In Chile Following the Dakar

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SPECIAL TOURISM EXPO - Milano I N CHILE AT THE CENTRE FOLLOWING OF THE WORLD! THE DAKAR MALAYSIA AND SURROUNDINGS TO THE CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH-EAST ASIA

MOTOGP THE NEW SEASON WITH TEAM CWM LCR-HONDA SUMMARY Givi Magazine May 2015 www.givimoto.com MAGAZINE

03 LEAD ARTICLE THE MOTORBIKE IN FIRST PLACE

04 GIVI EXPLORER IN CHILE FOLLOWING THE DAKAR

24 TOURISM - EXPO ITALY AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD

34 INSIDE GIVI MALAYSIA AND SURROUNDINGS

40MOTOGP FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE PODIUM!

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THE MOTORBIKE IN FIRST PLACE

In first place for us from GIVI and - luckily – also for many of you, Actually our brand is really well known to bike users around the seeing that, notwithstanding the crisis, at least Italy remains the world, but reaching and maintaining this status has required a lot first motorcycle market in Europe. The numbers are certainly not of e ort. those of the golden era, but Italians have not lost their record and Since last October we have been present at the motorbike fairs of continue to dictate the rules, trends, the lifestyle… more than Cologne, Milan, Paris, Birmingham, Verona, Leipzig, Munich, others they have understood that a motorbike helps live better. It Hamburg, Rome, Madrid, Dortmund, Barcelona… helps ease tra ic congestion in big cities. It helps when we are Communication is incredibly important to us, we actively participa- looking to, in the words of the editor of a famous specialised te in many motorcycle events and initiatives, we are sponsor of the magazine, “leave the pressure of our su ocating everyday life MotoGP, we subject hard bags, helmets and accessories to road behind us”. tests, like last January in Chile… But I’ll let the pages of this We are also the first with a Government that always puts a spanner magazine tell you that story, in this issue which is almost entirely in our works. Each measure destined to give a bit of oxygen to the dedicated to GIVI EXPLORER, the tour we organised in Chile, industry never sees the light of day. The last one, which should following some stages of the Dakar race. In 20 pages we will tell have allowed 125cc’s to go on ring roads and motorways, falling in you about this extraordinary experience from various perspectives: line with the rest of Europe, didn’t pass the scrutiny of the Senate’s sport, tourist/adventure, human, as well as the strictly technical Budget Committee, just like many other measures linked to the point of view, linked to the behaviour under stress of our products, national plan for road safety for two-wheelers. mounted on 11 di erent bikes, as the photo shoot shows. Despite this blindness we still manage to register more mo- What we achieved really repaid our e orts. And now we are ready torcycles and scooters than the other countries near us. And we to think about holidays. Not ours, but yours, obviously. still put many riders in the saddle, on models designed and built in Italy. Just as we dress them and equip them all over the world with I hope you enjoy the issue high quality accessories, as Federico Aliverti of Motociclismo recently wrote in an op-ed, listing planetary brands like Dainese, Hendrika Visenzi Dellorto, Acerbis, Alpinestars, Brembo, Marchesini… and also GIVI.

GIVI MAGAZINE Direttore Responsabile: Hanno collaborato: Autorizzazione rilasciata Giampaolo Meda Pietro Ambrosioni dal Tribunale di Brescia Joseph Perucca N.17 del 27/02/2009 Mario Ciaccia Simona Montini Mario Frati GIVI srl Michele Losito Via S. Quasimodo, 45 Lorena Mambretti 25020 Flero (Brescia) www.givi.it

Givi Magazine May 2015 - Lead article 3 EXPLORER Words and pictures of the contestants in the race

IN CHILE FOLLOWING THE DAKAR

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4 Explorer Words and pictures of the contestants in the race

Our brand, once more in the role of raid organiser, followed some stages of the legendary South American race. A great adventure, lived to the full by 11 contestants riding 11 GIVI-accessorised motorbikes. 2,000 kilometres from sea level to 4,820 metres of altitude, camping next to the start of the Special Stages, a lot of off-road, fascinating encounters, breath-taking scenery… Among the contestants were also Lucio Cecchinello, Team IN CHILE Manager of MotoGP and journalist Mario Ciacca, who wrote the following article for the monthly magazine Motociclismo. In order to strengthen the ties with DAKAR RALLY 2015, GIVI FOLLOWING sponsored Chilean Jeremias Israel, famous rider of the ofﬁcial Honda HRC team. In almost 20 pages we will try to make you experience through THE DAKAR photos and words the adventure lived by the riders.

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RIDING ABOVE

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6 Explorer IN EUROPE WE GROW UP KNOWING THAT, AT 4,000M, MOTORBIKES DON’T GO: SNOW, ICE, ROCKS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE. BUT IN SOUTH AMERICA IT’S NOR- MAL: THE LAKE IN THE PHOTO IS AT 4,200M OF ALTITUDE. THANKS TO A TRIP IN THE ATACAMA DESERT, IN CHILE, ORGANISED BY GIVI, WE NOW KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO RIDE AT THESE DIZZYING HEIGHTS. by Mario Ciaccia, illustrations by Andrea Schepisi

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Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 7 NAMELESS PASSES. IN THE ATACAMA DESERT THERE ARE FANTASCTIC PASSES, BUT FROM THE SEA TO 4,800M IN LESS THAN THREE WITHOUT A NAME. THE ONE ABOVE, AT 3,009 METRES, LINKS CA- LAMA TO TOCOPILLA. THE ONE IN THE NEXT PAGE, 4,820 METRES HOURS: IT’S POSSIBLE IN CHILE, WHERE THE ROADS HIGH, IS 60 KILOMETRES BEFORE THE PASO DE JAMA (4,320). ARE STRAIGHT, WELL PAVED AND WITHOUT TRAFFIC. BELOW, THE LA GAVIOTA CLIFFS, ONE-THOUSAND METRES HIGH.

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was only 15 when I learned that there were ganised trip he had in mind. freaked out. There are many of us, in Italy, who roads above 4,000m in the world. I, as a A trip with bikes equipped with bags, screens, dream of these great climbs, to high altitudes. European boy, knew that at 4,000m there engine guards and extra lights of the Italian Hou- The Stelvio Pass, at almost 3,000m, is one of the are only jagged rocks and glaciers, with no se, to see how they behaved under stress. The most popular places for motorbike riders. And room for motorbikes. Instead in the Ameri- idea was to invite people close to the company, sometimes you hear of bikes that have such cas and in Asia it is possible to reach those distributors and suppliers. In 2013 a similar trip big carburettor problems they can hardly move heights. And I started really wanting to go had already been made, in Patagonia, and a nice forward. Now, in Chile, there are roads that from there. What would happen? Head-aches, short- group of friends had created itself. Where to go the sea climb to 5,000m. How many questions ness of breath, carburettor problems? What was in 2015? Jeremias said: “Choose my country. You come to mind…. Just think what it must be like the scenery like up there? can do the Atacama desert during the Dakar, so to climb to an altitude of 5,000m! then you can come and visit me in Iquique when BETTER LATE THAN NEVER I’m not racing”. Perucca was favourable to the 2,300 METRES? AND SO WHAT? Only now, at 48, have I found the answers. I had idea, and thought about also pulling in Motoci- The plane lands in Calama. I left Milan 24 hours always known that one day I was going to ride clismo, which decided to send me. While they earlier, it’s January, and where I live it’s cold. at these heights, but it hadn’t happened for the were telling me all this, I was trying to remain Just like in a videogame, after three planes I find usual reasons: time, money, children. Luckily calm. My mind was already above 4,000m, but myself in the middle of summer in a grey desert, though I work for Motociclismo, so sometimes that was not all: they were talking also of Iqui- at 2,300m of altitude. Our base is in Calama, con- they send me around. In 2007, for example, they que, which is an awesome place with dunes al- sidered one of the driest cities in the world. The sent me at the Six-Day in Chile. The race was at most 1,000m high which plummet into the oce- other two are Arica and Quillagua: but they’re La Serena, on the beach. From there, in 205km, an. In 2010, when they transmitted the images of Chilean too and also in the Atacama desert, con- 100 of which dirt tracks, you reached the Paso the motorbikes, during the Dakar, running down sidered the least rainy of the world. In Calama de Agua Negra at almost 4,800m . Honda Chile towards the sea on those dunes, I almost had a apparently it never, ever, ever rains. In Arica the- gave me an XR250 and I set o to conquer the heart-attack. Was there really a place like this in re is less than 1 millimetre of rain a year… So why skies. But the pass was closed for snow, with a the world? should a city develop in the middle of this de- gate even, at 2,000m. Disappointment, anger, sert? Because there is copper here. We are close frustration. But then, at EICMA 2014 (after only THIN AIR to Chuquicamata, the world’s biggest open-air 7 years…), two people came to visit us: Joseph But I don’t want to talk here about the Iquique copper mine: an elliptical hole 4.5km long, 2.5km Perucca, head of GIVI Asia, and Jeremias Israel, dune, because I have already written about it in wide and 1km deep, continually expanding, so incredible Chilean motocross rider, just signed the March 2015 issue of Motociclismo Fuoristra- much so that it’s “devouring” the houses the to Honda HRC to run the Dakar sponsored by da. No, here I want to tell you about how strange miners built round it. Here in Calama I meet my GIVI. Perucca was talking to Israel about an or- it is to reach 4,000m of altitude in Chile. I’m still travel mates, a really mixed bunch. There are a

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Cile - Atacama SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA A SAN PEDRO SI ARRIVA SU Cile - Atacama ASFALTO, MA IN ALTERNATIVA C’È QUESTO CANYON STERRATO RAGGIUNGIBILE SCENDENDO SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA DA UNA DUNA DI SABBIA. A SAN PEDRO SI ARRIVA SU ASFALTO,SAN PEDR MAO INDE ALTERNATIVA ATACAMA C’ÈA SAN QUESTO PEDRO CANYON SI ARRIVA STERRATO SU RAGGIUNGIBILEASFALTO, MA IN ALTERNATIVASCENDENDO DAC’È UNAQUESTO DUNA CANYON DI SABBIA. STERRATO RAGGIUNGIBILE SCENDENDO DA UNA DUNA DI SABBIA.

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Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 11 THE HUGE BLOCK. THESE PICTURES SHOW HOW THE ATACAMA DESERT PRESENTS IT’S NOT THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL DESERT, ITSELF, AS A HUGE ONE-THOUSAND-METRE HIGH BLOCK THAT FOR COLOURS OR SHAPE OF THE DUNES, BUT IT DROPS INTO THE SEA. BELOW WE CAN SEE THE BEACH OF CALE- TA CHIPANA: OVER THOSE MOUNTAINS THERE ARE PLATEAUS EXTENDS ITSELF FROM ZERO TO SIX-THOUSAND THAT GO UP TO NEARLY 4,000 METRES, LIKE THE ONE IN THE PICTURE ABOVE. METRES OF ALTITUDE. AND IT’S THE LEAST RAINY.

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VERY FEW ANIMALS. DURING THE TRIP WE HAD THE IMPRESSION THERE WERE MORE STRAY DOGS THAN PEOPLE. FOR THE REST, YOU DON’T SEE ANY ANIMALS, NOT EVEN INSECTS. VISORS CLEAN! ONLY ABOVE 4,000 METRES DID WE SEE GUANACOS, FLAMINGOS AND DRAGONFLIES.

stop, they keep going, they don’t allow themsel- ATACAMA’S PARADOXES confused by such a strange place, I was a bit ves to stop on mountain passes or on the cli s I immediately make the mistake of comparing disoriented the stop at the Dakar camp. On overlooking the Pacific. We reach 3,009 meters the Atacama desert to my favourite ones, Mur- the one hand, I wanted to leave with the riders at a nameless pass (near the Chuquicamata zuq and Akakus in Libya. Atacama seemed a lot (Ambrosini and I went to see them at 5 in the mine) and at the top they just carry straight more melancholy, in its colours and the shape morning, dressed as if for the Elefantentre ren, on. So we have a meeting: going at a constant of its dunes; but I will change my mind as the because we needed to reach a 4,300-metre pace without ever stopping is a problem for us days go by. This desert ranges from the Pacific pass): I have liked the great rallies in stages sin- photographers, because we can’t take any pic- coast to volcanoes of 6,000m. On the whole it’s ce I was 11 (I had read an article on the Abidjian- tures. They decide to give us carte blanche. We the most fascinating place I’ve ever seen, I like it Nice race on Quattroruote in 1977). On the other can go on ahead, take pictures, stay behind, go even more than Patagonia, which I thought was hand I kept telling myself: what a waste, spen- on detours, visit villages and even go o -road. unbeatable. It’s strange: the Pacific, even here ding 15 days at a race pace in such beautiful Basically, while the group moves at 80kph, we in Northern Chile (which is below the Equator, places. Anyhow, Jeremias Israel proved to be a fluctuate up and down at 150. The streets are so the more North you go the hotter it should fantastic host. In 2014 he had run a great Dakar very large and completely deserted, visibility is get), is cold and keeps the coast cool even in the race with Speedbrain, but he fell in one of the excellent, there are no animals, not even mo- middle of summer. But this coast is dry, becau- last stages, when he was in fourth position. Hon- squitoes and flies, not even near the sea, and se, although clouds form, they don’t manage to da noticed him and o ered him a place as water we can travel without any risks. The bikes they unload (don’t ask me why): they prefer to move carrier in the ultra-o icial HRC team, but first he have given us are Honda NC750X, Kawasaki and carry their water to the Andes, especially had to recover from his many injuries. Versys 1000, BMW F 800 GS, Suzuki V-Strom on the Bolivian and Argentinian sides. The co- “I didn’t know if I was going to get back to nor- 650 and 1000. I get the V-Strom 1000 with a ast is very narrow, because Atacama from a mal, mentally and physically”. In Iquique we separable GIVI screen, which I find fantastic: ta- thousand metres drops almost vertically into found him radiant: “Now I know the answer: king o the top part you can go o -road having the sea. There’s a city every hundred kilometres I’m my old self again”. Unfortunately his Dakar a clear view of what lies ahead. Then it has, still or so (Antofagasta, Iquique, Arica). Sometimes, race finished when he had to give his engine to by GIVI, a serious engine guard and the explorer though, along the beach you find microscopic Barreda, remaining on foot. The harsh law of the bags kit, the ones you can open in two ways: like villages with colourful sheds, poor and in bad water carrier… an oyster (for when you’re at the hotel), or from repair, but with an incredible charm. Some look above (excellent when travelling). like they have only a run-down, rusty, wheel-less AND FINALLY WE GO UP TO 4,000 METRES and windowless car parked in front of them. But I got there exactly as I had intended: starting the houses are lived in. I had never seen such from the sea. The road is the one that starts in disquieting yet fascinating places. Dazed and Tocopilla and arrives at the Paso de Jama, on

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PYLONS AND SKYSCRAPERS ABOVE, A BEAUTIFUL DIRT TRACK PYLONS ASIDE AT 3,000M ALTITUDE, NEAR THE CHUQUICAMATA MINE. BELOW: THE PROGRAMME INCLUDED “TACTICAL” STOPS AT THE START LINE OF THE DAKAR SPECIAL STAGES. GAZEBOS WERE BUILT, UNDER WHICH YOU COULD EAT GRILLED MEAT OR FRESH SUSHI. WHEN ROBBY GORDON ARRIVED, BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE SPECIAL STAGE THE IQUIQUE DUNE ONE, WHICH HE DOES AT ALMOST 200 KPH HE REPAIRED HIS BIKE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. GORDON IS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT; ON THE LEFT IS HIS NAVIGATOR, JOHNNY CAMPBELL, WHO HAS WON THE BAJA 1000 MOTORBIKE RACE MANY TIMES. “JOHNNY, YOU USED TO RIDE BIKES, AREN’T YOU AFRAID BEING NEXT TO A MADMAN LIKE GORDON, WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DRIVE?”. “I’M SCARED EVERY SINGLE SECOND!”. ON THE OTHER PAGE IS THE STRANGE CITY OF IQUIQUE, A MIX OF OCEAN, SAND DUNES AND SKYSCRAPERS

ROBBY GORDON HAS A PROBLEM AND WE CAN SEE HIM HERE AT WORK WHILE WE EAT SUSHI. AT THE DAKAR THE STRANGEST THINGS CAN HAPPEN!

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14 Explorer the border with Argentina. Tocopilla is on the I wanted to be a MotoGP pilot, but I didn’t have realising what’s happening. We reach 2,500m of sea, but it’s not Rimini. This coast is cold and the money”. This is a great opportunity: keeping altitude and there’s a curve, finally, that takes us uninhabited, so, besides Iquique, people don’t up with Cecchinello, proving he would have to a canyon in the middle of strange, hump sha- invade the beaches to sunbathe and go swim- been a good motorcyclist. In fact, he finishes o ped mountains. Then there are 9km of wide ra- ming. Tocopilla is only an industrial port, not the road and falls on the gravel! dius S curves up to a nameless pass at 3.009m. without it’s charm. With a temperature of 26 The temperature has gone down to 22 degrees degrees Celsius, it’s nice even if it’s the middle THE PIZZA OVEN and we descend rapidly. We follow a road that of the summer. A canyon that comes down from Now we are on a slightly rising slope, which, in goes up and down like a rollercoaster and has the Atacama ends here, so it was the most natu- 10km, goes from 1,000 to 1,400m. It is 19 de- snake-like S curves till we reach Chuquicamata, ral place to build a road. This road starts almost grees Celsius and it almost feels cold: because where there’s the first petrol station since Toco- at sea level and goes up, in 17 kilometres of cur- the influence of the ocean sums up with that of pilla (139km). Another 16km and we reach Cala- ves, to 1,000m, were you come out of the can- the altitude. Then we reach a pass and we de- ma, where there are other petrol stations (then yon into the desert. On the Alps it’s normal to do scend slowly to an altitude of 1,200m. And as it’s another 100km to the next one), but we con- passes with a di erence in altitude of 1,000m, we proceed we can’t believe what is happening: tinue East, towards the Andes. Even now it feels and it takes a long time, even with sport bikes: the air becomes boiling, suddenly, violently. The like we’re travelling on a plain, but the altimeter because the curves are tight, there’s always a thermometer reaches 44 degrees in the shade. keeps increasing for 65km up to a plateau which village to go through, because sooner or later We have come from the cold winter of Milan, is actually the Arana pass, at 3,400m of altitu- you end up behind a camper-van or a bus trud- 40 degrees lower: it’s a shock. At 1,200m the- de. On the other side we go down a new series ging along at 40kph. Not here. Here there’s no re’s a village called Maria Elena, in the middle of big curves that look harmless, but are really tra ic and there are long stretches of straight of the desert, but how can anyone live here? rather dangerous, because we’re now so used road, with curves that apparently look like tho- There’s even a restaurant… they would need to going at 150kph and thinking we’re going 70. se of the Alps, but there’s something di erent. only to move the house over the ridge to have The fact they are dangerous is evident due to You can’t stay inside, the bike heads towards 25 degrees less… For 45km we ride at 1,200m in the animitas, grim tombs that remind the people the outside, the radius isn’t as large as it seems. total desert. But then we start going up again, of the friends who lost their lives going o the Even Cecchinello says “These curves trick you”. even if it doesn’t feel like it. Scourged by a hot road, with destroyed cars transformed into al- Lucio drives smoothly, he has the 55 CV Honda wind, we face a straight stretch of road of 50km, tars and shrines holding objects precious to the NC750X, the least powerful of the group. But he a straight line that disappears at the horizon people who died. leaves everybody behind, he is a real pilot after and feels like a plain. Except that, seeing as In 23km we lose a thousand metres of altitude, all. In the rest of the group, the most determined we’re going at 150kph and we’re going up very go through the aptly named Valley of the Moon, is the Brazilian journalist. “I do this job because slightly, the altimeter burns metres without us go up to 2,615m, then down again and finally we

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Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 15 JEREMIAS ISRAEL WELCOMES US SERENELY AT IQUIQUE, BEFORE THE MARATHON DEL SALAR DE UYUNI RUINED HIS RACE. BUT HE IS NOT TO BLAME: IT WAS THE SALT THAT DECIDED THE DAKAR.

16 Explorer Cile - Atacama

NO, THAT’S NOT SNOW ON THE LEFT, FROM ABOVE: THE CHILEAN COAST IS RICH IN SALT, SO IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE SKIRTING SNOW. JEREMIAS ISRAEL, OFFICIAL HONDA HRC PILOT, IN A WHITE TSHIRT BETWEEN JOSEPH PERUCCA OF GIVI ASIA AND SERGIO, CHILEAN GIVI DISTRIBUTOR. YOU CAN ALSO SEE TWO WAYS OF STAYING ON THE CHILEAN COAST: EITHER AT THE CAMP OF THE DAKAR, OR IN SLUMS LIKE IN CALETA URQUA, SOUTH OF IQUIQUE.

reach a real oasis in the desert, San Pedro de my left (Licancabur), while the altimeter shows a picture of Robby Gordon’s truck as it passes Atacama, at an altitude of 2,400m and 256km incredible altitudes and the thermometer drops next to my bike. I’m alone: the others, tired from from Tocopilla. Mud houses immersed in an exo- to 8 degrees. After 23km on that straight line, the other stages, haven’t resisted the tempta- tic forest, dirt roads and hippies going round on done in a few minutes, I see the number 4,000 tion of the hotel’s spa, and are missing some mountain-bikes, so much so it feels like being on appear. To go from the sea to four-thousand of the most fantastic scenery of the trip. It’s lake Garda during the Bike Festival. The hotels metres took me 290km, that, with these roads the 14th of January. Tomorrow I’m going back are basic, but are expensive even when compa- and such little tra ic, means less than three to Italy, where I’ll land on the 16th. And it’ll be red with Italian prices. There’s only one petrol hours, pauses for photographs included. And I a shock: as soon as I get o the plane I’ll have station, hidden in the garden of a hotel. But this discover something: on the Alps, passes last a to get on my bike and go the Agnello-tre en. A is the last one, so we must find it. second. You get to the top, you do ten metres completely di erent story: narrow roads, tra ic, and then down again. Not here. When you go fog, rain and snow. Arriving at 1,600m in the Ita- A JET AT TAKE OFF over 4,000m, before descending you need to do lian winter is going to be a lot more di icult than After San Pedro there are 10km of straight track 170km. 170km above 4,000m, with various na- the 4,800 of the Chilean summer. M that go up from 2,450m to 2,550m. The tempe- meless passes, two of which at 4,820m of altitu- rature is 32 degrees. In front of me, the Earth de… No villages, no houses, no petrol. The Police has a hump, a sort of barrel placed horizontally patrol the area by car: at these heights you can and half under ground. There’s a black line that feel sick. A sublime desert of red gravel, shoved goes straight up that barrel: it’s the road that like a corridor among mountains only a little hi- awaits me. The most incredible descent I have gher. Little lakes with flamingos (at 4,200m!). ever done. It feels like taking o on a jet plane: A paradise. And no head-ache: only breathing I’m going at 130, with a 6,000-metre volcano on problems when doing things like running to take

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Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 17 THE PARTICIPANT’S COMMENTS A contribution for the magazine from those who lived this extraordinary experience. Here are some of the “travel notes” we received.

of Northern Chile, made ever more I must particularly thank the GIVI places I would never have imagi- pleasurable by the accessories importer in Chile, who supplied ned, like the wild coast that leads GIVI gave to each participant. An us with various bike models (from to Iquique, or the canyons of the important experience for my work the Honda Crosstourer to the Valley of the Moon near San Pedro with this company, which made me BMW GS) perfectly prepared and, de Atacama: impossible not to take fully realise the importance of tra- naturally, equipped with GIVI bags marvellous pictures! velling adequately equipped. I really and accessories. As usual GIVI’s bags and accessori- appreciated the protection from the I would like to spend a few more es – which I use on all my bike trips air o ered by the AIRFLOW screen, words on the bags which, apart – did their job excellently, protec- the strength and loading capacity from being excellent for the tran- ting my equipment from the heat, of the aluminium back top case sportation of personal luggage the dust, and the torture of the long OUTBACK, the versatility of the and equipment, have proven to be o -road stretches. TANKLOCK tank bag, the extenda- exceptional even in the context ble side stand, the engine guards… of such extreme use: cold, heat, All products I know very well but holes, sand, wind, dirt tracks, du- that I had never before tested on nes, jumps and even… falls! During the road to such an extent. the almost exasperated 2,000km MARCO A. BOZ Saludos. there have never, I repeat never, been any problem for any of us, PARAGUAY always there, perfectly functioning The GIVI Explorer Dakar 2015 at our service. has been an incredible expe- Even coming from the MotoGP rience, which allowed me to world and, I would like to point travel enjoying the magnificent out, loving it deeply, this fantastic Chilean scenery following the experience has widened my hori- Dakar 2015. Absolutely fantastic! zons and has made me under- And what about the people I stand how the motorbike can be shared this experience with? the object of such a great passion Extraordinary travel-mates. This even o the circuits. JOSEPH PERUCCA trip allowed me to test to the Thanks GIVI! OVERSEA OPERATIONAL limit the quality and usefulness DIRECTOR of GIVI’s products, and this does The fantastic pictures and nothing but reinforce the pride enthusiastic comments of the I feel in being a partner of this participants to this memorable Italian company in my country, LUCIO CECCHINELLO trip have given me such strong Paraguay. HONDA CWMLCR TEAM emotions that it’s di icult to put MONACO them down in writing. When I received the invitation I I can only try and summarise, couldn’t believe it… saying that this kind of ex- Visiting the North of Chile by perience lets the GIVI spirit motorbike, following some of the emerge, a brand that manages Dakar stages doing the same itine- to conjugate quality with the rary as the contestants, visiting the purest of passions and integrate camps, getting a chance to get a these factors in the every- good look at the bikes, the cars and day work of all the company’s the trucks of the race… PIETRO AMBROSIONI employees. I’m really proud of There wasn’t a day in which I wasn’t P.R. GIVI USA being part of this company, already there with my imagination, Thanks to my 20-year experience and I believe that it’s exactly in Chile, thinking about the incredi- as a photographer in the motor- this innovative and successful ble experience I was about to live. bike field I have been all over the spirit at the heart of each of our First of all I would like to thank GIVI world. But every time I go back to products that reward us and for having made this incredible trip South America I suddenly remem- distinguish us in the bike world. possible, my friend Joseph Perucca ber why I love these places so A heartfelt thanks to all the participants in the tour following ENRIQUE PERNIGON for having organised everything much. The scenery is incredible, perfectly, our guide Sergio for the food delicious and the people the Dakar, which has helped COMERCIALIZADORA having shown us such beautiful fantastic, without fail. I had never build “solid bridges”, not only EUROPEA COLOMBIA places and, last but not least, I’d like been at a Dakar race nor in Chile professionally, but also of One of the most memorable to thank all the participants who, before this tour, so I didn’t hesitate friendship and mutual under- experiences of my life. A motor- apart from sharing unforgettable for a second when GIVI o ered standing. bike trip of over 2,000km, in the moments, were all exquisite com- me the chance to participate. middle of the marvellous scenery pany from start to finish. I met fantastic people and visited

18 Explorer JOSEPH PERUCCA GIVI OVERSEAS OPERATIONAL DIRECTOR MANUEL JAMETT DAKAR EXPERT CHILEAN GUIDE MARIO CIACCIA JOURNALIST FOR MOTOCICLISMO ITALIA EDUARDO ZAMPIERI SILVA JOURNALIST FOR MOTOCICLISMO BRAZIL WEIQUAN HE CALL ME STANLEY CINA ENRIQUE PERNIGON AND LILIANA GAITAN COMERCIALIZADORAS EUROPEA BOGOTA COLOMBIA SERGIO TAMAYO PROCIRCUIT CHILE MARCO A. BOZ SPORT CAR IMPORT EXPORT PARAGUAY LUCIO CECCHINELLO TEAM MANAGER HONDA CWMLCR TEAM MOTOGP ITALY PIETRO AMBROSIONI P.R. GIVI USA PABLO LEVALLE DESAFIO PRODUCCIONES SANTIAGO, CHILE

Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 19 MOTORBIKES THE ACCESSORIES: SUZUKI DL650 V STROM 1ST SUZUKI DL1000 V STROM AND Rear rack SR3101 with M7 plate Rear rack SRA3105 Side case holders for Trekker Outback cases Side case holders for Outback cases PL3105CAM ACCESSORIES PL3101CAM Top-case OBK58 and two panniers OBK48 e Top-case OBK58 and two panniers OBK37PACK2 OBK37 To make the “GIVI EXPLORER TOUR” 2 supports to fix the jerry cans + jerry cans (E148 2 supports to fix the jerry cans + jerry cans (E148 more comfortable, all the 11 bikes used to + TAN01) + TAN01) travel the 2,500km on the programme were Specific flange BF01 to fix the tank bags Specific flange BF18 to fix the tank bags equipped with GIVI bags and accessories. Tanklock tank bag XS308 Tanklock tank bag XS308 The route has given the company further Mudguard MG3101 Oil carter protector RP3105 confirmation of the quality of its products, Engine guard TN3101 Engine guard TN3105 which were really put to the test. All faste- Additional halogen headlights S310 Additional halogen headlights S310 ning systems resisted the strain. No bag Hand protectors HP3101 Hand protectors HP3105 opened. Nothing was lost along the way. Side stand extension ES3101 Side stand extension ES3105 The pilots wore the X.01 Tourer top-range Windshield with sliding screen Airflow AF3101 Windshield with sliding screen Airflow AF3105 GIVI helmet, and tailor-made technical apparel. 2ND SUZUKI DL1000 V STROM As an alternative to the aluminium cases, the bike THE MOTORBIKES USED: was equipped with the side case holders PLR3105 4 BMW F 800 GS ADVENTURE for Trekker side cases (pannier set TRK33PACK2 1 KAKASAKI VERSYS 1000 + top-case TRK52). The rest of the accessories 2 SUZUKI DL 1000 VSTROM remains unchanged. 1 SUZUKI DL650 VSTROM 2 HONDA NC 750X 1 KTM 990 ADVENTURE

20 Explorer KAWASAKI VERSYS 1000 BMW F800GS ADVENTURE KTM 990 ADVENTURE Rear rack SRA4105 Rear rack SRA5103 Rear rack SR7700 Side case holder PLR4105 for Trekker cases Side case holder PL5103CAM for Trekker Outback Top-case Outback OBK58 Top-case TRK52 and pannier set TRK33PACK2 cases Side stand extension ES7703 2 supports to fix the jerry cans + jerry cans (E149 Top-case OBK42 + TAN01) Side cases OBK48 and OBK37 HONDA NC 750X Side stand estension ES4105 2 supports to fix the jerry cans + jerry cans (E148 Rear rack 1111FZ with M7 plate Engine guard TN4105 with additional halogen + TAN01) Top-case Trekker, 52 lt. headlights S310 Additional spoiler S180T Side case holders PL1111 Oversize screen D4105ST Oil carter protector RP5103 Pannier set TRK33PACK2 Specific flange BF04 to fix the tank bags Mudguard MG5103 Side stand extension ES1111 Tanklock tank bag XS308 Hand protectors HP5103 2 supports to fix the jerry cans E149 + jerry cans Side stand extension ES5103 TAN01 Specific flange BF15 to fix the tank bags Engine guard TN1111 Tanklock tank bag XS308 Additional halogen headlights S310 Engine guard Windshield D1111ST

JOSEPH PERUCCA DIDN’T LIMIT HIMSELF TO MANAGE ALL THE ORGANISATION OF THE TOUR, JOB HE PROVED TO BE ABLE TO DO VERY WELL, GIVEN THE GREAT SUCCESS OF THE EVENT. IN THIS PICTURE WE CAN SEE HIM ON THE SUZUKI DL 1000 V-STROM WHICH HE USED FOR THE WHOLE TRIP.

Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 21 OUR MAN AT THE DAKAR Jeremias Israel, ofﬁcial Chilean pilot of the Honda HRC team ran with our colours. The participants in GIVI Explorer Jeremias was born in 1981 in Conception, Chile. Before the Dakar 2015 he had already participated in met him on the second day of the race, where he had done very well in quite a few the tour, when at the end of stages. Honda HRC noticed him and gave him an o icial Honda CRF450 Rally. With him in the team, the day they reached the Dakar presented the last 3rd of January in Buenos Aires, camp. are pilots Joan Barreda, Paulo Goncalves, Helder Rodrigues and Laia Sanz. We of the “MAG” had met him at Bike enthusiasts know what happened during Eicma 2014, when he had just the race. Israel did something really incredible, putting the team’s interests before his own: during been recruited by Honda HRC the Marathon, not only did he pull his teammate, for the rally (he is very strong Barreda, out of the Uyuni hell, dragging him for 600km, but arriving at the camp in Cachi, Israel off-road), which got him also the found Goncalver with his engine dead. At that point, GIVI sponsorship. At this point given the ranking in the race, he decided to allow the Portuguese pilot to reach the podium in Buenos the idea was born of planning a Aires, giving him his engine. This is called teamwork, tour in the Atacama desert, in a well-known concept in GIVI. Chile, for a special meeting with Jeremias at the rally. For more information: www.jereisrael.cl

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THE YAMAHA TRICITY IN FRONT OF EXPOGATE IN THE CENTRE OF MILAN. IT’S EARLY MORNING AND THE CITY IS STILL ASLEEP, B UT THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF THE METROPOLIS WILL SOON CHANGE THE SCENARIO

24 tourism Lorena Mambre i, Michele Losito Photos by Farinazerozero, EXPO archive EXPO 2015 ITALY AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD

Milan’s Universal Exposition is the inspiration for a trip in the surroundings of the Lombard metropolis to understand where and how our world-known excellent food products are born…

015 is the year of Milan and of THE AGRICULTURAL bustling of cars, bikes and people. It’s time Expo, which has finally started AND PRODUCTIVE MILAN to head with our Tricity out of town, towards after exhausting delays, confi- The companies present at the Cibus Pavil- the Parco Agricolo Sud, symbol of the agri- dence boosts and some contro- lion are very famous names in the Italian cultural and productive Milan. versies. The city is now lit up food industry, but this needn’t surprise: We are following the Naviglio Grande, which 2with a euphoric enthusiasm that will last for EXPO 2015’s theme is the possibility to feed rapidly takes us to the first cultivated fields the next six months. The programmed events the planet in a healthier, safer and more and the first farmhouses. With a 125cc you and activities are infinite: Expo 2015 is going democratic way, and that’s why the Italian cannot go on motorways, but going out of to be the biggest event ever organised on innovation and ingenuity in transforming town at lower speeds gives us the time to food and nutrition. That’s why we’ve decided raw materials are represented by the big enjoy the flat and serene scenery surroun- to focus on Federalimentare’s pavilion: names in the food industry that the world ding us, which is in line with EXPO’s main “Cibus è Italia”, where hundreds of companies envies. theme: a discussion on modern lifestyles and brands will tell the world about the So our tour starts from Piazza Cairoli, whe- seen from a nutritional point of view. tradition and the future of food in our Count- re the innovative Yamaha three-wheeler The SS494 road is an important artery for ry. We did it riding our Yamaha Tricity sco- scooter doesn’t look at all bad in front of the transport towards the Lombard capital and oter, accessorised by GIVI, following a rou- art installation which marks the time for the unfortunately it is heavily tra icked, but you te that, from the Expogate in town, took us preparation of EXPO, with over its shoulder just need to take one of the side roads to to the EXPO site in Rho, passing through a real symbol of Milan, Castello Sforzesco. find yourselves immersed in peace and the Parco Agricolo Sud (South Agricultural The first pictures we took are early in the nature: rice paddies, irrigation ditches, fields Park), an area not far from Milan where morning, and it’s curious to notice how the still bare, but ready for the show that soon farming and tradition merge with the mo- city wakes up in very little time, passing from nature and intensive cultivation will present dernity of the metropolis. a surreal silence to the typical buzzing and in this enormous area of almost 50,000

Givi Magazine May 2015 - tourism 25 THE HELMET WORN RIDING THE TRICITY IS THE WHITE GIVI 11.1 AIRJET. HEVIK® KINDLY FURNISHED JACKET AND GLOVES.

hectares. TOWARD MORIMONDO ABBEY we find various places of interest: Palazzo Our goal is to reach EXPO’s entrance in Rho AMONG RICE PADDIES Cittadini Stampa, at the entrance of the city, where, starting a few days from now, for a AND LITTLE HAMLETS which will host, a few days after EXPO’s inau- period of six months, millions of tourists from The area is vast and so as not to get lost we guration, an exhibition of engravings portraying all over the world will access the exhibition. get back to the main road, and we quickly reach local landscapes, produced at the end of the A must see is Gaggiano, beautifully positioned Abbiategrasso, “virtual” limit of our trip. Here 19-hundreds by artist Federica Galli. along the canal, along with the farmhouses in its surroundings, like Cascina Rosa Botta (http://www.cascinarosabotta.it) where you WHERE TO EAT IN THE PARCO AGRICOLO SUD can buy typical local products – or Cascina Boscaccio (http://www.cascinaboscaccio.com/ TRATTORIA DI CORONATE CORONATE tastings of pickles, sautéed rice with vegetables, Along the old salt road, a Lombard farmhouse cold cuts and local cheeses. Via Cascina Caremma it), suggestively built on a peninsula on little dating from the 15-hundreds hosts a restaurant 1, Besate (MI) - Telephone : 029050020 lake Boscaccio, formed by numerous pure of refined simplicity, with a contemporary style www.caremma.com water karst springs. cuisine. When the weather is good, you can eat outside: the view is then that of a postcard from RISTORANTE DELLA COMMENDA Water is at the centre of the fascination of the past. MORIMONDO these places, not only for the Naviglio, but www.trattoriadicoronate.it Via E. Paumpuri, 2, Morimondo also for all the canals that start from it to go Telephone: 02945298 - Mobile phone: 347- Telephone: 0294961991 2104985 / 348-2202449 - Closed Sunday evening www.dellacommenda.it irrigate fields and water-meadows: you di- and Monday. scover these places on narrow curvy asphalt CASCINA BULLONA strips, ideal terrain for our little three-wheel CASCINA CAREMMA. To try a home-made local cuisine, with a menu scooter, which isn’t afraid of a far-from-perfect The cuisine is absolutely local and tasty. There that changes weekly. Among its specialities: are cold cuts and pickled vegetables, pizzoccheri, home made cold cuts and fresh pasta, risotto with road surface. risotto with chicory and provola cheese or with salami paste and white wine or with pears and the six herbs of the park. Then you can eat stu ed cacio cheese, tagliata, braised or roast beef (all goose with whole-grain polenta, braised beef, prepared using local animals). roast beef with baked farinello (a wild spinach), Via Valle 32, Magenta (MI) strudel or meringue pie. There are also certified Telephone: 0297292091 organic products. If you wish, you can have simple www.agriturismobullona.it

26 tourism ABOVE, MORIMONDO ABBEY, SACRED PLACE MADE UNIQUE BY THE CISTERCIAN MONKS’S WORK FARMING THE AREA.

Givi Magazine May 2015 - tourism 27 The city has a pleasant old centre with a people of Milan in search of spirituality and Cascina Linterno (http://www.cascinalinterno. castle and roads passing under medieval a connection to the earth, but it’s also such it/index.php) just outside Milan. The interna- arcades, while EXPO’s themes will be discus- a well-kept place that it has been used various tional exhibition hosts pavilions built by over sed by the well-know chef Carlo Cracco, times for film productions. 140 countries from all over the world and our hosted in the Annunciata complex of buildings. The route leading to the EXPO area in Rho ideal arrival point is the “Cibus è Italia” pavi- From here we go on our last important detour, again takes us through rice paddies and rural lion. For now we will visit it only virtually, toward Morimondo Abbey, sacred place buildings, some of which are worth a visit – by explaining its contents sure that you will all made unique by the Cistercian monks who appointment – like Cascina Robaione in visit it for real after the opening on the 1st of have farmed the area for centuries. Today it’s Cusago (http://www.lombardia) (benicultu- May. an oasis of peace, often sought out by the rali.it/architetture/schede/MI050-00073/) or

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THE S955B MOBILE PHONE SUPPORT THE B360 REAR CASE COMBINES GOOD THE M6M MONOLOCK PLATE USED WAS A REAL DISCOVERY. STABLE LOADING CAPACITY WITH AN EXTREMELY TO MOUNT THE REAR CASE HOLDS WHEN MOVING, IT’S BEEN STUDIED TO MODERN LOOK, WELL SUITED TO THE A SECRET… IN FACT IT CAN SOLIDLY PROTECT THE SCREEN FROM THE SUN’S COMPLEX SHAPE OF TRICITY. A MUST AND DISCRETELY HOST A “U” REFLEXION AND THE TRANSPARENT IF YOU WANT TO USE THE SCOOTER SHAPED SECURITY LOCK. ANOTHER COVER DOESN’T LIMIT THE USE OF THE EVERYDAY WITHOUT LOAD LIMITATIONS INTELLIGENT, PRACTICAL AND SMART TOUCH SCREEN. FANTASTIC! SOLUTION FROM GIVI

Givi Magazine May 15 - tourism 29 THE CIBUSFEDERALIMENTARE PAVILION

Inside the Pavilion – focused particularly on a few regions of the North of Italy – you go along a path where you learn about and taste products from the Veneto region to Emilia Romagna. The concept is to unite the best food products with the brands and companies that make them every day, in a themed itinerary that talks of culture, history and tradition, as well as of innovation and competitiveness. The first stop on this trip is in Bassano del Grappa where you meet Bortolo Nar- dini, the world’s foremost representative of “grappa culture”. In Asiago there’s the Consortium for the protection of Asiago DOP cheese, and also Rigoni, the queen of high-quality organic jams. In Brusche (in the province of Belluno) we find the Consortium for the protection of Piave DOP, a typical cheese from the Veneto region produced in the Dolomites of Belluno. In Scorzè instead (in the province of Venice) there is San Benedetto, which bottles water. The tour continues in the Piedmont region: in Novara there is the Consortium for the protection of one of the most famous cheeses in the world: Gorgonzola. From Novara we move to Lombardy, to meet the Consortium for the protection of Provolone Valpada- na cheese in Cremona. There’s also the National Authority for Rice in Milan and Ferrari Formaggi from Lodi, with a quick detour to Bedonia (near Parma) to have a look at their new cheese factory. Still in Parma we can find the Parma Ham Con- sortium and one of the three branches of Agugiaro&Figna Molini. Finally we reach Modena, home of the Consortium for the protection of Modena IGP balsamic vinegar, and last leg of this virtual trip amongst Italy’s delicacies.

FROM ABOVE. CIBUS ITALY. THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ PAVILION (THE DESIGN WAS INSPIRED BY THE SCENERY OF THE COUNTRY). THE FRENCH PAVILION, A REAL ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY OF 2,000SQM. THE ITALIAN PAVILION, WITH OUR NATIONAL CULTURE AND TRADITIONS. THE CORN COB INSPIRED THE MEXICAN PAVILION.

30 tourism FELICE LIMOSANI TRASFORMS THE FEDERALIMENTARE PAVILION INTO ARTWALL

“Cibus in Fabula” is the artistic project designed by digital storyteller Felice Limosani, a project that through a live exhibition, puts on the stage 13 gra iti, realised by international street artists, which will then be “remixed” in a video installation with digital animations. The result is a live performance, visible on the outer façade of the Pavilion called “Cibus è Italia – Federalimentare Expo 2015”, which engages the viewers in the main issues of the Universal Exhibition. Food, nourishment and the Planet are recounted through two di erent modern languages that take shape in a single live performance with 13 artists from all over the world (from Japan, Ireland, Spain, France, the UK to mention a few) who work with very di erent techniques. Each individual gra iti will come to life thanks to Video Art, the language used by Fe- lice Limosani. Urban and poor art are associated with technology in order to amaze, provoke and reflect, through creativity, on the excesses, paradoxes and flaws of our Planet. The imposing art installation is made up of, at the centre, an LED wall of great visual impact (7x10 metres), while along the two side wings there are two gra iti realised on monumental canvasses of 70 squared metres each: two di erent me- dia to represent 13 site specific stories using spray cans and pixels. During Expo, the artists and Felice Limosani will alternate every two weeks, continually “remodelling” the exhibition space.

FROM ABOVE: THE AUSTRIAN PAVILION, A FOREST WHERE ECOLOGY AND PROGRESS MEET. THE USA PAVILION FOLLOWS THE LINES OF A TRADITIONAL AMERICAN BARN. THE THAI SPACE, A GREAT INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL CINEMA WHERE 360 DEGREE VIDEO PROJECTIONS ARE ALTERNATED WITH ACROBATIC SHOWS.

Givi Magazine May 15 - tourism 31 A SELECTION OF CIBUS’ EXPO’S THEME IS FOOD AND COMPANIES OUR GIVI CASE WASN’T SHY BORTOLO NARDINI DISTILLERY WHEN IT HAD TO CARRY QUITE Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza, Veneto) A BIT OF IT… Even if it is impossible to establish a definite relationship between the word “grappa” and the mountain of the same MUST SEE: the cheese factory in Bedonia name, Venice, Bassano del Grappa and is worth a visit. Monte Grappa are territories that claim MUST TRY: Mountain Parmesan cheese. an important role in the production of aquavit. The strong tie between this CONSORZIO DEL PROSCIUTTO DI distilled product and this territory PARMA (PARMA HAM CONSORTIUM) emerges from the history of the oldest Parma (Emilia-Romagna) distillery of Italy, Bortolo Nardini, a Another consortium that safeguards family-run company from Bassano, another great excellent Italian product: founded in 1779. Parma Ham. The consortium came to life MUST SEE: Generation after Piave DOP cheese comes from the made with whole cow milk with an to guarantee the unmistakeable generation, the distillery has developed province of Belluno, on the outskirts of acidity derived from natural sweetness typical of this product. With and grown and now lives in the building the National Park of the Dolomiti fermentation, it is the cheese with the this goal in mind, it dictates to producers a called “Bolle” (bubbles), designed by Bellunesi, where the pastures, rich in greatest number of shapes and precise methodology which totally Massimiliano Fuksas, which evokes the flowers, give the milk particular weights. The Consortium for its respects tradition: Parma Ham must alchemical process of distillation. It was organoleptic characteristics. In May protection is a voluntary, non-profit successfully pass all production phases built in the company’s park as a 2010 it was decreed a DOP organisation born in 1975. which end with the “incoronation” with fire research laboratory and a place to (Denominazione di Origine Protetta: MUST SEE: Cremona is the city of of the famous brand on the ham. promote grappa culture. Protected Designation Origin). This Stradivarius, still famous for its lutists An essential condition to obtain this MUST TRY: Taste the various Nardini cheese in fact is sold in over 30 and violins, also know as the “city of delicacy is that the whole production products during a visit to the old countries around the world, and it is the three Ts”, turòon, Turàs, tetàs process must occur in a very small area in Grapperia. appreciated especially in North America (nougat, the famous church Tower, and the province of Parma, the north side and Germany. MUST SEE: The Park of a local person will be pleased to tell must be 5 kilometres south of via Emilia, the Dolomiti Bellunesi, characterised by you what the third T stands for). up to an altitude of 900m south, between its untouched nature. MUST TRY: Piave MUST TRY: Provolone and mostarda the river Enza to the east and the Stirone Vecchio Riserva cheese, matured for di Cremona (pickled candied fruit in a stream west. Only in this area are there more than 18 months. spicy syrup), a perfect combination! the ideal climate conditions for the drying, www.museodelviolino.org i.e. the natural maturing process which will CONSORZIO PER LA TUTELA DEL give sweetness and flavour to the Ham. FORMAGGIO GORGONZOLA DOP MUST SEE: the many forts and castles of (CONSORTIUM FOR THE the province of Parma. The “Associazione AGUGIARO&FIGNA MOLINI PROTECTION OF GORGONZOLA DOP Castelli del Ducato di Parma e Piacenza” Collecchio (Parma, Emilia Romagna), CHEESE) will be useful: www.castellidelducato.it/ Curtarolo (Padua, Veneto) and Magione Novara (Piedmont) castellidelducato (Perugia, Umbria) The quality and authenticity of MUST TRY: participate in the Parma Ham Agugiaro & Figna Molini was born in Gorgonzola cheese, in the list of DOP Festival in September: 2003 from the merger of two historic products since 1996, is ensured by www.festivaldelprosciuttodiparma.com mills, Agugiaro and Figna, joining two severe legislation. Maybe not everybody ENTE NAZIONALE RISI (NATIONAL stories, each 150 years old. The three knows that only the milk coming from AUTHORITY FOR RICE) production plants, in Collecchio dairy farms of the provinces of Novara, Milan (Lombardy) (Parma), Curtarolo (Padua) e Magione Vercelli, Cuneo, Biella, Bergamo, Brescia, The Authority unites producers and (Perugia), are each specialised in Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Milan, companies of all the Padana plain, from di erent products: in Parma they Monza, Pavia, Varese and of the areas of Novara, Vercelli, to Veneto, and is produce flours for big industries, large Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and of Casale fundamental in the protection of one of retailers and traditional bakeries in the Monferrato, can be used to produce the most successful industries of the North-West of Italy. The Padua plant is DOP Gorgonzola. North of Italy: rice. specialised in the production of flours MUST SEE: In Novara the Basilica of It promotes Italian rice with information CONSORZIO TUTELA ACETO for pizza with its brand “Le 5 Stagioni”. Saint Gaudenzio of the architect campaigns and competitions, it gives BALSAMICO DI MODENA IGP Perugia is becoming the reference point Alessandro Antonelli (the same of the technical assistance and analysis (CONSORTIUM FOR THE PROTECTION in the Centre and South of Italy for the Mole Antonelliana and the “polenta services to farmers, and helps better OF MODENA BALSAMIC VINEGAR IGP) supply of industrial and artisan slice” in Turin). MUST TRY: apart from production. MUST SEE AND TRY: With Modena (Emilia Romagna) bakeries. Agugiaro&Figna group is also Gorgonzola, Novara is the city of Expo 2015 you’re spoilt for choice! Wine vinegar and cooked must are the the only mill in Italy which produces “Campari”, invented here in 1860 by www.expo2015.org condiments par excellence of the Italian dried powdered sourdough, Naturkraft, Gaspare Campari. cuisine, since very long ago. From the produced in a dedicated plant. FERRARI FORMAGGI fermentation and maturing of these MUST DO: A tour to discover the Ossago Lodigano (Lodi, Lombardy) ingredients comes the Modena IGP beauty of Italy and its food excellences, and Bedonia (Parma, Emilia Romagna) Balsamic Vinegar. The product comes sponsored by Agugiaro&Figna. For A company highly specialised in the from grape must, that can be partially more information: production, selection, maturing and fermented, cooked and concentrated then www.topfoodexpoerience.com confectioning of cheeses, Ferrari adding wine vinegar and a portion of Giovanni Spa chooses and works every vinegar matured for at least ten years. day the best products of the Italian MUST SEE: a vinegar factory, on request and Europen cheese-making tradition, at the consortium’s website. CONSORZIO TUTELA PROVOLONE to o er its tasty products to a great www.consorziobalsamico.it VALPADANA (CONSORTIUM FOR THE number of consumers. The company MUST TRY: Aceto Balsamico di Modena PROTECTION OF PROVOLONE belongs to the Ferrari family: Giovanni and Parmiggiano Reggiano, the perfect VALPADANA CHEESE) Ferrari is the President and he works combination! Cremona (Lombardy) with his daughters Silvia, Laura and CONSORZIO DI TUTELA DEL Provolone is one of the best-known Claudia, along with 170 other sta . In FORMAGGIO PIAVE DOP traditional Italian cheeses in the world, the dairy industry it is one of the oldest (CONSORTIUM FOR THE especially thanks to its organoleptic and most historical brands, with a lot of PROTECTION OF PIAVE DOP characteristics, ranging from strong and tradition, but at Expo the company CHEESE) spicy to sweet and delicate. A semi-hard wants to talk especially of innovation Busche (Belluno, Veneto) cheese “a pasta filata” (with spun paste) and product excellence.

32 tourism MILANOEXPO A MILAN TO DISCOVER... WITH YOUR NOSE IN THE AIR

To the American tourists visiting and the “non places of fashion”, in special side of this city: the EXPO the New York Times has Marc Auge’s words, like inconspicuous side, hidden given some really interesting “Nonostante Marras”. A must see palaces and gardens, modest, suggestions. Why don’t those of is also the new Milan, in Porta never revealing too much apart you coming from other Italian Nuova, with its fantastic from the works of art of Leonardo, regions try following them too, skyscrapers and Gae Aulenti Bramante, Michelangelo or taking the time you need: 36 square, constantly flowing water Tiepolo. hours to visit some of the “cult” reminding one of a Northern And if you want something places of Milan. The whole world Europe capital and with the city di erent still, follow the in these six months will have its “wheat field”, work of the contemporary architecture eyes on the city of the Madonnina, American Agnes Dennes. Or you itineraries, suggested by Milan’s famous for fashion, strolling in the can visit the historical squares, professional association of centre, aperitifs, Leonardo and the from the old and unique architects, regarding the great Last Supper… Sant’Ambrogio, to San Simpliciano names of the field, from Among the events that can’t be halfway down Corso Garibaldi, up Magistretti to Albini, or about out missed – not forgetting they are to the very exclusive San Marco of context experiences or linked all free – Gallerie d’Italia, in Piazza square, along via dei Cavalieri del to particular phases of the city. della Scala, has a permanent Santo Sepolcro, which is worth a You will discover a “high” Milan, a exhibition from Canova to visit just for the fascinating “green” one, or the Milan wanted contemporary art with over 300 modern buildings and for the by architects who forever works on display. Unique places church of Saint Marc. People who changed this city like Gio Ponti or are Sette Palazzi Celesti (Seven don’t live in Milan think of it as studio BBPR. Blue Palaces) at Hangar Bicocca grey and boring, unaware of the

USEFUL INFORMATION Gallerie d’Italia: www.gallerieditalia.com Hangar Bicocca: www.hangarbicocca.org Nonostantemarras: www.nonostantemarras. Pinacoteca di Brera: www.brera.beniculturali.it Professional Association of Architects of Milan: www.ordinearchitetti.mi.it

Givi Magazine May 15 - tourism 33 INSIDE GIVI Words: Giampaolo Meda photographs GIVI Archive and Joseph Perucca

MALAYSIA AND SURROUNDINGS

34 inside Givi THE ENTRANCE TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF GIVI ASIA, WITH ALL THE EMPLOYEES LINED UP.

ello Joseph and thank you Tell us about your typical day. for having accepted to be Well… usually my day starts with me running the star of this month’s to the airport. Then a 10-hour flight, a one- INSIDE. How long have you day stop visiting clients who over the years been working for GIVI and have become fundamental partners, and Hwhat do you do at present? then away to the next destination… in my I’m almost part of the furniture nowadays… job I have to maintain excellent relations I started in the 90s, first in Italy, then working with our distributors; I personally manage with the European markets, taking directly for GIVI the South-American and Asian part in the creation of the first subsidiary markets. Then there is also the managing in the UK, GIVI UK, at the time called GIVI work in the Asian production centres: GIVI Concessionaires UK, which subsequently Malaysia, Givi Vietnam and the new born constituted the basis for the other subsi- Givi Indonesia. diaries. Then from 1993 I worked on creating GIVI’s first production plant in Asia, GIVI Lets stop at GIVI Malaysia, surely the fea- Malaysia. ther in GIVI’s cap regarding the Asian Thinking about the past years, how Asian production of the brand. Could you tell us markets were at the time, it’s incredible to how it works, which markets it produces see how these areas – so distant and dif- for and who manages it? ferent from our world – have changed. GIVI Malaysia has set the standard for the results obtained, the work methods and You then continued “scouting” for the the foresight of Giuseppe Visenzi, who company? dictated the principles of the company. The Having had the privilege of exploring new plant was born as a production centre for horizons for GIVI, of getting to know com- the Asian market, with lower costs than the pletely di erent cultures from our style and Italian ones, but with quality products. A way of life, I have accumulated experience, principle that has revealed itself to be skills, and especially the open-mindedness fundamental to our local and global growth. necessary to make di erent cultures live together and consequently to take advantage of new opportunities. So I specialised in opening new markets, which allowed us to grow and create the foundations of our strength today, while continuing to look at the future positively and constructively.

The South-East Asian adventure started in 1993 with the opening of the ﬁrst production site in Malaysia. Many things have happened since then. To tell us all about it we have someone who has lived it all: Joseph Perucca, Overseas Operational Director for GIVI.

Givi Magazine May 2015 - inside Givi 35 AT THE TOP A PICTURE FROM THE EARLY 90S, WHEN GIVI STARTED WORK ON THE MALAY PRODUCTION CENTRE. ABOVE, THE FINISHED CENTRE.

To understand this vision you need to re- a team that has passed the test of time. cially the strong sense of responsibility member that, when we started production, towards the user of our products and the a GIVI case cost almost as much as half the In those markets GIVI has a strong appeal consequent research for quality and care monthly salary of one of our local emplo- on the public. Almost as if it were a fashion in post-sales services, all of these have yees. We were patient, waiting for the social brand. Made in Italy is certainly strong also been a strong incentive to better ourselves. changes that, luckily, finally happened. in Asia… but I’d like to understand a bit Behind the incredible results in SEA there’s GIVI Malaysia has obtained many notable better. Is it still you behind this new image then our ability to adapt the brand and prizes, first of all from the Malay government of the brand? products to local use, without compromising for being the company leader in innovation I think this image is not so new, GIVI’s suc- quality and aesthetically remaining strongly and service in the category of medium- cess is global, even if it manifests itself and Italian! sized companies, to which must be added is interpreted di erently in the various two prizes for the most famous motorbike Continents where we are present. In Europe the motorcyclist’s life isn’t easy. accessories brand in local markets. All this This success is the result of a contagious Everything must undergo homologation, would have been impossible without the managerial structure. Working with the certification… Does everything pertaining right people. The choice of our local partner, Visenzi family means being able to always to the motorbike/ scooter industry have to Mr On Hai Swee M.D. of Givi Malaysia has face new challenges and continually putting follow precise rules also in the countries been fundamental and the combination of yourself on the line. The work style, looking that you habitually visit? his Asian entrepreneurial spirit and our ahead, the ability to recognise and take This is like saying that the neighbour’s grass Italian strength has contributed in creating advantage of new opportunities and espe- is always greener. In Europe we are over-

36 inside Givi A SERIES OF PICTURES BY JOSEPH PERUCCA, WHICH SHOW IN A FUN WAY A REALITY VERY DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN. APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY RULES.

burdened with rules, homologations and motorcyclist of twenty years ago now uses restrictions and certainly I too, as a motor- a car, probably a Honda, and this is a status bike rider with more than 30 years’ expe- symbol, which relegates motorbikes and rience, have often felt exasperated. At the scooters to a lower category, utilised by same time, living in Asia, I have learnt to those who have not climbed the social appreciate and often agree with these rules, ladder, and this is sad. which here are unknown, with a high cost in lives. It’s certainly amusing to see a 150cc You share the success of the EXPERIENCE bike with six people on board, or to see DAKAR TOUR. You managed the organi- small bikes speeding through city tra ic sation, the structure, the programme: without any protection, but the social cost where do you find the time to also deal with of all this is high and the many unfortuna- these events? te accidents don’t hit only the individual The success of Dakar was possible thanks and the local community, they also nega- to a great work team, which involved peo- tively influence the motorbike world in ple in our various companies, from Italy to general. Vietnam to Brazil. A team sharing the same To this we must add the social class factor: passion and dedication. Asian countries have grown with timings The main aim of this tour was to have our which are often inexplicable: the same clients experience this engaging passion.

Givi Magazine May 2015 - inside Givi 37 AT THE TOP THE INAGURATION OF THE FIRST ASIAN GIVI POINT. AMONG THE GUESTS ALSO GIVI’S “PATRON” GIUSEPPE VISENZI, THE LOCAL PARTNER MR ON AND THE ITALIAN CONSUL. BELOW, AN INTERNAL VIEW OF THE GIVI POINT WHILE THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE ENTRANCE TO THE OFFICES OF GIVI ASIA.

I was just lucky enough to have been physi- readers should know about? said and written… and it’s all clearly visible cally present, but the merit of the success 25 years of history in GIVI, 30kg more, and in our products! must be shared among many of us. too many, a lot less hair, but the same passion and will to succeed, so I hope to con- What else do we need to know about you tinue for a long time more! and GIVI? Are there any aspects that our With regards to GIVI, everything has been

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MOTOGP Words by Giampaolo Meda Photographs: HONDA CWM LCR Team Archive SEE MORE PICTURES

GIVI AND THE HONDA CWM LCR TEAM …FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE PODIUM

At the moment of writing this article, Miller and Crutchlow, the new pilots of Lucio Cecchinello’s team who run with our colours, have just archived the third meeting of the season proving they can keep up with the other riders.

n Argentina Cal had an exciting race. The pilot hang in there py to renew our collaboration with Lucio for the 18th year and we right to the end and managed to take away Iannone’s third are thrilled today to have Jack Miller here with us for this special place in the last metres before the finish line. event. GIVI will be at the side of this young talent and of his team- Jack is learning faster than his team manager expected. Con- mate Cal Crutchlow for the whole season and we all wish both of tinuously overtaking he passed from 21st position at the start them all the best”. Ito 12th at arrival. An impressive result, considering he passed directly The logo is present on the Honda RC213V and on the suit of British from MOTO3 to MOTOGP (he basically skipped a stage usually Cal Crutchlow and is present in huge letters on the livery of the considered obligatory). RC213V-RS of young Australian Jack Miller. The calendar sees As supporters of Lucio Cecchinello’s team, renamed Honda CWM GIVI and Honda CWM LCR “together” in 10 of the 18 races, distri- LCR, everybody at GIVI is totally satisfied with the results achieved buted between March and October. until now. Giuseppe Visenzi (founder of GIVI and ex-pilot): “We are very hap-

MOTOGP 2015: A BIT OF COMMENTARY

GRAND PRIX OF QATAR considering my scarce experience driving G.P. DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA MLLER OUT AT THE FINAL LAP a Honda. Anyhow I have understood I can PODIUM FOR CRUTCHLOW The opening of the world championship reach a better position. The podium, Cal Crutchlow reached his first podium with had di erent outcomes for the Honda basically, is not that far“ was the comment Honda CWM LCR. In Argentina he was CWM LCR pilots at the Losail of the pilot at the end of the race. incredibly fast. For most of the first laps he International Circuit. was right behind Marquez but then Jack constantly improved for the whole GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS considerations for the tyres (to maintain until race, after having started in 22nd CRUTCHLOW STILL 7TH IN TEXAS the end of the race) took over. He staid behind position he fought at the end for 18th Cal repeats himself and finishes 7th at the the first pilots, behind Andrea Iannone’s place with other Honda pilots, amongst Austin GP like in Qatar in the first round of Ducati and then, after Marquez fell under whom was Abraham with whom, after 2015. The pilot got “trapped” in the brawl pressure from Valentino Rossi, he got back an overly ambitious manoeuvre that of the first lap losing precious terrain and, into third position, with a surprising move, just made him lose the front end, he fell regardless of the fierce recovery on his during the last metres before the finish line. during the final lap. No points and RC213V, he didn’t manage to reach the lead another step in the learning process, so pack. Crutchlow expected more, given the MILLER IS THE TOP RIDER he won’t make the same mistake in encouraging results before the race. Jack Miller finally showed his potential in his Texas. debut season as a MotoGP pilot. He closed in MILLER SCORES POINTS 12th position and was very happy. The CRUTCHLOW 7TH UNDER QATAR’S Jack ensured his first world points Australian had started the race in 21st place. LIGHTS Cal started in 12th position. He finishing 14th at the Austin GP. Starting But he rapidly gained positions, reaching the had more chances… but crashing from 19th position the Australian started points zone and getting close to the top ten, during qualifications penalised him. excellently arriving 11th at a certain point. leaving behind champions like Nicky Hayden, During the race he gradually got into Conditioned by a collision between two Stefan Bradl and Hector Barbera. “Today has the rhythm, notwithstanding the grip pilots he lost precious time and a couple of been a great day and I cannot do anything but problems with the rear wheel, arriving positions. Anyhow everybody saw his thank the Honda CWM LCR team for giving at 7th place, first non-oicial pilot to improvements. And this trend is destined me the bike I needed”. In Argentina Jack was pass the finish line. “I’m happy. It’s to continue. Miller aims at finishing soon the best pilot in the Open category. been a good beginning of the season among the first ten.

Givi Magazine May 2015 - MotoGP 41 MILLER MEETS HIS ITALIAN FANS AT G. VISENZI MOTOMARKET

A few days before his first championship race, the Honda Many bike fans greeted warmly the Vice CWM LCR team pilot Jack Miller stopped in Brescia along Champion of Moto3 and Moto GP rookie. with his Team Manager Lucio Cecchinello and some mem- Jack Miller wasn’t shy. He spoke with bers of the team. The 20-year-old Australian met the Visenzi everybody, letting everybody take family on the occasion of the launch of the renovated shop pictures, selfies, interviews and G.VISENZI MOTOMARKET. autographs. His comment was: “I’m really happy to have GIVI on board during my debut in MotoGP. Giuseppe Visenzi is an ex pilot and gave me a lot of advice and shared anecdotes about his career. It’s fantastic to have a sponsor with such a great passion for motorbikes. I wasn’t expecting such a warm welcome from the Italian fans who came en masse asking me for an autograph or a selfie. To return their a ection I’ll do my best on the circuit!”

42 MotoGP JACK MILLER CAL CRUTCHLOW Jack Miller was born on the 18th of January 1995 in Townsville Cal Crutchlow was born in Coventry (Great Britain) on the 29th (Queensland, Australia). Brought up on the family ranch, Jack of October 1985. His father Derek was a pilot, he was interested developed his riding skills on motorbikes and quads, with a clear in football instead. Cal changed his mind at 11, after a knee injury. goal in his mind: to run in the World bike championship. From that moment on he focused on the motorbike, immediately On the saddle since he was 8, Miller initially proved to be a phe- showing he had a lot of talent. He perfected his skills during nomenon o road… winning in 2003 the Australian Dirt Bike national championships, reaching the British Supersport in 2004. championship in the 65cc category, followed by three other im- Three years later he became the champion and moved to the portant victories all with knobby tyres. British Superbike where he spent two seasons reaching third In 2008 Jack transferred his interest in races to the road, where place in 2008. he continued to achieve national success. He became Australian In 2009 Crutchlow did incredibly well in the World Supersport champion in the 125cc category and then moved to Europe. Here Championship, winning it in his rookie season! His first victory he passed from the Spanish championship to the German IDM was at his country’s circuit, Silverstone. one, which he won at the age of 16. This result opened for him the At the end of 2010 Crutchlow announced his entrance in the Tech doors of Moto3 (in 2012). Learning wasn’t easy but he started to 3 team of MotoGP. His best result was 4th place in Valencia. Cal familiarise himself with the circuits and the bike, demonstrating learnt quickly and in the first GP of 2012, in Qatar, he obtained his talent in the Sachsenring Grand Prix, where he arrived 4th. In his first start in the front row. A few months later, in the Silver- the following seasons he moved to the Germany Racing Team on stone GP he ran with a broken ankle and finished 6th! In August, a Honda FTR bike. The Australian was good, but he still had dif- at Brno, he finally hit the podium, reaching 3rd place. ficulty reaching the podium. For the 2014 season, Jack signed a The real breakout year for him was 2013: he collected four podiums contract with Aki Ajo of the Red Bull KTM Ajo team, where he had and 2 pole positions. He often fought with the front-runners and his first successes. The first pole position, the podium, the victory concluded the season in 5th place in the World Championship, and fastest lap… The pilot remained among the front-runners for allowing him to ride a Ducati in 2014. the whole season, winning six races (the most important one in But he didn’t feel at ease and ran a season which gave him only his home country, at Philip Island). He fought for the world title up one podium, on the wet circuit of Aragon. Cal decided to change to the last lap at Valencia, losing the championship in the end for bike and he found Lucio Cecchinello to greet him, putting him on only 2 points against Alex Marquez! In 2015, at the age of only 20, a Honda RC213V Factory. Now also Crutchlow has on his suit and and without passing through Moto2, Jack Miller is on the grid in bike the GIVI logo. the top class. Cecchinello wanted him badly for the Honda CWM LCR team. On the livery of his RC213V-RS Open are GIVI’s colours.

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