The world of two wheels in the middle of the last century has stories as fascinating as the one that surrounds to Moto Rumi And the one that, at that time, was one of the few to dare to modify or create at will a unique version of any of the motorcycles of the Italian firm: Giuseppe Fabbri.
Now, in the famous online auction portal Catawiki, one of these preparations is for sale, in the form of rumi “two and a half” of 1960, equipped with a four -cylinder Fabbri engine of artisanal manufacturing.
Rumi Moto: a short, but intense story
Donnino Rumi, founder of Moto Rumi in the late forties, had been dedicated to various industrial activities for several decades before undertaking this business adventure within the motorcycle sector. As they detail from Catawiki “Rumi was founded in Bergamo at the beginning of the 20th century as a foundry and thus remained until the end of World War II.”
During the war newspaper they focused on the manufacture of propellers for ships, periscopios, torpedoes and various weapons, hence its logo formed precisely by a propeller for boat, an anchor and a periscope. It is not until 1949 when the brand’s motorcycle production gives, with the preparation of a prototype of the tourism model propelled by a bicylindrical engine of 125 cm³ and 6 hp.
Its official presentation would arrive with the celebration of the Milan Sampling Fair of 1950 and would be in production until 1956. The following year, the production of the Sport model began, with the same displacement but with more sports characteristics than the previous one, and which represented the most successful model of Rumi until 1958.
At the same time, Rumi gained popularity among fans on two wheels, on and off the track. Good guilt is the fact of launching competition models such as the 1955 Junior, which gave it great economic solvency and strong business growth. Rumi had a very respectable successes, which also included important victories in several speed and resistance championships.
“In 1954, the Super Sport Competizione” Gobbetto “won the Italian speed championship”They explain from Catawiki. The Bergamo brand came to have 1,500 employees for those dates. However, by 1960, Moto Rumi began to have liquidity problems, which leads it directly to a financial crisis that ended the brand very little time later.
Rumi 250 cc of 1960 “Fabbri Special”: an almost unique jewel
Regarding the mount that today stars in our special section of “dream motorcycles for sale”, it is not much the information we have of it, beyond their own they publish directly from Catawiki. Apparently Giuseppe Fabbri, a famous engineer from Ravena, was the only one who dared to modify the Rumi engines. In this case, Fabbri built this 250 cc engine and 4 online cylinders, placing two 125 cc motor blocks and two online cylinders.
According to Catawiki: “Fabbri built only three copies of this type, of which two still exist, and this specimen is the best. Very well restored, it was in the Italian Museum of the motorcycle in Amsterdam for years.” They clarify that “to drive this engine should restart. The engine works gently with good compression and the gearbox changes.”
With a final sales estimate Between 35 and 45 thousand eurosthere is no doubt that we are facing a truly special and almost unique motorcycle. At the time of typing these lines, the best offer received by it is 12,500 euros, quite far from the minimum price of established reserve.
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