thought his Guzzi was about the coolest bike I had ever seen. Loved ‘em ever since. This one (except for the “waffles” looks pretty darn cool too.

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By: Goose

Goose — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:19:24 +0000

As a former Guzzi owner I would be very interested in a “Strada” type bike but only if Guzzi writes off whatever international styling loser Pierre Terblanche contributed. Find somebody with styling and design talent and start from scratch. These three bikes are as ugly and poorly thought out as his work at Ducati.

The lined article says Pierre Terblanche created “loved and not-so-loved Ducatis”. Other then the bikes he designed while working under styling god Massimo Tamburini what Ducati has Terblanche designed that was loved? I owned a Multistrada, a great bike that failed because it was ugly and very poorly thought out. Lets not forget this guy killed the Ducati Super Sport and made a pass at killing the Ducati Super Bike with the 999. Neither bike sold after he got his hands on them.

I recently had a conversation with a guy who bought a ‘Strada like mine. He said the seat was horrible (a near universal opinion) so he picked up an aftermarket seat. His face looked like mine must have looked when he described reading the first instruction “remove center front fairing panel. Of course, every bike requires you remove the entire fairing so you can remove the gas tank to change the seat, right? Everybody plans on 5 to 6 hours of hard work to change a seat, right? How about a gas gauge that shows the tanks is empty (and shuts down the related functions in the instruments) when the tank only a little over half way to empty. Of course, it didn’t matter on a bumpy road because the instruments were moving around so much on the terribly designed mount that you couldn’t read them anyway.

Your opinions may differ, that is fine. Just make sure you’ve done you research on bikes designed by this moron before buy anything he was involved with.

Goose

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