Izh Planet Sport - old models are the best in the line

Best motorcycle Soviet era - "Jawa". And even though these models were produced in Czechoslovakia, most of them were still supplied to the USSR. But there was a bike that surpassed the Jawa in speed and dynamic characteristics, and it was produced in the USSR. This is the Izh Planeta Sport - a model created using advanced world technologies. It seems strange that in the early 1970s they decided to produce such a motorcycle in Izhevsk. Why, because "Planets" and "Jupiters" were bought anyway? Especially since the new model did not fit into the factory range - "Psa" was made by hand.

The answer is simple - the bike was planned to be massively delivered abroad. It was not supposed to be sold in the USSR, of course, subject to demand in the capitalist countries. Therefore, the motorcycle received such innovations as separate engine lubrication and a number of foreign components. But grandiose plans were not destined to come true - the model was almost never bought abroad. I had to sell mine. Only here's the trouble - a domestic bike could not cost more than the Czech "Java". Therefore, the price was set lower, and this made production unprofitable. So it turned out that they began to simplify the motorcycle. And the best, early models, are still called "Japanese". Just about this, the author of the Forge Test Drive channel will tell you.