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GNEW MODELS The 1993 Milan Motorcycle Show e (Left) The MZ Scorpion w ill be di stributed in Europe by Yamaha. (Below) The MotoGuzzi Sport 1100 featu res revi sed styling and a Dr . John Replica chassis. (Left>The all -new Bimoto SB6 is p owered by a Suz uki GSXR1100 engine and uses an aluminum twin-spar chassis. (Below) KTM's Duke, the offroad company's first 100 percent street motorcycle. o a nce r o n th e left side of th e engine, ad d ing on ly 1.5 po unds to the we ight, but reducin g v ibratio n. Th e top tw o gea rs in th e fi ve -speed gea rbox are longer than in enduro form, but there's no electric-start, which may hu rt sales in some coun tries, esp eciall y with the tall sea t height. A single 320m m front Brembo disc and fou r-p iston caliper are hung on WP upsid e-d own forks. The styling, by Gerald Kiske, is certainly d istinctive, and more tarmac-orient a ted than the end uro-based pro toty pe unveiled at Co logne last year. Prod uction is scheduled to start early in the new year, at a price ye t to be established. Apart from a ple thora of scoo ters in every available color and style, those were the highligh ts of a Milan Show tha t, if it didn't have the spread of new models of previous years , certainly showed that Ducati and Bimota mean bu siness at the top end of the market especially 'a ided by the very favorable exchange rate of the lira against almo st every other currency. At this rate, we'll be able to buy a Bimota for less than the original Yamaha or Suzuki model from which its engine is derived. eN ... ~ !-I Q) ~ Q) > o Z we ll as th e Bri t ish Nor to n and AJS team s, in the 19505.These bikes will, say G uzzi, be co nstructed to order to th e iden tic a l specifica tions of the w orks racer in the Ma ndello factory museum probably by the same people who built it, too. Gilera 'made their farewell to mo torcycle ma n ufacture at Milan, only there courtesy of Piaggio to sell off the remaining stock of their exis ting range after the shock announcement of the clos ure of th e Arcore factory tw o weeks 16 Petr-Karel Korous confirmed a deal for Yamaha to s ta r t distributing the MZ range there from June 1994 onwards, particularl y th e Seymour Powelldesigned Skorp ion cafe racer. This debuted at Milan in unfaired form with the five-valve Yamaha XTZ660 engine already shown at Paris in the (slightly more) faired version. Korous also confirme d MZ has tied up a deal to distribute its bikes in America from Jan ua ry next year, through American Jawa . The Skorpion will enter production in April. Also displaying a new stree t single in fina l p ro d uc tion fo rm was Aus tria's KTM, whose The Duke stree t rod is the off-roa d firm's firs t 100% tarm ac model, us ing their 101x76mm, 609cc, four-valve water -cooled LC4 motor. This is now fitted for the first time with a counterbal- ago, w hile Aprilia showed only rev a m p ed versions of th eir existing range. Designer, Claudio Bonomelli's G uzzi-powe red Mako Shark cu stom bike made a renewed appearance, now in running form and scheduled for limited production next year. Italia n T riumph importer Carlo Tala mo showed off his usual selection of specials and customized street bikes to comp lement Triumph's standard range, including an outright 900cc Trident road racer and cafe racing street model. Specialist constructor Luigi Segale displayed his lightweight CBR600 Honda-powered sports bike with new styling, b ut ma tched it with the fi rst CBR900-engin ed special to be offered by a European chassis house, the Segale SHR900R. This employs a stock Honda moto r fi tted into Segale's trademark composite chassis, to produce a very small (only 54 .8-i nch wheelbase) and lig ht (336 p oun d s dry, in street-legal for m) bik e fit ted w ith 43mm Ce riani upside-down forks and rear shock from th e same co mpany, carbon and fibe rglass b odywork, and top of the line Brembo brakes. Price? To be advised presuma bly when he's thought of a telephone number, and doubled it. , Someone who's actually slashing his prices by the simple expedient of having his bike manufactured in Ita ly ra ther than Japa n is CVE/Orange Boulevard Coo's Takeo Fojii, who launched his new Made in Ita ly Yamaha SR-powered OMC -SR retro cafe racer range in Milan. Now made north of that city, in a factory directed by former BYRD SOS racing team engineer Giovanni Ytrelli, it is available in various engine sizes, from 399cc up 'to 524cc, .and with various stages of tuning according to customer choice or budget. The CMC employs Paioli suspension front and rear, Brembo brakes, and a 17-inch front wheel (18inch rear) to deliver a modem version of the traditional early-70s Seeley cafe look. Building the bike in Japan would entail much higher cost s, says Fujii-san, because of the yen exchange. _ A com pany about to start exporting its ow n street singles to Japan is Germ any ' s born-ag ain MZ, whose boss