Is this a WWII Military Bike?
06-11-07, 12:15 PM
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Is this a WWII Military Bike?
A friend brought me this thing claiming it was a German WWII Military Bike... His mother had passed it down to him and thought it may have been a Nazi bike. As you'll see in the photos, the components are mostly english/brittish. while the saddle (which i thought looked original) is of russian design, it was manufactured in the states... i know nothing about the frame. does anyone know what this might be? what era? worth anything? is the frame german?
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I don't believe the saddle is Russian, look closer, thats Moscow Tennessee Ya'all.
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British, Russian, made in the U.S.A. not likely Nazi unless its prewar war but even then thay put the bent cross on everything. I have a friend that has dinner plates with that bent cross on them.
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He got his answer at the Folding bike forum! I'd like to find one of those in Chrome!! That would be a great find!
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06-12-07, 07:24 PM
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It's a Moulton. Very high quality mini wheeled folder (and solid) from the sixties. Look it up on the web. They were really *****in' back in the day.
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Sweet Moulton! Very non-nazi!
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Now the real question, did the nazis have bicycles? and if so does anyone have any pictures of them? I can't really imagine a bunch of nazi dudes pedaling around on utilitly bikes with swastika headbadges.
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Yup! For instance..
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Not a very good photo, but check this one out: https://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resour...es/bicycle.gif
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And here's a Moulton on eBay, same double M logo: https://cgi.ebay.com/MOULTON-STANDARD...QQcmdZViewItem
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Theres no doubt the Wehrmacht used lots of bikes through the war . (Their ammunition trains were often drawn by horses,) but I doubt there was ever a "Standard" bicycle. It would be interesting if we could find some more pictures though.
I would bet $$ that there were bicycles around every single RAF airfield though!
I would bet $$ that there were bicycles around every single RAF airfield though!
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Originally Posted by redneckwes
Theres no doubt the Wehrmacht used lots of bikes through the war . (Their ammunition trains were often drawn by horses,) but I doubt there was ever a "Standard" bicycle. It would be interesting if we could find some more pictures though.
I would bet $$ that there were bicycles around every single RAF airfield though!
I would bet $$ that there were bicycles around every single RAF airfield though!
Although I didn't bother doing the usual massive documentation, I knew the bike was bloody close given the history of the DL-1, and I worked the brightwork in the same manner that the Lend-Lease Indians were finished. At one Highland games, we had a actual WWII vet of the regiment come through, and did a requested nit-picking review of the troops. The bike passed, his only gripe was that the guys were lacing their boots wrong. They were doing it by the manual, which in the field wasn't used as the troops figured a way to do it do a boot could be cut away quickly in cases of field injury.
I'm still surprised that after that experience, it still took me almost 18 years to get back on a bike.
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Originally Posted by le brad
Now the real question, did the nazis have bicycles? and if so does anyone have any pictures of them? I can't really imagine a bunch of nazi dudes pedaling around on utilitly bikes with swastika headbadges.
The downtube on this one says Vaterland
