With the winds of crisis that dominated the market almost unchallenged must have made a good effort the Benellli to appear at the Show of Milan with a large range to complete. I’m not a mystery because of the difficulties faced by many Italian manufacturers and is not the case of blame for the lack of dynamism with which this period presented news and updates of their models. Besides, if Honda and Yamaha, the two largest manufacturers of two-wheelers in the world, for budget reasons were absent from the only trade event of the year is easy to imagine how hard to push ahead to the houses they can not count on sales numbers and billed at least four zeros billionaire.
Hats off to Benelli, therefore, that managed to pull out of the hat a version enhanced and enriched with the preparation of his beautiful TNT. The Naked Pesaro has been some years on his shoulders but the sophistication and aggressiveness of the design allows it much better than some competitors to resist the passage of time. The line is it really “bad” outside the box and with a few adjustments, the wise style office Benelli always manages to create special versions hitting straight to the heart.
This time is called R160 and is produced in the TnT series of ever more evil . The horses have become the beauty of 155 to 10,300 rpm and torque is 120 Nm at 8,000 rpm. If you have had the opportunity to try a TnT 1130 you know when it needed it in that push, the three-cylinder Italian, he has to sell at all engine speeds. But the engineers have thought pesaresi well that in times of “lean” there is nothing better than to dream of lovers and so here is a ‘performance in key racing for their beautiful naked: in practice, given that this is an’ almost replica ‘of that race in the Italian roadster, reserved for naked.
The exhibition also provides an enhanced braking system, with radial master cylinder Brembo Braking 320 mm discs and radially mounted calipers. To lighten and enrich the body thinks a lot ‘of carbon fiber sprinkled on tail, tip, tank, fender, clutch cover (with slipper) and terminal end of the discharge.
The livery leaves no doubt sull’indole of TnT R160: red and black are perfectly mixed in alternation from the impact of certain aesthetic observer. Precise information on price and availability have not yet been released but we believe that a listing of about 14,000 Euro road is more than plausible.
