The classic weekend at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este included beautiful motorcycles in the Concorso di Motociclette Trofeo BMW Group part of the competition.
The overall winner was a 1973 Munch-4 TTS-E, but we’d be hard pressed to choose from such a stunning array of machinery. The selection ranged from 1912 until the present day, with all major and notable motorcycle manufacturers represented.
Münch-4 TTS-E, 1177 cm³, 1973, Alessandro Altinier (IT) (# MC-40)
Friedl Munch began his career working with Horex motorcycles as an engineer and tuner, and having been hired by them to work in the competition department, he purchased the stocks of motorcycles and spares when the company stopped making bikes in 1956.
In 1966, he created the Mammoth, with a NSU 996, 4-cylinder car engine in a tubular loop frame, which gave a maximum speed of 115mph. It was followed by the Munch4 1200TTS, which utilised an 1177cc NSU TTS engine, and 1973 saw the 1200 TTS-E with mechanical fuel injection and 100hp. Less than 500 models were hand built.
Are you prepared for an utterly mouth-watering list of classic motorcycles? So clean you could eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner on any of them?
BMW 500 Kompressor, 1939, 494 cm³, BMW Group Classic (DE)
BMW S 1000 RR, 2014, 999 cm³, BMW Group Classic (DE)
NSU R22-54 Rennmax, 1954, 249 cm³, Motor Sport Museum Hockenheimring (DE)
Norton 500, 1954, 499 cm³, Motor Sport Museum Hockenheimring (DE)
Honda 250 2RC164, 1964, 249 cm³, Motor Sport Museum Hockenheimring (DE)
Moto Guzzi 750 S3, 740 cm³, 1974, Bruno Maag (CH) (# MC-60)
BMW R 75/5, 745 cm³, 1972, Motorradmuseum Weisel (DE) (# MC-58)
Kawasaki H2, 748 cm³, 1972, Bernhard Rhomberg (AT) (# MC-56)
Kawasaki Z1, 903 cm³, 1972, Tobias Aichele (DE) MC – 19a (# MC-54)
Suzuki GT 750, 739 cm³, 1972, Giorgio Giani (IT) MC – 18a (# MC-52)
Honda CB 750, 736 cm³, 1972, Josef Gunz (AT) (# MC-50)
Harley-Davidson XLCR, 997 cm³, 1977, Giorgio Giani (IT) MC – 18b (# MC-48)
Benelli 750 Sei, 748 cm³, 1976, Tobias Aichele (DE) MC – 19 b (# MC-46)
Healey 1000/4, 995 cm³, 1974, Marco Saltini (IT) (# MC-44)
MV Agusta 750 GT, 743 cm³, 1974, Thomas Burkhard (DE) (# MC-42)
Münch-4 TTS-E, 1177 cm³, 1973, Alessandro Altinier (IT) (# MC-40) – The winner!
Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide, 1207 cm³, 1971, Carlo Fiocchi (IT) MC – 23 (# MC-38)
Motom 98 T, 98 cm³, 1955, Silvia Favaro (IT) (# MC-36)
Rumi Formichino, 124 cm³, 1954, Bruno Finardi (IT) MC – 22b (# MC-34)
Victoria V35 Bergmeister, 347 cm³, 1954, Johann Veitlmeier (DE) (# MC-32)
Adler M250, 247 cm³, 1952, Bernd Dieter (DE) (# MC-30)
Douglas 90 plus, 348 cm³, 1951, Bert Ruijs (NL) MC – 8 (# MC-28)
Imme R100, 99 cm³, 1949, Franz Meier (DE) (# MC-26)
Matchless Model X, 990 cm³, 1937, Matchless London Srl (IT) (# MC-24)
Indian Four 436, 1265 cm³, 1936, Benito Battilani (IT) (# MC-22)
Tornax Tornado, 789 cm³, 1935, Motor Sport Museum Hockenheimring (DE) (# MC-20)
Motobécane S5C Gran Sport, 493 cm³, 1934, Yves Compan (FR) (# MC-18)
BMW R 16, 735 cm³, 1932, Josef Kast (DE) MC – 20 (# MC-16)
Standard BT 1000, 993 cm³, 1930, Josef Beil (DE) (# MC-14)
Condor Super Sport, 993 cm³, 1929, Peter Rohrer (CH) MC – 14 (# MC-12)
Moto Guzzi C 2V, 498 cm³, 1928, Luigi Broggio (IT) MC – 15 (# MC-10)
Bianchi 175 Sport, 171 cm³, 1926, Giovanni Pedrali (IT) MC – 22a (# MC-08)
Great bikes, but where on earth was the DKW RT350 with the AutoUnion side car, or the Maico Taifun, or indeed the Triumph(Nürnberg) 350 Boss?
Hi,
Unfortunately we weren’t able to make it to the 2015 event ourselves, so we had to rely on what was available via official press releases, which tend to be slightly limited…