MAGNI MV AGUSTA FILOROSSO
ROAD TEST
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ni Magni. "And many of our existing customers
were asking us to make an MV Agusta-based
bike that was a blend of today's engineering with
traditional aesthetics—a bike that recalls MV's glo-
rious history but in a modern context, with today's
performance. But I was always reluctant to do so
because of the responsibility of living up to the
expectations created by such a historic marque.
I mean, you can't dare to even think of building a
bad MV, a bike that doesn't meet the high stan-
dards set by that badge on the tank, can you?"
Giovanni's first Magni MV tribute bike was the
four-cylinder Storia, a classically restyled stock-
framed Brutale 1090 that was unveiled at the
2013 Milan Show, and continues in production.
But although he's delivered over 30 such bikes,
and has more orders coming in all the time,
Giovanni got criticized by some for just offering
a change of clothes with the Storia, because it
doesn't have a Magni frame. So without telling
anyone else, not even their dad, he and Carlo
decided to make a three-cylinder bike using the
800 Brutale F3 motor in a purpose-built period-
style Magni frame.
The two brothers finished the prototype
Filorosso three days before the opening of the
2014 EICMA Milan Show. "It was complete, but
not running, so we just took some photos of it,
and posted them on our website with a few words
explaining what it was, then went to bed," recalls
Giovanni with a smile. "Next morning, we found
the website had crashed, and we had a dozen
orders for the bike without anyone knowing the
price, for the simple reason we hadn't decided on
it yet ourselves!"
One year later the definitive version was dis-
The Filorosso is anything but roomy in the cockpit.
