Cagiva wmx 125

[albrid-3]

Where they a good bike.

[cyclegod]

http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=9703.0

[ba-02-xr]

What model. I rember the 86 being about the fastest thing on the track in stock trim. It was based on the 85 title winning bike. But very peeky.

[clutchslip]

Not only the 125 is covered in this thread, but there's plenty of history

http://forums.mxtrax.co.uk/showthread.php?t=38567

[ba-02-xr]

   
  www.cagivaracing.com

[k2000x]

what year was it that cagiva made a 125 for husky theres and old husky 125  kicking around town with cargiva stamped in alot of the alloy parts

[dave]

In 1987 Cagiva bought out Husqvarna.

[frostype400]

they are a nice looking bike are you going to get one David thanks Michael.

[Lozza]

One could be made to go very very fast.

[ba-02-xr]

83 would be a husky or cagiva. Maybe a husky fitted with a cagiva motor. Yes cagiva bought husky in 87. What do you have albrid. Cagivas were an awsome bike. Pitty they didnt have the support in Aus like they did overseas. They must of been huge in GB. But to win 2 world titles hey should of been everywhere.

[ba-02-xr]

What colour are the plastics & seat cover. Upside down forks or normal.

[Lozza]

No wonder they have a good engine, Jan Witteveen is probably the foremost 2 Stroke tuners in the world.

However, it was the off-track activities that were proving to be more dramatic that year. The Castiglioni brothers had made the strategic decision to purchase Husqvarna, and in December 1988 Witteveen learnt that Cagiva would not be entering the 1989 championship and therefore the factory team would have to be disbanded. As a result, Strijbos and van Doorn moved to Suzuki, Vehkonen joined Yamaha, Healey went to KTM and Witteveen swapped dirt for tarmac and fulfilled his long-held ambition to work in the road-racing community. However, he had to leave Cagiva in order to do so, as his proposal to take control of Cagiva’s 500cc Grand Prix program (note: the physical space in the Varese workshop was divided 50:50 between the motocross and 500cc Grand Prix race teams) was politely declined by the Castiglioni’s. Instead, Witteveen joined Aprilia in 1989.


In the post-Cagiva era, it was Witteveen who went on to achieve the greatest degree of success, designing the parallel and V-twin 250 engines and single-cylinder 125 engines that powered riders such as Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi and Loris Capirossi to multiple world titles. Witteveen is now in his early sixties, but is still driven by his love of two-stroke engineering. At the time of writing, he is the engine designer for Maxtra Racing, a new entrant in the ultra-competitive 125 road-racing class, and also works as a consultant to Italian kart-engine manufacturer, Maxter. When cagivaracing.com asked where his achievements with Cagiva rank in his long and distinguished career, Witteveen rated them as his second greatest set of professional accomplishments, with only his achievements at Aprilia coming in ahead of it. cagivaracing.com salutes the contribution he made to Cagiva’s success, as without the input of the genial genius it could be argued that Cagiva would not have achieved quite so much in such a short time, both in terms of the production machines and in the motocross world championships. Witteveen’s biggest regret from his time in Varese is that he didn’t win a 250 motocross world title, although he is careful to point out that from a technical standpoint his machines in 1987 and 1988 were certainly capable of doing so.

[nada]

i cant wait to race it

[AJ]

I'm interested in what bike you have.

I also have a WMX.

Ray Gardiner in the US hosted cagivawmx.com but his website's now gone. He sold all his early 80's Cagivas.

I downloaded some info from his site.

AJ

[AJ]

Is it the one that was on ebay the other day.

If so it's an '83 or '84 with a disk front end off something else.

The original seat cover would have been grey.

AJ