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Nikon D90 + Nikkor 18-105 vr

 

Everyone will almost certainly associate this company with large transverse V-twins, or depending on your generation, maybe hulking 500cc horizontal singles cluttered with complex detail. Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi founded Moto Guzzi at Mandello del Lario in 1923. They built lots of motor cycles up to 1963, when the traditional motor cycle range was joined by an unexpected diversion: a 50cc Dingo moped! The original pedal design was by Antonio Micucci, but the old dog started learning new tricks as the engine carried the Dingo name on to other tubular framed kick-start sports variants by the mid-60s, and Guzzi even showed a 50cc twin in the same chassis at the 1968 Salon de Milan, but that prototype never made it into production.

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Uploaded on July 3, 2011
Taken on July 3, 2011