MV Agusta 600
| MV Agusta | |
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 MV Agusta 600 |
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| MV Agusta 600 | |
| Manufacturer | MV Agusta |
| Production period | 1966 to 1970 |
| class | motorcycle |
| design type | Superbike |
| Motor data | |
| Four-stroke engine , air-cooled four-cylinder in-line engine, DOHC , camshaft drive via spur gears, two valves per cylinder, oil sump lubrication, two Dell'Orto carburettors with 24 mm diameter, coil ignition | |
| Displacement (cm³) | 591.5 |
| Power (kW / PS ) | 37 (50) at 8,200 min -1 |
| Torque ( N m ) | ? |
| Top speed ( km / h) | 170 |
| transmission | 5 speed transmission |
| drive | propeller shaft |
| Brakes | front: 2 × 216 mm mechanically operated disc brakes / rear: 200 mm drum brake |
| Wheelbase (mm) | 1,390 |
| Seat height (cm) | ? |
| Empty weight (kg) | 221 |
| Previous model | none |
| successor | MV Agusta 750 S. |
The MV Agusta 600 also MV Agusta 600 4C or MV Agusta 600 Turismo, was a motorcycle of the company MV Agusta that was built from 1966 to 1970. For the first time, a four-cylinder engine was installed transversely to the direction of travel on a production motorcycle, and cable-operated disc brakes were used. A total of 127 copies of this model were made.
development
Dr. Ing.Pietro Remor designed a racing engine for MV Agusta for the motorcycle world championship based on the Gilera four-cylinder, for which he was previously responsible. The engine of the MV 500/4 Cardano from 1950 was inclined 30 degrees forward and had two overhead camshafts. The shaft for the spur gears was located between the 2nd and 3rd cylinder, bore and stroke were 54 mm, the inlet / outlet valves were 90 degrees to each other. The gearbox was installed transversely behind the crankcase. On the basis of this racing engine, MV Agusta developed a series engine with lower compression, power and speed in order to increase stability. MV Agusta announced the production of the first motorcycle with transversely installed inline four-cylinder in 1950, a prototype (500 Tourismo) was presented, but was never mass-produced. The MV Agusta 600 model was finally presented in November 1965.
Technical specifications
The air-cooled four-cylinder engine was installed transversely in a motorcycle chassis, even before the bestsellers from Honda and Kawasaki . The heart of the MV Agusta four-cylinder is the so-called banquet, a control and bearing housing; crank drive, cylinder and cylinder head were mounted on it. The shoulder accommodated the crankshaft, which was composed of nine parts, in six bearing blocks, as did the spur gears in the control tower for the double camshaft drive. After loosening twelve nuts, the units mounted on the shoulder could be lifted out. Particularly noticeable was the fine ribbing of the cooling fins and the oversized cylinder head due to the double camshaft drive. The transversely installed cassette gear was driven by the engine through a toothed crank arm. It was connected to the cardan shaft to the rear wheel via a spiral bevel gear drive.
The cable-operated disc brakes on the telescopic fork, which were replaced by the duplex drum brake in later versions, were a novelty. The engine was installed in a touring chassis as instructed by Count Agusta. The large rectangular headlight, humped tank, and raised handlebars weren't ideal for the sports rider the brand wanted to appeal to. In the black livery, the motorcycle was nicknamed the Black Pig and referred to as one of the ugliest motorcycles of its time. After the more powerful and more elegant model MV Agusta 750 S was presented in 1970, the end of the unloved motorcycle, which was not officially imported to Germany, was reached. The MV Agusta 600 is now considered the most wanted and most expensive model of the older MV Agusta motorcycles.
literature
- Mario Colombo / Roberto Patrignani: MV Agusta . Motorbuch Verlag. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-01416-5 .
Web links
- MV Agusta Club.ch, MV 600 4C manual (PDF file; 30.67 MB)
- Pictures of a MV 600 4C
Individual evidence
- ↑ all technical data according to Colombo, p. 190
- ↑ mvagusta.it ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 566 kB) Factory Museum (accessed on August 27, 2011)
- ↑ MOTORRAD 6/1967, page 98
- ↑ Colombo, p. 138
- ↑ MOTORRAD 14/1979 ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Colombo, p. 87
- ↑ MV Agusta Club.de Technical data of the MV 600 4C
- ↑ Colombo, p. 191
- ↑ bikeexif.com MV Agusta 600: the Black Pig (accessed on August 27, 2011)
- ↑ Colombo, p. 190
