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  1. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Riding a shaft drive bicycle is not what I would have in mind for unusual husband and wife stuff!!
  2. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Well done. If only that option was available here but sadly not so! Glad to hear you're stickin' around!!
  3. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    No! It's some kind of stretchy pasta they came up with that no one could eat!!
  4. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    I'm back again. Stuck in a lgging camp again but out for a few days to get some maintenance done on the helicopter. The Aermoto was built by Societa Volugrafo of Turin. It was a 125cc by the information I have and was deemed quite useless except on paved roads. Most were simply abandoned after they were dropped from the airplanes. Piaggio did make a helicopter once that could be a match for the Aermoto!!!
  5. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    We have a winner!!!
  6. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Interesting. I wonder if they are connected even if the countries of manufacture are not connected geographically.
  7. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    No and no!
  8. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Name, displacement, maufactured by and intended use!
  9. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Make and country!
  10. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    The forks look like Ceriani's. That doesn't help much. Is it a Kobas?
  11. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    I thought this could go in the technical section but I think it is more appropriate here! Auto repair!
  12. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Hmmm. Its orange but not this bike ....
  13. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Too bad for him!! Meanwhile let's find that bike!! Maybe it's a Harley!!
  14. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Is it a Solex? Some of them were altered for different purposes!! Some for racing, some for olfactory ecstasy!!
  15. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    There are other uses for clubs besides hitting people ....
  16. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    The bike is a Rondine but it is officially a CNA Rondine of 1935. Count Bonmartini started out with GRB (Gianini, Remor, Bonmartini) in 1924. This company engineered the first 4 cylinder OHC motors. In 1927 he formed a company called OPRA (Officina Precisione Romana Automobili) which further developed these engines in race bikes with Piero Taruffi riding. In 1929 the race bike projects started to fade out. In 1933 Bonmartini started an aircraft company called CNA (Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica). Maintaining his interest in racing motorcycles CNA developed a 4 cylinder race bike in 1933. The engine was loosely based on the OPRA projects but was an entirely new engine and bike. It was first tested in 1934 and was named Rondine (Swallow) by Count Bonmartini. The bike debuted on the racetrack in 1935. At the end of a fairly successful season Count Bonmartini decided to retire and sold the company to Caproni (an aircraft manufacturer). Caproni elected to sell the race bike program to a gentleman by the name of Guiseppe Gilera. If only you had typed in CNA. The OPRA racers were not called Rondine and were a different (but similar) engine and a quite different chassis. You had everything else pretty much square on! I knew you had the answer there because it is in one of the provided links!
  17. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Yes, just how long?
  18. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Ineresting! Verrrry interesting!!
  19. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Well Ben? What next?
  20. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Brought to you by none other than YouTube courtesy of SuperBikePlanet!
  21. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    OK. Mike has been on the right track but hasn't quite got it. The answer is in the links he has provided. She ain't Miss Winfrey but she does swallow!!
  22. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Aren't all bikes like that?
  23. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    If it is those are not original forks. Laverda? Morini?
  24. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    Its not the Canadian Motorcyle Association!
  25. helicopterjim R.I.P.
    I was thinking of Kreidler van Veen but I don't think it is. I found this for Jaap though!! Tomos?
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