Two yellow 1997 Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport's with Staintune exhaust systems.

Moto Guzzi hand-build 1,314 fuel injected 1100 Sport motorcycles in 1997. Two-hundred of those bikes were sold within the US, and probably less than half of those bikes are still around today. The 1994 - 1997 1100 Sport motorcycles are not for everybody.... I obviously love them, while others may not like them at all. I consider the 1100 Sport a "Gentleman's" motorcycle. Not that I consider myself to be a gentleman, but the 1100 Sport should probably not be ridden or owned by someone who likes to do wheelies or burnouts! Several 1100 Sport owners that I know take their 1100 Sports to track day and ride their bikes hard all day, which is what they were designed for. The 1100 Sport actually should be ridden "like you just had stollen it" but there is a difference between doing so and abusing it...... Did I mention that I like my 1100 Sports? :)

Here are a couple of my yellow 1997 1100 Sports with a little about their history & modifications:

I bought the first 1997 1100 Sport (Bumblebee with the black wheels) about three years ago from a local Raleigh collector. He had bought this bike in non-running condition several years earlier, and he also could not get it to run right either. The bikes right cylinder's spark plug was not firing, so this bike ended up sitting amongst many other cars and motorcycles in his homes 4k sql basement. I started switching parts out at random, after I purchased this bike, since I also didn't know what the issues were. Luckily, troubleshooting and swapping parts out on a 1100 Sport is easy when having a stable full of them. I first checked the relays, fuses, installed new plugs, checked the wiring and connections..... nothing, the right cylinder did not fire. I then exchanged the most costly part of the electrical system, the ECU, and Bingo... the yellow 97's right cylinder fired right up after I replaced the ECU, and the "bad" original ECU was also bad after I installed it into the donor bike, so the problem was identified & solved.

This 1997 1100 Sport has a full Stainless Steel Staintune exhaust, K&N air filter, cylinder crash bars, and the factory ECU chip was replaced with a Will Creedon performance chip. I rebuild the wheels with new wheel bearings and had them powder coated in black. I also installed new front & rear Brembo brake rotors, pads, and new Dunlop tires. This and my red 1997 are my favorite 1100 Sports to take out riding.

The second bike in this video is a highly modified 1997 1100 Sport. This bikes original collector / owner had this then new bike completely disassembled after he bought it in 1998. He then had all yellow body parts repainted by an LA custom shop , since he believed the MG could had done a better job with painting this bike. He then had the engine blueprinted and the cam balanced. The fuel mapping was changed from the ECU to a Power Commander. This bike was then reassembled with wrapping all electrical lines in a special insulation to protected them from engines heat. A German company fabricated a custom instrument cluster and a one-off carbon air box were also installed during the reassembly. A set of cylinder crash bars & a custom fuel pump heat dissipator with mounting bracket were also specially fabricated and installed. The exhaust was custom build by Staintune as a one-off full stainless headers with crossover into Carbon / Stainless exhaust pipes. The factory front and rear Brembo brake rotors were replaced with custom carbon racing rotors. The factory foot pegs & brake / clutch levers were replaced with custom pegs / levers. Additional changes & installations made to this bike were the custom seating covering, a custom carbon alternator cover, a color matching starter cover, the turn signals were changed from square to oval, and the handlebar grips and brake fluid reservoir were also upgraded. This bike, after reassembly, was then dyno tuned at Pro Italia in California. The original purchase cost of this 1997 1100 Sport was right at US $13k when new. The original owner spend that amount again when he had this bike customized. This bike was then sold with 3,600 original miles in 2013 to another collector living outside of Toronto, Canada. Sadly enough, the Toronto collector passed away sometime around 2016, and I was able to buy this bike from the Estate in July 2019. Moving this bike back into the US from Canada was not as easy as I thought, so it was October 2019 until I had everything cleared with the US Customs & Border Crossing agency for importing this bike back into the US. I gave this bike a full service, which entailed changing all fluids, filters, new spark plugs, and greasing of the final drive-shaft. I also installed a breather into the final drive, and I had a new set of Pirelli GT II tires installed.

I consider this bike to be my "Holy Grail" of 1100 Sport's, and I should ride it, but I don't! I bought this bike for shows, and I would like for it to end up on display within a Motorcycle museum or a Sports Bar one day.