Two wheeled lust - photos from the NSU motorcycle museum in Germany

Feb 23, 2003
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Here are some photos from the NSU museum I took while on my Europe trip.
Some truly interesting bikes there.....

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Wankel powered bike.
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Ridem cowboy !!
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Early days of Dakar navigation. A road book and an aircraft compass
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Not much use here in Thailand....
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Boost on, hold on. That is a blower from a Detroit 3-71 diesel engine.
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Guess this early race bike was not broadcasting much engine information to the pit crew..... :)
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One of the most valuable bikes in the world, and the preferred ride of Lawrence of Arabia. He also died on one....
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The perfect bike for running those pesky military check points in Laos...
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Early cruiser style....
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In the early days clearly they were not afraid to experiment with engine location...
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Copy of the Easy Rider bike.
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Early DNA for Triumph !!!
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Early round the world bike. Am guessing early fifties on this bike.
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Early Maico
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Rocket bike. Should be a cut out in the seat to make room for anyone with the balls to drive this bike.
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Love the "seating" position. 38 CC for power, and it reached 84 kph
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Blower time....
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Some of these bikes looked closer to kinetic art, rather than a transportation device.
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Apr 27, 2010
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Thanks for the pics, plastered a smug grin in my face. Some eternal classic beauties and some oddities, front wheel-hub placed rotary engine!?!?....
 
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What a beauties! What a beautiful engineered technique of engines.

So sorry that in my younger years I just crashed a NSU scooter, Solex, Kreidler Floret and Yamaha FS1 ... not to mention the MG Midget MK3 that after I sold it was totally crashed by the new owner.