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Review: 2025 Moto Morini Calibro 700 Bagger

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Review: 2025 Moto Morini Calibro 700 Bagger

Are you familiar with the phrase: “Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s black?” It’s a quote attributed to Henry Ford regarding the Model T, purportedly from 1909. Despite its 116-year age, Moto Morini saw fit to apply Ford’s paint job advice to its new-for-2025

Moto Morini Introduces Three New Bike Trim Levels

Moto Morini Introduces Three New Bike Trim Levels

Moto Morini, famous for its racing success in the ‘60s, entered the North American market for the first time in 2023. Roughly a year later, the iconic Italian manufacturer is now expanding its product offerings. So far, Moto Morini’s American lineup has consisted of the X-Cape ADV bike, the

Review: 2023 Moto Morini X-Cape

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Review: 2023 Moto Morini X-Cape

The motorcycle was red, with a low handlebar and a chrome front fender. From a distance, it resembled a Yamaha RD400. As I got closer, I noticed its V-twin engine, then the Moto Morini nameplate on the fuel tank, and finally, the single digit “3” followed by the ½ fraction on

Moto Morini: Up from the Ashes

Moto Morini: Up from the Ashes

The year was 1914. Italian teenager Alfonso Morini had just opened his motorcycle repair shop when World War I broke out and the youth was whisked off to serve in Italy’s 8th Motorcycles unit in Padua. After the war, Morini got back to his passion job and, in 1925,

Moto Morini: Legend Reborn

Moto Morini: Legend Reborn

The annals of motorcycling are filled with stories about impassioned inventors and their dramatic travails of trying to turn those passions into pragmatic, successful businesses. Motor-mad Italy has produced an inordinate number of tales pertaining to motorcycle success and heartbreak. One such tale tells of Moto Morini [https://www.motomoriniusa.

The Moto Morini Story

The Moto Morini Story

> After a long snowy winter and six busy months of restoration it's time to face the truth. Did I do a good job and will the Italian primadonna finally sing? Alfonso Morini, the owner of the little Italian manufacturer from Bologna, started out in the motorcycle business