![]() ![]() The V8 came from the fertile mind of Guzzi chief engineer Giulio Cesare Carcano, who created its ultra-lightweight 250/350 singles that scooped eight world titles in nine years (1949-57), including five successive 350cc crowns. Not even Honda’s 250/297 six or oval-piston NR500 can dethrone Moto Guzzi’s V8 from its throne as the Ultimate Racer. With its improbable specification of eight cylinders, sixteen valves, eight carburettors and four camshafts, this remarkable 500cc motorcycle revved to 16,000 rpm safely, was measured at 286km/h along the Masta Straight at Spa-Francorchamps in its final race and produced 79bhp at 12,500rpm in its ultimate guise. ![]() Created exactly 60 years ago in a small workshop on the shores of Lake Como by a team of just 12 men, including the three engineers who conceived it, this bike is truly the stuff of legend. ![]() THERE is an aura about the Moto Guzzi 500 V8 that defies the fact that it raced for only two years (1956-57) and somehow never won a World Championship GP. ![]()
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