Harley-Davidson To Revive Cagiva?

Snakebit Sam — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:23:52 +0000

Rumor has it that Harley-Davidson is planning on reviving the famed Italian Cagiva brand motorcycles. Harley obtained the rights to the Cagiva brands trademarks with their acquisition of MV Agusta. Reportedly the first bikes may be produced by the summer of 2010. Those bikes could be the popular Raptor model using the 140hp 1125ci Rotax motor similar to the ones used in the 1125R and 1125CR Buells. Smaller displacement bikes are also rumored to be in future plans.

resource: Solo Moto

Italian Renaissance?

Snakebit Sam — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:39 +0000

Bonjourno Americanos!
By now I’m sure that you’ve heard that Harley-Davidson is in the process of buying the Italian motorcycle company MV Agusta for a reported 108 million dollars. I’m sure that makes the couple hundred employees that Harley just laid off feel real good. I have empathy for them because someone in China, Brazil or Mexico is now doing the jobs I did for Eljer Industies for the last twenty-one years.

Oldtimers like myself will remember that back in the 60s and 70s Harley and AMF/Harley-Davidson had a line of lightweight bikes that were produced in Italy by Aermacchi. For many reasons the bikes lost favor with consumers and in 1978 AMF/H-D finally sold the Aermacchi factory to the brothers Castigioni.

Some thirty years later in a case of what goes around comes around H-D is buying a large chunk of the Italian company, Cagiva, which builds the MV Agusta motorcycles. Until recently they also used to own the Ducati and Husqvanra marques. Who’s the owners of Cagiva? Can you say hello Claudio Castigioni, again?

My only question about the whole deal is “Can my neighbor now get parts for his 1974 Rapido at the local Harley shop again?”

Ciao !

resources: www.cagiva.it
www.passionperformance.ca

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Harley-Davidson To Revive Cagiva?

Italian Renaissance?