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Moto Guzzi V7/Ambassador/Eldorado/850 Probably redirect all these to a single-page history of this series. Main articles on each one later, if desired.
Wire wheels: Wire wheels#On motorcycles says only main article: Motorcycle construction#Wheels, but that is not a main article, it is a subsection. Bicycle wheel is a better article, but none of these 3 actually explains how spokes support the wheel pre-stressed w/compression.
A fact from Emilio Scotto appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 August 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,710 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Argentine adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
Emilio Scotto's Motorcycle Trip, Fact, Fiction, or Exaggeration? by Peter Forwood may or may not be reliable, but it does present a number of cited sources and walks through the itinerary of Scotto's travels, arguing that he exaggerated the length of his trip and misrepresented which countries he visited. For example, East Timor and Montenegro did not exist, as such, at the time Scotto claimed to have traveled there.
The various news articles I read about Scotto generally expressed amusement at Scotto's habit of bragging and inflating the size of his deeds, while stopping short of directly calling him a fraud. But none of these reporters seemed to have actually made much effort to verify Scotto's claims.
We should keep an eye out and see if any further information on this develops. Could check each claim in his book and see if it makes sense, and cite contradictory sources if found.--Dbratland (talk) 17:57, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
