Inventory of and creating a Moto Guzzi V11 Scura owners list

[Lucky Phil]

52 minutes ago, Pressureangle said:

Even more to the point then, it seems you're quite proud of it, despite being a mongrel. Or perhaps *because* it's a mongrel. Why is it different, how you feel about yours, and why, and for others about their own?

I'm making the point that getting to interested in a numbered plaque on a motorcycle is a pointless and often divisive exercise. The only pride I take in my bike is I actually created it myself to an extent to satisfy my interest in engineering and learning different skills. To the "numbered plaque" people of motorcycling it's an abhorrent bastardisation and worthless in monetary terms. Probably correct on both counts.

Creating "specialness" linked to numbered plaques often ends in a boring and sometimes even nasty pathetic bullshit. Having created 3 "replica" bikes over the years for no other reason than the fact I liked the bike and they were no longer available or were never sold here so I assembled them using genuine parts then having to endure complete assholes at bike events standing around making accusations about you and your bike is where I obtain my dislike for it. Imagine being publicly accused of "faking" a factory Ducati race bike at a bike show by the owner of a genuine one on the premise that "people like me" are devaluing the "originals". Or not being allowed to enter your bike in a show category for a particular model because it's been modified from stock with better brakes and suspension. These things have happened to me on several occasions and is why I don't get involved in bike events over the last 25 years or so. And what is the root of all this rubbish? the concept of "my bike is special and therefore so am I by my ownership of it" Bikes are interesting things and some are more interesting than others but making them "special" and the impact that has on some peoples attitudes can be pathetic and divisive. It's a piece of machinery nothing more or less and all a "special plaque" attached to it is likely to create is the possibility of silliness and or unpleasantness. 

I like all bikes, Guzzis and Ducatis more than the others nothing more, nothing less. My interest is primarily technical and Guzzis and Ducatis were historically more technically challenging than the rest I guess. I don't feel "special" by association with these things unlike some. Nothing here is aimed at the OP specifically by the way just my general view and reasoning about " limited edition" rubbish.  

Edited 4 hours ago by Lucky Phil

[Tomchri]

Says the Daytona owner

Lemme remember some of gramma's platitudes

'Don't put taste in someone else's mouth'
'One man's trash is another's treasure'

The value in a Scura, a 1100 Sport, or a Daytona was never measured in money, but in the owner's life. That has never wavered.
Owning and riding MG, particularly older ones, lets a person know that even if you can't see it directly you share something deeper than Thursday night HOG club meetings.

Well said

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[audiomick]

2 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

... the "specialness" was just cosmetic or things easy to add/update at a later time if the owner wanted to. Some exceptions exist...

That brings to mind the Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. For the uninitiated, that was an homologation special based on a four door family car in the early '70s to race in a particular touring car class in Australia. Even though I'm more on the Holden side of the Ford-Holden debate, I have to admit it was a very, very interesting car.

There was some special stuff on them, but nothing that couldn't be sourced after-market after a few years.

The point is, sometime in the late '80s or early '90s I heard that there were substantially more of them currently registered than were ever produced. 

This is one, althought the yellow colour was not that commion, I think. I always think of them as white (with the stripes), or maybe red.

By Sicnag - 1972 Ford Falcon XY GTHO Sedan, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40645949

Edited 3 hours ago by audiomick

[docc]

10 minutes ago, audiomick said:

That brings to mind the Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. For the uninitiated, that was an homologation special based on a four door family car in the early '70s to race in a particular touring car class in Australia. Even though I'm more on the Holden side of the Ford-Holden debate, I have to admit it was a very, very interesting car.

There was some special stuff on them, but nothing that couldn't be sourced after-market after a few years.

The point is, sometime in the late '80s or early '90s I heard that there were substantially more of them currently registered than were ever produced. 

This is one, althought the yellow colour was not that commion, I think. I always think of them as white (with the stripes), or maybe red.

By Sicnag - 1972 Ford Falcon XY GTHO Sedan, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40645949

Ooooh, yes - the Ford 351 Cleveland 4V . . .

 

[activpop]

Whew! No number...

[docc]

15 minutes ago, activpop said:

Whew! No number...