OK, of us, I do know I simply did an entire story on turning into the boss of RideApart, and by that logic, I ought to know each motorbike and powersport machine ever constructed. However I am stumped. I got here throughout this picture of a motorbike technical on Reddit the opposite day and for the lifetime of me, I can’t determine what the hell it’s.
I’ve polled Janaki, Robbie and EJ. I’ve put it up in my Insta tales. I’ve even texted RideApart’s EIC Emeritus Jason Marker who’s much more educated about Jap-produced bikes of doubtless Slavic origin.
And guess what, we’re all stumped. As Marker texted me, “It is a Bike model motorbike.” It is simply such a standard design, we won’t determine it out.
I’ve zoomed in, did the entire movie-style “ENHANCE” with Photoshop, and tried my greatest to determine what the lettering is alongside the tank and facet plate. However I’ve bought nothing, apart from the facet plate perhaps says “750” or “T50” or it is in Cyrillic. People, I simply do not know.
Actually, based mostly on the locale (Syria), it could possibly be both Chinese language, Russian, or Indian, or some mixture of all three given how mechanics over there make do with no matter they’ve and make it work remarkably effectively. It additionally might simply be a Honda CB with components thrown onto it to, once more, simply make it work.
However I am uninterested in having this query in my head and, by Slack Legislation, I’ve already devoted an excessive amount of time DM’ing my Motorsport Community colleagues for it to not turn into this story. So I ask of you, our pricey readers, what the hell is that this motorbike?
Here is what I do know. It is a captured Syrian Democratic Forces technical due to Recoil Journal, which seems to be the unique writer of the picture. I additionally know that the weapons platform mounted to the rear of the motorbike is both an Iranian or Chinese language-produced W85 and fires 12.7x108mm rounds.
It is also meant to be mounted to a secure tripod or a automobile, although I sincerely doubt that the PLA would’ve thought-about a motorbike within the “automobile” class given this machine gun’s recoil. However like I mentioned earlier, they’re making it work, even including a spare ammunition field to the entrance of the bike.
Marker thinks perhaps it is a Soviet Minsk, however I have not been capable of finding one which matches up. So assist me, and the remainder of us, determine this riddle out and get it out of my head.
