Friedl Münch began hand constructing the massive in 1966 after receiving a special order from Jean Murit – a former motorbike sidecar racer and a leading mild within the French motorcycle community. Jean wanted a no-rate spared motorcycle that might cheerfully attain a hundred and forty mph and maintain it for hours on stop.
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| Moto Liberty Big Motor "MÜNCH MAMMOTH" |
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| Moto Liberty Big Motor "MÜNCH MAMMOTH" |
Münch had years of experience building performance bikes, commonly based totally on Horex designs, so there has been a prime assignment provided in having to discover a new engine after which fabricate a body and a few of the different components required. He settled on a car engine from the NSU Prinz, it changed into an inline-four with a swept volume of 996cc, an overhead cam and an output of 55 hp.
By way of current requirements those numbers all seem fairly run of the mill, however inside the mid-Sixties they had been headline grabbing. The idea of losing an inline-4 from an vehicle into a bike frame was considered borderline madness, and the 1 litre potential become nevertheless distinctly uncommon.
Friedl chose to expand a completely new frame for the monstrous, he began with a Norton Featherbed and borrowed drastically from the layout. Inside the mid-60s the Featherbed turned into taken into consideration through many to be the nice pound-for-pound frame inside the international, and if there was one thing that Friedl was focussed on it changed into weight saving – he had to build a overall performance bike around a car engine in any case.
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| Moto Liberty Big Motor "MÜNCH MAMMOTH" |
It had been decided to couple the inline-four with a four-velocity gearbox linked to a tools-pushed primary and an enclosed chain very last force to the rear wheel. The weight of the original prototype became simply 480 lbs (218 kgs) way to full-size use of magnesium and light-weight additives, by the time the version reached manufacturing the burden had improved to 656 lbs (298 kgs) – making its version call rather apt.
Over the route of its 10 year manufacturing run the Münch giant turned into offered with engine sizes, it first of all started out with a 998cc unit but this quickly went up to 1177cc courtesy of the NSU TTS. It’s notion that more or less 500 have been produced and it isn’t acknowledged how many have survived the intervening a long time.
The tremendous you notice right here is one of the later 1177cc fashions and it’s had a as an alternative interesting lifestyles in Germany, Japan and now within the united states of america. It’s been featured in three magazines along with The classic Motor Cycle (2004), MCN (2012) and in classic bike Mechanics (2015), and it’s rarity has resulted in it constantly being a popular motorbike when it’s out on the road.
If you’d like to examine more about this Münch significant you could click here to visit Bonhams, it’s estimated to be well worth someplace within the £28,000 to £35,000 range and it’s because of be auctioned on the 18th of October 2015.
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