Looking Back on Moto Guzzi

The interesting thing about the Guzzi slanted twins is that they echo back to Italy's co-joining with Germany  between Mussolini and Hitler regarding a future United Europe...a European Union... The Guzzi bikes and the BMW Wermacht bikes of that time had interchangeable parts; parts that were also interchangeable with the first VW Beetles...bad people, for sure, but with a really good idea, for sure.

I'm not asking for much, just some appreciation for living a good life for others...sigh...

 
If you ever have a spare $12-15,000 and can locate one of these bikes for me, then just remember that you'd be making an old man very happy.

The Tenni is a beautiful blunt-rumbling forever Moto Guzzi...Not so fast really in a straight line, but then it never goes in a straight line, but very quick to accelerate, always wrenches to the left upon acceleration (due to the position and firing of the twin cylinders...and because half the road curves in Italy are left hand curves) but a profound and strong example of the Mandelo del Lario Moto Guzzi existential bikes made on the banks of Lake Como in Northern Italy, that do basically last forever...sigh...and sound like a bombing raid over Madrid.

Named after the Italian Guzzi racing legend Bonomie Tenni (Bonomie was his first name and means...Good Man).

Very limited edition.

I had a half-chance of buying one new, number 9 of 160 made world wide, back in 2002 but made the mistake of 'going German' with the BMW  K1100LT police bike. What a tragedy that was. Sure, it was so comfortable you could fall asleep on it, and I did, but I should have gone after the Guzzi/ Sigh. Life's real regrets. Deep. Sigh. The bitter regrets of lost opportunity of a life spent otherwise doing every thing perfectly

. John 

Moto Guzzi Le Mans VII 2002 Tenni, the only bike I've wanted for years. So hard to find now. Love the look and sound

Re Japan and the Legacy of its War

An interesting comment from a guy in China was this: 'We don't want Japan to be humbled or destroyed or even punished. We get really upset when they keep trying to say they didn't do anything wrong, as they are saying now under PM Abe. This is so hurtful to all in Asia and stirs so many memories. For some deep and dark reason our Japanese neighbours will not let us grieve for our many murdered millions in peace. Japan just needs to shut up, to deny it all in silence if they have to, but to shut up about their 'beautiful noble honourable history'. We are neighbours so we do tolerate Japan, and trade with them, and have many connections, but we are also still grieving such a massive loss and such a massive horror. If they can't be sorry, even for their own benefit, they just should shut up now.'

Thousands protest oil refinery plans in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

Thousands protest oil refinery plans in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

Taiwan holds naval drill amid row with Manila - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

Taiwan holds naval drill amid row with Manila - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

I don't understand American Hatred for China

I really don't understand it. I'm from the same racial profile DNA as very many Americans and am only differentiated by nationality and by the fact that I don't have a gun and I don't have a religion, nor do I want either, or need either, to be a man, or a decent man.

I have a Chinese neighbour who is better-off financially than I am, but I don't hate him for that. If he stole my bicycle, well, sure, things would be different, and I'd get it back somehow but not involving bombing his house; but he hasn't done so and the bike is never locked up, so I guess we live in harmony.

Mind you, he does lock up his 1962 Pontiac Firebird, so I guess he's a bit more of an American than I am. I still like to call Americans 'Yanks' but I do so with no reference at all to their civil war at all.