YEah Steve....Itskinda' like the Russian motorcycles that they started building after overrunning the BMW factory in WWII. Not being too innovative, the Russians followed the plans they had exactly. They proceeded to build the bike for 35 years in the same way. One of the bike mags tested one about 15 years back and was curious as to what a couple of odd brackets were for. No one at the Russian factory seemed to know, they just put them on since they were in the plans. After some research, the bike mag found that the plans were for a Bimmer military version and the brackets were there to hold a small shovel!

Spaw