This is a Test.....

The badge on the tank looks very familiar but I have no idea what it is, probably 125-150cc.

 

The seat needs refurbishing.

 

It's a 1953 german (sachs- engined) Rixe (Rick-see)160cc.Fr. a small firm in zuffenhausen.They eventually sold out to India,I think, and made mopeds under the same name. Got it fr. one of my porsche- restoration clients.Absolutely complete,incl. the original engelbert tires.missing only the toolbox lock. A bmw piece should be the same....check out the enclosed chain drive, and tire pump.

Its my next resto project....

 

The only disc valve inline twins I know are the Kawasaki and Rotax ones, this isn't one of those, the intakes are on the wrong side. A wild guess - Villa?

 

Hi Robin,

No, and since no one else even took a shot at it..........EXACTWELD.

Don

 

Who did the motor 'redesign' work? I know Exactweld had a number of clever guys working on the bikes...but I thought they were using Rotax 256 motors.

 

Hi Charles,

From the little I know, the early EXACTWELDs were TZ powered:

Don

 

EXACTWELDS were really cool:

http://www.msrphotographic.co.uk/html/photo_page_384.html

Don

 

I was going to post a link to that very same site when I found out what the engine was

 

Nope, not that one.....

I know who has the most recent one that he sold though. It was at Barber for the 25th Anniversary of the Gamma, in 2010.

 

Someone should get this.



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Hi Matt,

Yes, Mike sold "his" 750 to a gentleman named William.

As far as the bike he was warming-up in the video.......do you remember the TV show on ABC called "The Wide World of Sports" and the opening segment?

Don

 

Geeeeeeezzzzz Robin, You put-up some tough ones. I'm guessing a factory, Yamaha 250 from the '60s. To be honest, I have no idea.

Don

 

You are almost 100% correct. It is a Yamaha from the 60's, it's a 125cc square four, the RA31.

 

Hi Robin,

Well I was close. Those "Factory" bikes are difficult to recognize. There were so few of them.

I always found it interesting that Yamaha was using rotary disc valves on their factory bikes in the '60s, yet TZs didn't even have reed valves until 1985!

Don

(Looks more like a V-four to me. )

 

It is a V4, my mistake, don't know why I said square 4.

 

How about a Morbidelli 350/4?:



Not quite the same as the RTM 350/4.

Don

 

Lovely machine, thanks for the pic. :up:

 

I'm not a big vintage guy but that Morbidelli is gorgeous!

 

Was it ever used in anger?