At the age of 12 Bruno Rossati began working eleven hour days.
"Now, approaching 91, I find myself reminiscing about my youth, still riding my motorcycle every day.
Letter re Ladetto
Hejira motorcycles were produced from 1981 at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.
This small firm built racing machines using a 250cc two-stroke single cylinder Rotax engine. They developed a twin-spar frame that linked headstock and rear-fork pivot directly, and from which the engine unit hung.
By 1986 single and twin versions in various sizes were available. They had also produced a machine with the fuel tank under the engine, with a prototype hub-centre design.
Although the design was good, lack of finances meant that the project could not be fully developed.
There has also been a Ducati-engined machine raced under the Mick Walker Motorcycles banner.
Sources: Graces Guide, love-wrexham.com, et al
Notes:
1. This machine has a pair of tittles. (The dot that sits above the lowercase letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "tittle.")
2. James Marchment writes: "HEJIRA, alternative spelling HEGIRA is Arabic, Al Hijrah "The departure" of the Prophet in 622AD from Mecca to "The City" (al medinah, since made that city's name, Medina), "hajara" is a verb "to go away, leave" etc, important enough to mark the beginning of the Islamic Calendar (years don't match ours because based on primitive astronomy. A bike called HEGIRA suggests escape to the country."
Mon Nov 05 2012
jons at hejiraracing.co.uk
Just a short message to say that Hejira is still in business and has been since 1970. Attached are a few of the bikes. More info is available.
hejiraracing.co.uk
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