Maybe there is good reason for the theme. Besides the Eisernes Kreuz looks very much badass no matter where it is used. I don't understand how any of it would make you sick.
The bike looks ugly somehow and 12 inches of travel don't make sense to me. You don't buy a shovel with a 4 meter stick, so i guess you don't need a bike with 30 cm travel.
My second thought:
30 cm of travel is related to benders bike, so there are much memories for some people. Don't throw it away^^
It's a cult bike. Although the nazi period decals may look questionable, it's undoubtedly representing an era when DH bikes were built to be hucked from cliffs.
It's an acquired taste for sure and most uneducated kids simply won't understand it. Innuendos aside, it boasts character, i like it.
Its geometry nowadays slacker and lower ,but i love it such a ghost .large and in charge. pretty decsent looking rear linkage and shock length looks massive with a big stroke.
Ive got myself a 2007 kons stinky custom and thats got the Marzochhi 66 rcv's on them and a roco r rear sus and their lush. Travel is unreal on them bike is so forgiving when you cock up summit but jesus that bike looks like it could drop and hundred foot and it would save you lol. What forks are they?
I don't get it. What do you mean. Is some guy that fought with the wehrmacht racing downhill nowadays? 90 years is a little old for this sport. Maybe he is not stupid, but putting these stickers on his bike makes him some weird dude.
When I look at the german comments, I feel a little bit ashamed of people not getting along with black humor... No, it's not a Nazi Bike, if we had this bike we would actually have suceeded with world domination. With an italian fork. Learn about history (oh, and better NOT use the interwebs 4 learning, sometimes facts are twisted...)
Come on everybody knows it's no nazi bike. But I really want to know the intention behind the sticker design. It's owner wants it to be a 'Stuka' or what????? Tell me. I want to laugh too.
Ok maybe I am off key here but my interpretation is as follows. The Iron Cross has long been and still is a symbol of the German Army (Bundeswehr) which in my opinion = Badass. Wermacht is technically just a word meaning Armed Forces (once again in most cases meaning Badass). Because Wehrmacht was used to describe Germany's armed forces during the period of 1935 to 1945 people automatically accociate the word with Nazi Germany which is a load of crap it is simply as I said a word that means Armed Forces. So from what I can gather with the Wehrmacht and the Iron Crosses (Eisernes Kreuz) I think the creator of the bike is trying to say that it is BadAss. That is just my opinion though.
Oh, c'mon guyz. Model of frame calls wehrmacht and owner just finished appearance of a brutal bike. This frame are different from usual, have a difrent head tube 68 degrees, 100mm bottom bracket, 165х12mm dropout, custom rear triangle and AVALANCHE dHs3 Expert 2011 modify for wehrmacht. Rear axle weight 800 gramm Owner didn't ride a downhill on this frame.
The Iron Cross was used by 1%ers (Rocker guys, the really,really evil ones) to piss off veterans of WW2 in the USA, it started around the 1950's... Jesse James, founder of West Coast Choppers also used the Iron Cross as Symbol for his company, it's pretty common right now to show a "not being mainstream" attitude. Why a company from Peru calls a bike Wehrmacht? Maybe they want to invade the Jah Drop...
My grandfather fought the Nazis ... my grandmother - a concentration camp inmate ... but even she does not mind my bike in the style of "Spoils of War"
@TimBigHitFSRII, I apologize to you sir, There is a small swastika on the left chainstay of the bike as seen in another forum. You are correct. Swastikas are tasteless. Due to the bike being created by a forign company I really don't believe that there was any harm intended in the design. Once again it is a military themed bike so one must believe that there were not offensive gestures involved, only the intent of creating a pure BADASS frame.