Walldorf, Germany -Friedel Münch Museum (Motorcycles) - postcard c.1980s

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  • Picture / Image:  Friedel Münch Museum, Scwetzinger Strasse, Walldorf/Baden 
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Münch was a German motorcycle manufacturer which, during the 1960s, produced the Mammoth, a four-cylinder motorcycle using an NSU car engine.

Hugo Wilson wrote of the founder Friedl Münch:

Münch produced many prototype and racing machines, but the Mammoth is his most famous motorcycle – it was simply the fastest, most powerful, most expensive bike of its time.^[1]

Limited production began in 1966. The 'Mammoth' name was later dropped due to copyright reasons.

Friedl Münch began his career as a mechanic and engine tuner in the late 1940s, working especially with Horexmotorcycles.^[3] The Horex factory noted the success of his home-tuned racers, and offered Münch a job in their competition department.

When Horex ceased motorcycle manufacture in 1956, Friedl Münch purchased the remaining stocks of motorcycles and spares, and sold his own race-tuned Horex cafe racers from his workshop in Altenstadt, Germany.

Machines were hand-built to order from Münch's workshop in Nieder-Florstadt, Friedberg, West Germany.

Friedl Münch was given a commission to build in 1966 a special for Jean Murit, a famous French former sidecar road-racer, who was then-President of the BMW Club of France and organiser of the Chamois Rally, a summertime motorcyclists' gathering at high altitude in the Alps.^[4]

Münch used a 996 cc air-cooled NSU Motorenwerke engine having a chain-driven single overhead camshaft housed in a specially-built, brazed-up steel tube frame based on Norton Featherbed principles. Customers could choose from one, two or four carburetors, with options for 43 or 52 bhp. A four-speed gearbox connected to a gear primary-drive and enclosed-chain final drive, and the front brake was one of Münch's famous 10 in (250 mm) units.^[2]

In July 1966, Murit rode his new bike at the head of a procession from the Val d’Isère up to Col de l'Iseran, Europe's second-highest mountain pass.^[5]