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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: Nathan French on February 14, 2007, 09:08:23 PM

Title: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: Nathan French on February 14, 2007, 09:08:23 PM
I came across this bike in France a while back, There is something that draws me to it.
I can imagine just crusing through french countyside just to dip your toe in the sea before heading back for a pint.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5006228

Nathan
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: Steve Lake on February 14, 2007, 11:05:30 PM
it, like a host of others are copies of.......erm ...i've forgotten, but my bantam was one of them...
my old bantam might have been underpowered, with cr*p lights, but for 2 years was my only form of transport and never let me down (seem to remember i had a guiness beer mat as a tax disc for most of that time)

bloody good little bike
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: themoudie on February 14, 2007, 11:08:25 PM
C'est magnifique!
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: guest18 on February 14, 2007, 11:23:23 PM
Quote from: SteveL on February 14, 2007, 11:05:30 PM
it, like a host of others are copies of.......erm ...i've forgotten, but my bantam was one of them...

DKW ?
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: Steve Lake on February 15, 2007, 10:41:22 PM
thats the one !
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: guest27 on February 15, 2007, 11:08:54 PM
Wasn't the Bantam a mirror image of the DKW - or is that another urban myth?

Urban myth - a lass form the town with a lisp?

R
Title: Re: Sweet little thing in France
Post by: Ian on February 16, 2007, 12:00:01 AM
It's probably useless information ?

DKW go back to 1906 started in a cloth mill.
In 1928 they became the world's largest motorbike manufacturer with 2,400 workers and over 45,000 motorbikes being produced per year.
In 1929 this rose to 60,000.

In 1940 DKW made the RT/2 125, at DKW's Saxony factory. After the end of the war the RT was built again by MZ
The DKW RT125 was the most widely copied motorbike in the world.
Replicas were made by Harley Davidson , BSA , Komet , Minsk , and Yamaha.

Here end the lesson......................info taken from Xmas present of the wife , 1000 Motorbikes