degrees ) using the cylinders and heads of their snowmobiles . The decisive strategy meeting with President Ivan Beggio took place on September 12 , 2001 , one day after the attacks on the twin towers in New York , a fact that paralysed us and made us unable to prepare the input for a very difficult project . The meeting was a disaster : we were all upset by the historical events of the previous day and could not come up with a winning idea that could also compete with Japanese motorbikes in terms of price .
In the following days , three of us locked ourselves in a meeting room : marketing , project manager and myself to understand that we had to start from our flagship , the RSV Mille , which was giving the company a lot of satisfaction on a commercial level and whose chassis had become the reference for sport bikes , especially the restyled 2001 version . So , we decided to transform the RSV Mille into a Naked version . For the styling , the task was given to Giuseppe Riciutti , designer of the original
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