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What Do You Know About Defunct Motorcycle Companies?

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August 17, 2021, 09:35 PM
P250UA5
What Do You Know About Defunct Motorcycle Companies?
5/10
Got the Vincent question thanks to Top Gear.




The Enemy's gate is down.
August 17, 2021, 09:36 PM
aileron
7/10, and I thought I knew **A LOT** about old bikes.
August 17, 2021, 09:47 PM
TSE
quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
7 out of 10 for me.
My childhood buddy had a Rupp. It was badass.
And in HS school, I helped a buddy short track a Bultaco.
Anyone ever own a.... Zundapp?

I owned a Knock off Zundapp, made by another defunct company. Condor was a Swiss company that made bikes for the Swiss army. I had an A580 for quite some time.


Calgary Shooting Centre
August 17, 2021, 09:58 PM
357fuzz
6/10.
August 17, 2021, 10:11 PM
ridewv
Damn only 5/10.


No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
August 17, 2021, 10:14 PM
pbslinger
9/10 the NSU question got me.
August 17, 2021, 11:17 PM
MWills
I got 6 right. Most were a good guess



I was ​always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps ​getting harder to find one.
August 17, 2021, 11:43 PM
Big Tork
in my youth i had a hodaka dirt squirt, I was the coolest kid on the block
August 19, 2021, 07:22 AM
pbslinger
Went to the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa yesterday, didn't see any Hodaka or NSU motorcycles.

The very early American motorcycles overrestored like jewelry are amazing, but they are so perfectly made in an exaggerated custom style, that it just makes me wonder what they really looked like when they were new. There was at least five of them done up like that.

Was kind of surprised that it seemed like so many early US motorcycle makers were located in the midwest, you would think the east would be where manufacturing would occur. It was easy to see where they were made since many had the city on the tank along with the brand name.