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BENELLI LEONCINO

ONE OF THE MOST anticipated bikes of 2018 has been Benelli’s Leoncino. Shown at the EICMA exhibition in Milan back in 2015, it has taken a while to be released. Meanwhile Benelli has managed to keep interest in the bike strong, which would have been hard to do considering all the other bikes that have been released by other manufacturers in the meantime.

A bit of a history lesson about Benelli will get us to the Leoncino. Benelli was established in Pesaro, Italy in 1911, which has given rise to dubious claims that it is the oldest of all European motorcycle factories still in operation. In the beginning,

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