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A first generation Stelvio or V100 Stelvio, I wonder . . .

Nice Guzzi wagon. No dog onboard, always a 30kg mangan bag in the sidecar. Quite a few G's possible in left corners . Don't let of the gas coming in to fast right corners, brakes have to be used correctly. Cheers Tom.

I thought it would be close enough to "werke", because we are limited to 5 characters if you want your own plate...

I am only testing the waters, as this site is for hard core V11 lovers, but just in case someone wanted to get into the odd stuff. I am going to purchase a Stelvio, and unfortunately, I do not have the space to keep three motorcycles. If anyone is interested here, I will provide all the details necessary, including videos. I am about to take it out this week-end to do some of the stops of the Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas. I have registered it with a year correct number plate, which I will keep if you are not from Texas. It is registered until 2029. It has been fully conditionned by MPH after I brought it from Peoria AZ. Tires are Dunlop Trailmax in good condition. All the history I got from the bike is in a binder, including what the previous owner had done.

Sorry, don't get that. As far as the photos go, yes, not enough light. Most of them are in focus (more or less) somewhere in the picture, but not for the whole bike. Too little light = small f-stop number/ large iris opening = poor depth of field. Taking "art" photos matches the light-hearted text, but yeah, he could have done better.

Special treatment for some Girls. Not to bad for a 20year old Guzzi. And forgot to mention how happy l am figuring out handling problems with the german hot rod Greenie. She has a bit more punch, and realy enjoy 5k+. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

Quite a few members of the German forum keep a sidecar for the winter. Favourite choice seems to be a Ural, with which the concerns about the frame not holding up to it are a non-issue because they are built as a sidecar. On a completely different note, one that I haven't seen other than on photos but would like to, and would like to ride: It was built by the bloke in the second picture, a fellow administrator of the German forum that I am active in. To put it into perspective, Holger is about 5'4" tall. The motor is from an 1100 California, with a Doc Jensen cam and a bit of tweaking. The really impressive bit: at first glance, or on the photos, you don't notice any lights apart from the headlight, but the thing is road-legal and registered. That, in Germany, is quite an acheivment.

This one is dedicated to you, see the tag?: "VERKS".

Some of the pics are a little bit soft (out of focus). The seller should have taken photos in better light conditions; he seems to have wanted to give it an artistic touch, but when you want to sell a motorcycle, you need to give as much details as you can to your audience.

Another easy explanation, the krokodilla (crocodile) mention, I have to be more home taking care of Daffy the rottweiler when there is nice weather. Why not a side car next thought. Me think close to26000 km with the dog in the sidecar And a very happy and proud dog. K1100RS, with a german made sidecar, made by doctor professor ingeniør. Good experience, but no dog no sidecar. Cheers Tom.

@4corsa thanks for that. What a brilliant text. And it appears to have the rather nice Magni fairing on it. If it wasn't in the wrong country, I could well be seriously tempted. http://www.magni.it/v11_fairing.htm

That's actually why I don't like Honda much. I've had two, they both worked very well, and were both a bit sterile. For the big luggage factor, I had a GTR 1000 Kawasaki for quite a while, and liked it rather a lot. It also worked well, was very reliable, and wasn't nearly as sterile as a Honda. My Guzzis arguably don't work as well as any Japanese bike, but they are anything other than sterile. I like that about them.

Sure - here is the description:

Any chance you could copy and paste that to here? It sounds like it might be fun to read, but one apparently needs a facebook account to see the ad, and I don't have one.

Yes, because some people find them fun. A mate of mine had a double-boot on a CB900. Sitting in the boot was fun, hanging out in the corners and such. Riding it was interesting. I picked it up for him after he had a sky-diving mishap, and rode it about 100 km home (somewhere down near Dandenong up to Macleod, for those who know the territory...). It was fun to ride somehow, even though it pulled to one side pretty heavily. The mate was about 30 kg heavier than me, the thing was set up well for him, and with me on riding it didn't want to go straight. So I can see why people like them, but don't want one. The reasons why not are pretty much exactly what @Lucky Phil wrote. I would like to have a go on a serious racing sidecar, though. Both as rider and as swinger.

Not many PC800 riders around. It is a very different bikenality (not personality) than the V11. That's for sure.

Yet they remain.

Sidecars, good lord sidecars. All the worst aspects of a car and a motorcycle rolled into one and then made even worse. A case of less than the sum of it's parts. The sidecar is what the poor working class in the early 20th century bought to attach to their motorcycle to transport the family because they couldn't afford a car. They were a poor persons transport band aid and nobody worried about the obvious dynamic shortcomings which not only make them suspect to operate but also destroy the motorcycle itself mechanically. A motorcycle chassis isn't designed to cope with side thrust loads so the mechanicals take a beating and you end up with chassis cracking and high wear on everything including the driveline lugging around the extra weight. The advent of the Austin 7 or Baby Austin, in the early 1920's, an affordable car that the working class could afford killed off the sidecar manufacturers almost entirely and with good reason. Phil

I had to look that one up ;-). There was this one time at Americade I went into the demo lot for Harley. With a muffler on it it was a quiet bike. As I was rolling through I could hear on the the people I passed say "It's one of them f***ing electric ones."

Ducati dry clutches were always their weakest link. Phil

Having owned a Pacific Coast, I would venture that rode and handled well, made decent power, and hid its V-twin like a drug habit. The trunk made it a great grocery-getter. One of the biggest differences with the V11 Sport is getting groceries on it takes me four hours.

I will go do far as to say I am relieved it was not converted to a trike . . .

He does doesn't he.... But how could you do that to a greenie...or a V11 for that matter?? Sidecar I mean!

"It never needed any work and had things like self cancelling turn signals, hydraulically adjusted valves, and a big trunk to carry things. If the Guzzi is even close to as enjoyable I'll like it a lot." Ruht Roh, Rhaggy