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Piatti scooter
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Piatti | ||
| image | [[Image:Piatti logo.GIF | frameless | upright=0.6]] |
| manufacturer | Cyclemaster, Tudor Works, Chertsey, Weybridge, Surrey. | ||
| production | 1956-57 | ||
| engine | Horizontal 124 cc 2-stroke, air-cooled, single with Silentbloc rubber mountings | ||
| bore_stroke | 51 mm x 61 mm | ||
| compression | 7.2:1 | ||
| top_speed | 38 mph | ||
| ignition | Wico-Pacy flywheel magneto | ||
| transmission | 3-speed twist-grip operated with single-plate, engine-speed wet clutch | ||
| frame | Step-over monocoque, sheet-steel pressings welded together | ||
| suspension | Front: coil spring pivoted arm | ||
| Rear: coil spring on final drive chain housing with three adjustments for load | |||
| brakes | Front: 4.75 in drum | ||
| Rear: 4.75 in drum | |||
| tires | 3.50 in x 7 in | ||
| seat_height | Adjustable, between 28 in and 32.5 in | ||
| wet_weight | 196 lb | ||
| fuel_capacity | 1.5 impgal | ||
| sp | uk |
Rear: coil spring on final drive chain housing with three adjustments for load Rear: 4.75 in drum
Despite its Italian name, the Piatti scooter was of Belgian (and later, British) manufacture, being originally produced in 1954 in Belgium by D'Ieteren. Its name came from its italian designer, Vincenzo Piatti.
In 1956, production also commenced at the Cyclemaster works at Byfleet in Surrey, England.
However, the increasing availability of affordable small cars in Europe affected sales of the Piatti (and other scooters) and production eventually ceased. According to Erwin Tragatsch in a brief entry on the Piatti scooter in his Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles, Cyclemaster "failed to find many customers for this product", and manufactured only a small number before British production terminated.
The Piatti scooter has the dubious distinction of being, in the words of Bob Currie (author of Great British Motorcycles of the Sixties), "the worst scooter ever perpetrated."
Notes
References
- Motor Cycle Data Book, George Newnes Ltd., 1960, p.91 (Brief specifications of Scooters), p.170 (Servicing Data for Scooters). Accessed 15 June 2019
- ''[[The Motor Cycle (magazine). The Motor Cycle]]'', two-page road test, 7 March 1957, pp.298-299. Accessed 15 June 2019
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