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Giovanni Burlando’s Vision (2015)
Run Time: 10:35
Producer: Ugo Roffi
Director: Ugo Roffi
Key Cast: Giovanni Burlando
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Ugo Ruffo is from Genoa, Italy, and is long-time freelance editor, camera operator, photographer and videographer, with considerable experience in broadcasting. His passion of motorbikes is expressed in magazines like Special Cafe.
SUMMARY
Giovanni Burlando is a 75-year-old hillclimb veteran of 850 races, against the best professional riders in the world, Like Giacomo Agostini and Renzo Pasolini. He’s kept his Ducati 250, Benelli 250, Aletta 125 and Motobi 250, each of which he tuned and maintained himself. This film is shot on the Doria-Creto road on his vintage Morini 3 1/2, while he spins stories about his prizes, races, and his overwhelming passion for motorbikes.
Giovanni Burlando passed away on October 27th, 2017. God speed.
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Va bene ! An exquisite film on a very little know subject ( M/C hill racing ) with an appropriate soundtrack featuring a fascinating individual who once again proves ;
Old Guys Rule !
A question .. pardon my ignorance but … che cos’e Moto Bi / MotorBi ?
Eco … basta .. ciao
😎
An interesting story, Motobi. It’s really Moto ‘B’, as in Benelli, being founded by one of the fratelli Benelli (Giovanni) who went rogue for a while and started making his own motorcycle in 1951, according to Tragatsch’s ‘Encyclopedia’. They were small-displacement road and race bikes, best known for the ‘power egg’ engine, with a horizontal single cylinder, and a finned aluminum head/barrel in a rounded shape that blended with the lines of the crankcase. Giovannie returned to the Benelli fold sometime in the late 1960s, and the bikes were badged Benelli. Thus one sees Benelli-Motobis on the streets in the US, as they were popular imports give the Sears distribution deal with Benelli (that ended in 1970).
God speed Giovanni…ride with the angels ..