THIS will be my next Guzzi

[sp838]

How cool is this thing?

 

[luhbo]

End cool! The less cool thing is trying to get one. Pricey and hard to find. Those that go abroad are the left overs, quite the same way as it is with the US stuff exported to us.

[sp838]

Wonder how many are left in the Motherland... I can see myself riding one from the outskirts of Turin, over the Alps into the south of France, fully loaded with with barrels of wine, pasta and cured meats... I better start buying some titanium parts right now!

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Here you go .... pop the cab off for summer use and back on for the rainy season!

 

Send us pictures when you get it and maybe a bunch of us can come bring you some wine!!

 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ebaymotors/Moto-Guzzi-Ercole-Closed-Cab-Very-Good-Condition-Hydraulic-Dump-Bed-/171271477079?_uhb=1&pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item27e0935757&forcev4exp=true#ht_500wt_1284

[czakky]

i would even settle for the v7 in the bed.

[John in Leeds]

I had hoped to see a couple of the popular Ercoles in the Moto Guzzi museum a couple of weeks ago. There was only this baby one on display

 

[sp838]

I'd settle for one of those...

[GraeV11]

Here you go .... pop the cab off for summer use and back on for the rainy season!

 

Send us pictures when you get it and maybe a bunch of us can come bring you some wine!!

 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ebaymotors/Moto-Guzzi-Ercole-Closed-Cab-Very-Good-Condition-Hydraulic-Dump-Bed-/171271477079?_uhb=1&pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item27e0935757&forcev4exp=true#ht_500wt_1284

Now that's what I call a full fairing.

[John in Leeds]

Fair play to you   it would be a bit steady with this power plant

 

 

You might like to look at Fellini's film La Strada with Anthony Quinn where Quinn use an Ercole as his home and transport for his travelling show

 

 

Although I might just have this wrong http://www.motoguzziercole.it/film.asp just looking at the engine.

[sp838]

That bike (or I guess trike) in La Strada, is in fact a 1945 Sertum Motocarro 500. Also very cool.

 

http://cybermotorcycle.com/gallery/sertum/Sertum_Motocarro_500.htm

 

Apparently these were a thing back then. Here is a Benelli version:

 

http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2014/01/motocarro-benelli.html

[John in Leeds]

Thanks for the links but now I think it has to be the ercole

 

[sp838]

Yeah, it's the coolest.

[Admin Jaap]

At the GMG in Mandello in 2006 there was an Ercole that transported two small Guzzi oldtimers. Great stuff!

[luhbo]

Those 3 blokes on the right of it, were they Dutch or were they German?

 

Hubert

[Admin Jaap]

Sandals and socks,.. definetely not Italian :-) I suspect they were German. Sorry Luhbo ;-)