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This is a good bike

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 5, 2026, 10:44 pm

https://youtube.com/shorts/F7tsl5YuTPk?si=ctQdlBK6nZzHw-gF

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 12:15 am, in reply to "This is a good bike"

Sounds like a bucket of ball bearings rolling down an iron roof.

Leon Novello

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 7:09 am, in reply to "This is a good bike"

The view of the number plate looks good

, not sure what the bike is though, obviousley 2 stroke.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 9:05 am, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

It does have a firm rear end though. Russian i would think

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 9:18 am, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

I didn’t notice that Andy, must have another look!

Den

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 11:02 am, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

Russian "Jupiter 5" by the look of it. 350cc two stroke twin based on a 1950s DKW design.

IIRC it was one of those that the "Long Way Round" crew ended up using for a while in Russia after a BMW malfunction.

Nigel B.

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 11:23 am, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

Was it a Jupiter that in the 1970s Bike magazine road tested & found brand new it was so bad it failed a MOT ??

Re: This is a good bike

Possibly - but I think that would have been an earlier Jupiter 3 - not that there would have been much different other than a sort-of styling chamge.

"MZ" Mark Dicker had some experience of Russian bikes & warned me off them - mainly due to the miserable materials quality and slip-shod manufacturing. I almost fancied getting a Jupiter 3 at one point, as they are similar to the mid-50s DKW RT350 twin that are not common here and very pricey - Mark reckoned that the Jupiters were completey clapped out if they managed to make it to 10K miles due to the poor materials used.

He had a Vostock 175 at one point that he described as being "so bad it was comical". A fellow apprentice bought a new Vostock 175 while we were at college in the late '70s & it would go rusty during the day while parked if it was raining.

I replaced the sidecar light cluster on the "Xmas snow scene picture outfit" with a new one and it was absolutely dire quality - the die-cast base on the original just crumbled away & the new replacement wasn't much better. I had to be very careful tightening the lense screws, as the casting threads would have stripped before the plastic lense broke.

There is a (very well produced) YT video of a Russian guy rebuilding a Jupiter 3 from the mid-'60s & he complains about the dire standard of the NOS parts he bought in for it. The "engineering" diplayed in the original product is absolutely minimal - his rebuild is of way higher quality than the original factory managed.

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 6, 2026, 5:36 pm, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

IZH.

No Matter how Kind you are, German Kids are Kinder.

Re: This is a good bike

Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 7, 2026, 11:08 am, in reply to "Re: This is a good bike"

IZH.

Gesundheit.

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