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Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:10 pm
by The Teutonic Tangerine
https://www.facebook.com/ostbikes/
I posted this link on another thread but stated scrolling through the posts and decided it needed greater exposure- some real design "classics" and certainly the designs followed a different paths to the rest of Europe and Japan .
See if you can scroll far enough to get to the Jawa 500 flat twin .
Re: Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:38 pm
by Passing Phase
Very interesting there seems to be a lot of these Eastern European bikes up for sale on eBay all of a sudden
Re: Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:36 pm
by nab 301
Re: Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:04 pm
by Boxermed69
Cheers Nigel
Quite a mixture of bikes there. That ETZ is super clean.
Mike
Re: Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:34 am
by fontana
I'm strangely drawn to this.
I had one when I was young and hated it, but now

Re: Eastern European Bikes - or - they ploughed their own furrow behind the iron curtain
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:28 pm
by popsky

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This is in Porlock for sale, soz about the picture quality, but it's behind glass and the shop was shut
Funny old combo which I always liked, old mate of mine used to collect and restore the Trophy amongst other things and one of the last bikes I ever saw at his place was this pairing, infact it's possible it is the same
