Motorcycle Rider Training in 1959
March 13th, 2008 by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"
Yes, we’ve come a long way with motorcycle rider training and safety courses. I was digging through The Kneeslider research library and came across this Jawa training motorcycle in an old issue of Cycle. It was powered by a 250cc 2 stroke engine and had complete dual controls. The instructor sits in back and has fully functioning handlebars connected by rods to the front fork with a throttle, front brake lever and clutch. He had a rear brake pedal and footshift for the 4 speed transmission and there was also an ignition cutoff.
That had to be an odd experience for both student and instructor. I wonder how many of these they sold.
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March 13th, 2008 at 9:00 am
That’s so interesting…a nice looking bike, too!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Interesting that the instructor would be teaching the proper technique for riding on the sidewalk too it would seem.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I’d like one - maybe minus the extra controls. Nice looking bike.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
with a dude already on the back, so much for picking up that chick
March 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
That bike is a puch “twingle” imported by sears and sold in their stores. The engine is a very interesting design. Its a 250
March 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I take that back it is a jawa, but they almost look identical.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
What’s it like to ride with no one on the front? Could be a cheaters wheelie bike.
Looks like the instructor has a slightly awkward riding position, I wonder how useful it was?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
My brother has a 1946 version - with one control set. It’s called a Perak and isn’t a “twingle”. It’s a simple single cylinder with twin exhaust ports.
A version of this Czech bike was built in India and is still being manufactured in China by Chang Jiang:
http://www.chang-jiang.com/jawa/jawa.html
-todd
March 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
thats a photo crying out for a caption competition.
something along the lines of “Bill couldnt wait to get rid of his 10am appointment, so he could show Mary everything she needed to know….. about the bike”
I have no sense of humour so you guys have at it.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Oh, and I like the line about “research library”: thats what I am going to call my study which is stuffed to bursting with old motorbike magazines, books, DVDs and models from now on. Its not “that mess” its my “research library”
March 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
At Barber Motorsports Museum has such a bike in his collection it is very interesting I can’t remember if it was a Jawa or not but I do remember that it belonged to a college in the USA that taught motorcycle riding.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Isn’t that Audrey Meadows on the right?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I remember taking my first motorcycle test in a similar fashion. My bike was a BSA Alloy Clipper with a 60 tooth cheater sprocket. With the examiner on the pillion, it was almost impossible to keep the front wheel down. Examiners had to have “guts” in those days, eh?
No schools around here then. If you survived the first year, you probably had it made.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
As Bill engaged the clutch, he said to this mom:
“I sure hope that’s a plug wrench in his pocket.”
March 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Wouldn’t that linkage make for some pretty “interesting” handling qualities from the rear seat? It doesn’t seem like it would want to turn very well at higher speeds based on rear control inputs.
It’d be pretty neat to take a spin around the block on one of these, though.
cl
March 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
hello, it’s a Jawa 250/353, I’ve got one, too, from 1958: http://baowah.blog.hu/2007/05/31/tade_reborn
it’s a very simple, but very good bike. at this time the chech motor industry was ona of the best. Afther this era, it was year to year the same, and the motorcclism flies over the Jawa.
by the way, this method of riding trainee was normal here in central europe, I’ve learned on jawa 350/632, which was mounted with this funny extra.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
“man, I can’t wait to get into the sixties….get this clown off the back and take her for a ride she won’t forget.”
March 13th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
“What’re you rebelling against?”
“Whaddya got?”
March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Maybe Herr Instruktor is showing Frau Instruktor why the back seat bars aren’t those new fashionable clip-ons…..
March 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Teaching robin how to ride the bat-cycle.