Moto Morini Seiemmezzo Scrambler
The Moto Morini Seiemmezzo Scrambler, as its name suggests, is a dual-purpose on-off road bike that flaunts flamboyant and proper neo-retro styling. The Seiemmezzo makes a handsome motorcycle that looks perfectly proportioned. The bike gets a circular LED headlamp unit and a nice large muscular tank just under its wide handlebar. Instruments on this Moto Morini are taken care of by a bright and crisp 5-inch, colour TFT screen.
Powering the Scrambler is the same, four-stroke, 649cc parallel twin engine, albeit in a slightly different state of tune here. On the Scrambler, this motor is good for 54.2bhp and 54Nm. The engine feels smooth and tractable, and the bike chugs away cleanly, even when carefully giving it some stick off-road, without pressing riders to frequently change gears.
This Indo Italian gets adjustable KYB fork suspension in front and an adjustable monoshock at the rear. The wheel setup on
this Scrambler is 18-inches at the front and 17-inches at the rear, with spoked wheels, also Pirelli clad, although they somehow don’t offer quite as much grip off-road, as the ones on the X-Cape 650X. The same brake setup as the X-Cape is also deployed here with similar levels of performance.
You get good leverage from the wide handlebars although it reaches maximum lock fairly soon, making tighter, slow turns overly cumbersome. Couple that with a 215kg kerb weight, and the Scrambler is not the easiest bike to manage off-road. Although, with its comfortable rider’s triangle and large 15.5-litre fuel tank, this Moto Morini could still make for a good long-distance touring bike.
THE ENGINE FEELS SMOOTH AND TRACTABLE, AND THE BIKE CHUGS AWAY CLEANLY