THE DKW RT125 IS PROBABLY THE MOST COPIED motorcycle of all time. After the Second World War, the Brits used the little German two-stroke as the basis for the BSA Bantam, while the Yanks modified it and came up with the Harley-Davidson Hummer. The Ruskies stripped everything they could from the DKW factory in Zschopau and moved it to Minsk, where they used the tooling to make the Moskva M1A. Even the Japanese knew a good thing when they saw it and used the RT125 as the basis for the Yamaha YA-1 Red Dragon. Most of the clones were made as cheaply as possible, and they looked it. But the Italians have always done things with style.
Back in 1924, Alfonso Morini teamed up with Mario Mazzetti and they were soon producing MM motorcycles in Bologna, with Mazzetti in charge of design and production and Morini looking after sales and competition. The two-stroke 125cc MM Corsa won three Italian championships between 1926 and 1928, with Morini himself winning the 1927 Italian GP at Monza and setting six world
