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Zündapp was a serious German motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1917 in Nuremberg by simply Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and also the machine tool manufacturer Thiel beneath name "Zünder- und Apparatebau Gary. m. b. H. " as a developer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau is German for Igniter as well as Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand with regard to weapons parts declined immediately after WWI, Neumeyer became the sole proprietor from the company, and two years later he diversified into your construction of motorcycles.Following WWII, Zündapp expanded into your microcar, moped and Scooter (bike) markets. The company collapsed within 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets cycle and electric bicycles with all the Zundapp name and logo. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.

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The initial Zündapp motorcycle was the particular model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle for everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was produced in large series. Zündapp's history of hefty motorcycles began in 1933 with all the K-series. The "K" refers to the kind of drivetrain that these versions used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft having two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then the novelty). The series encompassed versions from 200 to eight hundred cc displacement and was an essential success, increasing Zündapp's market write about in Germany from 5% within 1931 to 18% inside 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 hp (21 kW) horizontally opposed twin cylinder engine with overhead valves displacing 597 closed circuit (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often as well as a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Boot no. 1) sidecar physique was produced between 1938 and also 1941 and supplied exclusively on the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and at last replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was to be the only remnant to live beyond the destruction of war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production within the late 1940s, it chose to recycling the KS600's motor to power the KS601 together with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 experienced unit construction, flat-four engines with shaft drive (a layout adopted by Honda to the Gold Wing in 1974) and were really the only 4-cylinder machines used because of the German armed forces inside WWII.

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By 1931 Ferdinand Porsche and also Zündapp developed the prototype Automotive für Jedermann ("car regarding everyone"), which was the very first time the name Volkswagen ended up being used. Porsche preferred the 4-cylinder ripped engine, but Zündapp used a new water-cooled 5-cylinder radial powerplant. In 1932 three prototypes ended up running. All three cars were lost during the war, the last in the 1945 Stuttgart bombing raid.From 1936 to 1938 Zündapp created the KKS500 model. This was the first Zündapp with a foot gear change, and 170 examples were being built. From 1940 onward Zündapp produced more than 18, 000 units of your Zündapp KS 750. This is a sidecar outfit with a driven side wheel plus a locking differential, supplied to the German Wehrmacht.Zündapp also made aircraft engines like the 9-092, which was used throughout light aircraft, including the Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig (1942) ab initio trainer aircraft.

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After WWII the business transitioned to smaller models, notably the "Bella" engine scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine for its type. In 1951 Zündapp released the past of its heavy street bike models, but one of its most famous: the KS601 (the particular "green elephant") that has a 598 cc two-cylinder engine. From 1957 to 1958 the company also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the business moved from Nuremberg to be able to Munich. Subsequently, the company developed numerous new smaller models, discontinued the development of four-stroke engines and only produced two-stroke models. Zündapp experienced some accomplishment in motorsports with driver André Malherbe winning the 125cc European motocross titles in 1973 and yet again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds distributed well, but later sales diminished and in 1984 the corporation went bankrupt and finished.

After the bankruptcy, the entire production line and intellectual properties had been bought by Xunda Engine Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp motorcycles from 1987 till the early 1990s. Zündapp is still operating, but makes Honda based 4-stroke motorcycles and power mopeds.Zündapp also had a technical collaboration with Royal Enfield (India) to construct mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory has been built at Ranipet near Chennai within the early 1980s to production small, lightweight two-stroke motorcycles to be offered with their flagship Royal Enfield Bullet. Enfield launched two 50 cc motorcycles first, the step-thru Silver Plus and also the 3-speed Explorer motorcycle. Later, 175 cc Enfield Fury (depending on Zündapp KS175) was introduced to be a performance motorcycle. It had 5-speed gearbox, a hydraulic Brembo disc brake along with a sleeveless hard chromed tube barrel, all were a first over a motorcycle in that nation.

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