Five motorcycle manufacturers are representative of the Italian 4 stroke school in the area of regularity trials – only 3 reached levels of excellence - Gilera, Guzzi and Morini.

1937 - Morini was born in Bologna during the thirties through the merit of its founder Alfonso Morini, who always participated in person at events with enthusiasm, capability and determination. He battled always for the higher classification listings: his motorcycles were both pretty and refined and during the competitive years he was a prime protagonist.

1946 – Once the enormous difficulties of the war years had been overcome, he was an active member of the ‘reconstruction.’ Already in 1946 Morini was present on the market with the T125, a beautiful single cylinder two stroke with a three speed gearbox inspired by the German DKW. A year later a sport version was introduced alongside it.

1949 - In 1949 a single overhead cam four stroke 125 was put into production. In its ‘Corsa’ race version this developed 12 cv at 10,000 rpm and exceeded 140 kph. In the saddle of this thorough-bred, Umberto Masetti gathered his first successes on the world stage, while Emilio Mendogni won the Grand prix of the nations (Gran Premio delle Nazioni) and the Spanish Grand Prix in 1952.
This prestigious and appropriately modified model took part in the
Six-Days trial of Llandrindod Wells (12/17 september1949), ridden by Longoni, the race at Varese (September 1951) where D’Ignazio took the gold medal, the Valli Bergamasche (Bergamo valleys) with Cesare Boffo (25th) and the same competition in 1952 with Guerino Mantovani (23^rd) attests to the value of the equipment but it is still too early to talk of real off-road competition motorcycles.

1953 – The precursor of his ‘Corsa’ models entered into production in 1953, a 175 with pushrod and rocker distribution was destined in its various versions to consecrate Morini’s name and become the ideal bike for many Italians. Gran Turismo, Settebello, Rebello, Supersport, Briscola, Tresette, Tresette Sprint are names which made Italians dream and it was exactly aboard one of these, the “Settebello Aste Corte" that Giacomo Agostini, one of our greatest champions, made his debut in 1961 at the Trento-Bondone hill climb where he recorded second place.
Morini technology was valid and it withstood with honour comparison with other manufacturers. Thanks also to the talents of Tarquinio Provini it gave all the other fabricators a hard time and they were often forced to follow ignominiously.