When an email landed in my inbox from Moto Guzzi HQasking me if I could spare a weekend to fly over to Italy’s Adriatic coast to race a fully prepared Moto Guzzi V7 III in the ‘Trofeo Moto Guzzi Fast Endurance Championship’, I quickly replied with a ‘yes’ and booked some flights, before they had chance to realise that they must have had me confused with someone else; someone who’s actually ridden a Guzzi before, perhaps. Once I’d nailed my knob to the proverbial mast and accepted the invite of a lifetime, I thought I had better read the small print in Simon-from-Moto-Guzzi’s email (Uccio to his friends). We were to be competing on a race-prepped V7 III, in an hour-long endurance race. I’d be competing in a two-man team alongside Fast Bikes alumnus and balding internet sensation Al Fagan. The ex-bin man’s no stranger to bike racing, having competed in British Superbikes (a long, long time ago) and then a road race on an island in the Irish Sea that nobody’s heard of, so despite him piling on the pounds in the latter years of his career, I knew he’d be more than capable of bringing something to the table.
The bikes had been kitted out with the official Moto Guzzi racing kit, which has been developed by none other than Vitto Guareschi of Guareschi Moto. The same Vitto Guareschi that raced in World Superbikes and Supersport spent eight years as Ducati’s chief development rider, and has been Team Manager for the Ducati MotoGP Team. The kit consisted of clip-ons, rear sets, a café-racer style screen and body kit, Öhlins shocks and a racing exhaust. You know what they say – you can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
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