1954 MV Agusta Automatic Transmission

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Check out this very interesting articl on MotorcycleClassics website:  https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-italian-motorcycles/mystery-mv-agusta-175-zm0z14ndzkel/?r=1349D5825612I8V

It is about a MV Augusta with a hydraulic continuously variable "gearbox."  (There are no gears in it.)
The article states that probably only 2 of these bikes were ever made.

In the 80's Husqvarna made an automatic transmission enduro.  I wanted one really bad, kept waiting for one to be available.  My 'friends' talked me out of it.  I think the were afraid they would have been too jealous.

US Patent image of the Giovanni Badalini device.