The 2024 Motogiro d’Italia will stop in Massa. The Moto Club Massa association also took part in the event organized by the Moto Club Terni and, under the patronage of the municipality, organized the checkpoint which will be carried out in Piazza degli Aranci on the afternoon of Friday 24 May. “It will be an opportunity to donate to all the participants a memory of our city – write from the Moto Club Massa – through a small marble sculpture and to manage a light refreshment given that the 200 participating motorcyclists will be fasting since the morning”. The Motogiro d’Italia is the historical re-enactment of the famous event considered, for years, a sort of traveling motorcycle museum because it brings together the most important vintage motorcycles in the world. In this edition, over two thirds of the participants are riding vehicles built between the 1920s and the end of the 1950s. As has happened since the first edition in 1989, this year too the Motogiro will take place over six stages, four of which are in line and the other two in a daisy chain, with departure and arrival in the same place, in particular the first in Bologna and the fourth in Villafranca of Verona. The second fraction will take the caravan to Sala Baganza (PR), the third departing from Fontevivo in Villafranca, the fifth will arrive in Viareggio and then the sixth and last with a staged arrival in the square of the municipality of Zola Predosa. During the route there will be special tests, i.e. the gran Fondo, which will take place with the regularity formula where the travel times imposed by timetables, time controls and special tests timed to the hundredth of a second will be divided into six categories:
Heritage – reserved for motorcycles of all brands and engine sizes built between 1914 and 1949
Historic – which sees motorbikes built between 1950 and 1958 competing, with a displacement of up to 175 cc, this is the most coveted and with the largest number of participants, as it harks back to the speed competition that took place from 1953 to 1957
Historic 60s– for motorcycles and scooters built between 1959 and 1969 also including those that participated in the regularity Motogiro of the mid-sixties
Classics – for vehicles of all types and engine sizes made between 1970 and 1990;
Motogiro – for motorcycles, scooters and sidecars from 1991 to today
Tourist -participants follow the same route as the Motogiro in a tourist spirit.
Also at the start of this edition will be the world motorcycling champions led by the world champions Pier Paolo Bianchi and Virginio Ferrarithe latter riding the Morini Turismo 175 from 1953 and personalities from the world of television and entertainment, as well as correspondents from the sector press from all over the world. Among the latter we remember English Hugo Wilson of Classic Bike Magazine who drives a very rare 1951 BSA 175 that has just been restored. Also noteworthy is the presence of the director and documentary maker Emerson Gattafoni who will create a special for a well-known Japanese TV. Among the motorbikes, there are numerous traditional 175 CC models from Italian brands which in the 1950s dictated the law in light displacements such as: Ducati, Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial, MV Agusta, Laverda, Maserati and Bianchi etc. but there is no shortage of historic Spanish, English, French, German and Eastern European companies. The Moto Club Massa wanted to thank the municipality of Massa for the very valuable help given by the councilors Bertoneri and Mercanti and the partners of the event: EVAM Fonteviva, Apuana Lubrificanti, Aries Pizzeria, Contatto advertise’, La bottega di Adò, the Della Tommasina winery , Bread and imagination .
