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Brown color is affectionately known as Mahogany or Espresso...it's a lovely color in person. A few folks have brought them to rallies...had it been available in the earlier years I would have bought one. Had to settle for the plain Silver one... I have been thinking about doing a wrap however on the Norge to freshen it up....a few color choices are: 1. Black Cherry 2. Deep Purple (Porsche GT3RS color for example). 3. Italian Police Blue Now to find a good wrap shop here in Houston and get a reasonable quote...

Yes twin to it but no top box. Had 8500 miles on it when I bought it now has 10,100. Need to find a right side breather hose as it's cracked and leaking oil otherwise the bike is great. I still ride it as is until hose comes from Italy by boat. Picture is too large to upload.

Little brat !

At this point, it's a 2008 Norge, so I'm not worried about paint degradation...it's already old. The paint has some chips, some wear and tear as expected for a bike of this age. At one point about 7 years ago, I thought about taking all of the Silver parts off, and taking them to a painter. 1/2 way thru the removal of the parts, I realized that getting all of the remaining parts off would be a monster task. So a wrap is much easier to do from an application perspective vs. removing parts and painting them. Even if the wrap degrades a bit over time, that's OK. The bike is housed in the garage, and only open to the weather on many trips...I would need to see if the quality of the vinyl wrap is good enough and also what the cost is...I don't have a quote yet, but I think it would be a lot easier to do a wrap than painting/disassemble. The painting quote was also not reasonable vs. the value of the bike....so I am hopeful that a wrap might be more economical...we'll see! At any rate, it's not a Stradivarius...so I can be a little less concerned about quality.

Did you walk uphill both ways as I always told my kids that I did? Seriously, we have MANY miles of gravel roads in Frederick County here at the top of Virginia that school buses have to travel, thus the school closures on days that would, for most urban schools, be ho-hum business as usual. I do see -- in great weather -- all the parents sitting in their cars at the end of a street or driveway to take their kids the few hundred feet to their homes! I think much of that stems from fears of security. It's none of my business -- which never stops me from judging and pontificating -- but it still bothers me. I detest snow, but need to stop whining about the weather and just go down to the Moto Grappa and putz around, pretending that I am doing something useful. Bill

Just bought this Ballabio for the second time