Moto Guzzi Griso 8V

The Moto Guzzi Griso 8V is the version of the Griso that Moto Guzzi introduced in September 2007 at its GMG event, built around a heavily revised engine with four valves per cylinder. The 1,151 cc engine was reworked, and the bike gained an unusual exhaust with an 8 shaped cross-section at the rear, revised brakes, handlebars and seat. Motorcycle News wrote that the changes turned the striking looking Griso from a lumbering yet evocative old-school roadster into a charging rhino of a motorcycle with true 140 mph, or 230 km/h, potential. It follows the original Griso 1100, which Moto Guzzi developed after Piaggio took over the company and which is named after a gray-bearded character in the Italian novel The Betrothed.