Italy’s Big Thumper in the Twin-Cylinder Era… By the late 1980s, the Paris-Dakar Rally was no longer a romantic expedition but an escalating arms race among the major manufacturers. Twin-cylinder prototypes were growing larger and […]
Tag: Gilera
From Paris to Dakar to Custom: The Gilera “Replay”
Rusty Motors builds a Gilera 600 for a Paris Dakar veteran… In 1991, a French privateer named Hugues Arancio raced a Gilera 600 prototype in the Paris Dakar Rally. His race mechanic was none other […]
1981 Gilera Strada Custom
Today we have a beautiful and unique custom Gilera Strada by Felix A. Kuhn of Winterthur, Switzerland, who owns Last Century Bikes. A little history: Gilera was founded in Arcore, Italy, in 1909 by Giuseppe […]
