2024 looks like it’ll be another big year for Moto Guzzi, with the introduction of the new Stelvio adventure machine, based on the V100 Mandello, carrying forward a huge step up in technology and performance.
The engine is of course the liquid cooled, DOHC, 90-degree tranverse V-twin, hitting 1042 cc with a bore and stroke of 96 by 72 mm. We see features like a counter rotating shaft, eight crankcase attachment points to the frame, with crankcases sharing a structural function, footpegs connected to the crankcases too, and of course rotated cylinder heads compared to tradition Moto Guzzi machines. That of course allows for the current header and exhaust arrangement.
There’s two throttle-bodies too, with shorter and straighter ducts, a wet multiplate slipper clutch, and revised six-speed gearbox offering smoother shifts.
Power hits 115 ponies and 105 Nm of torque, of which, over 80 per cent is available from just 3500 rpm, and this is more of a revver than the older style Guzzis, the limiter set at 9500 rpm.
We also see a shaft drive run, and it’s been beefed up compared to the Mandello, for off-road use, but like the V100 doesn’t carry that very shaft-drive feel, which you’d normally only notice, coming from chain final drive bikes, onto a more traditional shaft drive.
The chassis has likewise been updated for adventuring, with four frame anchor points rather than the V100s two on the steel tube frame, improving rigidity, and we see a 1520 mm wheelbase, 45 mm longer than the road-going bike, with a steeper headstock angle too at 25.6 degrees.
A large 21 litre fuel tank is also run atop the frame, with the seat height bumped up to 830 mm, unsurprisingly. Wide ‘bars are also run, and that ride triangle does look suitable for standing on the bike, but unfortunately none of the images provided show that being done.
Keeping in mind we are seeing tubeless spoked rims on offer here, with a 19 inch front running a 120/70, and a 17 inch rear with a 170/60 tyre. That..
