Bike Garage - Ehinger Kraftrad Speedster

Inspired past times skinny grass rail racers together with a tribute to the racing bikes of the 1920s to 1940s, the Speedster is the mo business office of Uwe Ehinger’s speedbike trilogly that began alongside the Ehinger Kraftrad Snowracer.

The Speedster features a traditional 45° engine that looks similar a Harley-Davidson Knucklehead at first, exactly is quite dissimilar upon closer inspection. Uwe Ehinger designed the Knucklehead cylinder heads alongside CAD software to stand upwards for the 1937 four-cam bottom destination of a side valve Harley Davidson U. Other technical gems are the ohv-heads which characteristic an opened upwards valve develop together with the rockers which are machined out of a company block of aluminum.
The extremely narrow 1“ primary belt transmits the ability to the dry out clutch of the Harley-Davidson four-speed transmission. The vantage is a unique V-twin engine alongside 1200 ccm. The concepts for all other details were commencement designed on CAD together with and therefore built alongside the back upwards of several bully co-operation partners.

To hit an appearance that is reminiscent of the grass rail racers of the twenties to forties that were incredibly narrow, the tail department of the Speedster was narrowed together with the stiff frame was modified from the master copy 2 tubes to a unmarried downtube. The Springer fork was too narrowed, the dogbones are designed past times Ehinger Kraftrad together with the exceed clamp is machined out of a unmarried block.

The fossil oil tank, which appears to last missing, is integrated into the glittering banana topographic point together with business office of the frame serves every bit additional gas tank every bit the capacity of the primary tank is rather small. The racing publish plates characteristic the engine‘s master copy yr of structure together with the 22“ raise tire is equipped alongside a psychadelic wheel cover.
Bending the category a bit, the Ehinger Kraftrad Speedster was awarded “Best Flathead” at Born-Free seven where Uwe Ehinger was the commencement e'er invited builder from Germany.
Photos past times Dirk Weyer (http://www.dirkweyer.com)