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Apparently yes.... no question he is a collector! Having lived 10 years in Italy myself, I have met people who worshiped Moto Guzzi and even got the opportunity to visit a very special barn close to Bergamo, where one guy kept a good selection of early Guzzis... the guy was so passionate that we ended spending several hours redoing all his life.. Finding the same level of interest in the USA is mesmerizing... I wish I could talk to the guy!

I wish the best to all of the V11 forum participants, and am hopeful that we will meet on the site and outside for many more years to come! Have a wonderful Christmas, wherever you are....

Here's the bike I am purchasing tomorrow, December 24th, 2020.

Gone already! How about these?

I thought UK was part of the EU? well at least until December 31st 2020.... In terms of wide open roads, I picture Australia as this....

Well, I would say not exclusively Parisians. In the 70's, in France, being a biker meant to belong to a very special fraternity. What is depicted in the Joe Bar Team cartoons was based on real events, of course amplified to make it like look like a meme. It was called the "biker' spirit". During these golden days, each passing biker would salute you. If you would break down, the first passing biker would stop to help you. This was completely out of this world. I went to rallies and races all over Europe. The 2 stroke versus 4 stroke was real, and the two cylinders versus four too. I have ridden on most of the bikes shown on the first Album of the Joe Bar Team. I read the book from Anne France d'Hauteville: Une demoiselle sur une moto. She did the Orion raid Paris to Isfaban Iran) on a Moto Guzzi California. I don't think the book was ever translated into English. However, I can tell you that the Guzzi she rode went all the way from Paris to Pakistan and back. Her major mechanical problem was to replace the axle on the front wheel. She dropped the bike so many times, but a Guzzi is so reliable... Can you imagine doing Europe to Iran nowadays? this was possible in the 70's...

Read up about the Joe Bar Team if you never heard about it; It is a cartoon about bikers in the 70's; this is hilarious and it talks to most of us from the "old days" because we have been in these situations depicted in the cartoons. Here are a few examples below; you can purchase the cartoons in English, and some of the stories don't even require translation. There are some Moto Guzzi in the stories, but I could not find any available from the web. I used to have all these cartoons, but they were lost.... If any of you have read or heard about the Joe Bar Team, please let me know. They also have a complete line of biker's wear.

Nevada and Arizona are two of the states where you can worry to be lost for ever... some of the gas stations are those that you still see in the old movies, just like a general grocery store with gas pumps up front. As in "No country for old men"; of course, you don't have to ask the owner to flip the coin...

@LowRyter Thanks for the tip. I think I had the Gas Buddy installed on my phone back then. When I travel, my phone is always out of sight. Agreed that my most likely solution would be to add the way points. I am not riding anything yet, but I know that I only want to take in the panorama, and enjoy the dizziness of being out there, surrounded by nothing, stumping away and vibrating in harmony with a V11 underneath my bottom. 180 miles tank range is not adapted to Big Bend National Park... Or even Monument Valley... although I think I remember they had a gas station just at the entrance of the park...

Hey there, Cabernet; Before I get to what I want to say, I would like to tell you a little about who I am, so you understand where I am coming from. Thanks for your detailed written review. I find that written reviews are more informative than these "talking heads" videos. I am European, and live and reside in H'town Texas since 2008. I have been a "motard" since the 70's, however I am currently not owning a bike, but hoping to change my status in the near future. I like the Beeline. I am probably going to purchase one, if and when I become a Guzzisto. (Male, singular), Guzzista (Female singular), Guzzisti (Male plural), Guzziste (Female plural). Now, one feature that I deem essential, is the mileage to destination count down displayed, together with the ETA. See, here in Texas, once you start getting away from the large cities, refueling may become an issue. With newer motorcycles, autonomy is less of a problem as you most likely have a reliable fuel tank gauge and an onboard computer that gives you the remaining autonomy in real time. As I am planning on having a 2004 Le Mans, I will always need to know where to get gas ahead of time. I went to Marfa Texas in November this year. It is about a 9 hours drive from H'town. Once you leave the I-10, things get wild for the better and the worse. As a work around, I could possibly input hops to destination. But it would be nice to have the remaining distance shown, to work out how long before I deplete my fuel. When I lived in Europe, I never really cared, because you are never far from a town. In the US, there are some states and roads that you can travel and not see anybody, where cell phone access can also be scarce. The photo below is taken on route 505, proceeding towards route 166 to 118; you can find Gas in the main cities only. Nothing in between. And this is the Chihuahua desert. Below is a screen capture of the "zone" around Marfa. There is nothing between the "cities". If you read this post, when the moderator means "direct", it means you simply paste the URL of the pic you want to embed. The web page decodes it automatically unlike before, when you had to have the proper code e.g. "BB" to define it.