The PULSE
Nov 23, 2020
2 minutes
—Kevin Cameron
When 39-year-old Max Friz was designing BMW’s 1923 flat-twin R32 motorcycle, he brought to the task his extensive experience in aircraft propulsion. Good cooling was essential to reliability, and low vibration was a necessity, both for lightweight structures and their human operators.
Friz, therefore, rejected the then-dominant choice of a single vertical engine cylinder. First, a single
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