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This is one of the very first MV Agusta fours, a 1951 4C aka the 500 Bialbero Corsa. Although designed, like the original Rodine and Gilera Quattro, by Piero Remor there are some notable (and frankly odd) differences. The most obvious is shaft drive (to keep oil off the rear tyre and sod changing the gearing) and the need for two gearshift levers – on one side it would change up, on the other it would change down. MV Agusta, like so many other Italian aviation manufactu

This is another masterpiece by Jamie Kinroy that opened a piece on the Target Design's MV Agusta based prototype that caught Suzuki's eye and led to the Katana - the story's in Benzina 15, available in the shop. Jamie also did illustrations for Benzina 14 and 16. The 750 Sport is revered as the most collectible MV roadster, and can make the thick end of a £100k - in August Bonhams sold one for a nice but unoriginal late model Sport for over £66,000 But to be honest by the m

This is the MV Agusta stand at the 1950 Milan show, promising imminent delivery of a road going 500 four. The Turismo R19 was priced at 950,000 lira, about three times the cost of a decent 250. Like its racing sibling there was an odd gearchange arrangement, a lever on one side of the gearbox to change up, an apparently identical lever on the other side for changing down. Of course the road bike never made it to any owners, although the odd gearbox and shaft drive were briefl