OMG I was here last year! This friendly gentleman helped me with my Lada that I bought last year on my big Lithuanian Lada adventure. So happy to see the place back. Greetings from Australia!
HI , 1989 Freddie in nappies and me , with two young kids flying around in a Lada Niva , along the tracks and through the forest , then down to Summerset towing a caravan , with an Extra Terrestrial hanging out of the window , bugger he fell out , all stop and start looking for E.T. Found in a lay by and on we go , daughter is in tears of joy and windows now closed . A great way to spend a sunny Sunday morning , thanks for the video . I do believe that Canada was a big importer of Lada cars and the UK IMPORTS , were a Saturday morning shift run . There was a program on TV about the production factory in Russia . Once again fun all the way , stay safe .😀
Good morning Freddie and Monica. This place reminds me of my grandfather, who was a motorcycyle mechanic. His wooden garage and shed for me as a child was a place of treasurers and wonders. All the best from Poland.
Hi Freddie. In the UK we are lucky enough to have a Jawa dealer - F2 Motorcycles - They have brand new 350 2 strokes for sale. I had one a few years ago but I lost out to a BMW M5 Typical!! Perhaps your next UK review. Here we say the J & W not euro h & v but whos to say were right. Jawa were very successful in the fifties - they made real mans off road bikes. Keep up the good work.
Ya-wah is the closest to correct pronunciation! My dad had few of these over the years, in the 70s and 80s. Seen few restored around Amsterdam. Great find!
My memory of a Jawa was a 350cc that was deemed not fit for the road. So we used it as an off road scrambler. One fine summers afternoon in the mid 90's I was riding across the big field behind our house at about 20-25 mph. Suddenly I hit a two foot hole, the bike stopped dead in its tracks, but I carried on, over the handlebars at about 20 mph. Luckily I landed on some quite thick grass and thus suffered very little by way of damage to myself. Happy days......
Man, you got to love a good old junkyard. Even if it’s full of old Russian cars, and Czechoslovakian bikes. You know Freddie it always amazes me that in Lithuania there’s a guy with junkyard full of Jawa’s, and I’m sure here in America there’s a guy with a junkyard full of Jawa’s watching this and saying “man I need that part”. Monica please forgive me for saying this,but I think wherever you go, whatever country your in from now on you got to go to the local junkyard. I just love it.
Wow, I had a Jawa 250 back in the 70s. I worked for a company in the next road and they moved to a unit about 7 miles away after a few months cycling to work I bought a Jawa brand new for the same price as a 5 year old Honda. Used it to commute for 2 year's and sold it for what I paid for it.
JAWA mean JAneček (founder of factory) and WAnderer (motorcycles produced in licence). Last 4stroke bike produced in JAWA factory was JAWA 500 OHC. In novadays is production of own motorcycles finished (only a few 2stroke - like on the video). The most known a successful driver on JAWA was František Šťastný who won a lot of races and of course Billy Ivy who died when he drove racing beast 2stroke JAWA 350 V4 type 637.
Guys...I started grinning at the intro..and didn't stop!! My mate had a Lada Niva a few (ok...many) moons ago and we loved it!! Tough, simple, and capable, and ok on the normal road. he sold it and bought a Series II Landrover...and it was AWFUL!! Thanks again guys...huge fun to watch!! Take care, be safe and love from NZ
Delighted you enjoyed it! Really great insight and I’m not surprised in a way because I haven’t heard one person question the Nivas reliability. Sending my best👋🏻🇳🇿
Cz planeta were available in the UK in the late 70's when I started work as a 16yr old. A mate at the same garage had an orange Cz 175 I could track following the cloud of 2 stroke haze it left in it's wake. I am sure there was a blue 350 with a sidecar somewhere in the group too. But it is a few years ago. . Happy memories. Happy travels 👍
CZ planeta or IZH planeta? The only plantetas we are familiar here in the Eastern Europe have been Russian IZHs ans the used to have 350 cc two stroke engines.
@@teneretraveller8980 I agree with you regarding that 175 two stroke cz. But I strongly believe that the 350 sidecar named "Planeta" was nothing but a Soviet Izh. As long as I know they have been sold in England under the name of "Cossak".
@@teneretraveller8980 Hey, no worries, my friend... I know a little bit more about soviet motorcycle just because I lived with them and I know that IZH have produced a Planeta series from 1 to 5. But I don't know to much about the names under soviet motorcycles has been sold on the UK market and that's why I'm not 100% positive about what I wrote. Actually I much appreciate all your comments from our common friend Pavlin's channel! Wish you only nice and safe rides!
In 1996 I was coming back into Moscow on a Sunday evening on four lane highway. We had to weave in and out for miles because there were so many broken down Ladas. I bet there was at least a mile you could jumped from one to another broken down Ladas.
Ah, the Yava . I have two, a 1975 250cc twin and the latest 2016 Jawa retro. Rare bikes in the UK now, but always a talking point and great fun to ride. Next time your in suffolk, take one of mine for a spin.
Let me help you with some information. 350 is not the model of the motorcycle but rather how much cc its engine has. So 350 stands for 350cc. Jawa shown in 5:00 is probably jawa type 638 or 639 with dashboard from newer model. In 2:44 you can see remains of Jawa type 634 and behind it there is a Minsk. Minsk is 125cc two stroke moped produced in Belarus. At 4:20 car name is GAZ 21 Volga. 7:40 that is not a Jawa but an Izh Planeta 3. 12:30 that is an Izh Jupiter 4. I do believe that Izh motorcycles were exported into UK under the Cossack name. 14:10 Jawa type 634 and judging from the engine that should be an Izh Planeta 3 but that motorcycle is mostly a mix of parts from various Izh Planeta generations.
Nice one Freddie and Monika, it's pronounced with the W not the V, the company was known as Jawa/CZ, the models I remember from the 1970s were the CZ175, I owned one, CZ250 and the Jawa 350 all two strokes, the gear shifter was also the Kickstarter, in neutral you pushed the lever in and flipped it back and there was your Kickstarter, once it fired up you flipped it back and there was your gear lever. Jawa were also very successful in the world of Speedway and Grass track racing.....
I had a CZ250 twin and later a Jawa 350 with a sidecar on it as a 2nd bike.. Great memories but I was glad the Jawa wasn't my only means of transport. I bought is as winter rally bike but the two times I tried to get to rallies it broke down and had to be recovered. A blown head gasket and then a collapsed rear wheel. For some reason this comment has my wife's name !
Reminds me of when we were building our MGBGT. Every weekend we visited the Sports car breakers to get the treasures me needed. Funnily enough I now live in one half of what was the first Lada garage in our area. It was transformed back into houses about 30 odd years ago. I love you videos.
I bet that was a great experience building the MGBGT! It is impossible not to leave a breakers covered in a mud/oil mix😆 Wow, that is a great little bit of history living in an old Lasa garage!
Awesome collection, a living history! This gents garage and 'hobbies' are brilliant. We love travelling to eastern Europe as these 'older' cars are still around and looked after by their owners, not the British 'throw away culture'. If you look after your car and regularly service it, it will go for as long as you... Great channel and content Freddie 👍
Yards like his are fun to go through..you would definitely need his help to find parts if you were looking for something specific...was probably a good idea to let Monica sit this one out..LOL...another great video...
What a fantastic place , reminds me of a old service station in south Essex that has a fair number of MX5s just sitting around , mainly mk1 and 2 , which seem to be used for parts
Great find Freddie and Monika 👍🏼 although my OCD was in overdrive seeing all these bikes & cars scattered about like that 🙈🤣 The ‘60 cars you don’t know the name of are either Volga or Zil 👍🏼 I believe JAWA is actually pronounced YAVA 👍🏼 and if I’m not mistaken JAWA was originally from the good old Czechoslovakia 💪🏼
You're right. That's the correct pronounciation. The name stands from Jannicek -Wanderer. The first Jawa ever built was a german Wanderer patent. A 4 stroke motorcycle.
Amazing!! The JAWA did have a wonderful run in India back in the 80s until the company died out! It has now been revived in India by Classic Legends...the same company behind BSA!
@@FreddieDobbs that is true..but so are the Chinese hahaha..I just want the Classic Legends guys to get a few more years of manufacturing, R & D and some riding nous before they can claim to be at the same level as some of the international brands...but just seeing these brands back is a big win!
I also forgot that around the same time in the 80s and 90s a local car manufacturer had brought the Lada to India as well and had greet success with sales! This was the Premiere 118NE ...the NE stands for Nissan Engine :)
Original jawa is still around, you can also buy good old 2 stroke 350-640 models AFAIK, you'll need papers from old Jawa to register it in EU. They also import shineray 400cc and retrofittimg old jawa tanks and seats on those chinese frames - looking meh, but it reminds old Jawas...
How much work has been done by a person,and no one needs all this parts, with rare exceptions P.S and about that bike,it was IZH planeta 4 1983 - 1987 years of production(can be identified by the dashboard),motor with 1 cylinder. There were several modifications planeta 2/3/4/5
Well I was surrounded by these back in the 70's and everyone over here in the UK that owned one (and indeed those that didn't ) all pronounced it ' Jow ah '
No need to worry. In Lithuania there is only one species of poisonous snakes. They are prety rare though. I am 30 years old and have never seen one in person.
Czechoslovakian Jawas and CZs were being imported into the UK when I was a young 'un in the late 70s and 80s. Technologically they were way behind the Japanese equivalents which featured significantly more performance, two-stroke oil injection, electronic ignition, disc brakes (ok some of those early Japanese disc brakes weren't great, especially in the wet), and non-Warsaw Pact styling and paint jobs (utilitarian chic wasn't a thing back then, metallic paint and fancy tank graphics were). They were seen as cheap commuters for the skint and indiscriminate.
Watch some of the the documentaries about motorcycles. Jawa was supreme two strokes bikes back in 60-70's. Than some eastern engineer's stole the blueprints of the engines and escape to the Japan.
@@LaLa-Bane I think you're thinking of East German MZ - they had an engineer called Ernst Degner who developed expansion chamber tech which Suzuki nabbed in the early 60s. In the 70s/80s MZs, while still seen as utilitarian, were viewed as being better engineered than the Czech bikes, CZs in particular. Both CZ and Jawa had had their days in the sun but 70s Japanese two-stroke bikes (Yamaha twins in particular) put them in the shade
@@LaLa-Bane Jawa was on top of the game before WW2. After that, they started slowly dying without innovation under the communist regime like everything else here.
This is what most of old petrol heads backyard from the USSR times looks like. Same here in Latvia. These type of places are scattered around Lithuania and Latvia ,not sure about Estonia ,but I'm sure also there. Imagine the places that haven't been seen discovered and maybe never will be seen at all,amazing. Anyway thank you for this insight ,felt like exploring now 😀
What an amazing place, Its Jawa not Java, Freddie, they were manufactured in the Czech Republic. Jawa made very successful successful Speedway racing engines a 500cc single run on methanol, I have one.
When I was considerably younger, I did see a few Jawa's around in Dundee then they ceased to exist at approx. the ame time as British Leyland gave up the ghost. I think this guy's got a faily inteesting but rusty collection of what mostly looks like a disorganised spcrapyard overgrown with weeds and untended old plants and trees. He has what appears to be many half-started but abandoned projects apart from the re Jawa whch you tested the frame of and that looks nearly finished but the rest,,,, I imagine Monika was hardly disappointed when you took the camera off her. But hey, I can sell you an old bridge mostly in complete working order but a bit rusty round the edges. Look forward to the next one and perhaps Monika can get slightly more excited with that!
Another great video Freddie, keep up the great work. Are you meeting up with tomboy_a_bit while you are both over there? Have you any info on if XLMoto will be doing a bundle deal with jeans/jackets again anytime soon? Thanks
Freddie you just show us some amazing old cars like that Volga first and Lada Niva, the 4*4. The old man's car s Moscwitch and the last bike the Russian IZS (EJ)
many potential good bikes there! sadly none of my own taste as I just bought myself a Re classic 350 in chrome (much to your influence). Love seeing a bit of history spread across a very expansive work station.
Congrats on the purchase, Rhys! It’s funny hos colour schemes return to fashion; red and chrome on these Jawasa, the new BSAs and the Classic 350😍👌🏻 Happy riding🙂🤘🏻
A friend of mine, around 30 years ago, had a 350 Jawa. It annoyed him so much (because it wouldn't start when he needed to go to work) he dug a hole in his back garden and buried it. Now that's annoyed. The Velorex sidecar that they came with were excellent. I had one vaguely attached to a Honda 250 Superdream. Don't ask.
Fascinating place, thanks for the look around. I was on the point of ordering a new Lada Niva (there is still a dealer in the UK) when Putin started his whatever he likes to call it. Obviously the sanctions screwed all that up. In my all 74 years, and bike ownership going back to when I was about 12, I've never heard the JAWA called a Java in the UK. It might be pronounced differently in Czechoslovakia but in the UK it was always JAWA... with a W. In the 70s they were sold as JAWA or CZ, the only apparent difference was the badge, and they came with a built-in smoke screen for camouflage, it was great for blinding the speed cameras. Seriously though if you were on a budget and were capable of basic maintenance, IE Heads off and De-coke every 1000 miles or so, they were very reliable bikes.
I think that Sierra is not 61,000 km. It's got a 5 digit speedo and going by the pretty serious pedal wear that has to be at least 161,000km, even possibly 261,000.
JA(nacek) + WA(nderer) = JAWA in English (JAVA in German) the "HHH" was in fact an IZH 350. The Planeta (single) and Jupiter (Twin) The cars you could not remember where Moskovitch (KGB drove 6 Cylinder versions.)
Freddie Jawa wa wa not va 🤣yes you could buy them here back in the day and they were very cheap in comparison the everything else if I am not mistaken you could get them with a sidecar too .The Niva's were good old cars probably the best Lada to have really but none had power steering and it was heavy going to shunt about ,I had an FSO pick up for a while .Could that car be the Wartburg not sure on that one but you could get them over here too.😁 Guys I would be amazed if anything there would start 😂awesome 👌👍
I think I pronounced the who word wrong- I later found out that it’s “ya-wa”. I’m embarrassed! I do agree with you- with the possibly exception on that one Jawa 350 (but even that I don’t think is road legal)🙂
Yes you used to be able to buy Jawa in the UK. They were very cheap and bought new if you couldn't afford anything better. They were very crude and very unfashionable.
That looks like a great theme park to visit. The 350 Jawa twin was available in the UK, almost bought one new in about 1980, also came with velorex sidecar option. Could only afford one bike at a time in those days though. may be going back to that state of affairs in the UK the way things are going! Had quite a few CZ and MZ so right up my street.
Very interesting- I did have two separate Lithuanian bikers offer me to ride their Jawas with sidecars, so they must’ve been relatively popular- at least in some places!
@@FreddieDobbs Its an experience and would give you plenty of camera mount options. I tried it once and that was plenty, obviously you have to steer the bike so that feels alien, then if the side car is on the right as I guess there, if you brake it steers bike left and if you accelerate it pulls bike right. you have to balance all this.
In hell that was soviet union, the best bike available was Jawa 350, as being a product of Czechoslovakia, it was quite a bit better finished than the crap thrown together by the ruskies. If you could not get a Jawa, you went for a Izh 350 (like the one you called HHH). Up to early 70's there was also a 175cc Hungarian Pannonia. 4-stroke Urals/Dnieprs were only available with a sidecar which you were officially not allowed to remove, making them pretty much undesirable for younger folks. All russian bikes were mechanically copies of pre-war German bikes. The car you forgot the name of is a Volga and is a copy of a 1948 Ford. The story of Lada Niva is that when Mark 1 VW Golf came out, some designers at Lada/Zhiguli plant in Togliatti (city was named after the head of Italian communist party and built specially for the car plant) were so impressed that they made their own version and presented it to the production committee only for it to be rejected, as according to the committee the soviet people already had a perfectly fine car in form of the regular Zhiguli. Those designers did not give up though, they presented the car again, this time as a 4-wheel drive and it got approved for production.
The Jawa's (and CZ's) were cheap, nasty, notoriously unreliable and crap. The well-off middle classes are delusional, trying to make out they were something special. THEY WERE CRAP. Bought by poverty stricken students who spent more time working on them than riding them. Other bikers would pity or laugh at them. A much better company's bikes were MZ's from East Germany. These were excellent bikes, cheap and cheerful (I had 2 x 250's in my youth). They were the first bikes that would be used to go around the world in the 1960's and early 70's.
Yes, Jawa and CZ road machines were totally crap, I remember a workmate buying a brand new CZ 125 in 1978, the electrics were a joke and he was always repairing faults on the electrical system. On the other hand Jawa made excellent four stroke speedway machines and CZ made excellent moto cross machines. Classic Legends also own the Italian brand SWM who also were famous for producing off road machines.
OMG I was here last year! This friendly gentleman helped me with my Lada that I bought last year on my big Lithuanian Lada adventure. So happy to see the place back. Greetings from Australia!
NO WAY?!? This is a ridiculously incredible coincidence!!!😃 What an adventure that sounds like🚗🇱🇹
All my very best🇦🇺
@@FreddieDobbs aaaaà
HI , 1989 Freddie in nappies and me , with two young kids flying around in a Lada Niva , along the tracks and through the forest , then down to Summerset towing a caravan , with an Extra Terrestrial hanging out of the window , bugger he fell out , all stop and start looking for E.T. Found in a lay by and on we go , daughter is in tears of joy and windows now closed . A great way to spend a sunny Sunday morning , thanks for the video . I do believe that Canada was a big importer of Lada cars and the UK IMPORTS , were a Saturday morning shift run . There was a program on TV about the production factory in Russia . Once again fun all the way , stay safe .😀
12:42 that is IZH Jupiter 4, was made in soviet town of Izhevsk around 80s. 350cc 2 cylinder 2 stroke
anyone would think it was exotica given your enthusiasm
Exactly ……why would anyone love all that crap?
Love the image of Monika very sensibly escaping from this junkyard to no doubt having a coffee somewhere pleasant and clean.😄
Good morning Freddie and Monica. This place reminds me of my grandfather, who was a motorcycyle mechanic. His wooden garage and shed for me as a child was a place of treasurers and wonders. All the best from Poland.
So many stories in places like these. What seems so normal for one person, is as you say- a treasure trove for another🤩 Sending all my best🇵🇱👋🏻
Hi Freddie. In the UK we are lucky enough to have a Jawa dealer - F2 Motorcycles - They have brand new 350 2 strokes for sale. I had one a few years ago but I lost out to a BMW M5 Typical!! Perhaps your next UK review. Here we say the J & W not euro h & v but whos to say were right. Jawa were very successful in the fifties - they made real mans off road bikes. Keep up the good work.
Awesome video and awesome content can’t wait for the next video Thank’s Freddie and Monika
Incredible! Intro music was so apt too, made me laugh out loud!
Ya-wah is the closest to correct pronunciation!
My dad had few of these over the years, in the 70s and 80s.
Seen few restored around Amsterdam.
Great find!
Absolutely fascinating place Freddie I could spend ages there! Tnx for sharing!
My memory of a Jawa was a 350cc that was deemed not fit for the road. So we used it as an off road scrambler. One fine summers afternoon in the mid 90's I was riding across the big field behind our house at about 20-25 mph. Suddenly I hit a two foot hole, the bike stopped dead in its tracks, but I carried on, over the handlebars at about 20 mph. Luckily I landed on some quite thick grass and thus suffered very little by way of damage to myself. Happy days......
Well jawa still makes motorcycles
Wanna relive your memory
No Sagar, not really thank you....
Man, you got to love a good old junkyard. Even if it’s full of old Russian cars, and Czechoslovakian bikes. You know Freddie it always amazes me that in Lithuania there’s a guy with junkyard full of Jawa’s, and I’m sure here in America there’s a guy with a junkyard full of Jawa’s watching this and saying “man I need that part”. Monica please forgive me for saying this,but I think wherever you go, whatever country your in from now on you got to go to the local junkyard. I just love it.
Wow, I had a Jawa 250 back in the 70s.
I worked for a company in the next road and they moved to a unit about 7 miles away after a few months cycling to work I bought a Jawa brand new for the same price as a 5 year old Honda.
Used it to commute for 2 year's and sold it for what I paid for it.
I love this- thank you for sharing!🙂
JAWA mean JAneček (founder of factory) and WAnderer (motorcycles produced in licence). Last 4stroke bike produced in JAWA factory was JAWA 500 OHC. In novadays is production of own motorcycles finished (only a few 2stroke - like on the video).
The most known a successful driver on JAWA was František Šťastný who won a lot of races and of course Billy Ivy who died when he drove racing beast 2stroke JAWA 350 V4 type 637.
Love that Monika gets such a kick out of Freddie's antics
TV game shows back in the 60's and early 70's here in the States gave away Jawa 50cc bikes.
My mum had a larda it was built like a tank never rusted and never missed a beat
“Never rusted”……wonder why all those in this scrapyard were rusty!
Guys...I started grinning at the intro..and didn't stop!! My mate had a Lada Niva a few (ok...many) moons ago and we loved it!! Tough, simple, and capable, and ok on the normal road. he sold it and bought a Series II Landrover...and it was AWFUL!! Thanks again guys...huge fun to watch!! Take care, be safe and love from NZ
Delighted you enjoyed it! Really great insight and I’m not surprised in a way because I haven’t heard one person question the Nivas reliability. Sending my best👋🏻🇳🇿
buy one freddie, fettle it up ride it back.......great content that would be........
The old Ladas were grand cars the green one a BA3 1200cc. Jawa and CZ Check bikes.
Good video so thanks.
Cz planeta were available in the UK in the late 70's when I started work as a 16yr old.
A mate at the same garage had an orange Cz 175 I could track following the cloud of 2 stroke haze it left in it's wake.
I am sure there was a blue 350 with a sidecar somewhere in the group too. But it is a few years ago. .
Happy memories.
Happy travels 👍
CZ planeta or IZH planeta? The only plantetas we are familiar here in the Eastern Europe have been Russian IZHs ans the used to have 350 cc two stroke engines.
@@mihaimihai9254 I have very clear memories of a 175cz, in burnt orange, laying a two stroke trail. The sidecar was a 350, though.
@@teneretraveller8980 I agree with you regarding that 175 two stroke cz. But I strongly believe that the 350 sidecar named "Planeta" was nothing but a Soviet Izh. As long as I know they have been sold in England under the name of "Cossak".
@@mihaimihai9254 thanks for the tip. My aged memory obviously disappearing quicker by the year!
@@teneretraveller8980 Hey, no worries, my friend... I know a little bit more about soviet motorcycle just because I lived with them and I know that IZH have produced a Planeta series from 1 to 5. But I don't know to much about the names under soviet motorcycles has been sold on the UK market and that's why I'm not 100% positive about what I wrote.
Actually I much appreciate all your comments from our common friend Pavlin's channel! Wish you only nice and safe rides!
Never know what you may come across. Never seen a jawa in person. Wish you could've started her up. Keep up the good work .
I would say this your version of American Pickers. Now I know the names of of some those vehicles in espionage movies. Amazing Lithuanian junkyard!
I love all your motorcycle reviews Freddie
So happy to hear it, thanks Sarangthem! Have a great Sunday🙂
You too buddy
Compulsive viewing again ! Thanks Freddie and Monika.
Thanks Mike, have a great day!
In 1996 I was coming back into Moscow on a Sunday evening on four lane highway. We had to weave in and out for miles because there were so many broken down Ladas. I bet there was at least a mile you could jumped from one to another broken down Ladas.
😱Omg my husband would love to go visit that collection. 🌺
Ah, the Yava . I have two, a 1975 250cc twin and the latest 2016 Jawa retro. Rare bikes in the UK now, but always a talking point and great fun to ride. Next time your in suffolk, take one of mine for a spin.
Volgas. Black ones were the KGB ones.
The Golf was always the car of choice in 90s/ noughties Lithuania.
Let me help you with some information. 350 is not the model of the motorcycle but rather how much cc its engine has. So 350 stands for 350cc. Jawa shown in 5:00 is probably jawa type 638 or 639 with dashboard from newer model. In 2:44 you can see remains of Jawa type 634 and behind it there is a Minsk. Minsk is 125cc two stroke moped produced in Belarus. At 4:20 car name is GAZ 21 Volga. 7:40 that is not a Jawa but an Izh Planeta 3. 12:30 that is an Izh Jupiter 4. I do believe that Izh motorcycles were exported into UK under the Cossack name. 14:10 Jawa type 634 and judging from the engine that should be an Izh Planeta 3 but that motorcycle is mostly a mix of parts from various Izh Planeta generations.
Nice one Freddie and Monika, it's pronounced with the W not the V, the company was known as Jawa/CZ, the models I remember from the 1970s were the CZ175, I owned one, CZ250 and the Jawa 350 all two strokes, the gear shifter was also the Kickstarter, in neutral you pushed the lever in and flipped it back and there was your Kickstarter, once it fired up you flipped it back and there was your gear lever. Jawa were also very successful in the world of Speedway and Grass track racing.....
Thank you Henry- really appreciate this. I struggled riding the old Honda Cub, so I think I’d have no chance with an old Jawa😆
As a former MZ man - and what a bike it was - I love these old East European bikes. This is someone's garden? Understanding wife.
It genuinely is one man’s back garden on a very normal looking street. I agree- if he is married, the wife is a saint😆
I had a CZ250 twin and later a Jawa 350 with a sidecar on it as a 2nd bike.. Great memories but I was glad the Jawa wasn't my only means of transport. I bought is as winter rally bike but the two times I tried to get to rallies it broke down and had to be recovered. A blown head gasket and then a collapsed rear wheel. For some reason this comment has my wife's name !
Awesome mate... What an opportunity 🤘
Reminds me of when we were building our MGBGT. Every weekend we visited the Sports car breakers to get the treasures me needed. Funnily enough I now live in one half of what was the first Lada garage in our area. It was transformed back into houses about 30 odd years ago. I love you videos.
I bet that was a great experience building the MGBGT! It is impossible not to leave a breakers covered in a mud/oil mix😆
Wow, that is a great little bit of history living in an old Lasa garage!
Hey Freddie think that bike you were looking at is an IZH Planeta (tank logo in Cyrillic alphabet.) 2-stroke 18-ish horsepower. Ring ding ding....
My little brother is a big fan of Ladas, and he owns one as well :)
Hi Freddie
Can we get those glasses over here in the UK. You know, the rose tinted ones 🤓
i would have a great time taking that lot to the scrapyard .
Awesome collection, a living history! This gents garage and 'hobbies' are brilliant. We love travelling to eastern Europe as these 'older' cars are still around and looked after by their owners, not the British 'throw away culture'. If you look after your car and regularly service it, it will go for as long as you... Great channel and content Freddie 👍
Great Sunday morning viewing guys as always
Thank you Malcolm🙂
I think that bike left in the garage is a old minsk, and of course thank you for all your moto content, it’s just perfect.
Thank you Radim- I would never have guessed that- appreciated🙂🙌🏻
That's was Izh. Check it on google
The Jawa was for sale in the ok my work friend had one with a side car
My brother had a Jawa 250 in the early 80s. I can still hear the frustrated curses, especially in wet weather!
🤣🤣🤣 the reality of why I have never seen one in the UK!
Yeah, I had a Jawa 350 with a velorex sidecar. I can count on one hand the times I got it running lol, hopefully landfill
Yards like his are fun to go through..you would definitely need his help to find parts if you were looking for something specific...was probably a good idea to let Monica sit this one out..LOL...another great video...
Freddie "we're in heaven"
Monica "you're on your own here"
What a fantastic place , reminds me of a old service station in south Essex that has a fair number of MX5s just sitting around , mainly mk1 and 2 , which seem to be used for parts
It’s brilliant. Walking around what some might think is an absolute mess. It’s a goldmine of parts
Great find Freddie and Monika 👍🏼 although my OCD was in overdrive seeing all these bikes & cars scattered about like that 🙈🤣 The ‘60 cars you don’t know the name of are either Volga or Zil 👍🏼
I believe JAWA is actually pronounced YAVA 👍🏼 and if I’m not mistaken
JAWA was originally from the good old Czechoslovakia 💪🏼
You're right. That's the correct pronounciation. The name stands from Jannicek -Wanderer. The first Jawa ever built was a german Wanderer patent. A 4 stroke motorcycle.
Thank you both for this- I will remember this!🙂
@@FreddieDobbs ... any time Freddie 👍 the more you know 😉
Amazing!! The JAWA did have a wonderful run in India back in the 80s until the company died out! It has now been revived in India by Classic Legends...the same company behind BSA!
India are saving all of the old brands, and doing such an incredible job!! It is FANTASTIC🙂🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@FreddieDobbs that is true..but so are the Chinese hahaha..I just want the Classic Legends guys to get a few more years of manufacturing, R & D and some riding nous before they can claim to be at the same level as some of the international brands...but just seeing these brands back is a big win!
I also forgot that around the same time in the 80s and 90s a local car manufacturer had brought the Lada to India as well and had greet success with sales! This was the Premiere 118NE ...the NE stands for Nissan Engine :)
Original jawa is still around, you can also buy good old 2 stroke 350-640 models AFAIK, you'll need papers from old Jawa to register it in EU. They also import shineray 400cc and retrofittimg old jawa tanks and seats on those chinese frames - looking meh, but it reminds old Jawas...
How much work has been done by a person,and no one needs all this parts, with rare exceptions
P.S and about that bike,it was IZH planeta 4 1983 - 1987 years of production(can be identified by the dashboard),motor with 1 cylinder. There were several modifications planeta 2/3/4/5
jupiter 4 actually😉
Thanks Andrej🙂 It is true- there is a lifetime’s worth of parts here (probably twi lifetimes in reality!)
Is this a tribute to Henry Cole and his Shed And Buried TV programme? 😉😁👍
Стара машина називається ГАЗ 21 «Волга».Там також були мотоцикли Іж«Планета»,а в теплиці «Мінськ».
Well I was surrounded by these back in the 70's and everyone over here in the UK that owned one (and indeed those that didn't ) all pronounced it ' Jow ah '
Freddie, love your enthusiasm and really enjoyed the Tenerife stuff but this is a scrap yard/dump. A semi abandoned dump.
Great show Brutha!!🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾
Brilliant 🤩 You can make rubbish - & Jawas were/ are rubbish- seem exciting & exotic. Keep it up 👍
All the time I was scared about the snakes 🐍 in the back garden 😂
No need to worry. In Lithuania there is only one species of poisonous snakes. They are prety rare though. I am 30 years old and have never seen one in person.
Its like discovering pirates treasure for an auto enthusiasts!
Good Morning Freddie!
Morning Julian!🙂☕️
Fascinating Freddie👍 Looks like a bit of a health & safety nightmare though 😬
...one mans junk is another man's treasure....
Czechoslovakian Jawas and CZs were being imported into the UK when I was a young 'un in the late 70s and 80s. Technologically they were way behind the Japanese equivalents which featured significantly more performance, two-stroke oil injection, electronic ignition, disc brakes (ok some of those early Japanese disc brakes weren't great, especially in the wet), and non-Warsaw Pact styling and paint jobs (utilitarian chic wasn't a thing back then, metallic paint and fancy tank graphics were). They were seen as cheap commuters for the skint and indiscriminate.
Urals and Dniepers too under the name Neval. We used to call the cz - seize it's as they had a certain rep.
Watch some of the the documentaries about motorcycles. Jawa was supreme two strokes bikes back in 60-70's. Than some eastern engineer's stole the blueprints of the engines and escape to the Japan.
@@LaLa-Bane I think you're thinking of East German MZ - they had an engineer called Ernst Degner who developed expansion chamber tech which Suzuki nabbed in the early 60s. In the 70s/80s MZs, while still seen as utilitarian, were viewed as being better engineered than the Czech bikes, CZs in particular. Both CZ and Jawa had had their days in the sun but 70s Japanese two-stroke bikes (Yamaha twins in particular) put them in the shade
@@LaLa-Bane Jawa was on top of the game before WW2. After that, they started slowly dying without innovation under the communist regime like everything else here.
The H-HH bike is an IZH.
Another slightly famous Russian Make.
I just looked it up. *IZH- Jupiter 4*
Appreciate it!
Maybe the motorcycle is IZH Planeta Sport, we had those here in Finland too.
Ahhhh I’ve never come across this- I couldn’t even read the name properly😆
I am sure you find photos and information, a piece of history.
@@petterin1 no, Planet sport looks completely different
that is Jupiter 4
Wow,I owned a Jawa 250 twin exhaust 1972 JOWA! As in Cow a
This is what most of old petrol heads backyard from the USSR times looks like. Same here in Latvia. These type of places are scattered around Lithuania and Latvia ,not sure about Estonia ,but I'm sure also there.
Imagine the places that haven't been seen discovered and maybe never will be seen at all,amazing.
Anyway thank you for this insight ,felt like exploring now 😀
So true- this was exactly my thoughts after visiting this place!
that HHH motorcycle is actually ИЖ, IŽ, IZH
What an amazing place, Its Jawa not Java, Freddie, they were manufactured in the Czech Republic. Jawa made very successful successful Speedway racing engines a 500cc single run on methanol, I have one.
You havent found a Trabant yet, very few left i would think now :)
'Yava' like yummie ;)
When I was considerably younger, I did see a few Jawa's around in Dundee then they ceased to exist at approx. the ame time as British Leyland gave up the ghost. I think this guy's got a faily inteesting but rusty collection of what mostly looks like a disorganised spcrapyard overgrown with weeds and untended old plants and trees. He has what appears to be many half-started but abandoned projects apart from the re Jawa whch you tested the frame of and that looks nearly finished but the rest,,,, I imagine Monika was hardly disappointed when you took the camera off her. But hey, I can sell you an old bridge mostly in complete working order but a bit rusty round the edges. Look forward to the next one and perhaps Monika can get slightly more excited with that!
You should visit "Babtyno dvaras" to see the collection of old motorcycles there.
p.s. "Sodeliškių dvaras" has its own collection too.
Thanks for the heads up- I’ll save this and will return next year. I recognise the name of Babtyno (near Kaunas I think)🙂
Another great video Freddie, keep up the great work. Are you meeting up with tomboy_a_bit while you are both over there? Have you any info on if XLMoto will be doing a bundle deal with jeans/jackets again anytime soon? Thanks
Jawa perak is my favourite but lack of sell here in india RE killing the jawa segment today
hey Good evening Freddie &Monica ! Would u make some vid for Kawasaki w800 ? this Japanese bike is good enough ?
I had a lovely old Jawa a few years back , the kickstart that becomes the gear-lever was weird .
Freddie you just show us some amazing old cars like that Volga first and Lada Niva, the 4*4. The old man's car s Moscwitch and the last bike the Russian IZS (EJ)
Thank you for this🙌🏻🙌🏻
many potential good bikes there! sadly none of my own taste as I just bought myself a Re classic 350 in chrome (much to your influence). Love seeing a bit of history spread across a very expansive work station.
Congrats on the purchase, Rhys! It’s funny hos colour schemes return to fashion; red and chrome on these Jawasa, the new BSAs and the Classic 350😍👌🏻
Happy riding🙂🤘🏻
@@FreddieDobbs i absolutely agree! reds also my favourite colour so I'm glad its resurfacing in the mix with chrome and some white styling.
A friend of mine, around 30 years ago, had a 350 Jawa. It annoyed him so much (because it wouldn't start when he needed to go to work) he dug a hole in his back garden and buried it. Now that's annoyed. The Velorex sidecar that they came with were excellent. I had one vaguely attached to a Honda 250 Superdream. Don't ask.
Nice Volga cars also.
That’s it- I forgot their name! Thanks🙌🏻🙌🏻
Fascinating place, thanks for the look around. I was on the point of ordering a new Lada Niva (there is still a dealer in the UK) when Putin started his whatever he likes to call it. Obviously the sanctions screwed all that up. In my all 74 years, and bike ownership going back to when I was about 12, I've never heard the JAWA called a Java in the UK. It might be pronounced differently in Czechoslovakia but in the UK it was always JAWA... with a W. In the 70s they were sold as JAWA or CZ, the only apparent difference was the badge, and they came with a built-in smoke screen for camouflage, it was great for blinding the speed cameras. Seriously though if you were on a budget and were capable of basic maintenance, IE Heads off and De-coke every 1000 miles or so, they were very reliable bikes.
I think that Sierra is not 61,000 km. It's got a 5 digit speedo and going by the pretty serious pedal wear that has to be at least 161,000km, even possibly 261,000.
JA(nacek) + WA(nderer) = JAWA in English (JAVA in German)
the "HHH" was in fact an IZH 350. The Planeta (single) and Jupiter (Twin)
The cars you could not remember where Moskovitch (KGB drove 6 Cylinder versions.)
Freddie Jawa wa wa not va 🤣yes you could buy them here back in the day and they were very cheap in comparison the everything else if I am not mistaken you could get them with a sidecar too .The Niva's were good old cars probably the best Lada to have really but none had power steering and it was heavy going to shunt about ,I had an FSO pick up for a while .Could that car be the Wartburg not sure on that one but you could get them over here too.😁 Guys I would be amazed if anything there would start 😂awesome 👌👍
I think I pronounced the who word wrong- I later found out that it’s “ya-wa”. I’m embarrassed!
I do agree with you- with the possibly exception on that one Jawa 350 (but even that I don’t think is road legal)🙂
Its a goldfield. 🙂👍
If they are in good condition. Which ones were those then?
The 350 standing alone was lovely😍. At least I think if was😆
Hi Freddie, if possible I would like your opinion on the new yezdi roadster from jawa motorcycles, love from India.
Hi Aditya, It looks fantastic!😍🏍
My first motorbike was a Jawa 250 single in 1976. Pretty gutless in terms of performance but as a first bike, not bad.
Yes you used to be able to buy Jawa in the UK. They were very cheap and bought new if you couldn't afford anything better. They were very crude and very unfashionable.
Thank you for sharing this🙌🏻🙌🏻
That looks like a great theme park to visit. The 350 Jawa twin was available in the UK, almost bought one new in about 1980, also came with velorex sidecar option. Could only afford one bike at a time in those days though. may be going back to that state of affairs in the UK the way things are going! Had quite a few CZ and MZ so right up my street.
My Lithuanian father in law had a Jawa motorcycle sidecar combination when my wife was a kid.
Very interesting- I did have two separate Lithuanian bikers offer me to ride their Jawas with sidecars, so they must’ve been relatively popular- at least in some places!
@@FreddieDobbs His got nicked. It was probably easier to get a bike and sidecar than to get a car then.
@@FreddieDobbs Its an experience and would give you plenty of camera mount options. I tried it once and that was plenty, obviously you have to steer the bike so that feels alien, then if the side car is on the right as I guess there, if you brake it steers bike left and if you accelerate it pulls bike right. you have to balance all this.
Ok 👍👌
Is it posible to get any contacts?
From 8:25, anyone else see the rat, or whatever it is, run across the swimming pool?? It could be a puppy?
I think it was a squirrel, judging by the tail
I only just saw this when watching it back
Yes I saw it too if it was a rat it was certainly a big one 😃
You know that was a scrap yard don't you, 😂
In hell that was soviet union, the best bike available was Jawa 350, as being a product of Czechoslovakia, it was quite a bit better finished than the crap thrown together by the ruskies. If you could not get a Jawa, you went for a Izh 350 (like the one you called HHH). Up to early 70's there was also a 175cc Hungarian Pannonia. 4-stroke Urals/Dnieprs were only available with a sidecar which you were officially not allowed to remove, making them pretty much undesirable for younger folks. All russian bikes were mechanically copies of pre-war German bikes. The car you forgot the name of is a Volga and is a copy of a 1948 Ford. The story of Lada Niva is that when Mark 1 VW Golf came out, some designers at Lada/Zhiguli plant in Togliatti (city was named after the head of Italian communist party and built specially for the car plant) were so impressed that they made their own version and presented it to the production committee only for it to be rejected, as according to the committee the soviet people already had a perfectly fine car in form of the regular Zhiguli. Those designers did not give up though, they presented the car again, this time as a 4-wheel drive and it got approved for production.
Freddie the non bearded explorer....😉👍
I get this- I love that channel!😃
Did they have a horse called Hercules
Love it
This has gone straight over my head!
@@FreddieDobbs it’s from Steptoe and Son the 70’s sitcom
В нашей стране этот металлолом до сих пор ездит по дорогам. xdxdxdxd
:D
The Jawa's (and CZ's) were cheap, nasty, notoriously unreliable and crap. The well-off middle classes are delusional, trying to make out they were something special. THEY WERE CRAP. Bought by poverty stricken students who spent more time working on them than riding them. Other bikers would pity or laugh at them.
A much better company's bikes were MZ's from East Germany. These were excellent bikes, cheap and cheerful (I had 2 x 250's in my youth). They were the first bikes that would be used to go around the world in the 1960's and early 70's.
Yes, Jawa and CZ road machines were totally crap, I remember a workmate buying a brand new CZ 125 in 1978, the electrics were a joke and he was always repairing faults on the electrical system. On the other hand Jawa made excellent four stroke speedway machines and CZ made excellent moto cross machines. Classic Legends also own the Italian brand SWM who also were famous for producing off road machines.
@@davidmacgregor5193 Cheers David, agree with you. Freddie talks bollocks at times and shows his ignorance. He's probably never ridden a Jawa or CZ.