Hiya from Erie, PA - USA

[otoM izzuG]

I just purchased a used 2021 V7 Stone in the beautiful Arancione Rame color (Copper Orange). 1,146 miles on the clock. She is talking through the Mistral exhausts - Magnifico!. Still very cold here so my first ride will have to wait until the salt is off the roads. Bob

 

[GTM®]

Hi Bob, congrats and welcome to the GT Forum! Your first Guzzi?
Hope you'll next add your info to our Registry linked below. Enjoy!

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[scottmastrocinque]

Congratulations and Welcome!

 

[JStorm]

I'm not too far west of you. Welcome!

 

[Bill Hagan]

Bob,

Welcome to the forum and Guzzidom.

That said, without a pic or two (or ten) of your V7 … well, you’re just a dreamer.

Seriously, do post a photo sometime here or in the registry.

The following is an unsolicited (and TLDR) “essay” about my frequent rides to Erie.

I married an Erie lass — Kathi, my Perfect Pillion and Polish Princess ...

… so we are often there “‘ski’-ing” … i.e., visiting her seemingly countless Polish cousins, e.g., Kolakowskis, Piekanskis, and on and on.

An "expletive-deleted” turned in front of Kathi in Erie in December; totaled our car.

Thankfully, seat belts, air bags, and crumple zones, even in small cars these days made it a no-blood event. We replaced it, and just got in the “vanity tags,” IHO of Kathi’s (great) dad, Leonard, who passed in ’22 one month shy of his 100th birthday. Len was quite a guy … and remarkable baseball player.

Len Kolakowski's Obit

Our remembrance tag will likely make sense to older folks in Erie who felt so strongly about the various ethnic neighborhoods, but I like to think that Lenny is smiling about it “up there.”

I ride to Erie whenever we go — OK, not in “off-season.” The general “axis of advance” is a delight, as almost any route from here crosses the various ridges of the Appalachian spine. Delightful.

You may recognize these two local sites; the last is a certainty every visit. As those Erie tess say: “If you don't like sponge candy, you’re wrong!"

As mentioned, some of my routing to Erie and back goes awry!

That last was Frozen Toe Road, west of Sigel. I was on the Griso. Lordy.

Enough.

It’ll probably be April before we get up there again, but I’ll PM you when we pin down the dates for that. Maybe we can get together.

And, of course, if business or other travel brings you to the top of Virginia, stop by and visit the Moto Grappa. [Ditto Jay]

Best wishes,

Bill
wrhagan AT earthlink DOT net
Four-zero-4-8-zero-8-84-eight-6

 

[Vagrant]

Glad Kathi was ok. Sorry about the Fit but you made a great replacement choice.

 

[Bill Hagan]

Glad Kathi was ok. Sorry about the Fit but you made a great replacement choice.

Thanks, Steve.

It was a significant collision. She and local friend were heading to meet another high-school classmate for a "girls-out breakfast."

I like pancakes, but not enough to be with three ladies "of a certain age" gabbing and giggling about the good ol' days! So, I begged out.

Then, when Kathi called to say that she had been in an accident, but "don't worry," the tone of voice made me worry in a serious way. I knew that this wasn't about bumping a bollard while parking.

We were staying nearby, and I got there pretty quickly -- all the Millbrook cops were at the scene, so I didn't worry about speeding! Yet Kathi and Sue were, besides the expected "shaken up," just fine. Very lucky.

As for the CR-V, yes, but were Fits still sold in NA, we'd have replaced it; what a C-130 of a great little car. We are happy to have our '09, even withs <280K miles, still available for its do-it-all capability. To those who drive seriously large vehicles, it may sound funny to hear us amazed (and a bit appalled) by the CR-V's size, but after 25 years of driving small cars, it's that to us.

Going down to the Moto Grappa shortly to start Mission Impossible, i.e., getting it cleaned up and ready for Moto Grappa Tech days 2024. Thinking about reprising the one-time (2021) summer ride version. A mid-winter gathering is a great break, but showing some folks new to the local roads how grand those are needs doing, too. Hope to see you again then.

Finally, on a Guzzi note, I got out again on the V85 on the first, as it was a grand weather day -- OK, for here in winter! -- with sun, 56ºF, and no wind. The OP and @JStorm won't have that for a few weeks!

But note snow on the other bank of the Cacapon River. There'll be more before spring comes, and maybe some after that. Brrrrr.

It was cooler a few days before, but still OK for a romp on the Stornello ...

Ciao!

Bill