Piero Remor (Porto Venere, Italy, 1896 - Rome, 1964)[1] was an Italian engineer and motorcycle constructor, best known for his work for the Gilera and MV Agusta brands.
This project caught the attention of Count Luigi Bonmartini who owned the Officine di Precisione Romane Automobilistiche (OPRA) company in Rome.
To earn money, however, work also had to be carried out for the aviation industry and it took five years for a prototype of a motorcycle to be built.
However, when the OPRA entered its first race, the Grand Prix of Rome, it was driven by a then more famous driver, Umberto Faraglia.
Gilera bought the six machines, drawings, rights, spare parts and hired Taruffi as rider, team leader and chief engineer.
[3][4][5][6] After leaving OPRA, Remor joined the Officine Meccaniche (OM) car factory in Brescia.
[3] In 1947, the Gilera 500 4C began to take shape and in 1948 the first tests were carried out by Carlo Bandirola and Massimo Masserini on the Milan-Bergamo motorway.
Only the last race of the year, the Grand Prix of Italy, was won by Masserini, mainly because Norton and AJS did not enter.
The fight with Pagani was intense that Remor forbade him to ride on the four-cylinder machine forcing him to use the Saturno.
With a win at the Grand Prix of Italy, Gilera had only won two races in the first world championship year with a motorcycle that was the best on paper.
The initial difficulties in resolving lubrication problems and his refusal to correct bad steering behaviour or even to acknowledge that it existed were no longer acceptable.
[10] MV Agusta was still racing in the 125 cc class with a two-stroke engine, which was not competitive with the four-strokes of Mondial and Morini.
at the front was a chrome-molybdenum Girder fork and in the back was a double swinging arm with torsion springs and friction dampers.
[13] After leaving MV Agusta at the end of 1953, Piero Remor worked at Motom, which manufactured mopeds and light motorcycles, from 1954 to 1957.