Moto Guzzi Club of Queensland Forum

Hi all just joined the forum.

I ride a 20 year old Lario which I have had for a few years now. She is my third Guzzi over the past 20 years.You just can't get them out of the blood. The earlier ones were a Mk3 & mk4 Lemans and yes I have regretted selling them for years lets not go there.
Took me a while to get use to the Lario but once you learn to use it properly it is really very sweet.
Lucky for me I live at the foot of the range below Mapelton so I get plenty of practice in.
It could have a bit more power any tips would be welcome.
See you on the road
Guzzibaz

G'day Guzzibaz,
Pleased to meet you.I'm a sunshine Coaster too, to coin a word and often go past the hospital, up the twisties to the aforesaid Mapleton and round to Stanley River Road. Lately though, I have been shown Phillipps Rd., which is a nice climb.
Went for a ride a couple of weekends ago with a pair of Guzzis, from the BP at Forest Glen. Breakfast was al fresco, at a hinterland cafe and it was freezing!! Strangely, I survived. After a while the cold wasn't an issue. Must have been the very good breakfast, the company and the motorcycle concourse provided by about 30 other bikers who also dropped in.
Sorry: can't help with your power shortage(?). Tom is the one I go to, for anything Guzzi related.
Happy trails!

G'day Bill

I intend to go down to Brisvegas and get Tom to do a service shortly I will have a chat to him then.
Must check out that ride you suggested.

cheers

Guzzibaz

G'day Guzzibaz,

My mate had a Lario years ago. I managed a ride along the GOR when we were heading to PI from his place in Adelaide in '89. The GOR was an ideal inviroment for the Lario.

GOR is an ideal environment for anything with 2 wheels and an engine

Except maybe for 1970's BMW riders who stop to check their girlfriend's keeping up ok, then proceed to attempt to catch up with their Rice Burner riding mate.
I mean to say, I was scraping everything.....how's a BM supposed to catch me up when scraping the pots on the deck on a left-hander forces him onto the wrong side of the road and into the path of a rather horrified 4-wheeled-tin-thing driver
Thankfully there was one straggly little tree/bush thing over the guard-rail, that stopped a lengthy dive into the ocean, after he glanced off the car windscreen.
Severe bruising, nothing broken, but a written off BM buried in the front of a very sad looking car.
How did I (we) survive our youth?
Ah, what fun

Welcome to The Forum guzzibaz

I take it that little adventure cured you of riding things with saggy bits????

On the contrary, I bought a B-M a few years later.
In the story, I was the one on the Rice Burner (Honda 750/4), and the mate on the B-M (750) was (probably still is), a much faster rider than I ever was.
By the time I bought the BMW, I had a wife on the pillion, to thump me in the ribs if she thought I was riding beyond my limits. Ouch
I loved the B-M at the time, but there's just something special about Guzzis, even if it's the "baby" of the current range I happen to ride, and one has to develop a thick hide to withstand the ribbing from certain fellow club members and Forum posters