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It was the Treaty of Versailles that changed the face of BMW. Until the end of the 1st World War II, BMW was a manufacturer of aircraft engines. His famous blue and white circular badge, which is said to represent aircraft propellers in motion, is a reminder that companies in the past. Fact that the logo actually comes from the color flag of Bavaria, and was used a good 12 years before BMW began to build aircraft engines, it does nothing to the contrary to popular myth.
When the German Air Force was disbanded and banned after the war, BMW should focus their attention elsewhere to put bread on the table. After briefly flirting with the manufacturer of agricultural machinery and even office furniture, began to build motorcycles. At that time, the main designer was a man named Max Friz, who was responsible for the famous boxer engines the first of which was based on a British Douglas design.
In 1923, the R32 was born, which should form the basis of future Boxer powered BMW. This motorcycle used the shaft system, which would feature in all BMW motorcycles up to 1994.
BMW motorcycles have demonstrated invaluable in North Africa during the 2nd World War II. Not with a chain that could clog up with sand, which were so successful the Harley-Davidson were requested by the U.S. Army, copying machine, which duly did and produced the Harley-Davidson XA. In German war machine insatiable for motorcycles, the company flourished during the war years, but the fate of Germany declined, so BMW. Munich his factory was razed to the ground by bombing and after the war the Russians dismantled equipment Eisenach and re-assembled in Irbit. Not only that, But the cream of their engineers were taken to Russia or the U.S. to work on jet engines research.
As restrictions on production motorcycles, relaxed, BMW, had to go back to basics. None of the old plans had survived, so the engineers were forced to use pre-war motorcycles as a template for new machines. Kolo, who came off the production line was the R24, which incidentally had no rear suspension. In 1949, more 9,000 R24 is built, an indication that increased to more than 17,000 in 1950. R68, a sports motorcycle was introduced in 1952. This 594cc machine was become something of a collector piece for less than 1500 were produced.
1950's saw a decline in demand motorcycles. This period saw a reduction production from 30,000 units to less than 6,000 in 1957. Late 50 let the majority of BMW motorcycles were exported to the United States, Butler and Smith inc. with exclusive distribution rights, but U.S. sales were strong, the company was struggling to survive. With the financial help of Herbert Quandt and flowering automobile division, BMW pulled through, and in 1959, cementing it's American reputation, John Prenton rode BMW R69 from New York to Los Angeles in 53 hours and 11 minutes, while shaved more than 22 hours off the existing record.
R27, the last of the single cylinder models was introduced in 1967. Times have changed and the public demanded different machines, so BMW has been built, with a sidecar in mind, but athletic performance. In 1970 the company introduced a completely re-vamped range of motorcycles, R50 / 5 R60 / 5 and R75 / 5 In 1974 the 500cc model removed from the catalog and replaced with 900cc bike. In 1975 he introduced R90S and soon received an motorcycle best 'Supersports' of his time.
1977 saw the arrival of the first liter engine from the BMW motorcycle. This year also welcomed first 'Full cover' on the BMW engine. In 1978 the R100T thrown into the ring to compete with the Honda GoldWing.
1986 brought the world's first electrically adjusted K100LT the windscreen, which had initially seemed a little eccentric, but is now used on various models BMW, and it was actually copying Honda, Yamaha and Kawasaki.
This is BMW, which was in 1988 introduced ABS to the motorcycle world where became standard on all models of its K, R1100S acquiring in 1993. It is now fitted to almost all of the shaft-driven wheel.
Despite the near extinction of the 2nd World War II, the company increased without doubt, be one of the best motorcycle manufacturers in the world.
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