Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Ultimate Racer

Ask any knowledgeable bike fan to nominate the most exotic, most desirable Grand Prix racer ever built, and the Moto Guzzi 500 V8 will almost certainly be The One. Although it only raced for two full seasons in 1956-57, and never won a World Championship GP, there’s an aura about this semi-mythical

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