new Guzzi

just received an email from one of the local bike shops with the
prices for a new guzzi (norge), from the basic bike to the one with
panniers, top box, and heated handgrips there is a $4000 jump. Does
this sound reasonable? I know if I wanted heated grips I could get
much cheaper aftermarket ones. Would there be any benifit to getting
Guzzi panniers? At the moment I'm thinking aftermarket. That is if it
isn't going to be too hard find aftermarket brackets considering the
bike isn't expected to be released until sometime in Mid September.

This is, of course, if I can get some money out of the bank ;-)
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Cheers
The Happy Drunk

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for
thou art crunchy, and go well with Tomato Sauce.

 

Hello my name is 'Norge' i am from Italy

just doesnt have the right ring to it does it

think you would go far better on one of the other offerings

 

Especially when you take into account that it's pronounced "Nohr-gay"...

 

http://www.hepco-becker.de/_eng/frameset.php

are usually very quick with their products once a new model hit the
showrooms (Europe seems to get the Norge....right now)
Guzzi's had lot's to do with that manufacturer, been flogging their cases
(re-badged of course) since the first Cali at least.
cheers
pete

 

No A in Guzzi either.....

 

Heard whispered from Edmund Hillary's tent; "why are you Tensing, Norgay?"

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:21:55 GMT

Sounds like a ripoff to me. Except that it might be impossible to fit
aftermarket panniers as these days most bikes have weird profiles in
that area and the panniers are shaped to fit.

The Norge is named after the bike Carlo Guzzi rode to the Arctic
circle in the late 1920s to show how good his bikes were.

Zebee

 

That's because he wanted to free as a bird and Sherpa-little.
...
...
Well just as bloody bad as yours!

 

If your first name was Tenzing, you could say you came from Kathmandu.

Theo