{"id":4854,"date":"2013-12-12T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2013-12-12T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:25:08","slug":"record-breaker-the-guzzino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"Record breaker: The Guzzino!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_01.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Moto Guzzi Motoleggera 65 (a.k.a. \u201cGuzzino\u201d) was designed by Antonio Micucci and manufactured by the famous Lombard company from 1946 to 1954.<\/p>\n<p>The model was meant to be a swift and inexpensive means of transportation for Italians who needed to get to work every day in those challenging post-war years.<\/p>\n<p>Easy to drive and weighing in at only 45 kilograms, the Guzzino \u2013 with the addition of a fairing to reduce drag \u2013 was also a great vehicle for sport competitions and record-breaking performances. In 1948, on the road between Charrat and Saxon in Switzerland, it set the world speed record over the kilometer and the mile; later in the same year, it set another 19 records at Monza\u2019s racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>The Guzzino kept going faster and faster as the years went by. It was restyled more than once, finally coming close to resembling a rocket: pilots had to ride in a position known as \u201cthe frog\u201d, with their knees around the fairing that protected the chain, and their feet on the foot boards on the back of the frame.<\/p>\n<p>By the time production stopped in 1954, almost 72,000 Guzzini were zooming around in the streets, in Italy and abroad: for 10 years it was the best-selling \u201cmotoleggera\u201d (the Italian term for motorbikes under 100cc) in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Another record, for the record-breaking Guzzino.<\/p>\n<p>Photos via\u00a0<a title=\"www.museoscienza.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.museoscienza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.museoscienza.org<br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"www.motoclub-tingavert.it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motoclub-tingavert.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.motoclub-<\/a><a title=\"www.motoclub-tingavert.it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motoclub-tingavert.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">tingavert.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_02.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"442\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_03.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"677\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_04.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"442\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_05.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"453\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_06.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"431\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_07.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1st March 1949: Italian motorcyclist Raffaele Alberti at speed on his strange-looking 75cc Moto Guzzi during his successful attempt at the world motorcycle speed record, on the road between Charrat and Saxon in Switzerland. (Photo by Keystone\/Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IW_MotoGuzzi-Record-75cc_08.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1st March 1949: Italian motorcyclist Raffaele Alberti at speed on his strange-looking 75cc Moto Guzzi during his successful attempt at the world motorcycle speed record, on the road between Charrat and Saxon in Switzerland. (Photo by Keystone\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/the-record-breaking-guzzino\/\">http:\/\/www.italianways.com\/the-record-breaking-guzzino\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Moto Guzzi Motoleggera 65 (a.k.a. \u201cGuzzino\u201d) was designed by Antonio Micucci and manufactured by the famous Lombard company from 1946 to 1954. The model was meant to be a swift and inexpensive means of transportation for Italians who needed to get to work every day in those challenging post-war years. Easy to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-mix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}