Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Meeting my Motorcycle

By the time you read this, I will have owned my V7 Guzzi for three years. In early 2019, I saw an ad on the National Moto Guzzi Owners Club website with a few photos. The bike looked great, like new, and the list of worthy (and pricey) items the owner had installed was impressive.

Despite the money he’d spent and the low mileage on the bike’s odometer, the price was not crazy high – perhaps because two V7 models had superseded this one. The newer models featured ABS braking and six-speed gearboxes, items I could

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