Before It Was Understood
The inline-4 didn't start with a breakthrough. It started with a list of everything that was wrong — handwritten in red ink, at two in the morning, attached to a...
THE PIT LANE
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The inline-4 didn't start with a breakthrough. It started with a list of everything that was wrong — handwritten in red ink, at two in the morning, attached to a...
This post tells the story of the Honda CB750 — the first mass-produced inline-4 motorcycle — and why its arrival in January 1969 permanently divided the motorcycle industry into before...