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LOT 602 N

1977 Jawa 498cc Type 895 Long-track Racing Motorcycle Frame no. 14889 Engine no. K895-1502

Sold for £1,380 inc. premiumLot to be sold without reserve
Lot 602N

1977 Jawa 498cc Type 895 Long-track Racing Motorcycle
Frame no. 14889 Engine no. K895-1502

1977 Jawa 498cc Type 895 Long-track Racing Motorcycle
Frame no. 14889
Engine no. K895-1502

The British JAP engine's stranglehold on the speedway world loosened in the 1960s with the arrival of Czechoslovakian ESO machines. Founded in 1949, ESO specialised in speedway and other off-road competition motorcycles and was part of the Jawa-CZ group. In 1966 the ESO name was dropped, the firm's DT5 speedway model becoming the Jawa DT500 (or 500DT) Type 680, a machine that would come to dominate its sport until well in to the succeeding decade. Its speedway supremacy challenged by the four-valve Weslake engine, Jawa responded by introducing a new double-overhead-camshaft, four-valve motor in the late 1970s. Available in speedway/long-track variants as the Type 894/895, this engine was adequately powerful, producing up to 65bhp, but rather top heavy, and was superseded by the more compact, single-overhead-camshaft Type 896/897, this being the final development of Jawa's classic vertical single. There are no documents with this Lot.

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