Sounds like a chainsaw

[stig]

I'm not talking about that, but about the way the japanese and some of the east block countries used to blatantly copy western cars and motorcycles.

One of the most famous cases is the Ural Dnepr a soviet motorcycle copied from the BMW 750.
In WW2 the russkies captured a BMW 750 cc sidecar motorcycle from the German army. Legend has it that it only took them 3 months to set up pruduction of a copy for use in the war.
They have been making them since, without changing much of the original design.
So If you yearn for a WW2 BMW motorcycle to run around on, get an URAL Dnepr............same-same!

 

[Dave Shepard]

I believe the Ural has it's own thread somewhere on the 'House.

 

[stehansen]

Well if they did I'll bet it was a Lulu ,most Russian stuff is .

Copied this from Wikipedia. 10 hp!
SZ cycle-car is a series of SeAZ microcars, including SZA and SZD, manufactured in Serpukhov, Russia (SZ means Serpukhovskiy Zavod, Serpukov Factory, Russian: Серпуховский Завод).

SZD is a twin-seat 4-wheeled cycle-car 2.6 metres (102.4 in) long. It has a forced air-cooled engine IZH-PZ

The SZA-M was produced between 1958 and 1970. It was powered by a 346 cc single cylinder two stroke engine giving 10 hp (7 kW) and a top speed of 55 km/h (34 mph).

In USSR they are commonly known as "(motor)wheelchairs" (or invalidka in Russian), because they were distributed primarily among disabled people.

In 1988 SZ model was replaced by Oka.

Last 300 SZD's left SeAZ in the autumn of 1997.


[edit] SZD Specifications
Weight - 454 kg (1001 lb)
Dimensions - 2595 mm (length) x 1380 mm (width) x 1350 mm (height)
Track width - 1114 mm (43.9 in)
Wheelbase - 1700 mm (66.9 in)
Min turning radius - 3,8 - 4,2 m
Max velocity - 70 km/h (43 mph)
Fuel consumption - 7.0 litres per 100 kilometres (40 mpg imp/34 mpg US)
Engine - IZH-PZ-01
cylinder - 346 cc, 72 mm (2.8 in) in diameter
piston stroke - 85 mm (3.3 in)
max power - 18 hp (13 kW)
compression index - 7,5-8
four-stage gearbox