Rubinelli Motorcycles

Rubinelli 1925

A Brief History of the Italian Marque

Based at Chignolo Verbano, Novara. "The Garage Moderno di Icaro Rubinelli boasts a large modern workshop", reads the 1921 letterhead of the business known for the rental of automobiles and also for mechanical repairs.

From there to the production of motorized bicycles, it was a short step, also because in 1922 the new legislation treated bicycles equipped with a 3 HP auxiliary engine as bicycles.

Cosi Rubinelli began producing an auxiliary engine of 142 cc to be presented at that year's Milan Show.

Several engines were produced while the frames were built by the Milanese firm of F.lli Amboldi who were agents for Rubinelli and appear to have joined forces with them when the company changed its name to F. A. Rubinelli and moved to Rho.

They also built a motorcycle with a twin-cylinder 250cc engine created by combining two engines of 125c.

Rubinelli clip-on engines were used by Gaia.

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Sources: Moto di Lombardia, Tragatsch p255.

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