Impresive superbike from Cagiva
Cagiva Prepping New Superbike? By James, Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Cagiva, the Italian motorcycle manufacturer recently brought back to
life by Harley-Davidson, is rumored to be working on a slick new
superbike dubbed the Schiranna. The bike's name comes from the town in
Varese where Giovanni Castiglioni first founded the firm in 1950. In
2008 Harley acquired Cagiva along with its parent company, MV Augusta.
Using an upgraded and modified version of Buell's 1125 engine
producing 140+ hp, the Schiranna (rendering above) would be a
supersport bike in the classic Italian mould, competing with the
Ducati 1198.
While we're waiting for the Schiranna, Cagiva has begun production of
its smaller two-stroke sports model, the Mito SP525, the latest
evolution of the famous and much-loved 125cc. The engine is
two-stroke, liquid cooled equipped with the ECS (Electronic
Carburetion System), designed to administer exactly the right amount
of fuel (both the air/petrol and oil mix), developed in collaboration
with Dell'Orto. Not the Schiranna by a long shot, but not too shabby.
Of course in the wake of Design Chief Massimo Tamburini recent exit
from the company, anything could happen.
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