Description
National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
26th March 2025 - 9:00AM
1956 Mi-Val 125 Sports Gobbetto
No Reserve
Registration No: 429 XVM
Frame No: 45485
MOT: Exempt
Rare Italian Sports 125 two stroke single
Presented in authentically restored condition
Run recently, supplied with a current V5C
Mi Val was an Italian manufacturer formed in the early 1950s when a group of businessmen from Bologna purchased the Gardonese Pietro Beretta arms factory and began producing their own range of lightweight motorcycles. Like many other small capacity bikes at the time, including the BSA Bantam and even early Yamahas, their design was heavily influenced by the pre-war German DKW RT 125. The 125cc engine was designed by the engineer Adriano Amadori, the frame by Carlo Ronzani and the suspension by Luigi Bonazzi beginning 20 years of success in sales and competition until motorcycle production ceased in the late 1960s when Mi-Val became part of the Beretta group, producing machine tools. The company also a made under licence copy of the Messerschmitt three-wheeler for the Italian market.
This rare and beautiful little Mi Val Sports Gobetto 125 is being offered at no reserve. Gobbetto is the Italian for Hunchback, a name given to it due to the shape of the fuel tank. The Sports model was a typically stylish small capacity bike that was very popular in Italian road races in the 1950s featuring a two stroke motor, alloy wheel rims and flat handlebars. To allow the rider to get down out of the breeze for maximum speed, that distinctive fuel tank is topped off with an upholstered pad to rest on. Restored in 2018, it has been run recently and comes supplied with a current V5C.
