The Benelli family established a repair workshop in Pesaro in 1911. Motorcycle manufacturing and racing followed, and the company became known for technically adventurous machines. The 750 Sei made six-cylinder production a road-bike spectacle in the 1970s; later revivals produced the Tornado Tre, TNT and modern Leoncino and TRK families.
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Motor Museum · Motorcycles · Since 1911
Benelli
Benelli’s long Pesaro history spans racing singles, ambitious multi-cylinder road bikes and modern middleweight touring and naked machines.
1911motorcycle era begins
Italyorigin
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6catalogue bikes
Origins
The Benelli family
Read the manufacturer through the machines that changed its engineering, racing, design, market or cultural meaning.
Featured bikes
Three turning points.
The featured layer picks the motorcycles that most clearly changed this manufacturer’s technology, market or identity.
250 Sport
1927 · classic
250 Sport
An early expression of Benelli’s habit of using competition to advertise engineering sophistication.
Leoncino 125
1951 · classic
Leoncino 125
A practical post-war machine whose name was important enough to be revived decades later.
750 Sei
1974 · roadster
750 Sei
A technical and visual landmark: cylinder count used as a statement of engineering ambition.
Museum catalogue
Bikes through time.
Each bike is treated like a museum object: what it was, why it mattered and where it sits in the manufacturer’s wider story.
1920s
1950s
1970s
1974–1978 · roadster · FEATURED
750 Sei
The 750 Sei made Benelli the first manufacturer to put a six-cylinder engine into series motorcycle production.
Why it matters: A technical and visual landmark: cylinder count used as a statement of engineering ambition.
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750 Sei
1978–1989 · touring
900 Sei
The 900 Sei enlarged Benelli’s six-cylinder idea into a more substantial late-1970s and 1980s road motorcycle.
Why it matters: The continuation of one of the motorcycle industry’s most unusual production engine formats.
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900 Sei