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I remember the Munch Mammoth but if I'm not mistaken that was kind of a Frankenstein bike built using an NSU car engine and not an engine made specifically for a motorcycle.
Don't remember the MV 600 going to have to research that one.
Looks like you are right...1967, although only 127 of them were produced. Still it beat the Honda 750 by a year.
https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/class...0z18jfzhur
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(05-26-2019, 02:06 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I remember the Munch Mammoth but if I'm not mistaken that was kind of a Frankenstein bike built using an NSU car engine and not an engine made specifically for a motorcycle.
Don't remember the MV 600 going to have to research that one.
Looks like you are right...1967, although only 127 of them were produced. Still it beat the Honda 750 by a year.
https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/class...0z18jfzhur
Nice read Ferret. Thanks for sharing.
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There was the Ariel square 4. Does that count? There was also a Danish motorcycle called the Nimbus which had an inline 4 -cylinder engine, although it was mounted fore and aft rather than laterally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_(motorcycle)
