Help Identifying a Motorbike

[GrandadsMoto]

Hello all. Need a bit of help from the experts! We have a picture of my Grandfather in 1953 Yugoslavia. We cannot identify the bike in the picture, we are assuming is a Soviet or maybe some other communist motorbike, or we could be wrong. He was a police officer at the time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You! http://imgur.com/a/z0TTc

[Guest]

Can you post full picture not just a tiny part of it. Then we might be able to figure it out

[eastanglianbiker]

well i could be a james fitted with the villiers engine but as said a bigger better pic would help

[Gerontious]

At that time and in that country is it not more likely to be a JAWA?

[JRH]

At that time and in that country is it not more likely to be a JAWA?

 

Tank badge isn't JAWA .

[Gerontious]

At that time and in that country is it not more likely to be a JAWA?

 

Tank badge isn't JAWA .

 

I know that. the badge could be anything.. his local young communist pioneers club - anything.

Jawa was huge at the time.. so I would start by ruling that out as a possibility.

[JRH]

At that time and in that country is it not more likely to be a JAWA?

 

Tank badge isn't JAWA .

 

I know that. the badge could be anything.. his local young communist pioneers club - anything.

Jawa was huge at the time.. so I would start by ruling that out as a possibility.

 

true

[Mr Fro]

At that time and in that country is it not more likely to be a JAWA?

That's what I thought but the tank is the wrong shape (from the pic anyway) and the carb isn't right. Engine does look like a Jawa twin though.

[rennie]

I thought Ural but badge is wrong for them too

[Joeman]

The cylinder head, carb and headlamp bracket look like a BSA bantam, but the badge is all wrong , and the space between the head and bottom of the tank is wrong

http://i.imgur.com/ERMmfLN.jpg

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photogallerys/BSA-Bantam.jpg?378220

[RantMachine]

Google image search thinks it might be Ed Sheeran.

http://www.google.co.uk/searchresults

[Mawsley]

... and the space between the head and bottom of the tank is wrong

Could be one of those Father Ted near-faraway things.

[eastanglianbiker]

could it be this which is a 1950 peugeot 176 of which they say there is only 3 left in the world

[ThePhatomfart]

This embelm is the closest I found ,manufactured in Budapest

[Six30]

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[ThePhatomfart]

That looks like the right one Six

[Six30]

That looks like the right one Six

 

Yeh it does spanner, reckon we solved it

[Joeman]

Worlds oldest example of a Chinese copy...

[eastanglianbiker]

and i bet the op never returns to see that the members on this forum have worked their magic again well done six good find

[Six30]

and i bet the op never returns to see that the members on this forum have worked their magic again well done six good find

 

I'll send him a bill , we got any headed paper

[GrandadsMoto]

Hello all. Please find the full picture attached:

http://imgur.com/a/XyTKZ

Thank you so much for your help and it seems we have found the bike. Family very happy about it. Again thank you.