Izh Planet Sports - time tested equipment

Izh Planet Sport is rightly considered a unique sports bike since Soviet times. We will get to know him better.

So, if Izh Planet Sports 350 is taken, it is recognized as a middle class motorcycle for sports and tourist trips on roads with a variety of cover, alone, as well as with a passenger. Issued it Izhevsk plant in the period 1974-1985.

The motorcycle was very different from its counterparts, both constructively and externally. After all, it was very similar to Japanese motorcycles of the 60s.

The technical and structural level of the motorcycle was so high that it was exported to several socialist countries. There he competed with motorcycles MZ and "Java".

Although serially Izh Planet Sports began to produce since 1974, but the first experimental 500 cars produced from June to September 1975. At that moment it cost 1200 rubles.

The motorcycle was kept on the conveyor assembly until 1985, after which it was removed from the manufacture. But the first Izh Planet Sports 350 were highly regarded among motorcyclists. They cost more even after ten years of operation.

Technically, the motorcycle is "stuffed" with parts (besides some trifles) that differed from the spare parts of the other motorcycles Izh. For the first time in this model, a system of separate lubrication of the engine was used. Engine Izh Planet Sport had a working volume of 340 cm3 with a piston diameter of 76 mm. It even was equipped with a carburetor of Japanese manufacture Mikuni, which allowed it to achieve the power of 32 horsepower (6,700 rpm).

Therefore, a single motorcycle with a dry weight of 135 kg produced a specific power of 237 hp / ton (while the Java-350/634 only 141 hp / ton). In this regard, Izh Planet Sports characteristics are so high. It reaches overclocking to 100 kilometers per hour in eleven seconds. The engine was fixed in the frame with rubber cushions, which was a technical novelty of the time.

The first batch was produced with the Japanese-made Denso electrical equipment, thanks to which the increased demands for light engineering of the Soviet engineering industry (UNECE) were first applied . The front wheel differed in this model and had a size of 3.0x19.

Later releases Izh Planet Sport were equipped with domestic carburetors K-62M with a smaller diameter of the diffuser, so the power dropped to 28 hp. These models are distinguished by an elongated rear wing and a curved silencer, which at first was straight.

Since 1979, Planet Sports has gradually got rid of imported spare parts, which increased the quality of the whole car. Therefore, the motorcycle and spare parts for it have become much cheaper. As you know, you need to overpay for quality.

On the basis of the Planet-Sport in April 1975 began the production of the Izh M-15 sports bike and the Izh-K-15 cross-country modification.

Motorcyclists of the Soviet times called Izh Planet Sports a nickname "Dog". And also rumors that because of high qualities it was exported to the USA.

That's why this motorcycle was often subjected to real motor tuning. His cylinder was boring under the piston of the Muscovite M-412 or under the "CheZet" (500-tikubovy). So Planet Sports 500 was born - a product of tuning artists of those years.