Ghezzi-Brian has always been working in the field of small craft companies, producing bikes which found their place in those niches often neglected by major producers.
Ghezzi-Brian has focussed on the Moto Guzzi brand, which opened wide opportunities to imagination thanks to their generous, powerful engine.
We believe that around this engine any kind of bike can be created. We have demonstrated that with our sport-bikes, naked, cafè racers, and even on apparently less favourable grounds, such as races.
Around this engine “which never lets you down” we have created a bike strongly oriented to the “motard” approach. And such is its name, too: Motard V-Twin, that is to say.
Motard V-Twin is not just the latest fashionable bike: it includes highly innovative technologies, which can be best emphasized by the conceptual set-up and technical characteristics of the motard style.
This is a “solid” bike, designed for fun, whether you ride it alone or with a passenger. It sports an innovative design and cutting-edge technical equipment, which make it incredibly effective to ride.
Motard V-Twin is also available as a ready-to-install kit, introducing both aesthetic and technical features. The kit is designed for Moto Guzzi Griso, with which Motard V-Twin shares its technical base.
BRAND IDENTITY
With Motard V-Twin the choice was made to maintain the symbols of the brand it is built around.
Like on all Ghezzi-Brian, the twin Guzzi engine is duly on show. We decided to make it as visible as possible because its mechanical beauty must be seen, not only imagined.
This engine is one of the few last not to be similar to car engines. Its character is personal and powerful, with the two titanium exhausts aggressively pointing upwards.
Family feeling is evident in the front view, where the twin superimposed poly-ellipsoidal lights were maintained. We inserted them in a larger, more protective fairing, which harmonically combines into a whole with the slender lines of the tank and the aggressive “beak”.
In the rear part, the frame of Furia is evoked in the detail of the passenger handles, which remind those of the Ghezzi-Brian classic in their size and shape.
TECHNICAL INNOVATION
Dynamic Damping Action
Dynamic Damping Action is a special device designed to dynamically control the shock-absorber hydraulic resistance.
It is based on radically new concepts and technologies, quite different from those of present-day electronically pre-settable shock absorbers.
The system is made up of a shock absorber featuring a special valve for its hydraulic adjustment. The valve is electronically controlled by a control unit and can adjusts the damping level up to 10.000 Newton in 10 milliseconds.
The SPS (Smart Position Sensor) system provides the control unit with accurate measurement of the shock absorber dynamic state at the incredible rate of 25.000 samples per second.
The user only has to select riding style and load on the bike through the control unit fixed to the handle-bar. When riding, the DDA system adjusts the shock-absorber response to road conditions automatically and in real-time. Each shock is processed according to oscillation speed, position and intensity.
These parameters are constantly monitored by the control unit, which processes damping values in real time and adjusts the valve setting accordingly.
The shock absorber is able to change its status in only few milliseconds. The rider won’t even notice, since variation in the shock-absorber rigidity occurs at a speed beyond the human perception threshold.
What the rider does perceive is a feeling of great security, comfort and riding pleasure, thanks to the perfect response to shocks in all situations and road condition.
The “Dynamic Damping System” has been developed together with Tractive Suspension, a Dutch company specializing in shock-absorbers. The Tractive Suspension team is made up of engineers with a wide and varied experience in the development of shock absorbers and automatic control systems. Tractive Suspension has been working for years in the racing field in categories such as MotoGP, GPMX, Enduro, Supermono and even Formula 1.
Furthermore, Tractive Suspension designed the best-known device of such kind, “ESA I” and “ESA II” for BMW.
Kineo spoked wheels
These wheels are the ideal, technologically most refined complement to the general characteristics of the project, in terms of aesthetics, exclusivity, riding pleasure and safety.
The forged aluminium Kineo spoked wheels are CNC worked. The rim is perfect for tube-less tyres: it is free of holes, spokes being fixed to it thanks to nipples parallel to the wheel axis. Tubeless tyres are the best choice for ultimate safety .
Kineo wheels drastically decrease the weight of unsprung masses and consequently reduce the wheels moment of inertia. Together with the shock-absorber set-up and a new distribution of the masses, this makes the bike intuitive, agile and accurate on entering curves for extraordinary performances.
VERSATILITY AND PERFORMANCES
Motard V-Twin is for those who want a sporty, versatile, easy-to-ride bike. These features are exalted by the overall technical characteristics of the bike, and like on every Ghezzi-Brian, combine perfectly with the pleasure of exclusivity.
This all is of course perfectly integrated on Moto Guzzi mechanics, with a particular set up of the engine to obtain a little something more out of it in terms of power and torque.
Motard V-Twin could thus be defined a sporty motard with a good attitude to travelling as well, perhaps with a passenger. There are no limitations to the bike set up, and once it is moving ,the DDA takes care of instantly adjusting the mono-shock absorber hydraulics appropriately according to road conditions and the user’s riding style.
Of course this all is complemented by the fully adjustable fork design, which completes and integrates the mono-shock response.
Motard V-Twin is a sporty motard, which doesn’t fear “unconventional” routes, always ready to follow the inspiration of the moment. We believe in bikes as the only “true” vehicle to take its rider anywhere, a faithful companion to share emotions with.
This is an old idea, perhaps as old as the bike itself; and nowadays it is even truer thanks to such advanced technology.
DESIGN
The general design is articulated on broken lines underlining clean, open surfaces, which give the bike a slender look.
The facets of the surfaces which run from the tank to the fairing and end up in the “beak” univocally identify the bike volumes.
The prominent belly pan too, flinging itself forwards, is marked by the unmistakable great V, as a further element of a strong personality.
The belly pan, radiator and beak complex is a further source of aggressiveness as it draws an arch around the powerful front side, highlighting an adequate fork and breaking system.
Colours are paired so as to create a strong contrast, but customers enjoy complete freedom to decide their own colour set.
Colour contributes to emphasize the discontinuity of surfaces and can be paired to that of several components, such as the Kineo spoked wheels. The range of hues available for both rim, hub and nipples is part of Motard V-Twins’s ample customization possibilities.
The handle bar is biconical and set at such a height as to always guarantee full control over the bike, as well as correct wrist posture to avoid fatigue when riding. It is equipped with effective, compact protection for the hands and mirrors with integrated LED indicators.
The minimalist wind-screen protects the rider well, but customers may also opt for a larger-sized smoked version.
The large, typically motard-style saddle is placed at a reasonable height (mm 830) and features a document-holder and a spacious glove compartment.
The tail is slim, with carrier and good-sized passenger handles, for better solidity and safer grip .
TECH DATA
Engine: V-Twin 2 cylinders, 4 strokes
Capacity: 1.151 cc
Horse power: 85 Kw (115 HP) at 7.500 rpm
Torque: 111 Nm at 6.000 rpm
Cooling: air/oil system
Gearbox: 6 speed
Suspension: Front: hydraulic telescopic upside-down fork, 43 mm, radially mounted brake caliper, adjustable spring preload, compression and rebound damping.
Rear: single sided swing-arm with progressive linkage, monoshock with Dynamic Damping Action, electronic hydraulic compression and rebound damping adjustment, preload manual adjustment.
Brakes: Front brakes: double stainless steel floating disc diam 320 mm, wave type, 4 pistons radial calipers
Rear brake: stainless steel disc 282 mm, 2 pistons
Wheels: forged aluminium spokes rims, front 350 x 17” rear 550 x 17”
Tubeless tyres: front 120/70 ZR 17” rear 180/55 x 17”
Saddle height: mm 830
Weight: 220 Kg
Fuel tank: 17 l
Homologation: euro 3
Colours: black matt (gloss)/orange or black matt( gloss)/anthracite grey; other colours on request.
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