Where has time gone? I haven’t written anything about my V7 Classic in more than a year. I guess life and the enjoyment of life kinda get in the way, plus just actually getting down to business and writing something out can involve a little mental effort. Funny thing, life may have gotten in the way of writing more articles about this wonderful Moto Guzzi small block, but it definitely wove itself around it!
A long weekly commute for 18 months.
I took a position as an Enterprise Architect Consultant in Detroit mid 2010, and started an 18 month long period of living in an apartment in Grosse Pointe Park, MI, for 4 nights a week. Weekends were spent at home after making the 300 mile journey back to my home in Oak Park, IL.
I started work around May 1 2010, and, until the riding season ended in Mid October, I never drove a car in Detroit. Most of the commutes were made on the V7 Classic, so I was making two 300 mile trips a week on the bike, and then 30 miles a day commuting, along with some very fun trips, which I’ll get to in a bit.
The Little Guzzi was awesome. I only had to take the train back to Chicago on a few occasional weekends when the weather was too rough to ride, and even then I had a couple of episodes when I got caught in a downpour anyway. Continue reading