Why I sold my Guzzi, bought a Harley... and hate myself inside

[adri]

If you read my other thread, My Harley is dumb and fun to ride... Just like your mom, I bought a Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron 1200 not because I'm some uneducated Sportster douche who thinks it's actually a good motorcycle. No sir, not me. I am a thoroughly educated Sportster douche, who knows it's a bad motorcycle, and bought it anyway.

I did it at the cost of giving up my Moto Guzzi V7, a fun, charming, great little motorcycle, that I restored from being a post-theft-recovery disaster. Both motorcycles are rough, agricultural, unrefined, and full of old school charm. There's some overlap there, so keeping both didn't make a lot of sense for me.

In this video I looked at the similarities, differences, and strengths and weaknesses of both the V7 and the Sportster, because I think if you're considering buying one of these motorcycles, you should also consider, or at least know it compares, to the other:

Selling a Moto Guzzi for a Harley feels a bit like trading in Nonna (grandma's) home cooked Italian food for a bag of McDonalds. I hate myself for doing it, but at the end of the day, they both scratched the same itch. So for all the reasons mentioned in the previous video, the Guzzi had to go.

 

[adri]

It turns out I'm not the only guy who would throw out gourmet italian for fast food american. I'm not even the only guy with a YouTube channel announce he sold his Moto Guzzi and bought a Harley-Davidson this month... because, 'Murica!

Big motorcycle YouTuber Spite, with 150,000 subscribers (compared to skinny arms and 20k subs) also announced he sold his Moto Guzzi for a Harley-Davidson as well... and of course you'll never guess which model he bought.

In this video I react to Spite's video and share:
- What I do and don't agree with Spite on
- Why creators are leaving Moto Guzzi in 2025
- And of course, if this is part of some big "YouTube motorcycle conspiracy"

As a card-carrying member of the YouTube motorcycle illuminati, these are my half-baked thoughts:

I also throw in some fun facts at the end about what motivates YouTubers to make content on certain motorcycles and not others, and how we get financially compensated differently as a result. It's something you should consider whenever you're watching content created by anyone.