Tags IFA
IFA BK 350. The other boxer
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…
MZ BKX NUMX
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…
AWO Simson
Motorcycles instead of guns Hunting weapons supplier Simson from Suhl was no longer allowed to make weapons after the Second World War. So it was time for a new way to put bread on the table. Fortunately, in the former GDR everything…
DDR Fahrzeuge
DDR Fahrzeuge, 'vehicles from the GDR', the former 'East Germany'. Does that sound exciting or not? We all know the Trabans and MZs. That they are icons of clothing from the time when governments still knew exactly how to do things. And…