Ringhini

Franco Ringhini, started his career at the Guazzoni factory, where he designed competitive race engines for gokarts and later mopeds. Then he joined Morbidelli, a woodworking factory, who had their own raceteam. Here he designed a string of fast disc-valved tvostrokes making him and teammate Eugenio Lazzarini able to go GP racing. In the late '60s the Ringhini- designed Morbidelli 50cc racer was the factory's first successful Grand Prix project, and the team collected several GP points. Late 73 Ringhini left the Morbidelli factory and started up on his own in Pesaro, where this beautiful racer wearing his own name emanated from. Issued with a 17mm Dellórto for the Italian junior championship - senior versions had a 26mm carburettor.

Ringhinis were often seen in the Italian "Hill-climb" races, usually less fairing, since the uphill races kept speeds low.
A total of around thirty Ringhinis were made with some differences. Early models had dual- points 6volt ignitions rotating half engine rpm. Later versions had a longer crankshaft protruding the clutch- cover where a rotor activated the Kröber pick-up. The early thermo-siphon cooled cylinders were exchanged for German Mahle units with a special cylinderhead cast by Ringhini and an electrical waterpump.