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    Mia Casa...

    Oct 22, 2018 4 minutes
    Words & Photographs: Stan

    Let’s be clear, for anyone seeking a high power, knee-scraping, sports conversion Casa’s 185 kit isn’t the answer, but no one’s making that claim. With an output of just over 10bhp it’s close to a factory 200 and I think that’s what it should be compared to. In a sentence? It’s the small block barrel Innocenti should have produced but never did.

    Cinquemila and counting

    Although it’s recently been reworked, Casa’s 185 kit has been around for some time… which makes it easy to miss. While everyone else has their heads turned in the opposite direction, and has got the latest XYZ-super-ultimate-championship winning gazillion bhp engines under the spotlight, these humbleMonza, the past two EuroLambrettas, and even Vespa World Days in Belfast, to which I rode from Spain along France’s Atlantic coast and through Eire. From these trips I’ve picked a few days’ riding to illustrate how the Casa kit performed.

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