Anyone wanting to know anything and everything about Moto Guzzis, “The Complete Book of Moto Guzzi” is the place to go. Ian Falloon is a well-known motorcycle historian, with many books to his name. He is especially fond of Italian marques and this volume really does answer all the questions any Guzzi owner might have. And tell him a lot he does not know.

My own introduction to Guzzis was when I was 16 and my professorial father took a sabbatical to Rome. The manager of our apartment building had a Guzzino, or Motoleggera 65, a little two-stroke made from 1946 to 1954.