Many thanks to Rudi Senghaas for this picture of a NSU Max 250cc Scrambler seen at an Audi-Exhibition at the Audi-Forum in Neckarsulm.

Many thanks to Rudi Senghaas for this picture of a works NSU Gelaender Max.

Many thanks to Reinhard Goetz for these pictures of an awesome NSU on display at the Audi museum at Ingolstadt.

Thanks to Bernie Stevens for this picture of a 1955 Special Max taken at a 2007 NSU gathering in Milton Keynes.

Conceived and patented by German inventor, Heinrich Ernst Kniepkamp, in June of 1939, Kettenkrads saw service on the Eastern Front, North African theater […]

Kettenkrad was an ingenious half motorcycle, half tracked vehicle, hence its name – 'ketten' meaning tracks, 'krad' meaning Krafttrad or motorcycle.

Franz Langer held the record for the largest displacement single cylinder motorcycle engine, with a 1000cc thumper built in 1998. Not long afterwards, Werner Dienstkrad built a 1440cc steampunk motorcycle designed after a comic strip creation, NSU 2000cc -  Largest Single Cylinder Motorcycle  Franz wanted the record back so he built the NSU Bison 2000, a 2000cc…

Here is a brief primer on a few long-gone German automakers whose names, when mentioned today, result in blank stares.

The K70 was one of the cars set the tone for Audi and VW design, but it was not a sales hit.

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When people see the Kettenkrad, officially called the NSU Sd. Kfz. 2, for the first time they usually all have the same question. Is the front wheel

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DataBikes List of Vintage, Classic and Old Bikes With Info and Photos (Page 13)

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OldMotoDude - A Blog about Vintage Motorcycles. Motorcycles of all kinds -Street Bikes, Dirt Bikes, Cafe, Custom, Racers. Also on Pinterest &YouTube

A 1953 NSU Max 250 on display with other classic motorcycles at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.

The year 1951 marked a milestone in the corporate history of NSU-Werke. In this year NSU achieved two world records in the motorcycle category on a cordone

If you bought a NSU Car,motorcycle or scooter in the fifties you would receive a riders/owners mag with information on there latest models,racing success and other information,also you could enjoy sometime at the NSU lido/campsite which was in a place Cavallino(one of the Quickly models was named after it) not far from Venice on the…