Moto Morini is back in business after being bought for €1.
96 million on the auction block last July by two Italian entrepreneurs who created a new company called “Eagle Bike” (based on the Moto Morini logo) and bought the Morini brand name, IP and other assets.
The new company will return on the market this Spring for Moto Morini’s 75th Anniversary and will launching a new model based on the name of one of the best bikes ever produced, the Rebello.
Only 600 numbered units of the Rebello 1200 Jubilee will be produced this year and the bike will be equipped with a 1200 cc engine, 130 hp, and equipped with a complete set of standard components and will be available only through a pre-auction sale.
“A collector’s cult motorcycle, with a perfectly Moto Morini style, in keeping with its tradition and its ability to innovate, features of this great company throughout its history,” says Mr.
Sandro Capotosti, Chairman of Moto Morini.
The on-line auction starts today, March 15th, on the www.
motomorinimotorcycles.
eu website, and limited to Italy, U.
K, France, Austria, Germany, Greece, Spain and Benelux and will last thirty days.
Every day, 20 booking coupons with the 20 best bids (no down-limit, but with an up-limit of 13,900 euro, which will be the bike’s retail price, including taxes) will be awarded the booking coupons and in parallel one of the thirty pieces of the puzzle revealing the full picture of the new bike will be disclosed.
For more information, check out the company’s website.