Okay. There are more brilliant puns made. But still… Sachs. For the over-XNUMXs and early seventies, Sachs was a world-leading manufacturer of single-cylinder two-strokes. We / they may also remember that playboy Günther Sachs who had a relationship with Brigitte Bardot. He committed suicide. But that wasn't out of heartbreak. He was suffering from Alzheimer's and wanted to forget it.
Once upon a time, when children playing football on the street would duck away when they saw the local police officer approaching on his service bicycle... Recovery: Once upon a time when the moped youth were very pleased with the local police officer on his microlight.
A customer arrives at the local dump bike dealer. Obviously someone from the West. A gentleman. The neat early sixties is a bit skinny and has the looks of a civil servant called 'Droogstoppel'.
For the early days of DKW we have to go back to the early 1900s. To the earliest days of the combustion engine. The company RE (Rasmussen & Ernst) had a factory in the German town of Zschopau where equipment for steam engines was built. Co-owner Jörgen Skafte…
Ramon Bourguignon is a passionate collector of classic cars equipped for sporty drivers. He enjoys the great power, the technology and a power source with a lot of temperamental horsepower. There is only one limitation for him, there…
The BK 350 (the letters stand for Boxer Kardan with 350 cc engine capacity) was a motorcycle model of the VEB Motorradwerke Zschopau (MZ), which was produced from 1952 to 1959; initially under the name “IFA BK 350”. The BK 350 was…
Two-strokes are almost extinct. They are no longer made for modern cars and motorcycles. Despite all their advantages. But still: Honda recently patented a two-stroke engine. Of course not a simple piston-controlled two-stroke, but something with valves, pumps…
A two-stroke boxer twin The MZ BK350 After the war, Germany was redivided and much of DKW's knowledge and production fell into communist and/or socialist hands. The IFA/MZ machines were direct successors in the DKW bloodline. But fortunately…
Finds or verkeerd afgelopen ? Lubo Hrivnak – the Slovakian who noticed that classic Jawas are cheaper here than in their former home country – sent a few photos from 'nearby'. Do you think this is a discovery…
DKW: That used to be the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer But before that time, some financial hurdles had been taken. The Zchopauer Motorenwerke AG (DKW) was merged with the car brands Audi and Horch into the Auto Union construction. Because from…