It started with an orange pocket bike.
Padova, one Christmas morning. Five years old. I have not stopped since.
I grew up in Padova, in a family that has always measured time in motorcycles. Ours is a multi-generational collection — eighteen machines and counting, from an old Moto Guzzi and an MV Agusta to a modern Triumph. Motorcycles were never objects in our house. They were inheritance.
I started riding at five and started racing for real at eighteen — the Triveneto CSEN and FMI motocross championships — until twenty-two, when I left for the United States. I never stopped riding for the love of it. You do not retire from this.
Capital markets discipline. Data science. A lifetime in the paddock.
Away from the paddock, Michele built a career in finance and data. After a master's in finance and a second in data science, both at a business school in Boston, he worked in seed-stage fintech investing in New York, then led strategic finance for a mobility unicorn through a $300M Series C, across New York and Dubai. He now works in corporate finance in aviation.
That combination — real market knowledge, data, and a lifetime inside motorcycle culture — is why Rotarium can give riders and collectors the honest guidance this world has always been missing.
- MSc Finance
- MSc Data Science
- Boston
- New York · Dubai
- Corporate finance, aviation
A tool I needed and could not find.
Rotarium began as a tool I needed and could not find: a way to know what a classic motorcycle is really worth, and to buy or sell one with real knowledge instead of folklore.
But it grew into something bigger. I kept meeting younger enthusiasts who love these machines and have no proper tools to live that passion — no transparent prices, no honest reliability picture, no map of the market. I want to change that: to empower people with knowledge, from reliability scores to market transparency, so anyone can step into this world with their eyes open.
And I believe — genuinely — that these machines are on the cusp of a decade of rising value. The people who understand them first will be the ones who understood them best.
“Motorcycles were never objects in our house. They were inheritance.”
Every collector has a grail.
Mine is the MV Agusta Superveloce 1000 Serie Oro — the most beautiful expression of everything this obsession is about.
A community for people who love old machines.
Rotarium is also a community — a place for people who share this love for old machines to find each other, compare notes, and build the definitive picture of the European market together. If that is you, you are already one of us.