“Moto” = motor, “Guzzi” = to grin like an idiot inside your helmet (click for a larger version)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMost countries have their associated stereotypes. Apparently Australia is full of lunatic blonde animal hunters, the U.S. is populated solely by gun-toting Christians and the UK is full of pasty people who constantly complain about the weather and finish every sentence with the word \u201cGuv\u2019nor\u201d. Of course, for the most part that is all baloney. Turns out that McCartney and Wonder were right \u2013 people are<\/em> the same wherever you go. But there\u2019s one particular clich\u00e9 I have found to be true. Italians do dress well – very well indeed<\/em>.<\/p>\nEnter stage left the Moto Guzzi V7 Racer \u2013 a very dapper version of the already pretty damn suave V7 Caf\u00e9<\/span>. If the standard model is meant to conjure long-forgotten images of the \u201cgood ol\u2019 days\u201d with it\u2019s upswept pipes and obvious design cues from the original 70\u2019s V7, the Racer looks about as subtle as the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie. But is it “amore”, or is it just a one-ride stand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,108],"tags":[142,935],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}