Thirty-five years after the very first fairing motorcycle, Moto Morini has embraced Supersport again. The Corsaro Sport is the second model based on the completely newly developed 750 V-twin. According to the Italians, the Corsaro Sport is power and style on two wheels.
Who would have thought that this is the very first super sport for Moto Morini, unfortunately peanut butter. In 1988, a year after the takeover by Cagiva, Moto Morini launched the Dart 350, a fully streamlined motorcycle as was common at the time and was very similar in design to the Ducati Paso, but was never a success.
Times were difficult for Morini. The brand was in dire straits since the early 1980s and the takeover by the Castiglioni family, which owned Cagiva at the time, did not change this, despite the promise that significant investments would be made in the brand.
Franco Lambertini, who had been at the basis of the legendary 3 1/2 in the early 1970s and would be at the basis of its resurrection thirty-five years later with his Bialbero CorsaCorta 1,187 cc 87° V-twin design, the heart of the Corsaro 1200, the übernaked of that moment, had designed a new 60° V-twin before the takeover by Cagiva in 1987, but Castiglioni was not interested and in 1993 the curtain fell for Moto Morini.
So much for history, back to the present with this Corsaro Sport, Morini’s second – and if you ask us, very successful – attempt to enter the Supersport motorcycle segment. According to Morini, the Corsaro Sport is characterized by an innovative design and advanced technology, but does not elaborate further.
All we know is that the Corsaro Sport shares the technical platform with the also completely new Corsaro 750, with the same 96 hp 750 cc 90° V-twin (which can be reduced to 35 kW for the A2 license) and the same bicycle part. But with a full fairing and low clip-ons instead of a wide handlebar, which will have resulted in a sportier seating position.
The rest is still a matter of guesswork, but we are already looking forward to it. Who said the Supersport is at a dead end?
– Thanks for information from Motorfreaks.