Posted on 05/11/2025 9:11:36 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Škoda is a well-known carmaker, but many may be unaware of the brand’s two-wheeled roots. The 130-year-old Czech company started out as a bicycle and motorcycle maker – and it looks like it might just get back to that.
Škoda has just unveiled a sparkly new concept, called the Slavia B, reviving one of its first two-wheeled models from 1899 with a futuristic twist. It's part of the company's "Modern Solid" design research initiative, which aims to demonstrate how traditional designs could be modernized for contemporary times.
Created by Škoda’s in-house external designer, Frenchman Romain Bucaille, the cafe racer concept seeks to maintain the original's distinctive features while fusing them with contemporary stylistic elements. While it may not exactly translate to a production model anytime soon, it’s a bold signal from Škoda that it is ready to walk the walk if it decides to take on two wheels once again.
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97B, P-01, P-10, Kadet .22 here.
They can get a little too flamboyant with colors and ghetto stylings though, ja shur.
The article seems to forget that Skoda, was one of the primary makers of heavy artillery for Germany and Austria-Hungary during both World War I and World War II. Skoda enabled the Kaiser and Hitler to initiate and continue aggression against virtually every nation in Europe. That should never be forgotten.
Which is precisely why Hitler wanted Czechoslovakia, it had nothing to do with The Sudetenland.
In Polish it’s “szkoda”, I’ve heard that to Poles, Czech sounds like a baby speaking Polish.
"Riding one, one Looks like a monkey humping a football"...............
Cafe racers haven’t been all that popular for 20+ years.
Won’t sell except to collectors.
“ Beer, motorcycles and firearms.
Three reasons to sign a trade deal right there.”
Damned strait!
“I love my CZ.”
I sold my CZ bolt action .22. I’m so sorry. The Colorado legislature has declared my Ruger 10/22 an assault weapon.
“Skoda enabled the Kaiser and Hitler”
Tanks, the 35(t) and the 38(t). The Nazis fielded a couple of panzer divisions with the 38(t) and then used them for turretless tank destroyers.
Doesn’t look comfortable to ride at all.
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To my knowledge, and a little researching, there are no charging ports in the US to support the bike. The only company that has been able to build enough ports for their cars that need them, so far, is Tesla.
The US doesn’t have enough charging ports for anything out there for all they have now in the market. And judging from the response from American owners there hasn’t been a real sense of urgency to get them for all autos already on the street. But that is reliant on the owners buying their own charging stations for the house. Plus the bike station would be different from the other cars at the house, also.
Possibly a bad investment until the full use can be accomplished, if ever.
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Needs a sidecar...
Our neighbors had a CZ. Also an Ossa and a Zundapp.
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