Motorcycle owners turn out for annual Moto Guzzi rally (Ohio?)

Herald-Star ^ | 6/1/05

[wizr]

Thanks. Beautiful bike. Of course, I love old stuff, 'cause I are.

[JoeSixPack1]

Considering the fact that Guzzi only sells a couple hundred bikes here in the States each year,

ummm,,,, a although I had a tough time getting the figures, it seems Guzzi sales avg 75,000, yearly here in the USA. The only specific year I could find was 1999 and that was 76,000+.

You were saying....?? :-)

[uglybiker]

Dunno where those figures came from but they're way off! The Guzzi factory only produces around 6,000 total for the world market.

[JoeSixPack1]

It never fails for me to lose a URL reference when I need it, but I did find this..

http://www.powersportsnetwork.com/motorcyclenewsdetail/id=767/newsarticle767.htm

And I'm still looking for the one that gave me that 75000+ figure. I did stumble on one that came close but it was numbers for Australian sales.

I'm sorry I said anything at all!! :-)

[blackie]

That'll be great, what kinda bike does your brother have?

[blackie]

Those Guzzi singles with the salami slicer exposed flywheels were funny looking but very good motorcycles ~ I know old California desert racers who loved them and still wax poetic about the joys of riding one. ;)

[BraveMan]

BUCKY BUSH - Longtime Guzzi Guy

Though good news travels fast, it seems as if bad news travels faster. Many of you know of the untimely passing of West Virginia’s MGNOC Rep, Bucky Bush. While in Dade City, Florida, he was injured in an accident with an SUV on Sunday, January 2, 2005. Though still alive at the scene, Bucky was life-flighted to the trauma unit in Tampa, Florida and did not make it through the afternoon.

An active rider and Moto Guzzi enthusiast, Buck had served as the MGNOC West Virginia rep for the last 29 years. The 2005 National MGNOC Rally was scheduled to be Buck’s 27th and last year of hosting the Big Country Moto Guzzi Rally. More details about the event are available within the full page rally ad on page three of this issue. After much deliberation and talking to many devoted friends, Buck’s youngest child, daughter Nicole (Nikki), will host the final Big Country Rally. Though she has been registering participants for all 27 years of the event, she does not want this last rally to be a somber event. She looks forward to hosting all MGNOC members and their guests to a celebration - of life, bikes, and the good friends made along the way - as well as her father’s devotion to his hobby.

Buck’s family chose to show him on Thursday, January 6th and bury him on Friday. The viewing was attended by over 800 mourners who join the MGNOC members in their recollections of Buck - always a free-spirited individual that enjoyed the best of times with his motorcycle friends who were like dear family to him.

In addition to the eulogy given by his daughter, Nikki, and the pastor of the church, MGNOC members Gerry Mees, of Kentucky, Jamie Muller of Michigan, and Derek Bird of Pittsburgh were on hand to speak. The funeral procession was led by four bikes that braved the January temperatures to escort Buck to his final resting place.

At the time of the accident, Buck was in very critical shape, but was conscious. Once his friends were able to locate him, Buck’s first question was about how was his bike. When his friends told him that there was no bike left, Buck said “that’s okay, I was going to get a new one when I got home.” Maybe then he knew that he would be going to a different home. As his dear friends, Bob and Scott Tyler put his good arm’s hand under his chin to hold his head, he uttered his last words, “I love you guys.” We can imagine that he meant those words for the many friends that he made through his biking years. In biking tradition, the road was lined as far as the eye could see with bikes pulled over and waiting for Buck to be loaded into the ambulance.

Buck’s obituary may be viewed on-line at www.grecohertnick.com and on-line condolences may be offered to the family via that link. Additional cards and letters can also be sent to his dear mother, Wanda Bush who was in Florida with Buck at the time of the accident, 203 Pleasantview Drive, Weirton, West Virginia 26062.

Memorial site for Merle A. "Bucky" Bush here:
http://obit.memorialobituaries.com/obit_display.cgi?id=174836&clientid=grecohertnick&listing=Found

[BraveMan]

I love the lines of that gas tank so much I want to build a bike around it . . .

[BraveMan]

Circa 1929:

                            ITIALIAN                                                 AMERICAN

[BraveMan]

I hate it when I misspell "Italian" . . .

[blackie]

Do it!

[archy]

Don't know much about Moto Guzzi bikes. Opinions?

Guzzi Pingi.

There've been some very nice Guzzis turned out over the years. Goose riders get along quite nicely among BMW Airhead and Boxer riders with a minimum of good-natured ribbing back and forth about Italian cousins, spaghetti recipies, and bending BMW opposed cylinders up into the Guzzi v-configuration while cornering.

[uglybiker]

...with a minimum of good-natured ribbing back and forth about Italian cousins, spaghetti recipies, and bending BMW opposed cylinders up into the Guzzi v-configuration while cornering.

I like to tell folks that a Guzzi is the result of a one-night stand betwixt a Beemer and a Harley

As to which was on top is still a topic of serious debate discussed over the consumption of copious amounts brewed/fermented liquids. ;-)