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Just for the record: an argentine called Ernesto Bessone bought the german DKW license to do the same thing like Cavani did back in Bologna, but this time in a hughe factory in Santa Fe, Argentina. From 1960 to 1965 there were a lot od "argentinian" DKW (originals, by the way) 125, 150 and 250 in the streets and some of them were introduced in near countries like Uruguay, Paraguay, etc. So Bessone did the same thing that Cavani. I own a DKW RT 125 from 1961 made in Argentina with the original german parts, some italians and the rest, from here.







Bruno Cavani was the man to have introduced DKW to Italian markets, having been a DKW dealer since 1923. In fact, he was the first foreign dealer outside of Germany. After WW2 though, stringent import laws were killing his business - a ban on the import of bikes that weighed 185kg or less. Cavani had a plan. He imported just the motors, and then sourced the rest of the bike from suppliers in his his home town of Bologna. From after the war until 1957, Cavani produced DKW-powered 'made in Italy' 125, 175, 200 and 250cc motorcycles. I tested a Cavani-made 1955 RT 125 a couple of years back in Italy, and it was a gem. Full feature in the magazine soon..





In the 1930’s DKW pioneered the Schnurle two-stroke loop scavenging process to dispense with the use of a deflector piston and improve efficiency of the combustion chamber. DKW also developed a highly efficient arrangement of transfer ports. These two features were included in the RT 125 to great commercial advantage. Competitor companies such as Adler and TWN copied the adoption of flat-topped pistons and strove to develop equally transfer port arrangements without infringing DKW’s patent.



















3. September 2017 20:53
3. September 2017 20:56
der janne hat geschrieben:Die Danuvia ist keine RT Kopie...Keine Kickstarterhohlwelle mit integrierter Schaltwelle. ..Ein typisches Indiz für die Kopie fehlt hier...

4. September 2017 11:39
4. September 2017 14:30
st1ffl3r hat geschrieben:Triumph BDG 250 könnte hier auch noch rein passen.
lg.
5. September 2017 10:23
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5. September 2017 11:48
st1ffl3r hat geschrieben:nun ja, der Motor ist natürlich etwas anderes, aber am Rest ist gut zu erkennen wo die BDg ihr Wurzeln hat...
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Die Familie Giró begann daraufhin einen Expansionsplan, indem sie die Einrichtungen einer ehemaligen Autofabrik (Nacional Pescara) erwarb, die mit modernen Maschinen ausgestattet war. 1942 präsentierte OSSA den ersten Prototyp mit einem Motobecane-Motor, der von der Öffentlichkeit sehr gut aufgenommen wurde und später durch einen vom berühmten DKW 125 RT abgeleiteten Motor ersetzt wurde.
25. November 2020 19:20
samyb hat geschrieben:In diesem Video kann man in den Inererien des DKW-Klons gucken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bp1fowGvzU&