Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test

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Driving Report Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber

Lifestyle is soft tissue: the beautiful new from Moto Guzzi in the test

Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test-moto

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The new machine of Moto Guzzi looks as beautiful as you dream of an Italian motorcycle – and what else can it? On the highway you have nothing to look for.

For this you can find other qualities. Thomas Pospiech tests the machine.

Just in time for the 95. Birthday brings the traditional brand Moto Guzzi your newest model, the V9 on the market. A beautiful machine has built the Italians there! Striking: the thick 16-inch front tire. Cool: deep black optics, no chrome, hardly plastic, but many metal and aluminum parts. Characteristic: The longitudinally built V2 engine with its V-shaped side of the profile projecting cylinder heads, which have been the detection feature for two-wheelers from Mandello since the 1960s.

Just a percent market share has the brand with the eagle in the emblem in Germany. The V9 floats on the wave of retro bikes who want to inspire a lifestylic audience. But what can the machine on the street? Applies to the guzzi of the saying "Lifestyle is soft tissue"?

Who wants to be beautiful must suffer!

How to get used to a Moto Guzzi Bollert the engine is nice on the start. The sound is serious and accompanied by a throwing suction noise, but goose bumps you do not get. Irritating: The first gear goes pure without any noise, other gear shifts report with a rich clay.

Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test-moto

Piaggio / Moto Guzzi Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber

The seating position is also ok for a normal-grown Central European. The legs land at the front, the arms hang comfortably on the handlebar and allow a generous steering impact. The bench is perfectly processed and noble quilted, but unfortunately Bockhart. Who wants to be beautiful, must probably suffer. After a long tour, one wishes one of these cyclists with silicone pads in the right places.

Do not heat, but cruises

In the city, the Guzzi feels really well. No matter if you drive in front of a chic restaurant or a trendy biker bar – with the Bobber you make a "Bella figura" and is started quickly to the machine.

Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test-guzzi

Piaggio / Moto Guzzi Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber

Good, if you know what the model name means. The term "Bobber" came up in the US after the Second World War. Young motorcyclists built everything unnecessary from their machines, renounced chrome parts and moved oversized big tires to give gas to so-called Dirttrack's gas. Race can not win with the Bobber Italian design and your 55 hp engine. For the city, it is sufficiently motorized in any case. At the traffic light you get well from the stain and the machine with their 210 kilos is playfully steered easily by traffic.

But already on the first meters, it becomes clear that this machine is not made for heating, but to cruise. Compared to their little sister, the somewhat mignificive V7, the bobber is not only more motorized, but also grown in all other matters. More displacement, more torque, higher seating position. Only the tank is shrunk the look because of it and holds only 15 liters of fuel. Small Beauty Error: Refilling Petrol Will With the Bobber To Patience Sample. The thirst of the guzzi is limited, depending on the gait, the machine needs 4 to 5 liters of gasoline.

Middle motorways better

But what the Guzzi really can really prove them near their homeland, in the Dolomites. Out of the city, south, on the highway. Here is the Bobber completely out of place. At the latest at 110 things you are in the sixth gear, then the Guzzi proves the livility of a wandering dune. Much faster than 130 km / kilometer can not drive with the machine. So zack back from the train and off to the country road. In elongated curves, the machine is really fun. Here the guzzi can be surfed nicely through the landscape and with a relaxed driving way you come with the modest 55 hp and 62 nm torque well clear.

Bobber without bumms

But how does the bobber beat in the mountains? The passports in the Dolomites are not only the most attractive, but also the most demanding streets for motorcyclists.

Immediately in the first turning of the Sella Ronda, the chassis stops its limits. The machine starts early and repeatedly reminds that the bike was constructed for boulevards and not for mountain roads. The chassis presents itself in front of it. Front soft and back hard – this is not good combi with bad and sophisticated streets. For cross joints and unevenness, the rear wheel loses the ground contact. All about deep dents in the asphalt gives the Guzzi unfiltered with fierce blows in the stuck.

If gradients are in the game, a lot has to be switched. The bobber is not a speedy straight – and annoying in the long run. Sweeping after the short-win second gear, when accelerating from the curve you are quickly in the limiter. For the mountains, the Bobber does not have enough bumms.

Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test-bobber

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Conclusion

With the V9 Bobber Moto Guzzi brought a beautiful and high-quality worked bike on the street. Everything about the motorcycle is noble and has with the sophisticated engine technology to become the stuff to the heirloom. The design-conscious bikers come with the machine at their expense: With the Bobber you fall positively. In the city and on the highway the machine is sufficiently motorized with its 55 hp. On Alpenpasses, the Guzzi is overwhelmed and for longer passages on the highway the Bobber is completely unsuitable. Compared to their small and almost 2000 euros cheaper sister, the V7, the V9 is the clear adult bike.

The Bobber is available for just under 10.000 EURO. The money is well created in a guzzi. The machines from Italy are value stable. For the same money you get the Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron 883, the direct competition model from the USA. The Guzzi offers finer technology with its cardan drive and the longitudinally built V2 engine. The Harley is the slightly heavier iron, but has noticeably more wumms with her torque of 70 Newton meters.

Technical specifications

Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber

Motor: 90 ° -V2 four-stroke engine; 2 valves per cylinder;

Displacement: 853 cm3
Perfomance: 40.4 kW (55 hp) at 6.250 rpm

Torque: 65.0 nm at 5.500 rpm

Curb weight ready to drive: Ca. 210 kg

Price Incl. Additional costs: 10.390 euros

The test motorcycle was provided by "KOrne Motobikes".

Thomas Pospiech

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2 thoughts on “Moto Guzzi v9 Bobber in the test”

  1. Bobber
    In a typical bobber, the front apron was built backwards. At the front one drove … so "without" Apron. Of course, this is not so no longer permissible after the StVO anymore "Conversion assumption" Recognize on this machine. Rather something for bobby …. with A2 …..

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  2. Price – Power: Insufficient !
    Even at 95 years, the manufacturer has to ask: What do I deliver to the customer for his Gelld? The 2radgemeinde has to be analytically asked: How is it possible, that Moto Guzzi is still available. – There we would already be at the core: Motorcycle is just factual at the tourer and the Cafe-Racer rather emotion. The developers at Guzzi, obviously without necessary budged, are probably about the previous one. Group away to the 2. mention. A bobber so – "Show bike in American Style" (without value). I’m curious what comes on 100en Birthday – (maybe ABS?) – If there is the old Italian lady then.

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