Seventeenth South'n Spine Raid 2021

[docc]

No surprise that there are those of us anxiously looking this far ahead. Plus, I was reminded that some folks have to put in time-off requests by year end.

As ever:

Weekend after US Labor Day

(Sept. 10-12, 2021)

Tellico Plains ,TN, USA

Get There. Bring Tools.

Here, again, 2021 is Moto Guzzi's centesimo, so we ought to whoop this up! (I'm not at all sure how "whoop this up" translates into Italian).

 

Those riding in from Varsseveld or Bungendore can head out now and have plenty of time to "Get There" . . .

[Twin AH]

Shees Doc.......... 4500 Klm one way.

Would love to participate one day 

[docc]

9 hours ago, Twin AH said:

Shees Doc.......... 4500 Klm one way.

Would love to participate one day 

You still have the note I wrote you for last year?

"Doctor's Orders"

[Twin AH]

I believe so................................  

[docc]

Pretty sure I just wrote the whole globe a doctor's note.

Get There. Bring Tools.

      Good For What Ails Ya.

[Goofman]

Heck, we all might as well do it... NEXT YEAR IN MANDELLO!🇮🇹

[docc]

On 12/7/2020 at 12:49 AM, Goofman said:

Heck, we all might as well do it... NEXT YEAR IN MANDELLO!🇮🇹

While you are there, stop by Bergamo and tell Giacomo Agostini "ciao" from all of us!

https://www.villavittoriabergamo.it/en/who-we-are/

https://www.motociclismo.it/giacomo-agostini-apre-museo-bergamo-73931

 

[Goofman]

So, Ago has a B&B, eh?

[docc]

5 minutes ago, Goofman said:

So, Ago has a B&B, eh?

Seems his daughter Vittorio has the B&B while Ago has opened his Trophy Room and is still passionate about his tifoso ("fans").

What a fine gentleman. Such a credit to the sport.

[docc]

Looks like the perfect place for a SpineRaid! I'm thinking @v11_meticcio should round up about a dozen of our brothers and post pics of Ago hanging around all those gorgeous V11  . . . 

[Pressureangle]

22 hours ago, docc said:

Looks like the perfect place for a SpineRaid! I'm thinking @v11_meticcio should round up about a dozen of our brothers and post pics of Ago hanging around all those gorgeous V11  . . . 

While musing about the Isle of Man, It occurred to me that the logistics would be easier and the event more interesting if I shipped the bike into Italy and rode it to IoM...

[docc]

On 12/18/2020 at 8:46 AM, Pressureangle said:

While musing about the Isle of Man, It occurred to me that the logistics would be easier and the event more interesting if I shipped the bike into Italy and rode it to IoM...

Well, the last time you embarked on an epic (10,000 mile circumnavigation of the Continental US) ride, you managed to work the South'n SpineRaid in!  Swing by again, then ship your Guzzi out of Atlanta . . .

Or better, swing by on the way back home!

[docc]

It seems Mandello is also celebrating Moto Guzzi's 100th in September :

Mandello, the 'Moto Guzzi centenary' warms up the engines.

 

[Thanks to @v11_meticcio for the link!]

[docc]

Someone asked me if I was going to Mandello del Lario, instead of the South'n SpineRaid, for the Centenary Celebration . . .

Showing up at the Seventeenth South'n SpineRaid, with 200.000 km on my Sport, IS my Centenary Celebration!

[docc]

A couple guys have already made reservations. Coming on six months out, so I suppose I should get with it and make mine . . .

https://www.lodgeattellico.com/

There are other places around that folks stay, or camp, but this is the locus. And where most of the tools get put to use.

Definitely where the deals go down . . .

. . . and photo ops of celebs . . .