Motorcycle detective: in Brno they are exhibiting the machine on which the mysterious phantom raced

Pepa Sršeň with the duo Pavel Liška and Jan Révai looks on from the poster at this year's Motosalon, but the real celebrity is the motorcycle with a sidecar on which the trio is sitting. The iconic Rudge Ulster interwar machine has a Czechoslovak history and looks exactly as it did eighty years ago when it raced on our circuits.

The motorcycle was discovered in the collection of motorcycle racer Jan Horák at the end of the 1990s in an advertisement by Karel Kupka, publisher of the Brno veteran magazine and organizer of veteran races. At first glance, it didn't look anything special. "It was a bit strange, zündappa handlebars, strange pipes around the fenders, Jawa gear shifter, and thus the brake and right-foot shift," recalls Kupka about his first impressions of the new machine. Rudge, which is familiarly nicknamed "ručka" in the Czech Republic, but Karel Kupka wanted it. And that's why he bought the motorcycle.
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