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Jawa, Yezdi, Royal Enfield, Rajdoot... These were all household names. By 1973, jawa motorcycles were sold in India. Then, it was replaced by Yezdi and other bikes. But Japan has been a country that changed the world drastically and dominated the whole market. It has always been capable of launching many brands together overnight with its technology to make other companies a thing of the past. In the nineties, shiny, lightweight and compact bikes appeared in the market and the bulky bikes were put aside. Only the Royal Enfield market remained intact. Others lost their existence and were pushed into the vintage margins. One of them was a jawa motorcycle.
Bohemian František Janeček was the founder of Jawa Motorcycle. He studied mechanics in Prague and earned a degree from the Berlin College of Engineering. During the Second World War, he created a heap of designs. He registered patents for about sixty research projects.
In 1929, 51-year-old František Janeček bought a motorcycle company, Wanderer. Then, he made 500 new motorcycles. He got his name with the first two letters of Janeček and Wanderer and named the new motorcycle JAWA.
He hired Racing Expert Engineer G. W. Patchett to reach maximum customers. Technology changes were required to make lightweight and economic bikes. So, experiments on 175Cc Villiers Jawa were started and the final bike became very popular in Czechoslovakia. At that time, jawa stopped production of 500Cc OHV. During World War II, the Jawa company was asked to manufacture weapons. Yet, Janeček secretly worked. She was sixty-six at the time. He died at the age of thirty-three.
But his last model Perak became very popular. The model was brought publicly for the first time at the Paris Motor Show and won a gold medal. In 1948, Jawa began exporting motorcycles.
In 1961, Jawa entered the Indian market. Rustom and Farooq Irani started importing bikes under the name 'Ideal jawa'. The factory was set up in Mysore in 1961. Then, in 1971, the Indian franchise-Ideal jawa company started making bikes with the 'Yezdi' brand name with the technical support of Jawa. The original Jawa company, because of the rules of export, could not survive longer, and today the company only manufactures parts in Europe. However, in 1996, the company closed in India and its operations were stopped completely.
Today, the jawa motorcycle has returned to the market. Those who were the lovers of Jawa bikes in the seventies and eighties can now give good news to their third generation. This solid bike is iconic till today.
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