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And I have to say, at least this news is about an american company acquiring a foreign concern and not the other way around, which is somethin' you're not hearin' much of nowdays, ya know.



A little personal history here.
I first started riding in '77. My mentor at the time was an Italian gent who was the Managing-Director of FIAT in Greece (he lived diagonally behind me and his son was my best friend for my teenage years).
Prior to him having this job he was the chief mechanic for Giacomo Agostini throughout the last years of his racing stint at MV Agusta.
So, this guy being a total MV and AGO fanatic, he got both his son and myself hooked/brainwashed.
We would spend endless weekends watching his collection of 8mm (I think) films of all the Ago races. He would go into big detail concerning general technique and cornering strategies and so on ...

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Every Saturday he would tinker with his very own MV 500cc racer.
He would take it out for a few test spins and back in the seperate garage it went.
Did I ever get to ride it ... nope! (neither did his son).
Did I drool ... Yep!
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Needless to say, I grew up being both and AGO and an MV worshipper.

So, after all these years of MV religion, I think that it's going to be very strange for me to adjust to MV being HD-owned (a totally different religion).

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But, all things considered, I think I'd rather own an old mid-1970s MV Augusta America with gear-driven DOHCs more than a modern one.



... and that rasping(sp?) sound !!!

Bedouin. Blessed are those eyes that have seen more roads than any man! (Homer).