Welcome aboard Sarge. Selling off a Alfa for a Brutale really needs courage. Though the bike cannot come up to the car but the freedom Brutale would give the Alfa might not have.

Congrats on the great buy !!!!!

Dada!!!!!!!!! Its long since met you. Yei sunday dhaba aashbe ??? ya phir next sunday ride ???

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Thank you...the Alfa Romeo was a yr. 2000 model 166 sedan, wonderful car but sadly not really the best for the climate here and so do not have good resale value. But given the choice between the BMW or an Alfa I would jump for the Alfa, just love that engine... so buying the Alfa was the easy part got a price I could not resist...it was selling it back that hurt the most as nobody wanted to buy it hahaha... It was a tuff choice but I would rather have a good bike and a drivable car unless I could afford the bike and a Ferrari. Dream on.........

It was very tuff but I could not have the best of both so opted for a better bike over a better car...shit sometimes it still hurts when I see a similar 166 driving past me....but somehow the brutale gets more attention than anything I have owned so I guess I can live with that.

Welcome Sarge to the family....not matter which country you are in but the best part is you are riding a bike and we have the same religion then . Feel at home and looking forward to have all stories spun around your BRUTALE !!!

Welcome to xBhp Sarge!

I once saw and shoot a Brutale in Bangalore and fell in love with it! I am still in love with it....perhaps the most beautiful bike I've seen..

Welcome to Xbhp. Ride hard, Ride safe!

Thanks .... not too many stories but wornderful rides and have ended up making some great friends in the process. And after a break coming back into the world of motocycles feels great.

Your spot on about the beauty of the brutale. sometimes when we go riding and stop over for some tea. I end up looking at the bike and admiring its beauty from different angles hehehehe...when I had just purchased her I used to keep going downstairs just to look at her and the pleasure of the ride and the sound.... gets me grinning ear to ear all the time.... plus the 750 wants to be ridden at high revs all the time so a lot of gear changes and ...... i think I could go on but .....now the next one to get would be the MV F4 another beauty.

Thanks Vijay....and I ride it like I stole it.

Photos

Some more photos for you guys...wish I could click them a little better.

I might be a bit late in wishing you for the bike. But anyway Congrats.

The Brutale is my dream bike. I have fantasized about it for about 8 years now.. And till date I can safely say that its the most beautiful bike ever for me, even eclipsing the F4. Massimo Tamburini is god and for me, this is his master piece. Hopefully I'll be worthy enough to ride and own one, one day.
Till then I'll look forward to reading your experiences and photo's of the beauty..
Cheers

very very nice bike, i picked up a naked one as well..2011 Honda CB600F hornet http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/superbik...0f-hornet.html

Hello Nixtrix, thanks for your comments. My write up on getting to own this machine was very brief hehehe I had so much more to say. This bike is something else when it comes to design and yes Mr. Massimo is the best out there .... sad that he has retired from designing motorcycles. There are loads of bikes out there but this one has moved me more than any other naked bike.... and I still feel the F4 is the best looking bike ever. If I had it my way I would have the F4 too and I wont stop dreaming about owing one someday. After that I need an F3 hehehe it never stops its also driving me nuts " motorcycle art" as they say at MV.

I have just been moved from Kuwait to Dubai and I had a nightmare of a time moving it from there to here but I just could not let go of this machine.... I hope I can keep it for life.

Congrats on the Hornet ..... its something I have always admired. The comfort the reliability and rideability is amazing. its got a very nice engine and the aftermarket exhaust can make it scream. And there is always something about the nakeds, bare and muscular.... Ride on

hey there Sarge....love the bike.....love MV personally as well.....just watch or if lucky see the custom velcro Mv....i was exasperated by the looks.....nothing in the world is better.....btw have the same year two Rx's of the same year as well an rd 350...1987 ht.....cutomised artistically...one rd dream completed....one italian MV to go.....

the Veltro, the ultimate machine


somehow my personal favorite is the Tamburini, the color combi is just amazing




Man and somehow the RD has been avoiding me. But someday I will be having an RD also.

hope u get the rd and me the tamburini.....jokes apart if u ever come to pune pm me and ill show u all my 2 stroke beauties and let u ride my custom rd as well....

Hope to get one of each lol....a ride for every mood. The next time I come home I am sure to catch up with you, pune is like second home to me.