The Moto Guzzi California range of model variations are now available at Cayenne World the 1400 Custom and California 1400 Touring are presented as world ambassadors for the Moto Guzzi brand, embodying the highest values of Italian designed as an ideal of beauty and luxury.
“Everything on the California Touring and California Custom helps to combine the best of the latest and most advanced technology with the classic style and elegance of the Moto Guzzi brand,” said Craig Langton sales director Moto Guzzi SA and co-owner of the Cayenne group. “There is a brand new powerful 1400cc engine in the classic transversal V2 architecture, ride by wire, cruise control, ABS and traction control are among the key features on the new models, at launch price from R 199 900 including the Cayenne custom package and standard added value offer, while stocks last” said Langton
Hand built in the factory in Mandello del Lario (Como, Italy), where the Moto Guzzi have been built since 1921, the California 1400 range is distinguished by the craftsmanship with which each component is made and assembled, attention to detail that makes every Moto Guzzi California a unique machine, for a very passionate and exclusive clientele.
The California’s conquer the rider with the strength expressed by its unique cruiser design, hard and pure, all made with the rigour of form and function, combined with a typically Italian aesthetic sense. This can be seen in the details, such as the two-seater saddle boasting the hot-pressed Eagle logo, the drag bar handlebars with light-weight supports and the original rear shock absorbers with external tank. To increase the expressive power of the design is also the minimal graphics based on textured colours such as mercury grey and basalt black and certain skilful touches of style, such as the black lacquered wheels with red Moto Guzzi logo and black wing mirrors.
The aim of the new California 1400 has been achieved as the world's first custom bike with traction control and above all, with the wonderful twin-cylinder engine, the 1380 cc displacement is a record for a Moto Guzzi V2, the four-valve engine, a completely new development in line with the original architecture. One travels enveloped in the sound of the 1380 cc big bore, ready to unleash 120 Nm at 2750 rpm or cruise in overdrive, at little more than idling, trying to listen to the beats of the 104 mm pistons of the mighty 90 degree V-Twin, filtered by the innovative elasto-kinematic fixing to the tubular frame
The Moto Guzzi 1400 Custom is the most dynamic and stimulating expression of the California range. Powerful, quick and elegant, it is built to make elite bike enthusiasts' hearts beat fast and it has been the emblem of Moto Guzzi's culture and ability to build unique bikes since 1921.
The new Moto Guzzi California 1400 Custom, unlike its Touring sibling, does not represent a homage to the forty year dynasty of the California, but rather it is a conceptually different bike which possesses a more transversal style with various stylistic contaminations, summing them up in an essential and muscular design.
It doesn't spoil the riders with accessories and shiny gadgets, but it wins their heart with the power expressed in its "drag bike", style design, hard and pure, but all made in the strictest form and function, combined with a typically Italian aesthetic sense, an expression of attention to detail and executive capacity worthy of the best interpretations that made in Italy has ever produced in the automotive field.
The impression is further accentuated by the horizontal flow of the shiny silencers which end at the rear mudguard, moulded over the impressive 200 tyre and equipped with a spectacular dual LED taillight assembly which also houses the turn indicators. The front view is no less spectacular with a complex surface headlight equipped, with LED DRL daylight running light illumination, the first custom model in the world to have this system an absolutely exclusive feature, making it immediately recognisable.
The instrument panel stands out for its attractive style and visibility, enclosed in a circular panel which is an impressive 150 mm in diameter with the analogue RPM indicator scale carved out along the outside of the multifunction, suspended full matrix display at the centre. Other innovations include the covered hand grips, the drag-bar handlebar and the electric blocks where on the right hand, as on the Touring version, the rider can engage the cruise control.
The different mappings allow the rider to choose from the engine characteristic which best suits his/her riding style, the route or the weather conditions. In fact, modifying the torque output and engine brake management, the ECU is able to give the California engine all the smoothness needed to provide maximum comfort, aggressiveness for those who prefer a sportier ride or the control needed on a wet surface, in the latter situation this is nothing less than providential given the capacity of the engine to unload 120 Nm of torque to the ground at just 2750 RPM and stretch out up to 6500 RPM to reach the last of its ninety-six horses (71KW).
The new heads have four valves per cylinder, driven by an overhead cam in each bank, through a roller rockers system, to reduce friction losses. The modern nature of the engine is also expressed through the presence of the double ignition, in order to guarantee perfect combustion, as well as two oxygen sensors, which make the mixture in the cylinders uniform in any operating conditions with a consequent improvement in fuel economy and harmful emissions.
Contributing to the overall general efficiency of the engine is the new larger size finning of the cylinders, enriched by the "brushed" finish of the external edge and the generous sizing of the oil radiator, equipped with a thermostat controlled electric fan, which reduces the average operating temperature, in addition to the new filter box redesigned to cater to the robust thrust of the twin cylinder.
The result is that the California engine, despite the generous increase in displacement improves fuel economy by 15-20%, depending on the conditions of use, compared to the "Quattrovalvole" 1200 cc engine.
The transmission is now a six speed instead of five while the clutch goes from a twin-disc to a new dry single disc with built in flexible coupling and reduced activation load.
The final drive has been completely redesigned and satisfies the new need to transfer, with maximum fluidity and comfort, the enormous torque of the engine, in addition to boasting an elastic aspect with significantly more modern and technological aesthetics.
The Cayenne group range of the popular California Touring and Super Touring model comes in five different versions the California 1400, the Custom, Touring 2013 and Super Touring 2015, the popular Stone model (Italian Army Replica). Launch price from R 199 900 inclusive.
“No two of the same looking Moto Guzzi California’s will be sold or leave the show room, customers can all have their very own exclusive special looking California model,” said Craig Langton sales director Moto Guzzi SA and co-owner of the Cayenne Group. “We have set aside a budget for the Guzzi package, it can include various FREE options paint jobs, graphics, to the side panels, back and front mud guards, tank, exhaust or a Shark helmet, last but not least is all the new California’s will come with a 3 year FREE service plan.
For more information call Berto at Cayenne World 011 244 1900 or visit the web site www.motoguzzi-sa.com
