Caught: Benelli Naked Bike

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Caught: Benelli Naked Bike
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Caught: Benelli Naked Bike

Miss Dynamite

For a good year it was pretty quiet around Benelli. Derivatives of the Tornado Tre 900 sports machine were developed, but a very promising range of models cannot be created in this way. But B.enelli wants to get ahead. And now tries that with a bang. The Italians from the Adriatic city of Pesaro shock the world with a spectacularly styled naked bike.
Because the name has not yet been determined, we’ll just call it Miss Dynamite,
their design is based on explosives
take care of the regulars. Has stayed
the three-cylinder engine, the displacement of which, as rumors claim, will be increased from 900 to 1150 cm3. The same goes for the frame with its thick steel tubes, which are held in place by light metal fists as pivot bearings. The radiators, which were still unconventionally housed in the rear of the Tornado, are emblazoned on the new side next to the cylinder head and are provided with arrow-shaped covers.
Nice is somehow different, but
Naked bikes don’t have to be tough-
to be beautiful, but rather bad. So the prototype looks pretty daring out of the headlight, the silencer rises cheekily above the license plate from the rear. man oh man,
it’s like taking photos
look coldly down your back.
When viewed from the side, the naked bike looks very tall and short. The motor,
whose exhaust gases are routed through a jagged manifold system, almost disappears under all the edges
and corners. While the guidance and suspension of the front wheel is a
takes care of massive upside-down fork, the rear wheel sits in a filigree
Steel tubular rocker arm. And the setting of the correct chain slack is even done using eccentric inserts artfully milled from solid.
On February 18th, MOTORRAD will find out whether the Benelli will already have the larger displacement when it first appears. Then Miss Dynamite will be presented to the world in Milan.

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