If there’s one trend we’d love to see more of this year, it’s engineered simplicity. We’re suckers for ultra-clean custom bikes that match timeless aesthetics to modern performance. It’s an art form that Filippo Barbacane is well versed in—as evidenced by this tastefully modded Moto Guzzi California.
Filippo runs Officine Rossopuro on Italy’s Adriatic coast. Although the workshop doesn’t only work on Moto Guzzi restomods, the Italian V-twins do form the bulk of their output. So Filippo knows Moto Guzzi’s back catalog well—and, like any good Guzzista, the man has his favorites.
“The idea came from the desire to create a sports cruiser based on a Moto Guzzi,” he says of this project. “The California was born as a cruiser, but it has always amazed me because of its rideability compared to other cruisers.…