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Zündapp was a major German motorcycle manufacturer started in 1917 in Nuremberg by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and also the machine tool manufacturer Thiel beneath the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau H. m. b. H. " as a producer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau can be German for Igniter and Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand intended for weapons parts declined soon after WWI, Neumeyer became the sole proprietor with the company, and two years later he diversified in the construction of motorcycles.Following WWII, Zündapp expanded into this microcar, moped and Scooter (street bike) markets. The company collapsed in 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets cycle and electric bicycles using the Zundapp name and brand. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.

The initial Zündapp motorcycle was your model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle with regard to everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was manufactured in large series. Zündapp's history of weighty motorcycles began in 1933 while using K-series. The "K" refers to any type of drivetrain that these designs used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft using two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then the novelty). The series encompassed models from 200 to 300 cc displacement and was an important success, increasing Zündapp's market reveal in Germany from 5% with 1931 to 18% within 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 hewlett packard (21 kW) horizontally opposed twin cylinder generator with overhead valves displacing 597 closed circuit (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often in addition to a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Trunk no. 1) sidecar human body was produced between 1938 and also 1941 and supplied exclusively towards the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and in the end replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was to get the only remnant to live on beyond the destruction of war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production from the late 1940s, it chose to recycle the KS600's motor to help power the KS601 with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 had unit construction, flat-four engines with base drive (a format adopted by Honda to the Gold Wing in 1974) and were really the only 4-cylinder machines used because of the German armed forces throughout WWII.

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

After WWII the corporation transitioned to smaller devices, notably the "Bella" generator scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine because of its type. In 1951 Zündapp released a final of its heavy street motorcycle models, but one of its most well-known: the KS601 (the "green elephant") that has a 598 cc two-cylinder serp. From 1957 to 1958 this company also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the corporation moved from Nuremberg in order to Munich. Subsequently, the company developed various new smaller models, discontinued the development of four-stroke engines and only produced two-stroke models. Zündapp experienced some achievements in motorsports with biker André Malherbe winning the particular 125cc European motocross competition in 1973 and again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds marketed well, but later sales declined and in 1984 the organization went bankrupt and shut down.

Following your bankruptcy, the entire production collection and intellectual properties ended up being bought by Xunda Electric motor Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp motorcycles from 1987 till early 1990s. Zündapp is still operating, but makes Honda structured 4-stroke motorcycles and electric mopeds.Zündapp also had the technical collaboration with Noble Enfield (India) to construct mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory seemed to be built at Ranipet near Chennai in the early 1980s to production small, lightweight two-stroke motorcycles to be offered along with their flagship Royal Enfield Round. Enfield launched two 50 cc motorcycles first, the step-thru Silver Plus and also the 3-speed Explorer motorcycle. Later, 175 cc Enfield Fury (dependant on Zündapp KS175) was introduced as being a performance motorcycle. It had 5-speed gearbox, a hydraulic Brembo disc brake as well as a sleeveless hard chromed cyndrical tube barrel, all were a first over a motorcycle in that state.

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