When I met Paul, his boardtracker was parked in front of his home and it was immediately obvious that everything on it had been made by hand and that someone with passion has worked on it. But before the mighty ‘ring-dingding’ sound could roar from the fishtail exhausts, some coffee had to be drunk. The interior of Paul’s house clearly showed that this is a real Jawa freak. A beautifully restored Jawa Perak stands in the living room and everywhere there are pictures and posters of the famous Czech motorcycle.
The factory appears to have been founded in 1929 in Prague. Paul says: “Do you know how the name JAWA came about? Engineer František Janecek wanted to build bikes and, at the same time, the German company Wanderer stopped producing its 500cc machine. He then bought the entire Wanderer production line and moved it to the Czech Republic. The company had to have a name, so the first letters of his name JAnek and WAnderer were used and combined. This way, the JAWA Rumpal was born.
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