In reply to Tomcat, I dont know ! Its hard to explain but they have something about them that you either "get" or you dont. Guzzi's have an unusually high amount of owners who have owned them for many years and done very high mileage, not uncommon to find a Guzzi owner who has owned the same bike for 30 or 40 years. I have had my 1000S for 29 years and it will be the last bike to leave my shed. They are a very easy bike to live with if you are mechanically minded, you can do all your own work with basic tools, look and sound great, will do exceptionally high mileage without needing major work, amongst Guzzi owners 100,000k's is considered "just run in". I have two others, a 1983 MK111 LeMans and a 2015 V7. The LeMans has a very harsh riding position, these days I can only do shorter rides of around 2 or 3 hundred k's, any more and the back just cant take it. Terrible bike around town or in slow riding situations but get out on the highway and at plus 120kph or so and its simply the best bike I have ever ridden. The modern V7 is a good all round bike, a lot lighter and easier to live with than the bigger ones.
