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’s not an extreme adventure setup of course, with the bike looking like a fairly light adventure machine. Tyres are described as ‘tread pattern suitable for light off-road riding’.
On the suspension and brakes front we see Sachs forks, 46 mm, with rebound and preload adjustment, while a KYB shock offers rebound and preload adjustment, with Guzzi promising a focus on fine tuned progressive response to bumps in the road. There’s 170 mm of travel too, but no ground clearance figure shown.
Brembo provide the brakes, with 320 mm rotors and four-pot radial monoblock calipers, with matching radial master-cylinder both for the brake lever, and the clutch lever, and those offer adjustable span too. The rear in comparison runs a quite beefy 280 mm rotor with dual-piston caliper.
We seeing a first from Moto Guzzi with their new PFF Rider Assistance Solution, which is an optional extra - factory option that is - and runs 4D imaging radar developed by Piaggio. That uses two sensors above and below the headlight for a better field of view and monitoring they claim.
Run off this is the Following Cruise Control, Forward Collision Warning, Blind Spot Information System and Lane Change Assist functions. Warnings are apparently delivered through the dash and mirrors, as well as audibly. Obviously to have following cruise control, there’s cruise control…
Naturally we’re talking RbW, and a six-axis IMU, with five ride modes on offer, Off-Road, Tourism, Rain, Street and Sport. These vary engine brake, power delivery and traction control settings. Off-Road having specific off-road ABS and Traction Control settings, although you can also deactivate both.
We also see DRLs, or Daytime Running Lights, and additional headlamps in the windshield to ensure wider vision through corners by bending the headlights through the corner while leant over.
Finally we see a five-inch colour TFT, but the Moto Guzzi MIA multimedia system is an accessory.
Total weight is 246 kg, which isn’t super light, but then the R 1300 GS from BMW is 237 kg, both figures including at least 90% of a fuel tank.
US pricing has been announced too, as $16,390, which we can compare do the V100 Mandello, which demands $15,490 albeit as a 2023 model. I couldn’t spot any UK pricing though.
Images courtesy of Moto Guzzi Australia.
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