Initially an aircraft builder, things were not well with Agusta in the immediate postwar years, not least because Italy had been playing for the wrong team in the five-year conflict.
In order to keep their skilled workforce in employment, Count Domenico Agusta and his brother Vincenzo decided to make bikes.
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