What did you do with your GRiSO today?

Just got back from a 100 mile romp. Good fun!

About 100 mile loop as well. Roads were quiet

Ended up in Bourton-on-The-Water / Cotswolds. Had a pint and and looked around some old classic cars then went and looked at all the other bikes parked up. No other GRiSO's though.

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Great pics Blue.... Looks beautiful.

Tassiedevil71 wrote:

Great pics Blue.... Looks beautiful.

Cheers - the pics from mobiles are really good now. Think my mobile has got about 20 a megapixle camera. Set it to an auto upload on a photobucket app and all's good.

No mountains here, but still some good roads and places to see nearby. Can be on the coast in just over an hour as well.

Yes, great pix, Blue. Envious. I need to get out riding instead of being "here" or in the Moto Grappa.

At least in the latter, I finally got my Norge off the lift and the GRiSO on it.

Even better, managed -- surprisingly quickly, too, given my several unsuccessful prior tries -- to get the fuel line disconnected.  Now for some standard service items.

Saw on wildguzzi mention of "Piston Pete" and "Harry Hometune" as local pejoratives for (inept) shadetree mechanics in, respectively and disrespectfully, Sweden and Oz.  I'll try not to be too much of "Bumbling Bill" here at the top of Virginia.  

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Bumblingly yours,

Bill

Bill your garage is well...fricking fantastic   .... I wish my house was as nice
I could live there , do you have a shitter aswell ?

keenerkeen07 wrote:

Bill your garage is well...fricking fantastic   .... I wish my house was as nice
I could live there , do you have a shitter aswell ?

Thanks, but it is not always so neat.  Those were taken just before out-of-town company (former neighbors in Atlanta) visited us over this past weekend.  

This is more typical ...


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But, I wanted to show them the "Moto Grappa" replacement for our Inman Park garage, the "GarageMahalo."


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There, in downtown Atlanta, I did have a (partial) porcelain facility.  



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But now we live 600+ miles north and very much in the country ...


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... and the Moto Grappa is down a 100 yards or so from the house,


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That flag, btw, was for visiting German relatives.  We usually fly the "proper" tricolor ...  


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Point is that "the facilities" are a path for bigger jobs; a step or two out the door for smaller ones.  And, in truth, I keep a "chamber pot" that, at day's end, I empty near our newly planted tiny apple, cherry, and mulberry orchard to (fruitlessly ... in more ways than one) to spook away the deer.


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But, back to Grisos …


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Notice anything “not quite right" about those two pix, just above?

OK, more than enough.  Come visit if down this way ... guests get to use the real bathrooms.  

I’d better get down that shop and back to that visceral machine.  

Best,

Bill

Thankyou Bill ,
beautiful countryside you have there and I can tell you are a ardent motorcyclist ...
Keener

I used to share plates on 4 bikes back in the day. Nice digs BTW!

Canyon Carver wrote:

I used to share plates on 4 bikes back in the day. Nice digs BTW!

Good catch on the tag.  As you might have seen from the pix of my present shop, I now have a vanity tag for the GRiSO.  Was surprised when I was able to snag "GRiSO" from the Virginia DMV.

BTW, both of those GRiSO "ride pix" were in SW Wisconsin, not Virginia.  The black GRiSO 1100 belongs to Jim Barron, of Rose Farm Classics fame; [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  He was servicing my red 1200 when time ran out for a trip I had to take back east to Virginia.  Jim, a prince of a guy and wrench , lent me his personal GRiSO (with my tags ). knowing I'd put almost 2K on it on my ride.  I ran up to the Slimey Crud Run before going home (it's this weekend, btw), then to Virginia, then back to RFC.  

As you might guess, Jim's personal GRiSO is a stupendous machine.  Jim's magic made it a work of road-rocking art.  With the "fake" tag and a borrowed Guzzi, I was, however, afraid to ... erm ... as Jim puts it, "ride it 'as intended.'"

Still, a grand time.

And, while I love the Driftless area of Wisconsin, this part of the world -- the top of Virginia -- is hard to beat for great motorcyle roads.


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Bill

Just got back yesterday from the annual "Fossil" Moto Guzzi campout in, you guessed it, Fossil, Oregon.  It's about a 350 mile ride each way.  A bit of super slab, mountain passes, river canyons, and hill country.  It's always a great campout and one to look forward to every year.  Here are some pics.

The Diavolo Nero loaded for bear...
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29℉ and snowing when we went over Chinook Pass (Roper's done that one)
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Here's the artillery for the Saturday cannon shoot.  It's a modified Oxygen cylinder reinforced with a series of brake rotors.
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And here's the ammo...
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Even the locals came over for a squizz.
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After the cannon, there's lunch and then off to the shoot-em-up range...
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Washington State rep shooting the "Clown Gun" (.44 Magnum)
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My Home Sweet Home
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Love the bottle on the GRiSO...seems to fit there somehow! Chinnook does not look welcoming, but the rest looks much better. How much kick does the 'Clown gun' give.......? Cannon is a bit mad.

That rear hugger colour works well with the Diavolo Nero scheme.

Looks like a fun campout, perhaps a bit un nerving to those not comfortable with shooting.
I once traded a S&W model 29, 44mag to a guy moving from LA to Texas. He had a Honda VT500 Ascott in the classifieds. I called and told him he couldn't live in Texas without a gun, Ha!
Kicked like a mule it did!

Rode to Enumclaw near the foothills of Mount Rainier for our monthly Moto Guzzi club breakfast. Beautiful spring day here in the Northwest, wish we could have stayed out all day.

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Good memory Pokeyjoe, those were some classic ads for a less-than-classic brew.

You can start your own Google search for Rainier Beer ads - it just gets better and better (depending on how many Rainiers* [insert favorite brand here] you've consumed)

In recent weeks and today I've been doing lots of local riding in an effort to sort suspension damping settings, tyre pressures with a slightly more forceful approach to pushing through corners.  Backing off the re-valved shock rebound damping, with its heavier Ohlins spring, seems to be working.  Yet to get serious with the front.  'Weighting' the inside peg into turns also seems to be helping, something I had never really been conscious of doing on lighter bikes.  At least I'm making progress - a good thing at my age.

I took Heather on the GRiSO to Mildura and back to the blues festival. 1116km there and back yesterday and today. 7 1/2 hours there and 7 hours back. We both have sore arses after sitting for so long, but the ride and the music were worth it. The bike is running so much better after the long ride and giving it a fistful overtaking lots of strings of slow cars. Only saw one cop car for the whole trip. Magic.

It was a perfect day for a ride in Middle Tennessee, so I checked the tire pressure and headed out for a run on the Natchez Trace. The Grizo ran great and the scenery was magnificent...hated to make the turn to head back home.

Washed the GRiSO after the annual Not-a-Rally in Cottonwood Arizona. Got to see George from up Seattle way. 85 years on the clock and rides a GRiSO, naked, with a stock seat, to our Not-a-Rally. Met him last year in Datil. Same thing, naked GRiSO.

Ironman George.

His chicken strips are half the size of mine too. Asked me what might be grinding on left hand turns. Oiy!

I may have to sell the GRiSO as surely I'm not worthy.

I hope that'll be me some day.

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Did not see Street flying around on his red Christmas GRiSO?!?!

Rode out to the edge of a really good road near me and stopped for fuel. Stuck my gopro on Ruth's helmet for some pillion shots of me heaving the the GRiSO about a bit.

All I managed to do was get the gopro to take 2590 pictures of the back of my helmet!!! Operator error wins then. Will see if there is one good picture out of the lot...........

No matter - just gotta ride that road again [ there was a good pub half way anyway ]

Needed a fix as I have got a really bad week coming up at work. Rode the GRiSO out and got my boots scraping and me smiling. Found a couple of good roads, hardly any traffic. Grabbed a coffee and headed home.

Got out on the GRiSO for the first time in a month. Went to the yearly British and European Classic Mcy Day event nearby in Clarksburg, Maryland. Always a good show.

Saw a Sport, a Stelvio and a few Tonti-framed Guzzis.

This Mondial was probably my favorite:

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