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Vends Gilera 500 Competizione San Remo 1947 L’histoire de la firme Gilera commence en 1909 lorsque Giuseppe Gilera fonde sa société et sort sa première moto : la VT 317 à moteur de 317 cm3 culbuté. Gilera s’oriente dés ses débuts vers le monde de la compétition avec une certaine réussite. . Après la Seconde […]
La Gilera 500/4 del 1956 subisce radicali modifiche soprattutto al telaio mentre il motore beneficia di un incremento sostanzioso di potenza arrivando a...
The cafe racer thread has sorta peaked but there's still many old "full race" bikes I never tire of ogling so..... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1959 Gilera Guibileo Extra Gilera Guibileo 98cc. 4speed gearbox power output 6hp top speed 50mph fuel consumption over 100mpg.
Before and after WWII, Italy was a haven for street racing. One of those races was the Milano Taranto, reportedly the longest of all the street races and with the added danger of nighttime running. The only entry requirement was a driver’s license and a motorcycle ready to race: a far cry from today’s heavily regulated competitions. Gilera motorcycles were favored by many riders in those days, and in 1956 the final Milano Taranto was won by Pietro Carissoni in a Gilera 500 Saturno. The beautiful machine we're looking at here is a smaller racer from the same year, a
1963 Dunstall Norton. Featherbed frame, '63 Atlas engine, '58 transmission, Lockheed Martin(yes, THAT Lockheed Martin) front disc brakes, complete loss oil...
You don’t hear much about Gilera these days, but there was a time in the 1950s when they dominated GP racing winning six titles in eight years and also tasted…
This Gilera 50 Trial looks to have time-travelled, untouched, straight from the 1970s. Once the stuff of dreams for 16-year-olds 35 years ago, the moped trailie has covered just 434 miles from new (or just 12 miles for every year of its existence). In fact, it’s so ‘new’ the peel-off plastic cover that protects the underside of the front mudguard during delivery is still intact. It’s completely as new and unrestored. It’s for sale at Classic Bikes Ltd near Market Drayton, Shropshire, for £3995. The firm’s Tom Swinnerton told MCN that the Trial was bought eight years ago having had just one registered keeper. He said: “The previous keeper bought the bike a couple of years earlier from a dealership in the south of England that had the bike from new and had never sold it. It had been sitting in the shop gathering dust. But he realised that after just 434 miles that it was so rare and in such good condition he couldn’t bring himself to ride it, and brought it in to us.” The single
Geoff Duke testing the Gilera for the first time in '53
A Photo movie about the Gilera 500 cc Quattro (Part I)
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Modena 1952. Un momento di riposo per Alfredo Milani che attende sul muretto dei box di ripartire con la sua Gilera 500 " nuda".
