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| Ha! Does purity and rawness translate from un-reliable, over-weight, very bad brakes with the handling of an angry Rhino?
The last GS1000 I rode made me very glad that the 1000cc bikes of today have race-derivative brakes, handling and weight combined with the digital reliability of Japan's latest electronics.
It's no wonder that bikes were considered so dangerous back then. Anyone who ever owned an old V-Max or Kettle will will know what I mean. Having said that, these were the bikes which inspired me as a child and encouraged the manufacturers to try harder:... | |
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Well, back in the days I could scrape the exhaust of my GS750 when cornering, I never noticed anything wrong with the handling. Same goes for the footpegs of my moto guzzi.
We just had bigger b#lls than the current generation of motorcyclists.
Plus we knew how to fix our own bikes
I still remember one day on the guzzi, I was 150 km from home. After a fill-up I parked it on the side stand. It was dripping gas from inbetween the cilinder and the cilinder head
I figured, it ran ok for the last 1000km so why start worrying ? The bike made it home OK (after a wonderful session through the Arden mountains). Later when I had to replace the exhaust valves (had a hole in it) I found the cilinder head on that side was only finger tight
Wonderful machine it was, this moto guzzi. Still regret selling it when I moved to CH but it would have never passed the strassenverkehrsamt tests....