1936 BMW Motorcycle/Snowmobile

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Found this is one my lady rider groups...looks cool in my opinion...I would've given it a ride..

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the BMW Schneekrad was made in 1936 and it was one of the first motorcycle-snowmobile’s ever put together. There is no too much info about this machine and even this we have has different opinion’s about it’s heritage: some say it was an experimental BMW-powered snowmobile which was built by Riemerschmidt, a BMW engineer as a personal project. Others version says it’s Wehrmacht order. The only thing is known for sure: Nazi Germans were getting ready for the Alps in winter so they were in need of machine which could move fast enough in spite of the the snow and mud. There are two versions of which the name Schneekrad originated from. Schnee means snow and krad means caterpillar, but also Krad was the military abbreviation of the German word Kraftrad, the administrative German term for motorcycle.
For this snowmobile Riemerschmidt used BMW R-12 engine in a “Gleitkettenkraftrad” or “slip-chain” motorcycle design and a Steib TR-500 sidecar. It’s very difficult to imagine how this machine was turning. There is almost no more information about this snowmobile which make us think it was abandoned project and possibly only one prototype was built.

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that boxer's been around
 
Reminds me of the wild weasel that Jake Rockwell used to use in the cartoon 'Centurions'...now I know where they got the idea from, lol.
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I used to come RUNNING back home from the school bus just so I'd be able to catch the 2pm show on Cartoon Network at the time.

 
haha I remember watching that stuff back home, television was like 20 years behind america
 
RS the RT is designed for two up ;)
 
ifiddles said:
Found this is one my lady rider groups...looks cool in my opinion...I would've given it a ride..

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the BMW Schneekrad was made in 1936 and it was one of the first motorcycle-snowmobile’s ever put together. There is no too much info about this machine and even this we have has different opinion’s about it’s heritage: some say it was an experimental BMW-powered snowmobile which was built by Riemerschmidt, a BMW engineer as a personal project. Others version says it’s Wehrmacht order. The only thing is known for sure: Nazi Germans were getting ready for the Alps in winter so they were in need of machine which could move fast enough in spite of the the snow and mud. There are two versions of which the name Schneekrad originated from. Schnee means snow and krad means caterpillar, but also Krad was the military abbreviation of the German word Kraftrad, the administrative German term for motorcycle.
For this snowmobile Riemerschmidt used BMW R-12 engine in a “Gleitkettenkraftrad” or “slip-chain” motorcycle design and a Steib TR-500 sidecar. It’s very difficult to imagine how this machine was turning. There is almost no more information about this snowmobile which make us think it was abandoned project and possibly only one prototype was built.

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Well it does have a sidecar ;) if you put a brake and a drive to that third wheel, it would certainly at the very least make decent right hand turns
 
Maybe he wants to take momma on the back (y) get the RT for that.
 
crankcall said:
That's a bold statement. But I like bold.
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I still wouldn't buy a BMW, but they are very good at some things. Actually i wouldn't buy anything engineered in Germany. I ran Heidelberg printing presses for many years. They were great when they were in "perfect" condition. But most companies run their machinery into the ground. Their newest, better, faster models were always just fixing something that wasn't broken. Just like BMW autos.
 
BMW followed Moto Guzzi in using wind tunnels to design their rides, that's why the aerodynamics shine.
I think for a few years there a couple of the japans manufacturers designed their bikes in wind tunnels without a rider :LOL: try riding that.
 
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