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Old Russian? German? Motorbike
Make/model of this motorbike? http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/...21_134646.html could well be 1930s ... |
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Old Russian? German? Motorbike
NotSure schrieb:
>http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/...21_134646.html > >could well be 1930s ... Resembles a NSU OSL 501 http://www.motorradwallpaper.de/Gale...Bj_1937_1_.jpg The engine looks different though. It might be a Horex Imperator twin in an NSU chassis, but I'm guessing. -- Gruß Radbert |
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Old Russian? German? Motorbike
> http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/...21_134646.html
It has the double fork of an NSU, but it different. I could be anything.. Lithuania was german until 1918, then independent. the photo is probably from before the russians occupied Lithuanian territory in 1940... hence... it could be a polish, german, or russian motorbike. |
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Old Russian? German? Motorbike
On Sep 10, 5:23*am, NotSure > wrote:
> >http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/.../n20100821_134... > > It has the double fork of an NSU, but it different. That's called a "girder" fork. They were very common. > it could be a polish, german, or russian motorbike. Also, Motosacoche was a Swiss company that licensed motorcycles resembling NSU's that were sold all over Europe and Britain. |
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Aurochs
On Sep 11, 6:27Â*am, "J. Anderson" > wrote:
> >> Is that a polar bear painted on the door of the truck behind the bike? > >between 1925 and 1935. The army would be the national Lithuanian one. > It's probably the white bull of > Kaunas:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...o_rinktine.jpg > Kaunas was at that time the temporary capital of Lithuania (Vilnius being > occupied by the Poles). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs Introduction: Aurochs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with Wisent. Aurochs Fossil range: Late Pliocene to Holocene Copy of a painting of an Aurochs owned by a merchant in Augsburg in the 19th century. The original probably dates to the 16th century. Conservation status Extinct (1627) (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Bovinae Genus: Bos Species: â€*B. primigenius Binomial name â€*Bos primigenius Subspecies Bos primigenius primigenius (Bojanus, 1827) Bos primigenius namadicus (Falconer, 1859) Bos primigenius mauretanicus (Thomas, 1881) Synonyms Bos mauretanicus Thomas, 1881 Bos namadicus Falconer, 1859 The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa, but is now extinct; it survived in Europe until 1627. The aurochs was far larger than most modern domestic cattle with a shoulder height of 2 metres (6.6 ft) and weighing 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). Domestication of bovines occurred in several parts of the world at roughly the same time, about 8,000 years ago. It was regarded as a challenging quarry animal, contributing to its extinction. The last recorded aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest Poland, and its skull is now the property of Livrustkammaren in Stockholm. Aurochs appear in prehistoric cave paintings, Julius Caesar's The Gallic War and as the national symbol of many European countries, states and cities such as Alba-Iulia, Kaunas, Romania, Moldavia, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Uri. In 1920, the Heck brothers, who were German biologists, attempted to recreate aurochs. The resulting cattle are known as Heck cattle or Reconstructed Aurochs, and number in the thousands in Europe today. However, they are genetically and physiologically distinct from aurochs. The Heck brothers' aurochs also have a pale yellow dorsal stripe, instead of white. |
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WHICH classic MOTORBIKE? -- was: Aurochs
NotSure > wrote:
<snip> > > I am stumped. OK, I'm not sure it's a twin, actually. That appears to be a single downtube frame, and the visible cylinder is mounted right behind it, on the centre line. The finning on the right-hand "cylinder" does not go down so far. It may be something else - not a cylinder. Vertical twins were incredibly rare pre-war. There was Triumph and.... what else? It's much much more likely to be a single. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400Fx2 Triumph Street Triple Kawasaki GT550x2 Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250 Damn, up to ten bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com |
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WHICH classic MOTORBIKE? -- was: Aurochs
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (The Older Gentleman) saying something like: >OK, I'm not sure it's a twin, actually. That appears to be a single >downtube frame, and the visible cylinder is mounted right behind it, on >the centre line. The finning on the right-hand "cylinder" does not go >down so far. It may be something else - not a cylinder. That's possibly finning over the exhaust port and it rings a bell with me. Fecked if I can recall what on, though. |
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WHICH classic MOTORBIKE? -- was: Aurochs
"The Older Gentleman" wrote: > NotSure wrote: > > <snip> > > > > I am stumped. > > OK, I'm not sure it's a twin, actually. That appears to be a single > downtube frame, and the visible cylinder is mounted right behind it, on > the centre line. The finning on the right-hand "cylinder" does not go > down so far. It may be something else - not a cylinder. > > Vertical twins were incredibly rare pre-war. There was Triumph and.... > what else? > > It's much much more likely to be a single. > I'm sure it's a big sidevalve single and that's just finning on the exhaust port. It's also got a narrow ribbed crankcase, too narrow for a twin. Definitely a flathead, possibly aluminium and '40s I'd say. Forks look like old Norton 16H |
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WHICH classic MOTORBIKE? -- was: Aurochs
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:51:30 +0100, "Oily"
> wrote: >I'm sure it's a big sidevalve single and that's just finning on the exhaust >port. That's what I thought > It's also got a narrow ribbed crankcase, too narrow for a twin. Didn't notice that. -- -Pip |
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WHICH classic MOTORBIKE? ** CONTEST **
OK, everyone... Here a CONTEST. WHAT MODEL/MAKE is this Motorcycle? http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/...21_134646.html (photo was taken approx early-mid 1930s in Kaunas, Lithuania) You are getting points for 05 - correct country of manufacture of the engine 10 - correct country of manufacture of the bike 15 - correct company name 20 - correct model 25 - correct year of manufacture Any suggestions what the 1st 2nd and 3rd prices could be? |
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