2021 Moto Guzzi V7 Stone | First Ride Review
Updates for 2021 to Moto Guzzi?s V7 Stone and V7 Special include a larger engine and a revised chassis. (Photos by Larry Chen Photo)
?I would know the sound of a big Guzzi in my sleep. It concentrates its aural energies in your upper chest, ringing through your bones. It is ? the sound of joy.?
? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
When we find joy, we hold it close and nurture it. Woven throughout Pierson?s book, arguably one of the best ever written about motorcycling, is a romance between the author and Moto Guzzi. When searching for her first motorcycle, it was love at first sight: ?a 500cc V-twin Moto Guzzi, red-and-black, a workhorse, and I thought it was beautiful.?
Like any true love, Pierson?s passion for Moto Guzzi ran deep and transcended appearance. She fell under the spell of the Italian V-twin?s syncopated beat. She dedicated her mind, body, and spirit to learning to ride, doing her own maintenance, and enduring long hours in the saddle through stifling heat, bitter cold, and drenching rain.
Moto Guzzi is a storied marque that celebrates a century of continuous production this year. Every Moto Guzzi ? from the 1921 Normale, a 498cc single, to the 1955 Otto cilindri, a liquid-cooled, DOHC 500cc V-8 GP racer that topped 170 mph, to present-day models ? has been built in the factory in Mandello del Lario, Italy, on the shores of Lake Como.
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