IMZ-Ural turns 80
https://www.imz-ural.com/80th-anniversary
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Muravey
Tula.
Ryabikov Machine-Building Plant.
Early 1980s. Full story
Black leather heroes
Once, an old acquaintance told me that they looked at motorcycle racers in leather suits in the early nineteen fifties – as if they would look the same at aliens now.
In fact, it looks beautiful. Yes, ordinary people dressed then in those years, so-so.
The photo shows the champions of the USSR DOSAAF in motorsport in 1951.
From left to right: Fedor Erastov, Oleg Mikhailov, G. Khristoforov, Galina Konovalova (all – Moscow), M. Izotova (Lithuanian SSR), Victor Drobitsky, A. Karpov (USSR), Sergei Kadushkin (Leningrad).
23 September, 1951. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev.
An IMZ H-D
Steve W sent this YouTube link:
Looks like a lot of time, effort, and money. BUT… under the seat sure looks 100% Russian 🙂
aliens ?
Aliens have landed !
A true work of art!
Cat tells me this blue and white pottery is called Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue. In Dutch it’s Delfts blauw.
Whatever it is it’s beautiful! I want one of these! This is work of art! It would great anywhere, I would have it under locked glass. I think everyone would like one of these classics.
Flatout
Just a great photo! Photographer unknown, found it somewhere on the internet.
The quest for power
Edgars Ermanis testing a record-breaking motorcycle engine EKE-1 on the power test stand.
KMZ 8.157-025 Concept 2008
One of the last concept motorcycles from the KMZ factory, KMZ 8.157-025 in 2008.
It was given the unofficial name ′′ Kongocycle ′′ after the nickname of the chief architect of Congo, possibly in the hope of exports.
It was given a fuel tank from IZH as a forced measure as by that time KMZ no longer released its own fuel tanks, also the front fork was from IZH Orion, but it all had come too late for KMZ.
For the beautiful life of Soviet collective farmers
photo description: Экспериментальный КМЗ К-750 СХ
То ли кабриолет, то ли ландо. Красивая жизнь советских колхозников.
translates to:
Experimental KMZ K-750 CX
Either a convertible, or a landau for the beautiful life of Soviet collective farmers.
KMZ frame, wheels, stubbie front end, yet the cylinder heads and rocker covers look Ural, though I can’t spot the usual 3 ribs. and it looks like it has twin exhausts on the LHS. Could this be another mystery machine? Prototype (Agricultural?)
*ландо (landau) – a horse-drawn wheeled enclosed carriage with a removable front cover and a back cover that can be raised and lowered. Landau, a German city where such carriages were first made. From Germanic element; land (territory), can also mean a baby pram, stroller, and (by extension) a style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
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sources: Мотоциклы Днепр КМЗ К-750 М-72 @dneprmoto, Wickionary (dictionary)