Vintage motorcycle “Rumi Junior 125”Brand: Fonderie Officine Rumimodel: Junior 125country: Italy - Bergamoyear: 1956condition: restoreddisplacement: 124.6 (bore and stroke 42 x 45)Engine: Horizontal twin-cylinder two-strokegearbox: four-speed blockDonnino Rumi took over from his father in the bronze foundry he had created. During the Second World War he refused to convert production to war purposes and became a fugitive partisan. In the post-war period, he responded to the demand for cheap means of transport by adding the production of light motorcycles to the already established production of textile and pasta-making machinery. With the help of his friend, the nautical designer Pietro Vassena, in 1949 he was able to present the first, innovative, Rumi motorcycle at the Milan show.The Junior derives from the "Bicarburatore" and mounts an Earles fork, and is intended for racing from the beginning. It is sold to private Italian and foreign rider