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DSN_klr650@egroups.com, "Shepard,Brian" wrote:
> Oh yeah, reminds me of that Sixties TV show "The Rat Patrol". Come
to think
> of it, that was a pretty awesome show. Was there a dirt bike in
that show?
> Did the US & Germans ride dirt bikes in the North African campaign
of WWII?
> Any historians and/or TV trivia people out there?
Not a historian nor a TV person, but the Germans had the BMW R75 with
driven sidecar wheel, and enormouse load capacity and two speed
splitter, giving them eight speeds and a reverse gear also. The
Allies had only H-D WLAs, 45 c.i. flatheads, with a drive chain that
wouldn't work int he desert very well. The slaughter of the WLA
riders by by the Krauts spawned the development of the H-D X-A model
and the Indian 841, both twins with driveshafts.
Backroad Bill