APE

The APE is a 'motorcycle Italian, active since 1923 in 1925.

APE (short for Agostinelli Perone) was founded at the mechanic shop in Cyrenaica of Mondavio by Ermanno Agostinelli, and mechanical lathe workshop owner and Luigi Perone, director of the Post Office in Mondavio who was a passionate motorcyclist. The collaboration of Umberto Carloni, a boy and nephew of dell'Agostinelli workshop, which was entrusted the testing of motorcycles, which later gained some notoriety in sports activities in its pilot.

In the two years of operations, the company produced a limited number of motoleggere, versions like ApeSportandApeTourism, with propeller two-stroke to 98cc, built with a French transmission and mounted for the first time on an Italian chassis.

There is no evidence that any copy of motorcycles EPA has come to our days.