Fantic Motor

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Fantic Motor
Founded 1968
Founder Mario Agrati and Henry Keppel-Hesselink
Headquarters Italy
Products motorcycles
Website http://www.fanticmotor.it/
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Fantic Motor 200 of 1982
File:Fantic tz 150 2009.jpg
Fantic TZ 150, 2009
File:Fantic Caballero 300 2012.jpg
Fantic Caballero 300, 2012

Fantic Motor is an Italian manufacturer of motorcycles. The company began in 1968, manufacturing and exporting enduro motorcycles, mini-bikes and go-karts. Today they continue in the same genre, though the names have changed to dual-sport and motard (supermoto), and they have not returned to the US market.

Fantic began exporting to the United Kingdom in 1972, as part of a wave of manufacturers who took advantage of "sixteener laws," legislation that forbade sixteen-year-old motorcyclists from riding motorcycles up to 250 cc, as they had been used to. As a result, European and Japananese manufacturers exported their sporty and lightweight below-50cc engines, which had been common in Europe, to England also. Fantic produced a "sensational chopper moped" and a TI ("Tourismo Internazionale)," both of which became very popular quickly,[1] with the reputation of being some of the fastest mopeds on the market, going as fast as 70 mph.[2]

In the 1980s, Fantic enjoyed success in the Observed trials world championships, taking three titles as well as seven wins at the prestigious Scottish Six Days Trial.

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