
G&G Spartaco 1100
Years: 2001 – 2001
G&G is a name shared by several Italian workshops over the years, most associated with tasteful custom builds and performance bits that sharpen everyday motorcycles. The ethos is classic Italian tuning: free-breathing exhausts voiced for character, fueling tweaks for crisp response, and chassis touches—rearsets, bars, springs—that wake a bike without ruining its manners. Rather than chase headline horsepower, G&G-type shops optimize the 80% of riding most people do, making town and twisties feel better. Their influence spreads through regional scenes: club rides where someone’s subtly transformed V-twin feels alive in the midrange, or trackdays where a lightweight thumper rails more smoothly thanks to sprung-rate sanity and improved braking feel. Historically, Italy’s moto culture depends on such ateliers—small, opinionated, and iterative. They turn mass-market platforms into personal instruments and keep mechanical literacy alive among riders. In a time of sealed electronics and platform consolidation, G&G’s human-scale craft reminds owners that motorcycles can still be tuned to taste, one carefully considered modification at a time.