American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 175 February 2014 | Page 14

MaroloTest modular
lift program
A few months ago we reported
on a new trike lift manufactured
in France by MaroloTest.
One of the world’s first specialty
motorcycle workshop equipment
manufacturers, Marolo Test was
founded in 1958 when it introduced
what is thought to have been the first
ever motorcycle specific dynamometer
– a PTW diagnostic test bench for the
small cc mopeds and scooters that
dominated the European market at
that time.
Founder Paul Marchand, who
pioneered what has become an
‘everyday’ in automotive and
motorcycle performance, tuning and
diagnostics, and fast forward to the
21st Century and MaroloTest is still in
the vanguard of motorcycle
dynamometer design in conjunction
with Daniel Fuchs.
These days under the ownership of
Jean-Luc Marchand who bought the
company in 2000, the Marolo-Test
offer is a turnkey motorcycle workshop
solution with many patented and
proprietary designs and techniques.
Not least among these are their
ModuLift and VariLift workshop lift
programs which feature pneumatic or
hydraulic power options, according to
customer preference, and a materials
and equipment specification which
delivers ergonomic and versatile
workshop space solutions.
Their trike lift features a system of
six removable plates for 2-, 3- or 4wheel vehicle configuration, with the
Harley-Davidson Tri Glide as the
blueprint for the system.
MaroloTest’s specifications meet or
exceed all worldwide approval
standards and can be specified for US,
European and other international
power sources.
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New Harley trike lift

Workshop equipment specialist
MaroloTest moved to Cholet, near Nantes
in Western France, in 2001 and expanded
the facility to 3.000 sqm in 2009

Developed in conjunction with Daniel
Fuchs, ‘PowerFULL’ motorcycle and
scooter dynamometers are
the latest generation of safety and
feature-rich dynamometer designs in
a pedigree that goes back to
founder Paul Marrolaud’s first moped
test bench design launched in 1958

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