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Zündapp was a major German motorcycle manufacturer set up in 1917 in Nuremberg through Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG plus the machine tool manufacturer Thiel beneath the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau Grams. m. b. H. " as a producer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau will be German for Igniter as well as Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand regarding weapons parts declined right 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 the particular microcar, moped and Scooter (street bike) markets. The company collapsed inside 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets bike and electric bicycles while using the Zundapp name and company logo. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.

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The initial Zündapp motorcycle was the 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 large motorcycles began in 1933 with the K-series. The "K" refers to any type of drivetrain that these versions used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft along with two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then a novelty). The series encompassed designs from 200 to eight hundred cc displacement and was a significant success, increasing Zündapp's market reveal in Germany from 5% with 1931 to 18% in 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 along with a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Boot no. 1) sidecar entire body was produced between 1938 and 1941 and supplied exclusively towards the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and finally replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was being the only remnant to live beyond the destruction involving war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production in the late 1940s, it chose to reuse the KS600's motor in order to power the KS601 along with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 received unit construction, flat-four engines with shaft drive (a structure adopted by Honda for your Gold Wing in 1974) and were the only real 4-cylinder machines used from the German armed forces in WWII.

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Coming from 1931 Ferdinand Porsche along with Zündapp developed the prototype Vehicle für Jedermann ("car intended for everyone"), which was the very first time that the name Volkswagen was used. Porsche preferred the 4-cylinder smooth engine, but Zündapp used some sort of water-cooled 5-cylinder radial motor. In 1932 three prototypes have been running. All three cars were lost during the war, the last in a new 1945 Stuttgart bombing raid.From 1936 to 1938 Zündapp generated the KKS500 model. This was the first Zündapp with a foot gear change, and 170 examples ended up built. From 1940 onward Zündapp produced a lot more than 18, 000 units of this Zündapp KS 750. This is a sidecar outfit using a driven side wheel plus a locking differential, supplied to the A language like german Wehrmacht.Zündapp also made aircraft engines like the 9-092, which was used throughout light aircraft, including the Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig (1942) belly initio trainer aircraft.

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After WWII the company transitioned to smaller models, notably the "Bella" powerplant scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine because of its type. In 1951 Zündapp released the final of its heavy street bike models, but one of its most famous: the KS601 (your "green elephant") having a 598 cc two-cylinder motor. From 1957 to 1958 this company also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the business moved from Nuremberg to Munich. Subsequently, the company developed several new smaller models, discontinued the development of four-stroke engines in support of produced two-stroke models. Zündapp experienced some good results in motorsports with participant André Malherbe winning your 125cc European motocross championships in 1973 and yet again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds offered well, but later sales rejected and in 1984 the organization went bankrupt and closed.

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Following your bankruptcy, the entire production range and intellectual properties has been bought by Xunda Motor Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp motorbikes from 1987 till their early 1990s. Zündapp is still running a business, but makes Honda primarily based 4-stroke motorcycles and electric mopeds.Zündapp also had a technical collaboration with Regal Enfield (India) to create mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory ended up being built at Ranipet near Chennai from the early 1980s to manufacture small, lightweight two-stroke motorcycles to be offered along with their flagship Royal Enfield Bullet. Enfield launched two 50 cc motorcycles first, the step-thru Silver Plus as well as 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 and also a sleeveless hard chromed storage container barrel, all were a first using a motorcycle in that state.

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