MCN Tests MP3 500 (Gilera Fuoco)

MCN (Motorcycle News) is one of those sites which I follow.  This time, the featured bike is the Gilera Fuoco (fuoco is Italian for fire), rebadged by its parent company Piaggio and sold in the USA as the MP3 500.  Check out the video below as MCN’s Chief Road Tester, Trevor Franklin, rides the new three-wheeler.–Lorenzo

Piaggio claims that the MP3 can lean 40-degrees off the vertical; but Trevor definitely pushed the 500 beyond that mark, didn’t he?  On some of the turns he was actually leaning over 45-degrees (verified with a protractor), wouldn’t you say?  Maybe that explains all the metal (center stand) grinding at the end of the video, huh?  Pretty awesome!

HERE is a review by Basem Wasef of Popular Mechanics.  BTW, where are those two 70 plus-year-old dudes now?–Lorenzo

P.S.

Of course, without the work of Leopoldo Tartarini and his Italjet SCOOOP, we would most certainly not have the mp3’s today.  To read Steve Guzman’s article on thescooterscoop.com, click here.