Horex Classic
Bikes
Horex was a well known German
motorcycle brand of the "Horex - Fahrzeugbau
AG", founded in 1923 in Bad Homburg by Fritz
Kleemann. The firm's most successful model was
the Regina, a 350cc OHV single, produced from
the late 1940s. The 400cc Imperator, a stylish
and technically advanced SOHC parallel twin
introduced in 1951, featured telescopic or leading-link
forks, twin-shock rear suspension and an enclosed
drive chain.
Horex hit problems in the mid-1950s,
partly due to the disastrous 250cc Rebell scooter
and the factory closed in 1958. In the 1970s,
Friedel Munch and fellow enthusiast Fritz Roth
attempted to revive the name with a 1400cc turbocharged
four, based on Munch's Mammut and a series of
small-capacity two-strokes.
More recently the Horex name was
used on a Honda 650cc single-cylinder engined
sportster called the Osca, which was built and
sold in Japan.
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1954 Horex Regina 3, 350cc |
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1954 Horex Regina 400 |
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Horex 644 Osca |
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