1960 Harley Hummer 165cc 2stroke, CL, $5500

[chuck peterson]

Exquisite.

https://vermont.craigslist.org/mcy/d/wayland-1960-harley-davidson-hummer/6871511666.html

[cliffrod]

For that price, I would expect to at least have the correct speedometer instead of a homemade cover and toggle switch.   

Without a long excursion into the proper S-125, Hummer, Model 165, Pacer, etc monikers, a 165 is technically not a Hummer and that by 1960 they were 175cc & called a Pacer.  I've had a few.  Hard to believe how much people ask for them now..

[canuck750]

A local member of the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group (CVMG) restored a 1956 HD Hummer and showed it at the International Motorcycle Show when it came through town in January this year. His was a perfect restoration and it was HD orange, man did it draw a crowd.
He was offered $10K CDN ($7K US), he turned it down. He claims it's a pleasure to ride and he put on about 500 miles the summer before.

[ohiorider]

DKW RT 125.  The design was appropriated (war reparation) by the US, Britain, and Russia after WW2.  Sure got a lot of attention for a design that came out of Germany in the 1930s.

Bob

[canuck750]

DKW RT 125.  The design was appropriated (war reparation) by the US, Britain, and Russia after WW2.  Sure got a lot of attention for a design that came out of Germany in the 1930s.

Bob

I didn't know it was of German origin, I though the west only got V2 rockets and Sarin nerve agent from the Germans after WWII 

[oldbike54]

I didn't know it was of German origin, I though the west only got V2 rockets and Sarin nerve agent from the Germans after WWII 

 The BSA Bantam was based on the NSU RT 125 also . Honda borrowed heavily from the NSU Fox for the Benly .

 Dusty

[cliffrod]

The BSA Bantam was based on the NSU RT 125 also . Honda borrowed heavily from the NSU Fox for the Benly .

 Dusty

If you put, for example, a Bantam and a HD 125/165/175 side by side, you'll notice the engines are somewhat of a mirror image of each other with reversed primary and drive sprockets.  Kinda cool.  A plunger-frame Bantam was one of my first non-Japanese old bikes.

The NSU and DKW platforms led to a lot of bikes, some more obvious or acknowledged than others.

[chuck peterson]

That's crazy, I see one half of a Yamaha twin two stroke. 330cc, light nimble dependable...even the exhaust has the stiletto tip of a roadracing Suzuki rg500




google pick a number between 1 & 5

[Roebling3]

Hmmm. I've got 4 'stiletto tips' in the basement. All are oily. 2 are connected. 6 +4 more were, but they're long gone, as are 2 non-oily, being a poor connection from the start.  R3~

[cliffrod]

That's crazy, I see one half of a Yamaha twin two stroke. 330cc, light nimble dependable...even the exhaust has the stiletto tip of a roadracing Suzuki rg500




google pick a number between 1 & 5

Yamaha jumped on the same bandwagon when they got started.  The 1955 YA-1 125 was their first bike.  Always wanted one but never found one.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YA-1#/media/File%3AYamaha_YA-1_00.jpg