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2008 Moto Guzzi Norge Bike Test
Moto Guzzi is taking on the sport-touring market with its V-Twin-powered Norge 1200.
Moto Guzzi is taking on the sport-touring market with its V-Twin-powered Norge 1200.
Riding up the Pacific Coast Highway near San Simeon, California, travelers are greeted with a beautiful, yet odd, sight – the Hearst Castle. Resting halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the 1920s-era mansion was built by the notorious media tycoon William Randolf Hearst. Based off European architectural conventions, the Hearst Castle is beautiful but conspicuous, looming over the San Simeon coast like the palace of a feudal lord.
It was an inspiring sight, and a serendipitous analogy to the motorcycle we happened to be riding – the Moto Guzzi Norge 1200.
At that moment the Norge was one of six MCUSA test bikes trekking up the coastline for our 2008 Super Sport-Touring Shootout, including a quintet of four-cylinders. In its own way the two-cylinder Moto Guzzi Norge was just as out of place in our S-T shootout, as the Hearst Mansion on the coastal landscape.
Meghatározás
Az első Moto Guzzi egyhengeres, négyütemű, 500 köbcentis, négyszelepes motor volt, 88 mm-es lökettel és 82 mm-es furattal. Carlo Guzzi első motorját egy Giorgio Ripamonti nevű kovács segítségével építette 1919-ben. A legendás olasz motorkerékpár azóta alaposan megizmosodott.