 Giancarlo Morbidelli is a busy man. After you have created a company of wood working unique in its kind which became one of the most prosperous in the world, it was decided to become a manufacturer of motorcycles. Ca worked: 7 world titles in 125 and 250cc... He then wanted to make a V8 motorcycle. He did also: its road 848 cc V8 was marketed in small series in 1994 after 5 years of development: design by Pininfarina, 848cc V8, 32 valve, 4 camshafts from the Cosworth, injection: 100 favorite 200 kilos.  The machine will be modified in 98 and will be increased to 120 bourins. Enormous torque it goes of is. During that time he created in Pesaro the Museum that bears his name and which has the most complete collection of motorcycles in Europe.
Today, Giancarlo rolls on its v8, but it is not yet content.
He wants a V12. If asked why, replied us: "little boy, I was fascinated by the rumble race 12-cylinder machines." And ca has remained me since. So, now that I have some free time, I really wish to make a motorcycle with one such engine. "."
If he told that a V12 is perhaps a little ca "wholesale" to a motorcycle, he replies: "Why?" I have no intention of producing series: I just want to make a prototype also successfully make it possible. It is a kind of personal challenge, and naturally my goal is to achieve a 12 cylinder engine is very small and compact to insert without seem monstrous within a framework of motorcycle "."
The engine is a V12 to 60 ° of 750cc designed to be mounted transversely to the framework. Thus, 12 cylinders cubant 62 5cc unit. And hang, this mill will occupy in width as 380 mm! Imagine that the 6-cylinder Honda CBX 1000 was almost double.
Giancarlo, unable to use a computer, working with clay to sculpt the dressing of his machine. It should look a little like a bm....
Soon a proto wheelchair?
(Automated translation with microsoft BING)
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