Name a bike you regret selling thread… my turn 🥹
Moto Guzzi V7 Classic. 2010 Neo retro, even if it doesn’t mean much more than fuel injection about Moto Guzzi bikes.
She was a typical Moto Guzzi: lovely engine, great handling and finish-it-yourself everything else.
Not too viby, just enough to remind you motorcycles are a bit more than mecanical parts in motion, riding was inspiring and relaxing. One can say operating a Moto Guzzi like that forces you too go nice and slow, mostly like driving an actual vintage bike, except it fires up every time.
This one I regret selling because 10 years later I am looking at it again, and now I should afford owning more than one bike at a time.
That’s a beautiful bike.
This is dumb, but I miss my old XV250. It was way too small for me, but still fun – and so nimble. Traded it for a project Del Sol that I wound up giving away…
Yamaha XV 250 “Virago” from Wikipedia image database:
It is not dumb at all: small bikes are a joy to run. Nowadays you can’t speed, you can’t be too bold on the road now, are you ? 🫡
Ah! OK, now that I’m looking at it again, I remember the instigation for selling was because the top exhaust pipe turns out to be fake, it’s just trim. Both cylinders are routed through the bottom one. And I felt kinda cheated when I found out.
