Bike Search...Bolbros. ??

[stanbloke]

Trying to find some info on this bike. I have googled it and still come up with nothing..

Anyone out there got any info. ?.

Cheers.

[Doctor Big]

The reference bible for old bikes of this era, particularly German ones, is the Encyclopaedia by Erwin Tragatsch, who listed every last one of them (allegedly). The Bolbros is not listed, and I haven`t heard of it either, and I`m pretty sad when it comes to knowing about old bikes like this. My guess is that the plaque was added by the owner, but it`s not the make of the bike. There were any number of companies in the 50`s in Germany making small utility 2 strokes, usually using engines from Kreidler, Sachs, Viktoria, EMC, Adler, DKW etc
You could trawl through all of them here A-Z of historic classic vintage veteran motorcycles motorbikes encyclopaedia museum dictionary index list tragatsch and see if you can find something similar

[bfalpine]

Hi,

At the moment I'm facing the same problem. I'm in Cape Town right now and today I was offered a Bolbros bike, one of only two known in this area. There's one in Cape Town and this one about 40 kms outside of Cape Town. About 25 years ago it was restorated but never used, and now the owner wants to get rid of it. I also can't find anything on the bike, but tomorrow I'm visiting one of my German contacts here who has a encyclopedia of German motorcycles from late 1800 till 1970 I believe. If news pops up I'll let you know. Sofar I only have some pics, but I haven't found out yet how to post them here.

Cheers
Ben

[Lutin]

Originally Posted by stanbloke

Trying to find some info on this bike. I have googled it and still come up with nothing..

Anyone out there got any info. ?.

Cheers.

Have you tried the folk on Classic Bike Forum? Might be worth a shot.

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[stanbloke]

Originally Posted by Lutin

Have you tried the folk on Classic Bike Forum? Might be worth a shot.

Classic Bike Forum • Index page

Cheers for that.

The bike is in Johannesburg with a friend and he's had no luck finding any info on it, so i'll give these folks a try..

[stanbloke]

Originally Posted by bfalpine

Hi,

At the moment I'm facing the same problem. I'm in Cape Town right now and today I was offered a Bolbros bike, one of only two known in this area. There's one in Cape Town and this one about 40 kms outside of Cape Town. About 25 years ago it was restorated but never used, and now the owner wants to get rid of it. I also can't find anything on the bike, but tomorrow I'm visiting one of my German contacts here who has a encyclopedia of German motorcycles from late 1800 till 1970 I believe. If news pops up I'll let you know. Sofar I only have some pics, but I haven't found out yet how to post them here.

Cheers
Ben

Ben,

Maybe we can give these guys an email to my buddy in Joburg (that makes 3 Bolbros in SA).