10 Awesome Military Bikes Which Appeared In World War 2

and there is an incredible large variety of vehicles used in walls besides which motorcycles belong as well it all depends what the customer asks for and normally the customer is a government it may be a powerful large machine to carry more people or a single seater as light as possible you will find ten of the most interesting bags which appeared on the battlefield of the Second World War [Music] well bike the well bike was constructed to be as light and compact as possible to be parable for this reason it didn't feature suspension or lights and there was the rear brake only the two-stroke engine was provided by Villas engineering it was used during the Operation Overlord in Normandy and Market Garden in Netherlands [Music] [Applause] be and I will add 75 following a request from the German army BMW developed this awesome defied free wheeled bike initially using a flathead engine the production-ready model however had the OHV valve train while they targeted to build 20,000 200 of them as they didn't fulfill the factory worked until Ally destroyed it the bag had a locking diff and socketable on and off-road gear ratios [Music] por el m-72 so it's like the idea of the BNA will ask them to one model and actually did their best to copy it in 1939 the motto Ribbentrop pact as a non-aggression pact was signed within which germans provided soviet a technological help which included the US and d5 production procedures and plans then when Nazis attack Soviet Union moved the m-72 production further east to a city of arid located in the Earle mountain [Music] [Music] harley-davidson WLA and eggs a commissioned by the US Army the WLA model was a huge success with over 100,000 examples built except Americans the bike was also used by Europeans Soviets and eventually even appeared in the Korean War the US Army later asked for flat twin and chef-driven back similarly to the be edible Asante one known for its easy maintenance and reliability resulting in the harley-davidson XA [Music] [Music] DK wnz 350 dkw had been selling the NZ 350 model before the war even started allegedly Wehrmacht wasn't convinced by his features and capabilities but they'd changed with an introduction of the NZ p-51 model it featured a cast-iron block mounted directly onto the bike frame and the motorcycle itself was said to be reliable and fast Cashman model 53 the Cashman model 53 had basically the very same purpose as the Wellman it was meant to be parachuted that's an easy fold out and lightweightness when necessary the US Army received around 4700 examples all using the single cylinder 16 M 71 engine the bag was capable of top speed of 40 miles power [Music] [Applause] Indian aid for the one the Indian ate for the one was engineered with the similar targets to be ticked as the harley-davidson XA a more efficiently called twin cylinder engine with a shaft driven mechanism the US Army ordered 1,000 bikes an alford Indian $350,000 for the need of the two bikes proved successful as the US Army realized that the Jeep was better all-around [Music] [Music] ginned up KS 750 before the KS 750 or its competitive being that will identify by even developed very must approach both companies with certain objectives for the upcoming bikes they had to be able to carry as much as 500 kilograms as equivalent to a fully armed three-person crew with a top speed of 95 kilometres per hour besides it also had to be able to crawl at free kilometres pal Sandip eventually built 18,000 and something of the case and 50 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the royal enfield wdr a flying flea derived from the DK wrt 100 the flying flea was also constructed to be profitable with a simple difference to the previous ones though the rail and the field did not required to be disassembled on top of which it weighed less than 60 kilograms the engine was also enlarged from original 98 CC increasing power output by 0.5 to 1 horsepower [Music] Norton double D six th the Norton six teenage model was produced since 1911 to 1954 roughly in the middle of these time periods the Second World War began before which Norton worked closely with the British Army on the WD 16 age military model it's interesting that the whole Norton stuff including members of the racing team helped with the development [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sun Oct 22 2017