KÖBO |  1923-26  |  Germany  : The KÖBO motorcycle emerged from a company whose primary expertise was in a component that every chain-driven motorcycle in the world depended upon, and whose name encoded the identity of its founders in a

  KOCH  |  1934-35  |  Czech  : The Koch motorcycle of 1934 and 1935 was the final chapter in one of the more distinguished engineering careers in the history of Central European motorcycle design, and the machines themselves represented a

KOEHLER-ESCOFFIER  |  1912-57  |  France  : The French Koehler-Escoffier marque was founded in Lyons in November 1912 by partners Marcel Koehler, an engineer, and Jules Escoffier, who had previously been employed at Magnat-Debon as a works rider and mechanic. These

  KOFA  |  1923-25  |  Germany  : The Kofa was a Nuremberg motorcycle of the early 1920s, produced by Kofa AG at Neutorstraße 10 in the city, from 1923 to 1925. The machines were powered by 289cc single-cylinder two-stroke engines.

  KOHOUT  |  1904-06  |  Czech  : Petr Kohout (born 1867) attended the Prague Realschule and worked as a practical machinist. A skilled cyclist himself, he moved from Prague to Brno where he established himself in the two-wheeled trade. He

  KOLIBRI  |  1923-30  |  Germany  : Kolibri, meaning “hummingbird” in German, was a fitting name for a product designed around smallness, lightness, and ease of use. Cycle attachment engines were available separately or assembled with a Kolibri bicycle, marketed

  KOMAR  |  Late 1950’s-Late 60’s  |  Poland  : Komar means “mosquito” in Polish, and the name proved apt. The history of moped production by ZZR Romet dates back to the late 1950s, when the plan was born to expand

  KOMET  |  1902-05  |  Germany  : Komet motorcycles were produced between 1902 and 1905 in Dresden by the Kirschner & Co Fahrradwerke, later reorganised as Komet Fahrradwerke A.G. The company was one of the first producers of two-stroke motorcycles

  KONDOR  |  1924-25  |  Germany  : no details known  

  KÖNIG  |  1971-76  |  Germany  : The story of König Motorenbau is one of the most unlikely and quietly magnificent in all of motorsport. Rudolf König founded the company in Berlin in 1927, beginning as a small workshop producing

  KOSMOS  |  1978-  |  Italy  : Kosmos motorcycles were produced by Moto Kosmos S.r.L. In Liscate, Milan, Italy, from 1976 to 1984. The company built off-road motorcycles with two-stroke engines ranging from 125cc to 480cc. Kosmos motorcycles were known

  KOSTER (KS)  |  1923-25  |  Germany  : The Koster motorcycle, also sold under the initials KS, was a small German lightweight machine produced between 1923 and 1925, a period that placed it squarely in one of the most turbulent

  KOVROV  |  1946-2003  |  Russia (USSR) : The Kovrov motorcycle story begins not in a factory built for two-wheelers, but in one of the most important weapons plants in Russian history. The Degtyaryov Plant, known by its abbreviation ZiD,