I work on a motorcycle evacuator, transport motorcycles in St. Petersburg and Russia. The technique is different, the road is often not close, sometimes the owners of motos tell interesting stories. That time we took a heavy pre-war German motorcycle BMW R35 to the exhibition in Peter and this is what its owner told us.

Such motorcycles were in the armament of the regular units of the Wehrmacht, and I inherited them from my father, who received them from my grandfather, who partised in the forests of Belarus during the war.

When I was a boy, my grandfather told me that the partisans struck a motorcycle from the fascists during an attack on a railway station. The German officer failed to escape, and the partisans got a motorcycle with a wheelchair loaded with staff documents.

Grandfather turned out to be the only person in the squad, able not only to ride, but also to repair German equipment, so the motorcycle was attached to him, like a trophy horse.

The partisans, dressed in German uniform, often conducted raids on the captured territories, but especially distinguished grandfather with the Yakut elephant Nicholas - a squad sniper. Grandfather sat at the wheel of a motorcycle, Nicholas in a wheelchair and they were going to "hunt the deer", so they called the "language" hunt.

Having found on the territory of the occupied village a German or a policeman who had gone away from the herd, the partisans came closer, supposedly to find the road, and Nicholas threw on him an arcana made of deer skin, which the Yakuts masterfully owned since childhood. The grandfather gave on the gases, stifling the victim's scream with a motorcycle, and in a convenient place, the prisoner was overloaded into a wheelchair and taken to the squad.

After the liberation of Belarus, his grandfather with his motorcycle was enrolled in the gun regiment, with which he came to Germany, where at the end of the war, by order of the command, he was awarded the same motorcycle with which he came to Germany. He also returned home, but the wheelchair had to be left because of the difficulties with transportation.

Such a heroic apparatus we carried from Minsk, and if his photos are interesting, then by reference.

http://motohelpspb.ru/novosti/baykerskie-istorii/nemetskiy-mototsikl-bmw-r-35