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Horex was founded in 1923 in Germany. The firm's most notable model was the Regina, a 350cc OHV single, starting production in the late 1940s. The 400cc Imperator, a stylish and technically advanced SOHC parallel twin first introduced in 1951, featured telescopic of leading-link forks, twin-shock rear suspension and a fully enclosed drive chain. | |||
Horex began to hit problems in the 1950s, partly due to their tragic 250cc Rebell [[scooter]], causing the factory to close in 1958. In the 1970s, Friedel Munch and fellow motorcycle 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, [[Honda]] used the Horex name on a single-cylinder 650cc engined sporster called the Osca, which was built and sold in Japan. | |||
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