2021 Guzzi V7 Special

[Ollie]

I liked my 2016 Stone with cast tubeless wheels, single wall chrome headers, and traditional tachometer / speedometer. Were I buying a new V7 now it'd be a Special, only with cast tubeless wheels in place of the spokes which I'd have done at purchase. No way in this day and age will I tolerate inner tube tires on a street motorcycle anymore. The work that was required to remove the rear wheel on my 2016 V7 Stone (with cast wheels when changing tires) on a lift inside my shop was bad enough. No way I could do that on the side of the road to change inner tubes after a puncture.

This is constant chatter on the Africa Twin Forum where it almost seems to be a rite of passage. Yeah, no thanks. Besides, Honda has gone with tubeless spoke rims starting in 2020 for the AT.

I think the V7 might look okay with tubeless spoke rims, but the price will be raised.

Here in the US tubeless wheels for whatever reason are only on 2020+ Africa Twin Sport, not the regular AT like I have. Can you imagine, in this day and age, Honda putting blow-out prone inner tube wheels on their cars?

IMO the V7 looks great with cast wheels. A friend bought a new V7 Special, last year of the 750, and liked most everything on the bike except the spoke, inner tube wheels. When he took it in for it's 600 mile service he asked if there was any way he could trade up to cast wheels? He really lucked out because they agreed to swap to new cast wheels for just the cost of changing the tires over because they just happened to be in the process of changing one of their new V7's (with cast wheels) to some kind of hipster look and wanted to fit it with knobby tires with spoke wheels.