Saturday, March 13, 2010
Awesome! This bike dieselt
Werner, Master Rohrich and the other "goile types" from the far north was already fascinated in the 80s, the comic reader. And in 1988 became one of the genuine hero.
Werner Inventor Rötger Feldmann rose to an old Horex with four engines and called his buddy Holgi in the Porsche to the race. At that time, won the car.
But the crazy motorcycle fans wanted revenge. And ask for a completely new two-wheeler on its feet. Now it's finally come. The first German diesel motorcycle is finished. The precious bike Neander, built in Kiel by a team led by company founder Philip Hitzbleck, the marketer of the "roller coaster" comic empire.
With help from the Bosch experts have become a real monster up and running. 114 HP, with common-rail fuel injection, 214 Newton meters of torque, 0 to 100 in 4.5 seconds, 220 tip, saturated 1.92 meters wheelbase. Even a soot filter is installed. "Flaws": With the chopper races are unthinkable.
"The ultimate Macker motorcycle," says actor Heinz Hoenig still enthusiastic. He's already one of the purchase of 250 copies limited edition copies. Despite the exorbitant price of 95,000 euros. Hitzbleck: "Our customers were going to put as much also converted into a Harley-Davidson."
And where does the name Neander? Marketing manager Jan Poppe: "We recall that the legendary motorcycle inventor Ernst Neumann Neander, built in the 20s legendary machines, but later went bankrupt." Its workshop was in Rölsdorf.