Vintage German Motorcycles For Sale: Zundapp KS600 sold

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

WWII German Zundapp KS 750 Motorcycle

The very first Zündapp motorcycle was your model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle pertaining to everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was stated in large series. Zündapp's history of large motorcycles began in 1933 using the K-series. The "K" refers to the type of drivetrain that these versions used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft using two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then a novelty). The series encompassed products from 200 to eight hundred cc displacement and was an important success, increasing Zündapp's market write about in Germany from 5% within 1931 to 18% in 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 h . p . (21 kW) width wise opposed twin cylinder electric motor with overhead valves displacing 597 cc (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often in conjunction with a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Shoe no. 1) sidecar entire body was produced between 1938 along with 1941 and supplied exclusively towards the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and ultimately replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was for being the only remnant to reside beyond the destruction involving war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production within the late 1940s, it chose to recycle the KS600's motor to be able to power the KS601 with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 got unit construction, flat-four engines with the whole length drive (a format adopted by Honda for your Gold Wing in 1974) and were the one 4-cylinder machines used from the German armed forces within WWII.

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Coming from 1931 Ferdinand Porsche as well as Zündapp developed the prototype Car für Jedermann ("car with regard to everyone"), which was the 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 motor. In 1932 three prototypes were being running. All three cars were lost throughout the war, the last in any 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 were being built. From 1940 onward Zündapp produced more than 18, 000 units of the actual Zündapp KS 750. This is a sidecar outfit with a driven side wheel and a locking differential, supplied to the In german Wehrmacht.Zündapp also made aircraft engines like 9-092, which was used inside light aircraft, including the Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig (1942) abdominal initio trainer aircraft.

1983 Zundapp Zündapp GTS 50 TYPE 540180 THE PRICE IS 7500.00 EURO

After WWII the company transitioned to smaller models, notably the "Bella" motor scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine to its type. In 1951 Zündapp released the final of its heavy motorcycle models, but one of its most famous: the KS601 (the "green elephant") having a 598 cc two-cylinder powerplant. From 1957 to 1958 the organization also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the firm moved from Nuremberg for you to Munich. Subsequently, the company developed several 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 actual 125cc European motocross competition in 1973 and yet again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds available well, but later sales diminished and in 1984 the corporation went bankrupt and sealed.

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After the bankruptcy, the entire production brand and intellectual properties ended up being bought by Xunda Engine Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp bikes from 1987 till the early 1990s. Zündapp is still operating, but makes Honda structured 4-stroke motorcycles and electrical mopeds.Zündapp also had any technical collaboration with Noble Enfield (India) to build mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory had been built at Ranipet near Chennai in the early 1980s to make 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 as well as the 3-speed Explorer motorcycle. Later, 175 cc Enfield Fury (according to Zündapp KS175) was introduced to be 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 with a motorcycle in that land.

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