website this weekend it's a genuinely brilliant little navigation device so there's a link in the description as well as to their blog post with more information about the charity but first up with the bike the new compact block engine which is typical of a moto guzzi in some ways it's a NUMBER_TOKEN degree transverse v-twin with a shaft drive but they've designed this one from the ground up to make it as small and light as possible in fact it's NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters shorter in length than the small block engine you'll find in the vNUMBER_TOKEN tt which is pretty substantial another big change is that the cylinder head is rotated by NUMBER_TOKEN degrees so you won't see any air intakes or fuel injectors coming out of the back they're now in the middle of the bike and of course you've got that exhaust headers on the side instead of the front motor gutsy say this design decision was made in order to increase onboard comfort so i guess more space for your knees behind the cylinder heads and maybe a bit less heat from them as well and also rationalize the positioning of the components for the intake and electronic injection systems in terms of capacity it comes in at NUMBER_TOKENcc and features four valves per cylinder with a chain driven double overhead camshaft with finger followers it's worth adding that it's liquid cooled as well uses a wet sump lubrication system and also a wet clutch with a hydraulic lever so all pretty modern when you set it against their typical air-cooled pushrod NUMBER_TOKEN-valve engines the result is pretty good in terms of power output so NUMBER_TOKEN horsepower peak and newton meters of peak torque they also say that NUMBER_TOKEN of the torque is available right down from three and a half thousand rpm with the rev limiter kicking in up at nine and a half thousand there's no specifics on where the peak power and peak talk occur but it sounds like a really usable amount of grunt for this sort of bike which is part sporty but also built with a bit of comfortable touring in mind it's hard to say how it compares to the competition because there aren't really that many sporty naked roadster tourers left on the market adventure bikes have kind of taken over as the default all-rounder but on the face of it i think it sounds pretty decent for the general road use it's intended for power is delivered to the rear wheel through a shaft drive as is typical of a goodsy but this one is positioned much lower than any of their previous designs there are some clear benefits of shaft drives so less chain maintenance and cleaning and lubing but they can suffer from what's known as shaft jacking which isn't what you might first think it's when the suspension sits up a little when you get on the throttle some bikes like the bmw boxers or the triumph tiger NUMBER_TOKEN use a sort of paralever design to combat it but motorgutsies say that this new position does away with any suspension reaction owing to the transfer of torque with no need for a linkage on the swing arm either way it's very nicely designed on the one side you've got this beautiful swing gun with the offset monoshock and on the other well it's single sided so you can admire that snowflake style rear wheel with an uninterrupted view bellissima as for the chassis we've
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