I never knew they made bikes, amazing..!!
They didn't really! Orsi who bought the company in the pre-war years also owned a separate component manufacturer; when the Orsi empire was split after the war, Maserati cars went to one owner and the component part to another; presumably they had to split the trademark use as by then the component company was using the Maserati name anyway (Wikipedia gives " Fabbrica Candele Accumulatori Maserati S.p.A. ("Maserati Spark Plugs Batteries factory" 1947 in Modena - 1960)". But I have seen somewhere that an error by the lawyers in drafting the wording on trade marks of the parent company meant that the component side could use the Maserati name on anything as long as it wasn't on cars....not sure how true that is, I am sure I have seen the full story elsewhere, maybe it's in the 100th anniversary book.
Enrico's pages says: "It is a curious fact that the motorcycles that carried the famous 'Trident' were not made by the famous car maker, but by a subsidiary company of the Orsi Group that manufactured spark plugs, batteries and bulbs for cars and motorcycles. These two companies having only the famous name and the Trident logo in common."
Still, very nice 50's bike...wonder how many survive.
