2023 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 02:44
If during the next year you are going to visit the vicinity of Barcelona, it is still a good time for you to take a look at the temporary exhibition that they have inaugurated this March in the Barcelona Motorcycle Museum and that will be open to the public until March 2017. Under the name " Scooters, a century of urban motorcycle (1916-2016)"He proposes a tour of this urban vehicle that is part of our lives.
It was in 1916 when the first scooter (translated as a scooter) saw the light of day in New York. It was about Autoped and, literally, it was a scooter with a motor located in the front wheel that allowed it to move quickly through traffic.
Much has happened since then and many scooters have allowed thousands of people to move nimbly through traffic. At Barcelona Motorcycle Museum have been collected 30 models, divided into 4 areas, which allow discovering the origins and evolution of this vehicle, which revolutionized personal mobility and which has established itself as one of the best solutions to current traffic problems.
The visitor will be able to compare pioneering models, such as the ABC Skotamota 1920s, with futuristic curiosities or a Honda super cub 1970, the best-selling motorcycle in history with 90 million units produced.
They have not forgotten, of course, the mythical Vespa and Lambretta. The first Vespa sold in Barcelona in 1953 is exhibited there and it has the particularity of being autographed by Salvador Dalí using a lipstick.
You can also see, loaned directly by the Austrian brand from its museum, a rare KMT Mirabel 1957. And of course, models that were manufactured by the great motorcycle industry that we had in our country: Husor, Iruña, Rondine Scooter, Rieju Isard, Montesa Microscooter, Derbi Scotmatic, …
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