{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-29T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T04:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gugu2326.staging-zeus.netregistry.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:21:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About GuzziRacer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MGS01-Wakefield-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MGS01-Wakefield-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MGS01-Wakefield-73x55.jpeg 73w, https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MGS01-Wakefield-160x120.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MGS01-Wakefield.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I raced my first Moto Guzzi Le Mans Mk4 in around 1987 when BEARS first started in Australia. It was very difficult to race but was competitive. In 1994 I purchased a new Daytona 1000 to race in the National BEARS. I competed on it for a couple of years before retiring because of family commitments. At the end of <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2009<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>,<\/em> I decided to come out of my 14-year retirement and race in the 2010 National BEARS challenge. I was reluctant to punish my Daytona anymore and decided to look for something new to ride. Of course, I knew about the MGS01 from magazines and internet sites but I had never seen one in the flesh.Only a handful of bikes ever came to Australia. Through various Moto Guzzi dealers in <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Australia<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, I tried to get the factory to make me a bike. Sadly the answer was no. One dealer that I spoke with told me that he knew someone who had an MGS01. I asked him if he could find out if the guy wanted to sell it. The answer was YES, so I went and paid him the money before he could change his mind. I ran the bike in late last year at a couple of track <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">days<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">and prepared for a full racing season. I campaigned the MGS01 for a couple of years but as you can see from this blog it had its ups and downs.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In 2015 I rebuilt my original Daytona and went Post Classic Racing. What a great decision that turned out to be. Good racing and a fantastic bike. We know each other so well. I am quicker on it now than I was in the 90&#8217;s. Go figure.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I hope you enjoy these pages.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">regards from GuzziManMike<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I raced my first Moto Guzzi Le Mans Mk4 in around 1987 when BEARS first started in Australia. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3337,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}