The Italjet Mini Mini Sold For $900 At Bonhams Vegas Auction Jan 2017



Publisher Floyd Clymer, best known for running Cyclemagazine from 1951-66, was likewise a wheeler-dealer intent of bringing defunct Indian Motorcycles back to life. Reportedly, Clymer sank a quarter-million dollars of his ain money into the project, but sadly his stab at a restart died with him inwards 1970. Clymer's heirs thus passed the Indian mention onto Alan Newman, who established a surprisingly terminate problem of sub-125cc models before closing the performance inwards 1976.

One of those neo-Indians was the Mini Mini, ballyhooed as the "Ultimate Christmas Present" inwards club ads claiming it was the world's smallest terminate motorcycle. Built by times Italjet inwards Italy using a 49.7cc Morini engine with centrifugal clutch, the Mini weighed all of 57lbs., had a 30.5in. wheelbase as good as a topographic request tiptop of only 18in., land top speed could live parentally restricted to 10mph as good as preparation wheels were available as an option!

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