Moto Guzzi turns 100 years round. It was the March 14, 1921 when the Moto Guzzi anonymous company. Partners of the enterprise were Emanuele Vittorio Parodi, Genoese shipowner, the son Giorgio and friend Carlo Guzzi, his former comrade in the Aeronautical Service of the Royal Navy. Together with them, the friend should also have been there Giovanni Ravelli, but died two years earlier on a test flight. The introduction of theEagle with spread wings in the Moto Guzzi logo.
Since then, or rather since 1928, the year it came out of Mandello del Lario the first Moto Guzzi motorcycle, the legendary one Normal with 8 horsepower, the motorbikes of the eagle with spread wings have traveled the streets all over the globe. They have won races everywhere by conquering 14 world titles. The Guzzi have become the bikes of our police, than that of Berlin and of that americana with the V7 Ambassador 750. Cuirassiers also travel aboard a Moto Guzzi.
Motorcycles built by hand by people with bowed heads, more attentive to the quality of production than to self-celebration; although they have all the rights. That’s why for the centenary, Moto Guzzi asked for a personal account from 10 exceptional authors, owners themselves of a motorcycle with outstretched wings.
Thus they find the writer, ideally together talking about love for motorcycles Melissa Holbrook Pierson (opening photo), the actor Ewan McGregor, the architect Greg Lynn, the journalists Marco Masetti, Mat Oxley, e Akira Nishimura, DJ Ringo, the designer Tom Dixon, the astronaut Paolo Nespoli e Jeffrey Schnapp, the Harvard professor who also edited the volume.
The Moto Guzzi century represents a moment of great pride for the wholeItalian industry and what is celebrated is a story lived always looking ahead, with the ability to innovate while remaining faithful to one’s talents and traditions. Moto Guzzi has accompanied Italy in its economic and social growth, its motorcycles have become a heritage of popular culture and today it continues to thrill thousands of motorcyclists around the world. The volume Moto Guzzi 100 Years of 224 pages published by Rizzoli Illustrati it is already available in bookstores at the cover price of 80 euros.
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