I' I ! Mi J'S FROM THE BEGINNING: MY FATHER, MVAGUL. THE RACE DEPARTMENT, THREE CYLINDERS, AGOSTII ITUNKS THEM ALL TOGETHER. *V "t MAGNI AND MU AGUSTA - A UK-LONG ASSOCIATION The Filo Rosso brings the story of the Magni In the Eighties the Magnis also produced family's link with MV Agusta full circle. kits for Honda 900 Bol d'Or fours, BMW Arturo Magni actually began his career in boxers and Moto Guzzi V-twins. With MV Gilera's racing department, working for the having ceased production, they developed legendary Piero Remor whose four-cylinder closer links with Guzzi, creating specials design transformed 500cc grand prix racing. including the retro-style Sfida 1000 When Remor moved to MV Agusta in 1950, ("Challenge") and more modern Australia, Arturo followed, becoming manager of the named following competition success Down all-conquering MV Reparto Corse that won Under. The Sfida and Australia were updated 75 world titles and more than 3000 races over several times as production continued the next 27 years. through the Nineties. After MV retired from racing in 1977, In 1999 the Magni firm, now run by Arturo set up in business in partnership with Giovanni (Arturo had retired; Carlo worked at his engineer sons Carlo and Giovanni. They nearby Agusta helicopters), began production produced cast wheels under the name EPM, of the Sport 1200S, powered by Suzuki's and exotic MV Agusta specials based on the four-cylinder Inazuma engine and inspired by four-cylinder 750 Sport and America models. the style of MV's 750 Sport. That Seventies A Magni MV typically had a race-type frame superbike was also to inspiration for the more with chain drive conversion, tuned engine, recent Storia, Magni's first MV-powered plus tank, seat, fairing and exhaust that made special, which used the engine and frame it resemble a grand prix racebike. Built in tiny from the four-cylinder Brutale 1090. In total, numbers, they were among the fastest and Giovanni estimates that Magni has produced roughly 1600 bikes over almost three decades. 010 most desirable superbikes of the Seventies. .