MOTO WHAT?

摘要

There are motorcycles, and then there are motorcycles. What I'm getting at is this: There are motorcycles that appeal to a wide audience, and then there are strange choices to own, to love, and to ride. But I've come to appreciate a magical truth about life; for every weird thing out there, there's generally some weirdo who needs it. As it turns out, I'm often that weirdo. But not always. There are different levels of questionable choices when it comes to motorcycles. I'd have to put Moto Guzzi at the upper level of that scale, being a brand that normal people almost might want to own but not quite. Moto Guzzi has been trying to get into motorcycling's USA kingdom of acceptability for nearly 100 years now, never getting farther than camping outside the castle walls, like a weird tribe of migrant serfs. Guzzi's sideways-mouthed, shaft-drive V-twin is so peculiar that Honda once copied it.