Born in the 90's with 50's Tech, Jawa 350cc 2 Stroke | RTW
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- Jawa have been around since 1929. Before the domination of Japanese bikes, there were plenty in New Zealand used as both road and farm bikes. The engines in those popular models have a lot in common with this mid 1990's Honda Jawa 640 RED STYLE. It's actually 350cc, not 640 - thats just the model. It's a 2 stroke, 2 cylinder with only 4 gears and some quirky features. Check it out!
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I had one of these, a 638 Twin Sport. Same engine, different tank, seat, spoked wheels and front drum brake. Jawas are good manufacturing quality bikes, just the state of the technics manufactured is old. The 638 appeared in 1985. The cylinders have four transfer ports, four studs, and they are in cast alu with steel sleeves. The long stroke engine gives around 26 hp, and is happily cruising around 3000 rpm. I was cruising around 100-110 km/h, with a consumption of 7,5-7,7 litre/100 km / 30mpg. Friends say that the older 634 model (grey cast cylinders, two transfer ports, three studs) goes happily around 80-90 km/h with a consumption of 4-5 litre/100 km/ 47 mpg. The bike is tall, you sit high, with legs in sqare angle and chest upwards. The suspension is soft, set for bad road quality.
Love to read comments like this. Thanks for adding some context!
If I was 20 years younger I would come to New Zealand and make you an offer ! Good excuse to go there !
I just love that bike ! Have always like Jawa's due to their brilliant engineering traits and quality. There used to be a dealer for these and CZ's in the 70's here in Erie Pennsylvania, US. Now that I can appreciate them I rarely see them and have never seen this model before, just a beautiful bike, and what I used to call mid-sized bike when I was growing up in the 70's in the US.
Learning to ride on mini bikes then 2 stroke dirt bikes, the love for 2 strokes has never left me !
Great channel, really enjoy it, and keep up the nice work !!!
I wish there were more 2 strokes around these days but they're getting thin on the ground. Thanks for sharing your story with these bikes. Cool to read!
My old woodwork teacher said 'The best designs are simple'. Of course he was correct. You get a superb toolkit with these bikes, everything you need for lifelong maintenance. Keep it simple!
Wise words!
Jawa have been around since 1929. Before the domination of Japanese bikes, there were plenty in New Zealand used as both road and farm bikes. The engines in those popular models have a lot in common with this mid 1990's Honda Jawa 640 RED STYLE. It's actually 350cc, not 640 - thats just the model. It's a 2 stroke, 2 cylinder with only 4 gears and some quirky features. Check it out!
I have two Jawas, 2011 and 2015. They cruise at 60mph and average 60mpg. There's almost nothing to maintain or go wrong. Theyre v comfy bikes. I prefer them with a 400 18 rear but you have to change the front sprocket from a 17 to a 16. You can still buy them new on the UK but they ain't ridiculously cheap anymore about five grand.
Jawas are very interesting, they kinda flew under the radar but actually were available in lots of countries besides Eastern Europe. I did not know some even made it to New Zealand.
Even here in the US I see one or two pop up on Marketplace once in a while. They were popular in India, so much so they were manufactured there under license.
I remember seeing old Jawa 250s in Turkey too.
I rode an 1980s Jawa 634 which is the predecessor of this bike. The shifter is indeed also a foot clutch and it engages the clutch upon shift lever movement up or down, very much like the Honda semi-automatics. The slower you moved the gearshift lever, the smoother it shifts. But there is no centrifugal clutch like in the Hondas, it's just a simple hand and foot shiftable manual.
And indeed, it has relatively tall gearing, back then it was intended to be an economical commuter and 2-up tourer standard bike, with good torque down low (for a 2 stroke that is).
Awesome comment. Thanks Ben. After riding for a while the shifts got much smoother and it was really fun to have a little adventure with it.
jawas are kind of legend in turkey.
Я скажу Вам больше - Honda скопировала у Jawa полуавтоматическую систему сцепления, что даже послужило поводом для судебного разбирательства, и выплатой фирмой Honda крупной денежной суммы фирме Jawa !
Quite surprising to see one of these out in NZ! Not many 640s around in general, here in Slovakia it's mostly 634s and 638s. A note on the shifter lever clutch function, You can get going on it, when the shifter lever is at the end of it's range the clutch is fully disengaged and you can slowly let go of it as you would the hand lever. You only truly need the hand lever to change gears while stopped. Quite funny seeing a lot of the 634 parts on there, completely different styling of the bike. Another thing that might surprise you is the clutch is on the gearbox input shaft instead of the crank. The disc brake is a second generation part but it is still an absolute afterthought. The 640 is also one of the very few Jawa/ČZ bikes with 1st gear down, they only switched to the wrong layout in the early 80s, pretty much all of them before were 1st gear up. The shifter ratchet mechanism is identical between them so it's super easy to swap between the older/newer models. Your 1st gear is surprisingly long, in general these had a super short 1st gear to climb through challenging terrain, back in the day they were considered a road bike but realistically road bike of back then is a dualsport today, the agricultural comment really describes that aspect quite well! The only more offroad-ey ones other than straight up competition machines(ČZ MX, Jawa flattrackers) you could get was the CZ175 Trail which was a CZ175/477 with a 21" front wheel and a raised exhaust. Couple guys from around here took one of those CZ175 Trails and an older Jawa 250 along with some trabants through Australian deserts and made a tv series out of it! The ČZ lineup and the Jawa lineup were quite deeply intertwined, sharing tons of parts and in the later years ČZ was even manufacturing engines for Jawa. Although the division was clear Slovakia made small cc bikes(50-125cc under ZVL, Tatran, Manet, Stadion), Czechia made >125cc, 250cc and 350cc under Jawa, and middleweights under ČZ, 125cc, 150cc, and later 175cc instead of the 150cc, the regular 175s(not the unibody scooters) also often punched quite above their weight class, giving the heavier Jawa 250s a run for their money, while catching up to the bigger 350s just barely.
Quick, someone show Wikipedia this guy. I learned more from your comment than I could from a few hours searching. Cheers for watching!
@@SmallBikeStuff Feel free to ask anything else you want about these old czechsolovakian bikes that you might want to know!
Nice bike. On the 640, the alloy wheels and 240mm brake (both made by Jawa) match the bike much better than the spoked wheels and 300mm Chinese brake fitted to the current versions. The same goes for the exhausts, it's a shame that these options have been removed over the years. On your bike the headlight fairing was actually removed. Some examples had a round headlight without a fairing. Now you can also install an electric starter kit - but you have to remove the oil premixer.
Love all the info! Thanks so much for watching.
finally a bit of a review in english, there is a lot of carmera pointing on youtube but no one says anything, I went to see the last UK importer of Jawas about two weeks ago and he still imports them and sells them esspecially this model the new ones he has are black with auto lube, a circular headlamp and electronic ignition and an electric starter he also has some of the slightly older classics they cost about 3 grand GBP new for a typical 2015 classic model and yours is around 5 grand GBP for a new one with the upgrades, my Father took me school on a 350 2 stroke registered in 1979 almost every day in the summers, and for a bit of nostalga Ive been looking to by one recently, they are so easy to look after and maintain Not particularly fast but they will hold 70mph just about better to cruise at 60 to 65mph for economny. they are a lot of fun to ride, thanks for the video. hey are lighter than a Royal Enfield and easier on the pocket. Just not as big a status symbol in comparison. The importer says they are bringing out a 450cc bike next spring 2024 but hes not sure if they will export it to the UK.
Yeah thanks for watching. I try to just showcase whats in front of me rather than do a full on review. But it leaves opportunity for great comments like this! Thanks for all the information. The newer ones are 4 stroke right?
What? A 450 version of these or a modern four stroke? For me, if it ain't 2 stroke it's not a jawa.
@@barnbersonol
В 50-х годах выпускались Jawa c 500-кубовыми 4-тактными двигателями, прекрасные мотоциклы !
Love bike with long gearing like this.
Feels more connected to the engine, on every rev and whim of the engine.
After I got used to it, the 4 speed was super lovely to ride. Really enjoyed it!
Youre thinking about getting a 2 stroke, consider this: on every stroker at some point the crank seals are gonna need doing. They dry out thru the bike not being used or fail after high miles due to the constant suction pressure in the crank case. On most strokers its a full strip down but on jawas its just a two hour job without removing the engine so its probably gonna cost you £150 including recovery and you're back in the road.
Alright they're not fast but they're not weedy and gutless like small 4 strokes and they're great bikes.
Don't forget to second neutral (without control light) between 3rd and 4th gear, that is one quirky thing too. Brake caliper have two pistons - one from each side of brake disc. I have older model with this engine - it's fun. I like title of your video - it pretty much suite the bike.
Thanks so much for watching and the comment is awesome. Great tips! Appreciate it.
That's something I'd love to ride
Since I started my mechanized career on a German Zuendapp 50 cc I’ve always had a weak spot for these, even after they began to be and look very dated. Imagine all that “power”. The ultimate moped. This one has become the bleached red version though. Never sever those small brown tubes. They represent the autolube system and are essential. As is refilling the two stroke oil beside the petrol.
Thanks for the detailed comment! I agree - bleached red these days.
Lol that's funny about the weird registration on the bike. I had a similarly unique issue in Washington, in the US with my dualsport bikes, the original owner registered it as a dirt bike instead of a motorcycle (makes as much sense as it sounds) and our DMV tried to tell me that it invalidates the "motorcycle" classification on the title of the bike and it can no longer be a street legal motorcycle, ever. Had just about a heart attack when I heard that, but it ended up being just a clueless office worker. 😐
Really interesting video and bike. Thank you!
It's a cool machine for sure. Always appreciate riding different bikes. Thanks for taking the time to watch.
Looks like a fine bike. I definitely prefer the 2 strokes
2 strokes really are great!
There should be a regulation that a 2 stroke MCs be allowed.
Agreed - I'd like to see more
We have great looking classic JAWA350 ❤ here in india
Unobtainium
🙌
Sounds epic.
It does! Thanks for watching.
These are still, being made and are available brand new from F2Motorcycles in the UK.
News to me - and good news at that! How awesome.
Very similar to a bike i had called Jupiter 5 Russian built
Interesting model!
2:19 two stroke quick shifter czechnology!
Who need bolt on aftermarket quick shifters when it comes like that straight from the factory. 😎
@@SmallBikeStuff in the bloody 1950s man. This thing is incredible! Thanks for the video. I'm off to buy one.
Kewel bike 👌🏽
Thanks for watching!
You have yourself a might steed there Dude. You can still buy those new in the UK, but they'll sting you £6000 for it and it uses premix petrol/oil, as nobody makes oil pumps for them anymore
I didn't realise they wanted 6k for the new ones! Thats insane. This thing was super cheap here in New Zealand.
Can not find a seller in Germany !
And why this one still has the old brake caliper with only one brake piston? Others have a much bigger brake disc with a double brake caliper.
I am not sure about the German market. New Zealand is a small country so we often get weird model variants.
The engines were not designed for speed but for torque. Many had sidecars fitted and they'd pull them easily. As far as I know it's still the most torquey 350 production engine ever produced.
Thanks for the comment! Appreciate the info.
I got one of this baby..haha😂
They are still produced ?
Not anymore I don't think. The 2 stroke disappeared in the 00's and now there is a 4 stroke variant in India.
@@SmallBikeStuff Still made and may be bought from F2Motorcycles in the UK!
Question where will you be able to ride it in the UK not London or any big city. Low carbon crap.
Not an issue for us here in New Zealand.
Also built in India I believe.
They sure were. India even bought the brand back for a while but it hasn't seemed to last, sadly.
That was the Yezdi, this bike built under license.
So what does it handle like?
What are the brakes like?
What mpg does it do?.
What a road test.
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What do you really expect from a 90’s Jawa? None of those are worth even mentioning. It stops, it handles, it uses fuel. It ain’t anything special. On this channel I just showcase what’s in front of me and have fun doing it. You won’t be missed. 😉
What is it with revving a 2-Stroke engine from cold ?? !! Proves - absolutely nothing. All rather sad.
Are you ok? Need a hug? Lol. It wasn't cold by the way.
@@SmallBikeStuff Stupid boy - I am an adult and I don't "need a hug" - and, oh dear, are we really using infantile terms like "LOL" . I think I know a lot more about East European two-strokes than you ever will, having owned, ridden and toured on MZ's, CZ's and Jupiter's (not that you know what any of them are anyway). I even toured the JAWA factory as a prospective Importer. NO East European two-stroke ever liked being revved the way you were doing - cold, warm or hot.
@@clivecartey Looks like you might be on the wrong channel. Enjoy your day :) The hug is still on offer if you really need it sometime.