Zündapp was a serious German motorcycle manufacturer launched in 1917 in Nuremberg by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG as well as the machine tool manufacturer Thiel beneath the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau Grams. m. b. H. " as a producer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau is usually German for Igniter as well as Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand for weapons parts declined right after WWI, Neumeyer became the sole proprietor in the company, and two years later he diversified in the construction of motorcycles.Following WWII, Zündapp expanded into this microcar, moped and Scooter (bike) markets. The company collapsed inside 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets pedal bike and electric bicycles when using the Zundapp name and logo design. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.
1974 Rickman Zundapp 125 Street Legal Dual Sport, US $850.00, image 18
The primary 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 produced in large series. Zündapp's history of major motorcycles began in 1933 using the K-series. The "K" refers to the type of drivetrain that these versions used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft having two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (a novelty). The series encompassed versions from 200 to 800 cc displacement and was an important success, increasing Zündapp's market discuss in Germany from 5% in 1931 to 18% in 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 hewlett packard (21 kW) flat opposed twin cylinder engine with overhead valves displacing 597 cc (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often coupled with a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Trunk no. 1) sidecar body was produced between 1938 as well as 1941 and supplied exclusively for the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and finally replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was being the only remnant to live on beyond the destruction involving war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production within the late 1940s, it chose to recycle the KS600's motor to power the KS601 with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 experienced unit construction, flat-four engines with shaft drive (a structure adopted by Honda for your Gold Wing in 1974) and were really the only 4-cylinder machines used through the German armed forces throughout WWII.
1974 Rickman Zundapp 125 Street Legal Dual Sport, US $850.00, image 10
By 1931 Ferdinand Porsche along with Zündapp developed the prototype Vehicle für Jedermann ("car regarding everyone"), which was the first time the name Volkswagen had been used. Porsche preferred the 4-cylinder toned engine, but Zündapp used some sort of water-cooled 5-cylinder radial motor. In 1932 three prototypes were being running. All three cars were lost over the war, the last in a 1945 Stuttgart bombing raid.From 1936 to 1938 Zündapp generated the KKS500 model. This was the first Zündapp using a foot gear change, and 170 examples have been built. From 1940 onward Zündapp produced more than 18, 000 units of your 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 9-092, which was used throughout light aircraft, including the Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig (1942) abdominal initio trainer aircraft.
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After WWII the corporation transitioned to smaller devices, notably the "Bella" engine scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine because of its type. In 1951 Zündapp released a final of its heavy motorcycle models, but one of its most well-known: the KS601 (this "green elephant") which has a 598 cc two-cylinder motor. From 1957 to 1958 the company also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the organization moved from Nuremberg for you 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 rider André Malherbe winning the 125cc European motocross competition in 1973 and once again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds offered well, but later sales rejected and in 1984 the business went bankrupt and sealed.
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Following your bankruptcy, the entire production series and intellectual properties was bought by Xunda Electric motor Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp motorbikes from 1987 till the first 1990s. Zündapp is still operational, but makes Honda dependent 4-stroke motorcycles and electric mopeds.Zündapp also had any technical collaboration with Regal Enfield (India) to create mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory seemed to be built at Ranipet near Chennai from the early 1980s to make 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 as a performance motorcycle. It had 5-speed gearbox, a hydraulic Brembo disc brake as well as a sleeveless hard chromed tube barrel, all were a first on a motorcycle in that country.
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