Posted by Sean_Q_ on March 11, 2010, 12:45 pm
Some WW2 motorcycle pix I haven't seen before:
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons-technology-equipment/19206-ww2-motorcycles-only.html
The 1st one (Crimea, May, 1942) seems to be an OVH R75.
A better view of this type (click on pic to enlarge):
http://www.cjsidecar.com/pro5.htm
An even closer view:
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/BMW%20Bikes/pages/BMW-R75-42.htm
More wartime pix. The bikers at top right are in the Luftwaffe
(Field Division Hermann Goering):
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/Bilderseiten/Unterbilder/BMWR75.htm
I'm in the middle of moving and things are more than slightly
insane around here, but when this madness is over (is it ever
really over?) I'll be trying to go ahead with the Dnepr/BMW
conversion... with any luck and some reasonable compatibility
this project should work out ok (as well as entertaining Mark Olson
and others). Lately I joined the Dneprheads group on Yahoo.
ps. [OT] On WW2 and modern culture: a while ago I was in the library
of the University of Calgary with some spare time to spend
and I decided to browse through the microfilm library, starting
with the earliest records of the main local newspaper,
the _Calgary Herald_.It was founded in 1883 (crediting Wiki here,
lest Beav accuse me of Plagiarism, Trailering My Bike and
Thinking He's An Insufferable Grouch) (guilty plea on all counts).
Anyway, I became particularly interested in humour; what people
in different times since 1900 thought was funny. So I mostly
read the comic pages... and made an interesting discovery.
The style of humour that I recognized as "modern" emerged
in World War II. At that time, Blondie and Dagwood's children
were toddlers, and Blondie wore a WW1-style military helmet
(she was in some kind of Home Guard unit).
SQ
Posted by Rob Kleinschmidt on March 11, 2010, 1:42 pm
> Some WW2 motorcycle pix I haven't seen
before:http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons-technology-equipment/19206-ww2-m ...
> The 1st one (Crimea, May, 1942) seems to be an OVH R75.
> A better view of this type (click on pic to
enlarge):http://www.cjsidecar.com/pro5.htm
> An even closer
view:http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/BMW%20Bikes/pages/BMW ...
> More wartime pix. The bikers at top right are in the Luftwaffe
> (Field Division Hermann
Goering):http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/Bilderseiten/Unterbilder/B ...
I'm a big Zundapp fan myself.
http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/Motorcycle-Reviews/1942-Zundapp-KS750.aspx
Interestingly, the wartime BMW R75 was built under license
using big hunks of the Zundapp KS750 technology.
8 forward and 2 reverse speeds with hydraulic brakes.
Figure it could take that Dnepr of yours ?
Posted by Sean_Q_ on March 11, 2010, 5:05 pm
Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:
> Figure it could take that Dnepr of yours ?
I think a child's tricycle could take my Dnepr...
That's why I want to retrofit it.
(I suppose it would be cheating to paste on
a BMW roundel.)
SQ
Posted by Vito on March 14, 2010, 11:45 pm
| I'm a big Zundapp fan myself.
|
|
http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/Motorcycle-Reviews/1942-Zundapp-KS750.aspx
|
Really? A close friend had a KS 601 (?) that I rode a lot circa 1960.
Loved it.
Posted by Vito on March 11, 2010, 6:03 pm
| Some WW2 motorcycle pix I haven't seen before:
|
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons-technology-equipment/19206-ww2-motorcycles-only.html
| The 1st one (Crimea, May, 1942) seems to be an OVH R75.
|
| A better view of this type (click on pic to enlarge):
| http://www.cjsidecar.com/pro5.htm
|
| An even closer view:
|
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/BMW%20Bikes/pages/BMW-R75-42.htm
|
| More wartime pix. The bikers at top right are in the Luftwaffe
| (Field Division Hermann Goering):
|
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/Bilderseiten/Unterbilder/BMWR75.htm
|
| I'm in the middle of moving and things are more than slightly
| insane around here, but when this madness is over (is it ever
| really over?) I'll be trying to go ahead with the Dnepr/BMW
| conversion... with any luck and some reasonable compatibility
| this project should work out ok (as well as entertaining Mark Olson
| and others). Lately I joined the Dneprheads group on Yahoo.
|
| ps. [OT] On WW2 and modern culture: a while ago I was in the library
| of the University of Calgary with some spare time to spend
| and I decided to browse through the microfilm library, starting
| with the earliest records of the main local newspaper,
| the _Calgary Herald_.It was founded in 1883 (crediting Wiki here,
| lest Beav accuse me of Plagiarism, Trailering My Bike and
| Thinking He's An Insufferable Grouch) (guilty plea on all counts).
|
| Anyway, I became particularly interested in humour; what people
| in different times since 1900 thought was funny. So I mostly
| read the comic pages... and made an interesting discovery.
| The style of humour that I recognized as "modern" emerged
| in World War II. At that time, Blondie and Dagwood's children
| were toddlers, and Blondie wore a WW1-style military helmet
| (she was in some kind of Home Guard unit).
|
| SQ
Thank you very much! <gulp> I remember them comics. There was always a
little guy holding a "The End Is Near" sign in Jiggs and Maggie. Turns out
it was a spoof on Seventh Day Adventists.
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