Guzzi-in-Vancouver

I have been seeing a lot of Andreani cartridges on EBay for the 40mm and 43mm Marzocchi forks. But the sellers say they confirmed with Andreani that they won’t fit the 2004 V11 Sport which is a bummer because I was hoping they would fit the 43mm forks.

Thanks, that's sort of what I remember ... I should try to find the source for that statement, and whether it's still their mantra. I guess that unless their position changes, the Oberdan renders will remain just renders. I see the sense in it, in that the Guzzi twin is probably not a competitive engine design for a modern racing application, and the image of the Guzzi crowd is Eldorado-ean in any case (and Ante-diluvian, but I am dating myself here ) but hey, us V11 guys are supposed to be the sporty ones, right? Rebels with a lost cause I guess...

Some superveloce vibes in the second one! Though exhausts have now become very ugly except for the under-seat ones.

I read somewhere that the deal post-acquisition was that Aprilia gets the sportbike segment and Guzzi the rest. Has that changed? I will never forget the V11 successor that might have been, the story of which seems to have been excised from the historical record, Pierre Terblanche‘s V12 LM concept. I know it was polarizing especially perhaps the headlight, but just look at that swingarm-shock combo and the underslung exhaust! Not to mention the passive radiators for the valve heads. I rode for about two hours yesterday in 6 centigrade and the valve covers were worryingly hot so that radiator not only improved the lines in my humble opinion, it is also quite necessary. At the time they came out with a bunch of models but never followed through ostensibly due to the aforementioned segmentation of the market by the Piaggio group. I could only find two videos on YT about the Terblanche V12 LM, will look for and add them to the thread later. I am excited about all the new model renders in this thread though, as I find the looks of the current line up including the V100 Mandello quite underwhelming.

PM sent for the Motobits.

Joe, What kit is it in your pictures? Is it from mph? On the mph page they seem to only be selling a kit for handlebars, and not for clipons.