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RT: in 94,95 they start commercializing motorbikes with high cc, around 350, what prompted this increment
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P: It was more of a commercial argument and a strategy to different from the rest rather than a thermodynamic issue. Although there were motorbikes that went really really well, they were slower to react and they had more inertia. There was a certain part of the public that really liked them. Maybe for the less daring riders.
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RT: in 98 you changed brand and you go to Sherco, why the change?
P: Because I was tired and I needed a change, also Andreu Codina encouraged me. We had the first interview in the Hotel Empordà in Figures with Mark Tessier and I asked him to show me all the project. We met again a week later and he showed me all the diagrams of the motorbike. I really liked it, Mark is a man of prestige, he is serious, assertive, firm, I felt that I had to go.
P: Because I was tired and I needed a change, also Andreu Codina encouraged me. We had the first interview in the Hotel Empordà in Figures with Mark Tessier and I asked him to show me all the project. We met again a week later and he showed me all the diagrams of the motorbike. I really liked it, Mark is a man of prestige, he is serious, assertive, firm, I felt that I had to go.
Josep Paxau with Marc Tessier who was at this time the main shareholder of Sherco.
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Before accepting the Sherco project I talked to Pibernat and Casas and they offered me a much better financial deal than what I already had. I told them that I would think about it but the following morning I handed in my notice. I was not comfortable with the things that were not fixed.
The original GasGas team - minus Dani Font . Josep Paxau , Albert Callis, Gabino Renales, Josep Maria Pibernat and Narcis Casas. Andreu Codina joined the team in 1987 as a voluntary rider who took no income from the factory. It was only after this year proving himself that he gained employment with GasGas.
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In the following meetings that we had to establish Sherco.Before we established the partnership we had another meeting and I disclosed that I didn’t want to be a partner. I didn’t want to be worried about things that didn’t concern me and I didn’t feel comfortable with it. We then decided that I would have a percentage of the number of motorbikes sold.
Josep Paxau's office with technical drawings.
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RT: When you came to Sherco, what had been done already?
P: The engine had been drawn by Jacques Coll all by hand, now it seems incredible. A few parts were in production but I changed all the thermo dynamical parts, the crank, cylinder, exhaust, I made them. I also designed the frame with the geometry that I considered best for that motorbike. All made in Torelló.
P: The engine had been drawn by Jacques Coll all by hand, now it seems incredible. A few parts were in production but I changed all the thermo dynamical parts, the crank, cylinder, exhaust, I made them. I also designed the frame with the geometry that I considered best for that motorbike. All made in Torelló.
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