In recent years, Oberdan Bezzi has offered us lots of virtual designs in the form of a referry that, like this Moto Guzzi F45 Monzathey raise true passions among fans. And it is not for less taking into account the stylized lines that usually look like the talent of the well -known Italian designer.
However, on this occasion, Bezzi’s new design has also served to open a melon in relation to the current Guzzi motorcycle range and the shortcomings of some low-cylindered low-cylinder model with which it had once.
Currently, the Lario mandello brand has four models, divided in turn into different versions. Among all of them, the most affordable option is the well -known range V7, equipped with a transverse VE transverse propeller of 893 cc.
The F45 Monza, an interesting option as an access range
This is where this beautiful Bezzi design that has baptized under the acronym F45 Monza enters the scene, in honor of the model that Moto Guzzi commercialized in the 80s under the same name, the V50 Monza. Then, the Italian brand sought to develop a light sports car with which to compete against fierce Japanese competition. To do this, he equipped the model with a Bicilindrical engine at 90 ° of 490 cm³, air -cooled and fed by 28 mm ortho carburetors.
With just 160 kilos dry, that V50 Monza managed to catapult up to the 170 km/h Thanks to having a maximum power of 47 hp at 7,500 rpm. In addition, it had a equipped cycle part or a steel tubular chassis, as well as a pair of front brake discs that, next to the posterior disc, used a new combined braking system.
As auction to this interesting technical combination, the Italian brand gave its V50 Monza with a sports aesthetic according to the design canons of the time, where its inclusive front fair, sports semimavering and a narrow silhouette and a narrow and elongated silhouette in equal parts. Starting precisely from this approach, Bezzi replicates the concept of the eighties Moto Guzzi model in its F45 Monza, adapting the design of the latter to the current demands.
Keeping that compact and flattened stamp, which reminds us of another of its designs of the Transalpina brand, the Guzzi Moto V100 Le Mans Classic, Obi is committed to integrating the well -known bicylindrical engine in parallel that APPILIA currently uses to boost its “range 457”.
Recall that this is refrigerated by liquid, with double distribution by camshaft and four valves per cylinder, being able to develop a power of 47 hp, curiously the same figure that V50 declared in its day.
But beyond what such a model offered, in technical or borrowing matters, there is the fact that it could be the beginning of a new range of motorcycles with which Moto Guzzi would enter fully into the competitive segment A2 of low-cylindrated low-media.
Probably, more than a follower of the brand will be imagining how it would be to have the possibility to enjoy a mount based on that eighties concept, which the Italian firm exploded so much at that time.
