ZVEZDA 1/35 BMW R12 ARMY MOTORBIKE & SIDECAR WWII Z3607 on eBay (end time 09-Nov-09 21:22:24 GMT)


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ZVEZDA 1/35 BMW R12 ARMY MOTORBIKE & SIDECAR WWII Z3607

ZVEZDA

Z3607

BMW R12 MOTORBIKE & SIDECAR

GERMAN ARMY WORLD WAR 2

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BMW had a big problem in 1926: In sidecar service, their frames were cracking their welds. It was necessary to design a new frame, and a new motorbike, in order to cure it. The new frame was stamped out of heavy sheet metal in left- and right-channel section halves, and then cross-braced and joined with large round head rivets. Called the "star" frame, it could take the heavy bending loads of a sidecar without fatigue. The new 750cc engines were the largest and most powerful yet produced by BMW, a 16 horsepower sidevalve, and a 28 horspower OHV version.
By the middle of the 1930s, Germany was heady with technological achievement under the Nazi government, and BMW asserted its superiority by setting land speed records (reaching 179 mph in 1936), and competing in international roadraces. Despite nearly 100 horsepower in their supercharged 500cc engines, victory eluded them. The evil handling of their chassis, and especially of their trailing-link forks, was the culprit. Eventually the telescopic fork solution was found. They were not the first to use the telescopic principle, but they were the first to have an internal piston and valves to control the compression and rebound rates. The new forks were so superior to the old that in 1935, the R11 and R16 were fitted with them and given a little facelift and a 4-speed gearbox, thus producing the wildly successful R12 and R17. These were the first production motorbikes to use a modern front suspension, though they lacked any rear suspension at all. BMW finally solved its metal joining problem in 1936 by the introduction of electric arc welding, the R12 went on to be BMW's most produced model until the R75/5 of the early 1970's. Nearly 30,000 of them were made; 20,000 as civilian models (most of which were conscripted in 1939), and another 10,000 specifically built for the Wehrmacht.
BMW R12s did yeoman service in the German Army. In addition to the messenger and scout roles that motorbikes played in the Allied armies, the Germans equipped motorised infantry regiments with R12 sidecar and made the fastest units in the blitzkrieg, seeing combat from the steppes of Russia to the deserts of North Africa.
Today, R12's are still in operation all over the world. Used, original, and reproduction parts are available from several German sources, and small numbers of machines have recently appeared from former iron-curtain countries.

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