Author Topic: What is this? (Read 2398 times)

Uncle Ernie · « **on:** December 16, 2008, 06:23:40 AM »

At first I thought the badge looked similar to an Opal...
Bike looks remotely like a Russian copy of a Marusho.
Wish that girl wasn't there- the frame looks interesting.
Any esoterica people here?

bill440cars · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2008, 06:35:09 AM »

Uncle, I sure don't have a clue on this one!

Never seen one exactly like it before. Hope there is someone out there, with some input.

Soos · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2008, 06:40:28 AM »

I dunno, but it must be cold there.
Don't think she is sporting a bra.

Bike looks interesting though.

l8r

gregk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:37:17 AM »

How about a Lilac? Not sure if that is the correct spelling but there was some of these bikes around in the late 60's. Similiar to a BMW but made in the far east. I don't think they were very popular. A guy down the block was given one from his dad and he promptly went down to the Norton dealer and traded it on a P11.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #4 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:45:24 AM »

It does resemble a Lilac (they had both "V" and flat twins), but the tank insignia doesn't seem right.

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #5 on:** December 16, 2008, 01:00:29 PM »

As far as I know, marusho was a 500cc boxer, and Lilac was a small V-twin like a Guzzi.
I'm starting to wonder if that's a Russian bike that just happens to have a Japanese girl in the picture.

Wish I could have CSI put that badge in their computer the way they do with fingerprints.

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2008, 01:06:48 PM »

Looks like I was wrong- Lilac DID make a boxer as well.
Still don't see that frame and badge, though...

http://www.marusholilac.com/index.htm

HavocTurbo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2008, 06:41:28 PM »

Could be the old East German IFA

The only thing I have found so far that resembles it.

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #8 on:** December 16, 2008, 08:27:53 PM »

Close! That Asian girl threw me all off. I think it's a German Hoffman 250; http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/hoffman.htm

HavocTurbo · « **Reply #9 on:** December 16, 2008, 08:36:05 PM »

Bet that's it......

754 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 16, 2008, 08:44:31 PM »

Liac is Marusho

I think the small German sideways V you spoke of is a Hoffman.. search them & see if the boxer is similar.

I went to at least 3 museums (that I went to visit) in Germany one was bike only the NSU museum, they got a book of their collection in German but I can read most of it.. excellent drawings and pics in there. the book by a think Bacon with the sandcast 750 on the cover shows to Hoffman I think, many bikes in that book are from NSU museum so I have seen a lot of them in the steel & chrome..

bill440cars · « **Reply #11 on:** December 16, 2008, 09:52:45 PM »

Quote from: Uncle Ernie on December 16, 2008, 08:27:53 PM

Close! That Asian girl threw me all off. I think it's a German Hoffman 250; http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/hoffman.htm

Pretty cool Uncle, you've solved your own mystery.

That IS it. Look at the frame and the forks also. That IS it! Congratulations Uncle!

754 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 16, 2008, 10:02:30 PM »

My wife is from a neighboring town to where the HOREX was built in Germany.. her mother worked in the factory after it closed, think Diamler bought it.

Anyway, in the village where she lived i got introduced to a collecter of Horex.. lots of NOS goodies, he also had a 24 Indian scout, and took me to another place showed me a Afrika Korps Beemer, (got to sit on it running

), a Zundapp twin, and a Schwimwagen..!!

Also got to chat with an old fellow that was a foreman in the machine shop for Horex, told me of people coming from all over Europe to pick up their rides.. I think they were around 85 per day..

Anyway the first fellow had a big Horex single, sorta Goldstarish, with the biggest freaking pipe you ever saw.. at least 2 1/4 in od or more.. cool bike..

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2008, 05:45:11 AM »

I drove an R75M once. It sure wasn't fast, but it felt like I could pull a brick building behind me.

gerhed · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2008, 04:15:43 PM »

I kind of like the girl.

Geeto67 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 19, 2008, 09:40:59 AM »

could be a Dnepr, DKW, Ural, Izh, Leitner etc.....all the russian bikes had access to the captured german WWI motorcycle tooling and all devloped their own boxer models when the BMW copies were not enough.

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #16 on:** December 19, 2008, 02:21:12 PM »

Not to be pickyunish, but I think DKW is/was German?

Geeto67 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 20, 2008, 05:40:19 AM »

Quote from: Uncle Ernie on December 19, 2008, 02:21:12 PM

Not to be pickyunish, but I think DKW is/was German?

it was. Voskhod were DKW knockoffs that often get copied. I couldn't remember the name so I just wrote DKW.

nickjtc · « **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2009, 10:33:43 AM »

You guys are good. I'll raid my old mag stash and test you out this weekend.

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