Funny....I didn't visit this site in months and today I felt I just had to give a look...right on time to add my name on the list.
Yes, the total number of 18 is correct.
I first knew about "R"s reading some of your posts on the AnimaGuzzista Forum, and then saw one live-in-person on display at Guzzi dealer Millepercento (that one is in the owner's personal collection).
I wasn't looking for a V11, never even had a sports bike before...but a few days later I unexpectedly noticed a sale ad on a french site and....booooom!
I brought her back home (see my location... ) in October 2010 from a little village in the region of Sarthe, near Le Mans. She was first registered in France on Dec.1st 2005; I'm the 4th and hopefully the last owner, bought her with 17,000 Km on the clock and have just turned 32,000. Some shots of her can be seen in the "Pictures" topic, the day I drove her to the Nest.
Waiting for the registry to go on, I can happily add a freshly discovered one: another R resides 10 km from my hometown, ridden by the original owner since 2006.
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Notice: for significantly rare bikes, I'd rather avoid to publish frame numbers in full on the Net...even the factory itself only discloses this kind of information upon specific and motivated request, in the wrong hands these data could be used to build fakes/counterfeits.