Sachs bikes

The logo of the Sachs Bikes brand

Sachs Bikes MadAss

Sachs Bikes is a German motorcycle brand of the Nuremberg company SFM GmbH (formerly Sachs Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik GmbH ).

history

Sachs Roadster 800

Sachs Bikes emerged in 1995 from the Nuremberg motorcycle and bicycle manufacturer Hercules , which was taken over by the Schweinfurt industrial group Fichtel & Sachs in 1958 . After Fichtel & Sachs was completely taken over by Mannesmann in 1991, the Hercules parent company, now trading as Mannesmann Sachs, sold the Hercules brand and bicycle production to the Dutch ATAG Cycle Group (now Accell ) in 1995 . The remaining motorcycle production has since traded as Sachs Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik GmbH, the motorcycles have since been sold under the Sachs Bikes brand instead of Hercules.

In October 2000, HSS Verwaltungs GmbH took over Sachs Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik GmbH. In 2002 a small series of the Münch Mammut 2000 was produced for Münch Motorrad Technik GmbH (Würzburg) . In June 2006, Sachs Bikes had to file for bankruptcy. After a management buy-out (MBO), the motor vehicle manufacturer, which had been producing for over a hundred years, was taken over by the previous management on January 1, 2007, with the aim of increasingly positioning itself in the scooter segment. In 2008 the bankruptcy proceedings were discontinued and the company changed from Sachs Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik GmbH to SFM GmbH.

Business areas

In addition to the production of some own models Sachs bikes was also a time importer of French motorcycle brand Voxan , the scooter company Malaguti and the Chinese company Huanan Motors and also drove small cars of the Italian brand Italcar (until 2006 Tasso), which with the introduced 2005 license class S moves may be.

In addition to the well-known models with combustion engines, Sachs Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik GmbH has also worked on various series of single-track electric vehicles. For the "Sachs ELO-Bike Touring", Sachs Bikes was recognized as the test winner at the IFMA in Cologne in 2002, followed by the city of Nuremberg's environmental award in 2005.

Models

• Sachs SX-1
• Sachs XTC 125 : 4-stroke 125cc sports motorcycle (sometimes available as a 2-stroke version and also as a naked bike )
• Sachs X-Road 125 : Mixture of supermoto , naked bike and sports motorcycle with the engine of the XTC 125
• Sachs XTC 50 : 4-stroke 50 cm³ mokick
• MadAss : Extraordinary looking gear mock-up
• Sachs MadAss 125 - 125 version of Germany's best-selling gear stick
• Saxy 25/45 : classic moped
• Sachs 49er : 50 cc scooter
• Sachs Speedforce 50
• Sachs Speedforce R 50
• Sachs Speedjet 50
• Sachs Speedjet R 50
• Sachs Speedjet RS
• Sachs KX 5 (KX 50 / Classic) : (1995-2001)
• Sachs ZX 50
• Sachs XTC 125 : 2-stroke
• Sachs XTC 125 : 2-stroke naked
• Sachs XTC 125 : 4-stroke
• Sachs ZX and ZZ 125
• Sachs Roadster 125
• Sachs Roadster 650 : (2000) - single-cylinder all-rounder
• Sachs Roadster 800 / Sachs b-805 / Sachs s-805
• Sachs Beast 1000 , concept study (2000)
• Sachs Dirty Devil 125 CR
• Sachs Dirty Devil Phatt 125
• Sachs Bee 50
• Sachs Bee 125
• ATV 4rock 450 (2007)
• ATV 4rock 650 (2007)
• Sachs Quattrocento : motorcycle scooter with 400 cm³ (2007)
• Sachs Saxonette

Web links

Commons : Sachs Bikes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sachs Bikes (SFM GmbH) website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hercules - bicycles with tradition . Accell Germany GmbH. Archived from the original on June 25, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 10, 2009. 
2. ↑ SACHS takes over Mammut production . Burning Out Online. April 15, 2002. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 11, 2009. 
3. ↑ Nürnberger Motorradfabrik Sachs is insolvent . Handelsblatt.com. June 30, 2006. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
4. ↑ Continuation of the company according to Section 60 (1) No. 4 GmbHG, see: https://www.ebundesanzeiger.de Name of the company: Sachs Fahrzeug und Motorentechnik, registered office of the company: Nuremberg, date of publication: June 6, 2008
5. ^ Sachs & Voxan: Franco-German Initiative! . Burning Out Online. December 19, 2004. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 30, 2009. 
6. ↑ The Sachs ELO-Bike Touring wins the test . Burning Out Online. October 23, 2002. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 30, 2009. 
7. ↑ Environmental Protection Prize of the City of Nuremberg 2005 . City of Nuremberg - Environment Agency. Archived from the original on February 11, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 30, 2009. 
8. ^ Paul Pietsch (editor): MOTORRAD CATALOG 2006 Motor Presse Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3613305410 , p. 157
9. ^ Andy Schwietzer (editor): Typenkompass Hercules / Sachs since 1948 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-613-02834-0 , p. 120