120 years and 30 km/h, the birthday of MC Leonessa d’Italia 1903

Bene, enough now Dakar (Sin). Let’s change gender. Let’s go to Bonneville, on the Salt Lake, Utah where top speed records have been attempted for millions of years. The absolute record, more than 1,200 km/hobtained from a … “car” equipped with two injection Rolls-Royce engines, was actually achieved on another salt lake, in the Black Rock Desert in Nevadabut it does nothing, even in Bonneville they managed to exceed 1,000 km/h. Well, in Bresciano Peter Zanetti came the whim of building a motorcycle with which to break the world record for maximum speed, in 2018. This story, perhaps, is even more romantic than the – true – one told in the film Indian – The great challenge dove Anthony Hopkins interpreta Burt James Munroa 68-year-old New Zealander who, in 1967, he reached 323 km/h with an old Indian modified by him. Pietro staked everything on Garelli Mosquito, the famous auxiliary motor for bicycles, with roller transmission, which motorized the Italians at the end of the war, freeing them from the slavery of the pedals, as advertised. Available in the 38 and 48 cc versions, also with variator, in the more “pushed” version it reached 45 km/h, but Zanetti had tuned the 48 cc engine and had reached 61 km/h. The frame on which to mount it, as always in the case of legends of this type, was found inside a farmhouse, in a state of total abandonment.