Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

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Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld
Fred Siemer

Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

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At the collector Wolfgang Linfeld

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Best of show: The Turbo-Suzuki XN 85 was built from 1983 to 1985 in only 1153 copies

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Wolfgang Bandit 1200 usually rides, but his radical katana never gets bored either.

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The first Triumph imported from Hinckley to Germany, a Trophy 1200

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Wild dreams: The GSX-R is presented in its original condition, which is extremely rare today

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As a dealer, Wolfgang bought this 1100 Katana.

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Those with a big heart will also find this 550 katana with ES shell beautiful

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Now it is due: the H2 two-stroke Kawa came in nine years ago. Completely disassembled.

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Wolfgang awaits his visitors in Droste-Hulshoff-Strasse in Ludinghausen

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Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld

Portrait of motorcycle collector Wolfgang Lindfeld
From CB 400 Four to GS 1000

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Because he wanted to save his soul almost exactly 20 years ago, Wolfgang Lindfeld restored what he could get his hands on. From GT 250 to GS 500 E, from CB 400 Four to GS 1000. And now he can’t stop.

Fred Siemer

02/03/2017

Many motorcycle collections reveal from a distance what their actual purpose is. Here one likes BMW, there one likes Italian athletes, one man’s heart warms Mokicks, the other Big Twin. The Lindfeld collection lacks such clarity. It does not work on this pure level of appearance, but follows – if you will – higher goals.
“I can’t throw anything away,” says Wolfgang Lindfeld, naming one of them and smiling apologetically.

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That’s tough, thinks the visitor and sees three Suzuki GS 500 E among the more than 80 pieces. But collector’s item? The viewer then remembers how crazy people are today about the Yamaha RD 250 from the 70s – the little Suzis, especially those from the special series with FiveStar full fairing, suddenly appear in a different light. Does this hall here, located on the western outskirts of the cozy Munsterland Ludinghausen, accommodate a particularly clever future investment? “No, no,” shrugs Wolfgang, “it is all due to chance, more or less.” Or bad luck or luck: the history of this collection was written by life.

What do you do when you have nothing more to do?

In principle, Wolfgang Lindfeld still wanted to sell or repair Suzuki and Triumphs today. In his motorcycle shop in Dortmund, just as he did from 1984 onwards. Until 1995, when someone drove the master mechanic in front of his motorcycle during a test drive. As a result of his injuries, Wolfgang becomes deaf from one second to the next, and hardly any significant two percent hearing remains. He quickly learns to speak again, then to read other people’s lips. He gets used to his hearing aid, goes to rehab, but he can no longer run the shop and has to sell it at the age of 40, a year after the accident.

Thanks to the disability pension, Wolfgang is taken care of. Material. And otherwise? What do you do when you have nothing more to do? A huge hole stares at him. “I didn’t want to fall for that, never,” says Wolfgang. That is why he trusts his inner strength and what he has always loved to do. “It all started on my mother-in-law’s farm, so I started working again in 1997.” On motorbikes, what else worth than any hopelessly ridden Nippon middle grader. The small Kardantourer Kawasaki GT 550, the space glider Suzuki VS 600, the Yamaha all-rounder XS 400 and XJ 550 – everything that friends carry to him as a reward for small favors simply leave or simply no longer want, is worth a loving treatment for Wolfgang . Til today. And is on an equal footing with recognized icons. That’s also there. What wonder for someone who has been enthusiastic about the topic since early childhood. As a trader, however, he could train his eye.

The second motorcycle boom began with the GSX-R

Wolfgang was a Moto Guzzi dealer for two years. Italian motorcycles are in short supply in his collection. Then he took over Triumph in 1990. “But they also had massive problems in the beginning,” he says. Nevertheless, three of Hinckley’s imposing early works make their way into the exhibition. Its four-cylinder Trophy 1200 even comes from the First Edition, which was limited to 100 copies and with which Triumph began its new start. The first ten stayed in England, the number eleven is in Ludinghausen…

But even Britain’s mighty battleship cannot obscure Wolfgang’s favorites: Japanese four-in-lines in general, Suzuki’s in particular. He values ​​the air-cooled GSX four-valve units as an esthete and mechanic alike, the air / oil-cooled ones also really appeal to sports enthusiasts. And above all, the GSX-R hovers, from the early 750 to the 1100 original and in an impressive series. “Yes,” says Wolfgang happily, “the fans get wet eyes, they remember the wildest years.” Suzuki’s super sports car is more like a success story: “The GSX-R helped us dealers tremendously in the mid-80s. A jolt went through the brand and the second motorcycle boom began for us. “

Katana is one of the stars in the showroom today

It is well known that one or the other GSX-R got astray, and Wolfgang got one of those. The 1100 engine moved into the heavily modified frame of a 750 katana, the aluminum box swing arm is supported by a central spring strut and an upside-down fork accommodates the front six-piston brake calipers. The whole thing in dark blue and put on the street in 1992. In addition to the dealer job, of course, and since then Wolfgang has somehow been part of the katana scene. “That’s right, if there is a meeting nearby, I like to go by.” He could not have imagined that 30 years ago: “The things stood like lead, I sold my last to Schleswig-Holstein.” does not prevent you from purchasing an 1100 casualty katana shortly thereafter. Originally, with just a few kilometers, she is one of the stars in the showroom today.

Another one he could talk to a friend of his, a trader. “But only in a package. It got neither the Turbo nor the GSX 750 EF running. Was annoyed, always in a hurry. ”A typical case for Wolfgang. He has time – and today he is happy about one of the 1150 XN 85s ever built. In other words, he’s just as happy about the EF. There he has three pieces of 550, 750 and 1100 cubic meters. Ran up to him. “So in a row, that has something, right?” Anyway.

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