The Motto Guzzi
My buddy Dave has a pile of Moto Guzzi bikes, more than ten, and probably less than fifty. Probably.
He's not exactly sure how many, and more importantly his wife Lonette has no idea whatsoever. Short version of the story is that I've ridden more than a few of them, and I really liked the Guzzis. So, back to eBay to find a good, clean, fixable bike. I ride my Guzzi everywhere in good weather, across Blood Mountain, the Tail of the Dragon, out to TWO, Copperhead Lodge, and of course to work. The Guzzi engine is mounted sideways, from a Harley standpoint, or folded up slightly from a BMW standpoint. The V-twin engine has a cylinder sticking out in the breeze left and right of centerline, which means both cylinders cool equally, and provides a very symmetric set of lines to the bike. The only other 90 degree V engine I know of in production was Porsche's 928. There's starting to be a pattern, here.
Portrait of the Artist circa 1995
An Accidental Biker Gang
Here's the patch artwork for the Hogan's Goats MC, which started out a kind of a gag. An old friend now gone, Gene Alexander, was the original Hogan. If you know the story, you know about the HUGE campouts we used to have at my place in North Carolina, and about Gene stumbling into the fire having drank, well, probably as much as the rest of us. We cut a few CDs, the bands played all night, Dave cooked and a legend was born. A few hundred of us ate, drank, danced, bathed in the creek, got lost in the woods, took a lot of pictures, and raised a lot of hell, but a decade later only the memories and the music remain.
