The end of World War II found BMW in ruins. Its plant outside of Munich was destroyed by Allied bombing. The Eisenach facility while badly damaged was not totally destroyed and tooling and machinery was safely stored nearby. After the war the terms of Germany’s surrender forbade BMW from manufacturing motorcycles and automobiles. Most of BMW’s brightest engineers were taken …
Monthly Archives For August 2011
MARITIMES DAWN ‘TIL DUSK RUN
Would you like to go on a mad motorcycle ride? Of course you would! And it’s your lucky day, because the folks at CMG have just the ticket.
On September 17, CMG head honcho Editor ‘Arris and news editor underling Kawazacky are going on an epic dawn-’til-dusk run through three east coast provinces, and you’re invited. But there’s one catch: …
SLUGO TAKES PODIUM FINISH
The bike is a 2009 Tomos Streetmate R “stock” his name is SLUGO. Through heat and wind and torrential downpours Larry Ward guided Slugo to do something no other moped has ever done….circumnavigate Lake Erie in 24 hours!
It’s done…..the record is in the books….it may last for some time…not because their are no other 50 cc bikes …











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