Like the off-road motorcycles his company wants to improve, Steve Christini has been scrambling for years to gain traction for his small Philadelphia firm, Christini Technologies Inc.
The company got some recently in the form of a $3 million equity financing commitment from Tradewise L.L.C. of Ridgewood, N.J.
Christini, 34, plans to use the staged investment to kick-start production of his firm's all-wheel-drive system for off-road motorcycles. Today, almost all mass-produced motorcycles are rear-wheel drive.