Giovanni, with his young and skilled design team, composed of the very good engine Chief Designer Fabio Falcone, the talented Design Engineer Alessandro Sobacchi and the capable Engine Designer Marco Fasani, has developed for Nembo Motociclette a very powerful and extremely compact engine, making possible the engine layout I liked to get. So I had to build a naturally aspirated inverted motor first, an Euro 3, with precise technical and aesthetic specifications and I've found an ideal interlocutor in the excellent, and appreciated Chief Engineer Giovanni Mariani. I decided to add a small trellis in the front and an essential saddle frame, not connected to each other (made in steel, because given the dimensions involved, carbon, aluminum or titanium are practically useless), above all for aesthetic and traditional reasons than for real structural needs, because the connection to the steering column and to the saddle can be obtained directly in the crankcase shape and the carbon-fibre swingarm directly pivots in the crankcase. I've designed and built a motorcycle, the "SUPER 32", where the engine, by mean of the super compact crankcase, totally placed over the cylinders and the heads, works as a real chassis while the cylinders do not participate in any way in the structural functions. Inverting the engine allowed me to achieve these results. I was not interested to make a bike with an extreme look, I liked to make a bike that looked like a true motorcycle and not like a manga robot. I wanted to build a high performance big-bore motorcycle, looking new but also with a classic and timeless beauty built with very few and high quality metal and carbon-fibre components and very light. So, I've thought that a good way to get a well exposed and updated air-cooled engine in a contemporary naked sport bike was just to invert it!Īs you know, the inverted in line engines are not new: they have equipped many famous combat aircraft especially of World War II, the new thing lies in equipping with them a motorcycle to combine form and function in an interesting way. ![]() It pains me to see it humiliated and smothered under frames and plastic components. However, in the current naked sport bikes, often the engine is too much hidden and totally water-cooled, practically soulless. I like air-cooled motors or also water cooled just if with finned cylinders and heads. ![]() Loving motorcycles as the highest dynamic expression of the fusion between driver and machine, I have a concept of the bike that sees the engine at the first place. ![]() ![]() I've chosen this particular engine architecture for both functional and aesthetic reasons. The engine "Super 32 rovescio" contains in the name its main features: three-cylinder 2000 cc (122.05 cubic inches) inverted or if we like," upside down ". Nembo Motociclette: a new brand, a new engine for a new bike designed and built in Italy.ĭaniele "Titus" Sabatini, owner, project leader and designer of Nembo Motociclette, presents his new engine, the "Super 32 rovescio" made to equip the naked motorcycles he will build in small series on request for road/track use.
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