Top motorcycle USSR

80 had a wonderful time, not because it was then the Soviet Union, but because when we were 16 years old. The first sex, first vodka, the first ruble earned, and ... the first motorcycle. Let us remember - the smell of exhaust gases whose driving us scrip, and our friends did so accommodating, but the parents and the cops on the contrary.

"Vyatka VP-150." The most stylish





For the seed - not the bike, but the very first and also the most stylish of their younger brothers in the history of the USSR. Vyatka VP-150, produced from 1957 to 1966, - a copy of "the best scooter of all time," the Italian Vespa GS150.

L-300 "Red October". The first

Most the first production motorcycle was the Soviet L-300 "Red October».



At the beginning of 1930 the Leningrad designers prepared his drawings, inspired by the most reliable bike that time - the German DKW Luxus 300. And in the fall of that year, the first batch was ready A-300.
Produced motorcycle until 1938, and then based on it created no less than the legendary IL-8. This "descendant" L-300 even hit the silver coins ... New Zealand.

By the way, the name of the IL-7 were all the same A-300, which are parallel with the Leningrad now "Red October" released in Izhevsk.

M-72. Most combat



M-72 was the first motorcycle in the army of the USSR. In 1934 it began the assembly of the first Soviet heavy model PMZ-A-750, and in 1939 - "understudy" British BSA and is believed to be the best pre-war motorcycle Union TIZ-AM-600.

However, it is M-72, the design of which is "assembled" from the German BMW R71 (by them equipped with the Wehrmacht), coming in tragic 1941, released the entire war. And then there were the people seriously and civilian purposes - the last copies left the assembly line already in 1960.

From 1941 to 1945 the first M-72 bore the brunt of fighters armed with machine guns and light mortars. By the way, later bikes that are based on this model, steel arm and transportable outrigger-anti-missile systems.

Since the first post-war years - and long after - the M-72 became the main transport militia. And since 1954, they could buy for their own needs, and ordinary Soviet citizens.

"Offspring" M-72 at the beginning of the "zero" ordered the Republican Guard of Saddam Hussein. But I did not have time to take advantage of - and fighting motorcycle "went to the people." At the request of customers Iraqi garages put on the "Ural" additional "active and passive protection" - armor and a machine gun.

Iz-49. Universal model

Iz-49, introduced in 1951, and today often can be seen on the roads and the roads of the former Soviet Union.



"Probably the best bike for our country!" - And to this day can be heard from the Russian motor-fans. From Belarusians little less: the reason that you will find, after reading our top until the end.

Robust, tenacious, adapted to any environment and very loud (in the Soviet Union of its "voice" - no less a legend than in the US - the roar of "Harley»),

IL-49 is occupied a worthy place in our top 10.

"Iz Planeta Sport". The first production "athlete»



If all previous Soviet motorcycles were only slightly modernized pre-war model, the "Iz Planeta Sport" was created explicitly with an eye to his contemporary Japanese bikes.

In the guise of the most elegant "Izhey" You can find references to the works of Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawasaki. And even today, after almost four decades since the beginning of the issue, sport classic "Iz Planeta Sport" does not seem archaic.

The fastest and most technologically advanced of all the Soviet colleagues, he looked decent on the background of foreign models.

"Java 360". The most movie versions



By the 1970s, to "Yavah" went every third Soviet rider, and it is not surprising that the Czechoslovak motorcycles often enters the frame.

However, the main role in the Soviet cinema went Jawa 360: on this model Gesha Kozodoev luck fishing on the White rock Seeds Semenovich Gorbunkova.

"Java 350,638." Chief motorcycle "Roaring 90s»



The last of the "Yaw" sold in the Soviet Union, Jawa 350,638, has also become a "people's" motorcycle.

Having had time to get out before the restructuring, in 1984, the model appears frequently in harsh films of the late 1980s and early 1990s. So "Java 350 638" can be seen in the drama "Crash - the daughter ment" and the blockbuster "Rats or Night Mafia».

Motorcycle even a song dedicated to the "Java" popular in those years of the "gas sector».

"Dnepr 11". The most suitable for tuning



When the biker movement in the USSR infancy (when they called themselves rockers), tough guys in studded leather, among other very respected motorcycle "Dnepr 11».

It is this bike was the most suitable for the exercise in tuning. Finalize "heavyweights" and can now be found at various Motor Show and on the roads. Fortunately, to find a "basis" for completion quite easily.

"Minsk M1A." First Belarusian



And to this day the most "popular" motorcycle in Belarus are "minskachi." They run on the roads of all the former Soviet Union, and not only. But most of them, of course, at home.

Fiftieth anniversary motorcycles "Minsk" jumped for a long time (the first models already fully deserve the name of "vintage"), and very soon, July 12, they will celebrate their already 61-th birthday.

The first Belarusian "bike" was the Minsk M1A, which had a lot of "family" is not only in the USSR but also abroad. "Ancestor" motorcycle was developed in 1939 by the Germans. DKW RT125 was so successful that under different names analogues of this motorcycle manufactured in 7 countries, including the United States, England and Japan.

By the way, one of the old "minskachey" in the harsh conditions experienced one of the leading famous British show Top Gear Richard Hammond. He drove it from south to north almost the whole of Vietnam. Summary charismatic "autos", "This is the AK-47 among motorcycle - a reliable, simple, easy to repair. It is made especially for those countries where there are no roads ».