The Russian motorcycle of 1942 won the main award at a fashionable exhibition in Italy!

The annual exhibition Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2013 is a unique design and technology show held annually in one of the most fashionable places in Italy at Villa Este. Incredible news shocked visitors this year: the Russian motorcycle won the grand prize in 2013!

IMZ M-35K, carefully preserved by the Austrian Motorcycle Museum in Worchdorf, took two awards at once. First he was awarded the highest award - the BMW Trophy (Trofeo BMW Group), and then the jury was named Best of Show del Concorso d'Eleganza.

Since 1924, industry has been looking for ways to create a new direction - the creation of light 2-wheel vehicles for the national economy and the army. But serial production of motorcycles in the USSR began only in 1935. During the war, two enterprises - in Irbit and Gorky - began production of motorcycles copied from the BMW R71 - this is the M-72 with a 750 cc engine. After the war, the Irbitsky Moto Plant (IMZ) continued to produce mass-produced motorcycles with large motors, while in Gorky they launched the production of a new model, the M-35K with a 350 cc engine.

IMZ M-35K was used in races, including in the M-35C version - and in highway-ring races (FIM Sidecar Roadracing Championship). Sports engines worked on a 70% mixture of B-100 gasoline with ethanol and acetone and accelerated the car to 176 km / h with a dry weight of 200 kg. In fact, the long-forgotten M-35 was the first Soviet sport bike in the homeland.

Made in 1948 in the Soviet Union, this 2-cylinder The 350-cc motorcycle was stored in the Austrian Motorcycle Museum for several decades, as one of the most technologically advanced cars in history with a 2-cylinder boxer engine.

As part of the annual Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2013 exhibition, a specialized exhibition was also held to mark the 90th anniversary of BMW Motorrad. At the exhibition, BMW presented their most famous motorcycles, released over 90 years of history, including the original BMW R32, which first began to be produced in 1923. Among the BMW classics, of course, the new BMW Ninety concept stood out, based on the BMW R90S and developed in close collaboration with Roland Sands.

By materials of the site MOTOGONKI.RU and bikepost.ru