Gilera and Dakar : Being a Brianzolo "Area of Northern Italy between the 2 cities Milano and Como" means being especially very proud of one Italian brand name and its accomplishments in History: Gilera! Unfortunately for the North American continent which never benefited in the last 40 years form the imports of such marvelous motorcycles Gilera is a somewhat obscure brand. Few know  for example that Gilera invented the supermotard style with their Nordwest model. Without going back to its successful history and relating more to the recent Dakar races, Gilera of Arcore participated with success in the late 90s with their motorcycles which at first were built on the bi-4 600 engine platform. Those bikes won the twice the Dakar and once the pharaohs rally. The latest bikes used the famous/infamous 750 engine which was also utilized in the extremely rare Bimota Gb1. Often the Gilera aficionados refer to the latest style Dakar bike as "Aero" because of its development in the wind tunnel, some others like me call her Moby Dick because of that beautiful linear fish like shape and definitely "presence".

1990 Supermoto
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