Hot Rod Loopframe! Related by Ed Milich ...so they have this dynamometer set up at the local Harley ride-in event in Long Beach. Mark Etheridge of Moto Guzzi Classics shows up with one of his new "babies" and stupifies the audience with his stunning display of Italian motorcycle power. The results:

The bike:

Special modifications to this bike include sweeping up the pile of rust it creates wherever it's parked. This bike was brought to Guzzi Classics by a Long Beach "sanitation engineer" after he rescued it from its curbside perch where it sat ready for the regular thursday pickup. I understand that the rescue involved actually lifting the bike into the back of the guy's garbage truck using the garbage hook. A few days and $200 later, the bike was in Mark's posession. One week later, it was running on the dyno...