There’s something about a big-block Moto Guzzi that lends itself perfectly to the creation of a stripped-down, brutal café racer. ‘Ferro Negro’—Black Iron in Italian— is based on a 1981 1000 SP and it was built by Andrea Viganò of Bruciato Garage in Bergamo, Italy. There’s nothing subtle about this bike, with matte black paint throwing attention onto the huge finned V-twin cylinders. The SP was a rusted-out wreck when Viganò bought it, so he used his spare time during the cold Alpine winter to create his vision. The tank is a fibreglass V7 unit, which works strangely well with the tail from a Suzuki RG500 endurance racer. Viganò then rewired the Guzzi and removed all unnecessary electrics—along with all the instrumentation apart from a rev counter. Newer Moto Guzzi control blocks were fitted, plus Tarozzi rearsets and Lafranconi mufflers wrapped with tape. Ferro Negro doesn’t have the slender aesthetics of a British café racer or the delicacy of a Honda CB, but it has a sense of purpose that few other custom motorcycles can match. [Via 8negro.]
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Really nice. Glad to see a reasonably sized rear tire and not the obese donuts fitted so often these days.
Chris, you hit the nail on the head, “Ferro Negro doesn’t have the slender aesthetics of a British café racer or the delicacy of a Honda CB”. Thank goodness! It’s neither the waif of Kate Moss nor the exotic Lucy Liu, but the full-figured, dark and sultry Caterina Murino. Que Bella!
Nice – very nice – tail section has been hit a bit with the ugly stick mind you however, bet it looks better in the ‘flesh.
Caterina Murino – great similarly
At first look it’s awesome. Too bad the detailing of the seat so poor. The subframe’s tubes just sit there sticking out, and the seat doesn’t follow the lines of those tubes at all.
Oh, and delicacy is the last word i’d assiosicate with the mother of all ujm’s. There too lumpy, too bland and too common for that. Delicacy is something i’d call a Ritmo Sereno Guzzi
Looks good – but the “pimple-on-a-pigs-@rse” really spoils it
Sorry, I meant to say:
Looks good – but the “pimple-on-a-pigs-@rse” taillight really spoils it.
Ok I have to admit that I was being ‘diplomatic’ earlier suggesting that the tail probably looks better in the ‘flesh’. MY goodness is ugly……!!!! but hay the ugly chick still gets a date so perhaps I have missed something? Still would gladly put in my garage though – obviously not bring out in public untill I had moulded a new tail…. LOL.
inspiration is taken from the bike race are beautiful views from the ramparts, while closely you realize that the simplicity makes them very rude to look at in detail.
fascinates me without being eligible among the “beautiful”
a warm greeting to all
SEX!
I’m surprised bikeEXIF is featuring a ratbike
I’m always amazed how many “bikers” turn their noses up at bikes that look a bit broken in. Calling this a Ratbike is just plumb dumb. There are some great lines and attention to detail here. Stunning stuff, I guess most here are attracted to the bright and shiny.
The tank sits nicely but the tail seat unit doesn’t fit with the chopped off chopping off the frame rails, though I appreciate what was being attempted. Guzzis lend themselves so well to this treatment when done well..
You do know that those ‘obese donuts’ serve a purpose, right?
To a point, sure. But would this bike benefit from 3x more rubber on the rear? I don’t think so.
what a great bike. built on a budget with no regard for what others think with the sole purpose to please the owner, and for that reason alone the seat is just as awesome as the rest of it.it has poise and attitude in abundance so to all those people who dont like it, i suppose you would put a rounded seat on it like the thousands of others who have made a guzzi cafe racer and probably want to see a polished ally tank as well, in which case it would not be displayed here, would it?..