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Diesel motorcycle meeting in Hamm / NRW

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The industry sees no market and does nothing. The fans see it differently and do almost everything: Enduros, teams, scooters, tourers, cruisers and all-rounders – with diesel engines – met in Hamm.

Fred Siemer

October 13, 2011

Bernd Indorf doesn’t have to think twice about the greatest joys when he refueled. He also enjoys outings in the countryside around Wiesbaden, of course: “But six euros for 200 kilometers, that blows me over and over again.” A year ago four was enough, but now the buddies need over 20. He thinks so. Because he no longer likes to ride. Bernd Indorf and his summer diesel are decelerating, 10,000 lonely kilometers per year.

Otto normal driver imagines the Rudolf diesel tanker to be like this Hessian: friendly, but idiosyncratic and slow-moving. In fact, Indorf and his summer Enfield are among the largest faction in the German diesel warehouse, which comprises a total of over 4,000 motorcycles. They had their meeting in early September and over 100 came. To Hamm. It fits, everyone thinks and thinks of rolling mills. Not true and still fits because there is a hearty brewery in the rural district of Braam-Ostwennemar. With the beer, parts of self-bred Bunter Bentheimers, a breed of pigs that are threatened with extinction, are often served. The still living representatives wallow behind the fence of the camping meadow, it nails and grunts, smells of diesel and pigs – pure love of the countryside.

Wim van Leur parks right next to the sows; the latest self-made Kaskopp represents the creative part of the diesel warehouse and is steeped in Dutch logic: What is the booby-hulling cruiser thing about when you get a lot more power from sooooooooooooooooooooooside with a small diesel? So Kawa-V2 out, Daihatsu three-cylinder in. The one-liter purrs like a kitten when idling and pulls just above it like an ox.

Michael Broker also thought it was really delicious. But the machinist made everything even nicer. With him, the Daihatsu turbo engine disappeared in the BMW K frame of an EML team purchased for 6500 euros. He milled the tunnel housing between the engine and the original gearbox from solid pieces, then spent six months polishing and adjusting and polishing and painting again and invested a further 6,500 euros for parts, TuV and Tuddel, and now there is an adorable, beautiful team in front of his tent.

Something like that touches every motorcycle lover, as do other BMW adaptations: a K 100 with a squeaky clean VW Lupo three-cylinder or an R 80 with a Smart three-cylinder. The blue and white constructions are ideal because of the separate gearbox. There are also diesel Guzzis, but not this year. Of course, there is another way, as a smart Triumph Tiger proves. The transversely installed German triple transmits its power to a six-speed gearbox from the Harley accessories and enables a range of more than 700 kilometers. But only if there are no major bumps in the way and the oil pan shreds.


Diesel motorcycle meeting in Hamm-NRW


Fred Siemer

The Enduro with XT chassis and Honda stationary diesel shows that the two Japanese should work more closely together.

So if you want to get to Vladivostok, you definitely have to build higher. Reinhard Hotger did it, with and with a device that looks like an R 100 GS, but into which someone implanted mum’s drying hood. In truth, it is an MZ chassis with a few distinctive BMW attachments and an honorable, fan-cooled Lombardini engine. The Italians are among the world’s largest manufacturers of stationary engines. Hence the pull starter too. But it looks completely casual when the driver tears the single cylinder from the seat with a sweeping arm movement. But Hotger is threatened with serious enduro competition: a day visitor chugs on an XT 600 chassis with a Honda single-cylinder diesel also fitted with a cable and an ancient, manually shifted Hurth gearbox, and his device conveys a lightness that the petrol-powered studded steering wheels at best in the Enduro World Championship to achieve.

Oh, you would have to be a hobbyist. And know someone at TuV. Rafael Hausler probably doesn’t know anyone. How else can you explain that one of the two mentors at this meeting is traveling with a commercially available R 1100 S? But Rafael thought a lot about diesel motorcycles. And he confirms the friendly Hessen Indorf: “Economy and slowing down are what count. Range too, especially among trailer drivers. And the Russian parliamentary group wants a reliable drive. ”In China they have just discovered their dream engine, a small V2. It fits like a glove and gives an Ural or Dnepr something provocatively modern – water-cooled.

Over the past ten years, Rafael has heard more than 100 different diesel self-builds – that’s how long he has been in charge of the diesel meeting. Hundreds of conversations have taught him the seriousness of the matter. That lies in the fun of handicrafts, in the search for other things. “You will hardly find anyone looking for prestige here.” On a scale from bungee jumping to Zen Buddhism, he places diesel driving more in the latter, the development of the diesel motorcycle fits this classification.

It is true that the probably first diesel two-wheeler was built in Holland over 110 years ago. But then it took 50 years for English free spirits – or do we call them eccentrics? – two Norton and one Ariel knitted. The response remained manageable, and Indian pragmatism did not accelerate until another 20 years later: If you need a motorcycle to get to your fields and a stationary diesel to drive a water pump, then you can use a combination device. The Enfield with diesel and pulley was born. From there it was only a stone’s throw to the mostly Enfield-based machines that can be bought today.

Of course, many in Hamm quarrel with the big names in the motorcycle business. Rafael Hausler even threatens NATO: “The military demand one fuel only for all land vehicles, and they only have to drag gasoline into battle because of the motorcycles.” Which raises the question of whether these devices represent the spearhead of transatlantic military technology on the cow pasture must. Hausler laughs in the negative.

And then he shows what is really lacking in NATO. A Terminator bike that even Arnold would get wet if he saw it. A fearless Brit who had a Golf diesel engine. Then he went through a motorcycle scrap yard with a shovel excavator and welded everything together. Unfortunately, there was no tank, so he bunkers the diesel in a former fire extinguisher mounted close to the ground. And because a gearbox was also missing, it doesn’t have one. The man came in one go from the interior of the island to Hamm. There are still said to be English military trucks that can never do it.

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