Riding to Va. & N.C. Guzzi Gatherings

[Bill Hagan]

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Good afternoon from the Moto Grappa at the top of Virginia.

I finally decided I would survive my (sixth! ) hernia surgery of a few days ago, so I gathered up my 500 (!) or so pix of last week's trip south for Moto Grappa Tech Days (South) and the Guzzis in the Blue Ridge 2025 rally..

Culled those down to a bunch — of course, still too many — and added captions.

I had held the last (at least by me for awhile) MGTD last year —  MGTD 2024 — so fellow Guzzista Steve decided to host a similar successor at his second home near Lexington, Virginia.

That serendipitously coincided with an “official” U.S. Moto Guzzi event, the “Guzzis in the Blue Ridge 2025,” held near Wilkesboro, N.C.

So, Steve suggested that we meet at his place for a few days, eat and drink inappropriately without spousal supervision , and then ride down to the rally. 

Perfect. In theory, anyway. 

The usual Guzzi suspects attended, plus two newbies — Steve’s b-i-l and a beemer riding buddy, both “Miataists.”

After MGTD-S, several of us rode on to the N.C. rally. This is the photo version of the story.

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As usual with my smugmug sets, the link opens in “landscape collage,” so you don’t have to go to the larger pix of the slideshow. 

Hovering your cursor over individual photos will reveal the underlying captions.

If you use the slideshow version, the pix are obviously bigger and all captions appear.  But, inexplicably (to me), unless you manually move the slideshow along instead of letting it roll automatically, the captions disappear unless you leave cursor in place in lower left corner. I’m a Luddite. 

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Yes, at last, here are the pix:

MGTD-S and Guzzis in the Blue Ridge 2025

Bill

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Thanks, again, Bill for taking us along for the ride and reverie!     

A always, I have a couple favorites . . .