Piero Remor was an Italian engineer and motorcycle constructor, best known for his work for the Gilera and MV Agusta brands.
15 Facts About Piero Remor
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Piero Remor studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, with, among others professor Ugo Bordoni.
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In 1923, together with Carlo Gianini, Remor built a transverse inline four-cylinder engine for a motorcycle.
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Piero Remor left the OPRA company in 1930 after a dispute with Count Bonmartini.
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That company had no interest in the Rondine and Piero Remor Taruffi feared that his project, in which he had been involved for eight years, would be lost.
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When Fiat took over the OM brand in 1938 and ceased car production in favour of the production of trucks, Piero Remor started looking for other work.
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In 1939 Taruffi persuaded Remor to join Gilera to further develop the 500cc Rondine, but Piero Remor began developing a 250cc four-cylinder machine with a supercharger and the rear suspension of the Rondine.
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In that year, Gilera commissioned Piero Remor to develop a new racer.
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Piero Remor Taruffi had left the company to focus on his career as a racing driver.
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Piero Remor did not start from the 500 cc Rondine, but enlarged his own 1940 250 cc prototype to 500 cc.
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Piero Remor was not happy with that, but the fact is that the machine couldn't break points that year.
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Piero Remor always had a difficult relationship with his riders, because they blamed each other when results were disappointing:.
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In 1950 Augusta hired Pietro Piero Remor to build two GP machines: a four-cylinder 500 cc and a DOHC 125 cc.
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Piero Remor was an MV Agusta dealer in Bologna and received a generous salary of 800,000 lire and a motorcycle.
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Piero Remor later became a consultant and died in Rome in 1964.