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- From: marrevola@rediris.es
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: FOR SALES ha-ha-ha! CYCLES Trade mark DNEPR from USSR
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.091635.50@rediris.es>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:16:34 +0100
- References: <1992Nov19.022338.35992@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D
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- In article <1992Nov19.022338.35992@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF) writes:
- >
- > You'd better not - it sucks. I had one in Russia - design and engine have
- > not changed much since 1944 (the prototype was a 1944 military-issue BMW) -
- > the bike's a two-cylinder four-stroke opposite with 500 cubic centimetres
- > and only (!) 30hp, heavy, wobbly and ugly like a senile drunk's head.
- > Of course, in winter it doesn't start unless you have a warm garage,
- > its battery always leaks and its gearbox... Ok, never mind.
- >
- > Another particularly unpleasant feature is unavoidable engine overheat
- > at high rpm - so you cannot drive it for any considerable time. The only
- > possible use of the said motorcycle is to be stored somewhere as a Red
- > Army souvenir - but it is dishonestly large and won't fit into any
- > cupboard.
- >
- > --
- > Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.
-
- Have you heard about URAL motorcycles?. The above description sounds very
- familiar to me...
-
- manolo@taf.fundesco.es
- ZX-11
- DR-600-S
- DoD #1033
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