Bike show/Creat ride

[Nick-in-PRC.]

Pry-it-outa-ya or Pro Italia as it is known to those with excess cash is having their annual point and laugh at the Ducati posers bike show and ride.........Now they are a Guzzi dealer again is any one going to support them in their futile attempts to corral cheap Guzzi owners to pony up for an oil change and service ?

I think I can drag my sorry ass outa bed and get up there for about 9:30 am............I'll be the wearing a illuminati Guzzisti shirt and pointing at the Duc owners and laughing, that is until I catch my own pathetic reflection in the showroom window. :dry:

Anyone care to join me ?..........breakfast perhaps between there and Woodland Hills ?

 

[GTM®]

Hey Nick, I got sucked into that last year. I wouldv'e passed this year even if I didn't have a wedding to attend in the morning. Have fun, take pics. How long are you back in town for this time?

 

[mohawkeye]

Hitting Wrightwood for an early breakfast, and *might* see the cop-led parade coming up as I'm going down. Hope to see RR at Newcomb's.

 

[mg spd rcr]

im going to go but not ride up with the parade or show bike...just going to see friends and hopefully ride with friends. i would like to end up at Newcombs in afternoon...

 

[KT57]

I went to the show and Newcombs. Pretty good turn out. My friend said he counted 150 bikes for the escort up, plus many followed. I went up later. Passed a Stelvio on Big Tujunga. Saw Richards Scura up there. A V7 classic and a Lemans cafe racer. I have a Ducati 900SS but chose to ride my Scura and wear an MG shirt. Figured I would represent in the face of hundreds of Desmos. An insider said they were surprised by the turn out (bigger than last year). And they anticipate making it grow by connecting with people who organize the Love Ride.

 

[guzzibob]

My friend said he counted 150 bikes for the escort up, plus many followed. ..... An insider said they were surprised by the turn out (bigger than last year). And they anticipate making it grow by connecting with people who organize the Love Ride.

Why? A LEO led parade? Seems to me they've already reached the point where less would be more....

 

[KT57]

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My friend said he counted 150 bikes for the escort up, plus many followed. ..... An insider said they were surprised by the turn out (bigger than last year). And they anticipate making it grow by connecting with people who organize the Love Ride.

Why? A LEO led parade? Seems to me they've already reached the point where less would be more....

I was enjoying the bikes. Not worried about the politics. The exposure of Moto Guzzi to a broader audience can only help.

 

[guzzibob]

Nothing to do with "politics", rather whether or not you enjoy being part of a big parade. I do not. However, do see your point about exposing more of the unwashed masses to the joys of Guzzihood. Though, actually not that uncommon anymore to see Guzzis up there just on random days, often ridden by people I don't know-which I take as a good sign.

Whatever floats your boat. just doesn't float mine.

 

[KT57]

It doesn't float my boat. That's why I went up to Newcombs an hour or so after they did. I stated that in the original post.
I have noticed more Guzzis' lately like you said. Maybe just because I am new to the brand, but I have been looking for Guzzis' over the last couple years and have been seeing more. They were getting some attention on PI's showroom floor also.
I recently met a guy in Van Nuys who bought a Breva from Sherman Oaks Vespa when it opened recently. He said he was the first Guzzi sale out of that store. Anyway, he had never heard of GuzziTech or Wildguzzi. I find that interesting. I wonder if alot of people buy Guzzis and don't participate in the community?

 

[guzzibob]

Sorry, my bad, no criticism intended in any case, certainly happy to have you both on a Guzzi & participating here. Actually the SO Vespa place has been open for quite a while, though it changed hands more recently-but that was not so recently either. I am somewhat friendly with the owner there (bought my Norge from him before he sold the Thousand Oaks shop & bought the Sherman Oaks place-not exactly at the same time). He tells me he's been selling a number of the new V7 Guzzis, but not the big blocks-if that is what the Van Nuys guy bought (ie, a B1100 rather than a B750). He thinks the PI clientele is more interested in the big bikes, the SO people more in the smaller ones. Whatever works to sell them.

I talk to a lot of new Guzzi people I meet at Newcomb's & elsewhere. Some of them just don't particularly want to be part of a group thing, some were completely unaware of Guzzitech, some just "lurk" here without posting. Some do participate-but occaisionally/erratically. I do think that on average, compared to other brands, a higher proportion of Guzzisti tend to be more solitary/individualistic. Perhaps a person willing to buy a relatively unknown brand is also more willing to ride solo, again on average?

Another thing I do notice much more than in the past-& I have been riding Guzzis for 36 years or so-is a lot more people riding other bikes-esp BMW-who are aware of them & have a favorable view of them. Much less of the old "Do they still make those?" & "Where do they make them?" stuff.