Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4

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Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4
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Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4

Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4

Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4

Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4

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Data recording instead of a lathe: Classic tinkerer Werner Koch appreciates both.

Werner is working on the Honda Xpresso V4
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Carpe diem – following Roman wisdom, I was already saddling
at sunrise the Honda for a wonderful motorcycle tour.

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Just in case: 80s-style repair kit, …

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… stowed in the classic Harro Elefantenboy.

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Whoosh.

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And let’s go!

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Nice prospects …

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… Ribbons of asphalt thrown wildly into the landscape make the trip with the Xpresso V4 a highly amusing curve break in wonderful summer weather.

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Break with a crackling engine in an idyllic landscape.

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Plus a visit to Anton Kegel’s technology museum …

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… with old machine tools and rare finds.

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Also a find: Zundapp Sport Combinette, type 515-004, which I bought as I drove by for the next winter project.

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And on in a zigzag course from one museum to the next.

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Before the Fritz B. Busch Museum moved, a visit to the holy halls in Wolfegg was on the agenda.

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Honda Xpresso V4.

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In a hurry: MOTORRAD top tester Karsten Schwers at the
last groove. …

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… With a while: rest over the Swabian Lautertal.

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By the way: next year drivers of a youngtimer or classic can experience this fantastically beautiful route together with like-minded people on a two-day tour with the MOTORRAD action team.

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For Werner Koch, it’s all about motorcycling. Sure, compromises are made in favor of the optics, but the functionality should be sufficient for an extended, brisk tour with your “work”.

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The conversion is finished, the former Honda VF 1000 F2 can no longer be recognized. So that the unique specimen can also be presented to the TuV with a clear conscience, it is tortured in every bend and break – and then sent to its original destination. On a journey back and forth through the industrial model country, we explore the eras of mobility.

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Binding wire, insulating tape, replacement spark plugs, hose clamps, cable ties, repair adhesive – everything is there, so let’s go! It’s been a while since I stuffed the old Harro Elefantenboy tank bag with the mechanical survival range. Somehow the fundamental mistrust in a 30 year old mechanism is still buzzing around in the head, although there is absolutely no reason for it. Since the Honda conversion was on the wheels, the V4 engine hums reliably and without complaints. After countless test bench runs under full load (MOTORRAD Classic see edition 9/2016) for tuning the carburettors and hundreds of test kilometers, trust in the solid Honda technology should actually be consolidated.

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But the exaggerated caution is probably still left over from the old days, when you had to use the trailer after every second motorcycle ride to recover the damaged two-wheeler. I don’t have to fear any failure of the mechanics, after all, our Xpresso V4 had to endure all kinds of hardships on MOTORRAD’s top test track. With full deceleration over deep joints, on the last groove around the circular path and with jagged changes in incline through the slalom course. Everything recorded by the 2D data recording system, which makes the speeds and lean angles comparable to those of current bikes.

And what can the remodeled Honda VF 1000 F2?

Curve around the circular path almost as quickly as a current high-tech motorcycle, which I do not want to describe here in more detail. Through the slalom, the Xpresso V4 is even a touch faster (54 to 53 km / h) than the modern touring athlete. Only when braking does it stand no chance against the best ABS motorcycles. With braking distances of around 36 meters, modern machines are around four meters earlier than the Honda Xpresso. Because of the long wheelbase and the elongated driver’s posture, the front wheel locks before the rear wheel lifts off. Which is a delicate dance on a knife’s edge, even for experienced drivers.

In terms of driving performance, the slipper clutch thwarted our calculations, which can hardly be dosed when measuring acceleration from a standstill and grabs hard. With 3.7 seconds to 100 km / h, our conversion had to admit defeat to the measured values ​​from MOTORRAD 14/1985 by a tenth of a second – despite being slim. After passing the compulsory endurance test, the freestyle follows. For this one day that we want to use from sunrise to sunset, the weather should – believe it or not – even be dry and summery! The goal is the wonderful museum of Fritz B. Busch, which unfortunately has to move from the premises of Wolfegger Castle in autumn (more precisely: from October 30th).

If we are already walking in the footsteps of the past across the Swabian Alb to Oberschwaben, we will also take the small, often inconspicuous technology museums along the roadside, which are always worth a visit:

H. M. Tuning and Motorcycle Museum
Stuttgarter Strasse 38, 72308 Aichtal
www.hm-tuning.info

Granheim Tower Clock Museum
Motorcycle and equipment collection
Pfarrgasse 20, 89584 Ehingen-Granheim

Technology museum “Alte Sage”
Am Birkhau 12, 89548 Ehingen-Mundingen
Telephone 0 73 91/2065

Technology Museum Anton Kegel
To Bussen 31, 88524 Offingen
www.museumle.de

Fritz B. Busch car museum
Fritz B. Busch-Weg 1, 88364 Wolfegg
www.automuseum-busch.de

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F2 kicked Helmut Dahne out of the saddle

The way to Wolfegg not only had a visit to an old site in mind, the sensational country roads in the Swabian Allgau are also worth a trip. Few cars, but all the more curves that are wildly distributed in the landscape reminiscent of the roller coaster of the Nurburgring-Nordschleife. Anyone who carefully puzzles together their routes here will feel dizzy. No problem with the Honda Xpresso V4, because the full thrust from idle and the stable chassis are made for the breeze. Also because thanks to the large lean angle and ground clearance in the higher chassis, nothing hits the ground even in brisk lean angles and on rough bumps.

That was not so much the case with the standard Honda VF 1000 F2, as the Bavarian racing legend Helmut Dahne reports. “At the Tourist Trophy, the Honda didn’t just hit the corners, but the exhaust was crushed on the ground and the mud went down,” warned the Munich veteran of the underhandedness of the Honda VF 1000 F2. With the speed and inclines on the Allgau asphalt worm, I leave a few reserves compared to Dahne’s gait and I am simply delighted that the many hours of work and a good 6,000 euros in material costs have consistently been worth it. If the TuV man were to put his stamp on the papers, things would be perfect.

The renovation project is on the side of the road

This travel day should also end perfectly. Whether by providence or chance, just at the thought of the next winter – and with it the next project – a black, rotten two-wheeler flits past in the corner of your eye. Wasn’t that a Zundapp? Maybe a sports combinette? The moped of my dreams when I had to make do with a decommissioned Super-Combinette? Okay, that was also rebuilt, because with bulging fenders and leg shields as big as the Gorch Fock’s sails you couldn’t be seen at the time.

That was almost 50 years ago, but, as always with the first moped, it was burned into the mind and soul. In short: The deal is sealed quickly, and the very next day I am shipping the Zundapp to Stuttgart in the van. Where the Honda parts were just spreading out in the workshop, the workbench is freshly cleaned, boxes and boxes are ready to stow the individual parts of the Zundapp – winter can come.

By the way: next year drivers of a youngtimer or classic can experience this fantastically beautiful route together with like-minded people on a two-day tour with the MOTORRAD action team. Two dates will soon be available for 2017. More about these planned youngtimer tours under www.motorradonline.de/actionteam.

opinion

Werner “Mini” Cook: “That must be killing”, already knew my namesake Werner, alias Brosel. Meant were and are own and conversion motorcycles, which are put on the bikes with love and usually also a lot of money. Unfortunately, the trend is towards increasingly absurd creations that do not run or only run poorly. For me the biggest nonsense, because in the end it’s about riding a motorcycle and not about standing around on some show stages. Sure, compromises are made in favor of the optics, but the functionality should be sufficient for an extended, brisk tour with your “work”.

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