Description
National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
26th Mar, 2025 9:00
1975 Cossack 175
No Reserve
Registration No: JCH 263N
Frame No: 3072
MOT: Exempt
Rare UK supplied from new Voshkod/ Cossack175
Unrestored and offered in very original condition
Includes original tyre pump, manuals and a current V5C
Voskhod motorcycles were manufactured from around 1965 at the Degtyaryov Plant in the Russian town of Kovrov with most models powered by a simple 175cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine. In the 1970s they made over 220, 000 motorcycles annually, mainly for the domestic market and countries behind the Iron Curtain but also exporting to countries such as Italy, Norway, Australia and from 1973 to 1979 were marketed in the UK by SATRA under the brand name Cossack.
This rare example of a Russian motorcycle is from a deceased estate and is being offered at no reserve. Not many bikes would have been imported back in the day and very few will have survived in such original condition. DVLA records show its first registration as April 1975 and subsequently taxed for just 1 year, clocking up a credible 187km until presumably being stored away. Not run for a while, it will need recommissioning but the engine turns freely and has compression. Offered with an original dealer sales sheet, UK supplied workshop and parts books and even the original tyre pump still wrapped in brown tissue paper together with a current V5C.
