Fergo
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A few years ago I rode my Cali through Norway to Nordkapp. From there we dropped down to Europe and I fancied trying to at least partly follow the route famously taken by Carlo and Guiseppe Guzzi which laid the foundation of the Norge legend.
All good, except that despite vast research effort then and again recently, I can find no details at all; not a date, not a map, not a newspaper report, nothing from Moto Guzzi themselves.
Look at a map and the nearest, most accessible point on the Arctic circle is at Rovaniemi, in Finland. To get to Norway by land would mean essentially passing through there, then crossing Sweden, a difficult and somewhat pointless task. Of course they could enter Norway via Denmark and a ferry, but then the treck to the Arctic Circle is complex. Exponentially so before fiordland had roads and ferries as today. Even we abandoned that for a route through Sweden. Had they gone through Finland to Nordkapp, then we would have heard about that.
So did some marketing guy in 1929 decide that a "Suomi" just wouldn't sell?
If anyone has some better information, I'd be really keen to hear about it.
cheers,
JFerg
All good, except that despite vast research effort then and again recently, I can find no details at all; not a date, not a map, not a newspaper report, nothing from Moto Guzzi themselves.
Look at a map and the nearest, most accessible point on the Arctic circle is at Rovaniemi, in Finland. To get to Norway by land would mean essentially passing through there, then crossing Sweden, a difficult and somewhat pointless task. Of course they could enter Norway via Denmark and a ferry, but then the treck to the Arctic Circle is complex. Exponentially so before fiordland had roads and ferries as today. Even we abandoned that for a route through Sweden. Had they gone through Finland to Nordkapp, then we would have heard about that.
So did some marketing guy in 1929 decide that a "Suomi" just wouldn't sell?
If anyone has some better information, I'd be really keen to hear about it.
cheers,
JFerg