Ferrari dismisses motorcycle rumours

• Over the past week, several stories have been published on the Internet speculating about Ferrari working on a motorcycle engine after a patent lodged by the firm was published in the European Patent Office (EPO) website.
• The patent showed a cruiser-style motorcycle with a V-Twin engine and stories quickly linked the patent to the development of an actual Ferrari motorcycle.

• Ferrari’s Northern European spokesperson Jason Harris has now been quoted by MCN of dismissing any such plans and saying that “there is no motorcycle future for Ferrari.”
• Harris has gone on to explain that the image of the motorcycle was only used to demonstrate the technology Ferrari has chosen to protect. The patent was filed for a new balancing technology that eliminates the need for a balancer shaft as it manages to balance each side of the Vee of an engine at the planes of the crank, Harris was quoted as saying.
• Ferrari’s patent explores the vibrational forces in a V-Twin engine and eliminating the need for a balancer shaft has benefits in terms of weight and packaging. What was demonstrated as a V-Twin can actually be replicated on a V4, V6, V8 or V12 engine, Harris explained and put to rest any further speculation about a V-Twin motorcycle from Ferrari.