Identifying dug battle damaged MG(?) Bi Pod

**LUCKYSTRIKE** · 03-29-2009, 12:45 PM

I dug this Bi Pod many years ago in a German position in the Ardennes, I have never been able to find a picture to identify it. Having a tidy up recently I found it again and thought maybe someone on here could help.

It is solid steel tubing and as you can see one of the foot skids is missing, caused by I guess shrapnel and probably the reason why it was originally abandoned.
It appears to be painted either a sandy brown or possibly an aged white, close up pic shows this.
Hope you can help thanks for looking.
LUCKYSTRIKE

**Fritz38** · 03-30-2009, 06:21 PM

hehe, that looks more like the bipod for a motorbike than mg rest, I got a simular device on my styer-puch-benz manufactured moped but just slightly thinner... maybe it belonged to some ordnance mc bike once...

**gibba1008** · 03-30-2009, 06:32 PM

yeah, definetly motorcycle stand you have there.

**LUCKYSTRIKE** · 03-31-2009, 12:15 AM

Thats great news thanks for identifying it's use, it'd never dawned on me it could be a bike stand. It was recovered from deep inside the Ardennes forest so unlikely to be modern. I have some mates with WW2 german bikes, so next time I see them I'll see if I can identify the bike its from.
LUCKYSTRIKE