Key Walshe
12-23-2003, 01:13 PM
Just found this on Superbike (http://www.superbike.co.uk) website about a Ferrari Supermoto.
'Ferrari reveals 450cc thumper engine!
Strange but true. OK, maybe not that strange when you realise that Ferrari's associate engine development division Apparently HPE (High Performance Engineering) has developed a new bike engine. Which maybe isn't that much of a surprise when you consider that HPE worked on the Ducati Desmosedici engine. HPE was set up by Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo, to work on all manner of high-performance engine development and, just before Christmas, he revealed a 450cc, single-cylinder engine at their workshop in Modena.
The engine is said to rev to 12,000rpm and will be in a six-speed supermoto bike which will run in next season's European championship. The investment is said to be 2.8million euros. The bike – which will see the light of day in March – will have Marzocchi forks and Brembo brakes, keeping it all Italian. We'll believe it when we see it.'
Hmmm, I wonder how much truth there is in that of if it's anything to do with the Aprilia SVX450? It would be very interesting to see if it was true though, that would end the talk of Ducati being the 'Ferrari on 2 wheels'!
'Ferrari reveals 450cc thumper engine!
Strange but true. OK, maybe not that strange when you realise that Ferrari's associate engine development division Apparently HPE (High Performance Engineering) has developed a new bike engine. Which maybe isn't that much of a surprise when you consider that HPE worked on the Ducati Desmosedici engine. HPE was set up by Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo, to work on all manner of high-performance engine development and, just before Christmas, he revealed a 450cc, single-cylinder engine at their workshop in Modena.
The engine is said to rev to 12,000rpm and will be in a six-speed supermoto bike which will run in next season's European championship. The investment is said to be 2.8million euros. The bike – which will see the light of day in March – will have Marzocchi forks and Brembo brakes, keeping it all Italian. We'll believe it when we see it.'
Hmmm, I wonder how much truth there is in that of if it's anything to do with the Aprilia SVX450? It would be very interesting to see if it was true though, that would end the talk of Ducati being the 'Ferrari on 2 wheels'!