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EICMA Interviews and Video of V100 in motion with sound!

Gee this look farmiliar - :cool:
10 December 2021 at 18:20
SCOTT M.
As a lifelong enthusiast and collector of Moto Guzzi motorcycles (I have 5 right now), I simply cannot wait to acquire a green V100 Mandello as soon as it becomes available!

What a masterpiece! Bravo.
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This is the perfect sport-touring bike: active aero for wind protection when you want it, but still can be used as a fun agile sport bike on shorter rides. I will get one of these to replace my Yamaha FJR 1300 and share the garage with my 2009 Griso, making an all-Guzzi fleet :)
 
This is promising, but I just "don't get" the fascination with single-sided swing-arms. I can understand perhaps the manufacturing side of it, but even Ducati positions the bikes with single-sided swing-arms as "premium models"...

One of the reasons that I like Moto Guzzi (with dual-sided swing-arms) is the symmetry of the bike...call me old-fashioned :)
 
Something I read recently ( it was an old article from way back) said that an advantage of the single sided swing arm was that you could change the tire with the wheel still on the bike !

I‘m not sure it I believe them, but it sounds plausible.
 
DeadEye said:
Something I read recently ( it was an old article from way back) said that an advantage of the single sided swing arm was that you could change the tire with the wheel still on the bike !
I‘m not sure it I believe them, but it sounds plausible.
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I believe it was originally developed to speed wheel/tire changes in racing with chain driven bikes, so that only the wheel needed to be pulled. The sprocket and chain drive assy remain on the bike and correctly adjusted.
Tire change: Anything is possible, but that would be a ridiculous one! It would likely take 10x longer and likely do damage to the wheel and tire... and not to even mention balancing it!
 
GTM® said:
I believe it was originally developed to speed wheel/tire changes in racing with chain driven bikes, so that only the wheel needed to be pulled. The sprocket and chain drive assy remain on the bike and correctly adjusted.
Tire change: Anything is possible, but that would be a ridiculous one! It would likely take 10x longer and likely do damage to the wheel and tire... and not to even mention balancing it!
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it would be great for dynamic balancing !

When I worked at a Firestone tire shop, they had a rig that attached to the cars wheel and had a friction motor that turned the wheel up to speeds of 60/70 mph
There were four of what looked almost like bearings on a shaft coming out of the rig that would adjust weights in the thing.
2 adjusted the weight, + /-
2 the position left/right
you would put your hand on the fender with a couple of fingers raised and you would fiddle ( a technical term ) with the adjustments until you didn’t fell any more vibrations.
An arrow and value told you where to put how much weights.
 

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