Sweet little thing in France

[Nathan French]

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

[Steve Lake]

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

[themoudie]

C'est magnifique!

[guest18]

it, like a host of others are copies of.......erm ...i've forgotten, but my bantam was one of them...

DKW ?

[Steve Lake]

thats the one !

[guest27]

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

[Ian]

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