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GIVI MAGAZINEGivi Magazine May 2015 www.givimoto.com 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! 2 sommary LEAD ARTICLE 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 eort. 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 traic 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 suocating 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 dierent bikes, as the photo shoot shows. Despite this blindness we still manage to register more mo- What we achieved really repaid our eorts. 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 WATCH THE SEE MORE VIDEOS PICTURES 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. Givi Magazine May 2015 - Explorer 5 Turism > Cile - Atacama RIDING ABOVE 141 | MOTOCICLISMO march 2015 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 march 2015 MOTOCICLISMO | 141 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. 142 | MOTOCICLISMO march 2015 8 Explorer Cile - Atacama 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.

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