6-12 September 2021: 100 years of Moto Guzzi - International Motorcycle Rally City of Moto Guzzi
"If by lucky hypothesis ..."
Mandello del Lario, 1910s.
A young engine technician begins to take an interest in engines at the Ripamonti workshop, the reference point in the area.
His great curiosity and practical sense lead him to imagine a new motorcycle with a personal vision of him. 500 cc, horizontal cylinder in order to expose the head to cooling, 4 valves, double ignition, gearbox in block, external flywheel and a low frame, finally no longer resembling an adapted bicycle.
A winning vision, which exposes to two officers of the Royal Navy who are passionate about engines like him that the great war will bring together with that randomness of life that often magically combines destinies.
Carlo Guzzi (the design engineer), Giorgio Parodi (the financier), Giovanni Ravelli (the rider) become friends and agree to produce that bike.
And they will not stop, not even with the death of Giovanni in an air test.
Giorgio asks his father Emanuele Vittorio, a prudent and shrewd Genoese shipowner, for the financing to leave.
The father agrees: "... Because if by lucky hypothesis I liked it, I'm willing to go a long way without limitations of figures".
March 15, 1921, the Moto Guzzi Anonymous Company was born, with its legal and administrative headquarters in Genoa and a production plant in Mandello del Lario. Vision, prudence, rationality and passion.
Mandello del Lario, 2021.
100 years have passed since those magical days: 100 years of vision, prudence, rationality, ingenuity that generated an infinite, throbbing, reckless passion.
100 years of Guzzismo riding marvelous, pulsating motorcycles, companions of adventurous journeys as well as joyful everyday life; 100 years that we will celebrate together, through that magical rite that is celebrated every year with the whole Mandello del Lario celebrating around the dream factory.
Mandello del Lario, 6-12 September 2021: here are the definitive dates of the Centenary International Motorcycle Rally City of Moto Guzzi, during which Mandello, as usual, will once again be the natural and irresistible attraction for every Guzzista who, like a diviner in search of 'water, will turn the handlebars of their Moto Guzzi bikes of every age and era towards that shore of Lake Como that saw it born and where the celebrations will be concentrated with a rich calendar of events that will begin on 6 September, and then convey from 9 September in WYD 2021.
Moto Guzzi together with the International Motorcycle Rally Committee are preparing an unmissable event.
But not only that: many other events are in preparation throughout the year that will warm our hearts with two and four valves, single or twin, until the final apotheosis of September.
It will be a great unforgettable party.
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