plus participants will be able to sign up for test
rides on Guzzi’s full line of bikes.
The Official Historic Archive will be available for
those who want to research the origin of their
own bikes, whereas members of “The Clan”, the
community of Guzzi loving bikers, will have special
services, such as reserved parking, a free bike
check, a welcome kit and discounts on the Moto
Guzzi brand collection. The complete programme
is still being finalised and updates will be available
at motoguzzi.com, and on its social channels.
PIKES PEAK BANS BIKES
Following the tragic death of Ducati rider Carlin
Dunne at this year’s running of the Pikes Peak
International Hill Climb, the organisation has
decided to ban motorcycles from the event for the
foreseeable future.
In a statement, the Pikes Peak International Hill
Climb board of directors has confirmed that the
2020 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will not
include a motorcycle programme while analysis
for long-term viability of the race on two wheels is
conducted.
The Board of Directors of the Pikes Peak
International Hill Climb recently convened to
review the 2019 event. It was decided that
in order to determine the long-term viability
of the motorcycle program there will be no
motorcycle programme offered in 2020 so that
race organisers can gather data and analytics
to review more thoroughly the impact on the
overall event in the absence of this programme.
“Motorcycles have been a part of the PPIHC for
the past 29 years, and their history on America’s
Mountain dates back to the inaugural running in
22 KIWI RIDER
1916,” said Tom Osborne, PPIHC Chairman.
“That said, the motorcycle programme hasn’t
been an annual event. They have run 41 of the
97 years we’ve been racing on Pikes Peak. It’s just
time to take a hard look at every aspect of the
race, including the motorcycle programme, and
determine whether or not the event may change,”
he added. PPIHC staff and board members
will continue to track all metrics related to the
annual race and make a final determination in
late 2020 about whether or not the inclusion of
a motorcycle program will take place in future
years.
If two wheels don’t return,
it will mean that US-based
Australian rider Rennie
Scaysbrook – who won on a
2018 Aprilia Tuono 1100 V4
following the tragic loss of
Carlin Dunne – will be the last
motorcycle champion of Pikes
Peak. Fingers crossed they can work
this out and bring bikes back in 2021!