Look at these bikes long and hard and YOU tell ME what's wrong with them . . .
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Friday, 10 September 2010
MILITARY MOTORCYCLES FOR SALE . . . CHEAP
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Never mind you had a bunch of hints in your comment section but...um....hmmmmmm wow....um....volks-motorcycle....um.....they look vintage 1933 or 1940-ish with kind of a "national socialist" style to them in Totenkopf SS Black or Rommel Tan? It's the color isn't it? The color is ugly....got it.....right.....
I'm just guessing.....
the bmw has ventilated front disks - could be a recent mod, or bike is a replica
I don't think the forks are period - look like upside down forks, a post WW2 innovation I think
The worst thing about them is that they are not in my garage.
The black or very dark green BMW R75 is typical of the bike used by the German Army recce (Wehrmacht des Heers) during the early stages of WWII and before. The model in question bears an army (WH) veh number and German tire pressure markings. In spite of that, it bears Allied (or US) white star markings, so perhaps it is a captured item put to Allied use. The sidecar has a new or added step plate.
The BMW in Afrikakorps livery looks like it belonged to a German parachute unit (Fallschirmjager) judging by the emblem on the fuel tank. Ramcke Para Bde?
Anyway, the wheels are all wrong.
RWD
Easy. Some bastard stole the machine guns off of them.
Aren't these the repo bikes made by a company in India?
That company took old WWII bikes and copied the parts and began to manufacture new models in the past decade.
http://www.royalenfield.com/default.aspx
Steve
I'm certainly no expert, but I find it highly suspicious that either the US Army or the Wehrmacht would print type number and brand (name and logo) prominently on a military vehicle.
The black of the US/German hybrid is also AFAIK not a colour used by either force for vehicles during WW2.
US vehicles would have been green olive drab, German slate grey.
Search "CJ 750" or "Chang Jiang" or "Long River Motorworks" to learn more (China, not India). Wish we had more views of these to nit-pick. I know those aren't WW2 BMW heads, and I know the WW2 2wd BMW R75 was a hardtail. Re the markings I found this site on a search *about* markings. Best regards.
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