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• Germany: Ore Mountains motorcycle expedition The 2500 tour for the MOTORRAD anniversary
• Suzuki DR 800 S.
• Honda Black Widow
• Triumph Speed ​​Triple
• BMW K 100 RS
• Info

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The motorcycle expedition through the Ore Mountains. The leitmotif is the number 2500 – for the MOTORRAD anniversary.

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Klaus did it: For the 2500th edition of MOTORRAD, he got four times 2500 euros for four distinctive used motorcycles.

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The 2500 euro motorcycles: Suzuki DR 800 S, BMW K 100 RS, Honda Black Widow, and Triumph Speed ​​Triple.

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Neudorf soup museum, Klaus wins the soup pot pulling.

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Two five in my sights: 250 milliliters of coffee at the “Ehrenzipfel” biker meeting point, less than 2.5 hours later up on the Fichtelberg.

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Belts melt at 250 degrees Celsius.

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2500 women … Gunter Rossler is said to have photographed so far. Laconic answer from the 86-year-old from Leipzig to our inquiry: “If dpa writes that, it must be right!” Initially working as an advertising and fashion photographer in the GDR (including for the magazine “Sibylle”), he focused on in the early 1970s nude photography – without exception in black and white and almost exclusively with amateur models. A documentary film (“The Geniality of the Moment”) is currently in the making, and his illustrated book “Strong Women in the East” will be released in September..

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Triumph Speed ​​Triple, Honda Black Widow and BMW K 100 RS.

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The Robur LO 2500 truck, which was once widespread in the east, swallows a payload of 2500 kilograms. The GDR truck celebrated its premiere in 1961 at the Leipzig spring fair. The Robur was universally applicable: It was not only available with a flatbed and tarpaulin, but also for the fire brigade and as a rolling goulash cannon for the mobile kitchen cops of the National People’s Army. The field kitchen food from back then is still served on the B 169 in Bad Schlema today. Incidentally, up to 1990 the VEB Robur works in Zittau had built 250,000 vehicles.

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Suzuki DR 800 S, Honda Black Widow and Triumph Speed ​​Triple.

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Locomotive trainee Hans Reichelt steams through the Ore Mountains on the Fichtelbergbahn at 25 km / h.

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Hardcore test for the travel crew: scoop out 2500 calories in the shape of a lentil.

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2500 kilometers … is the offset on the equatorial axis between two orbits of the world by the international space station ISS, which is modeled on the former Soviet space station Mir. A basic Mir module is accessible at the German Space Exhibition in Morgenrothe-Rautenkranz. The birthplace name of the first German in space, GDR cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn, has a shrill, socialist-sounding touch, but is derived from the late medieval mining that still characterizes the region today.

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Never below 25 km / h: monster scooter run from Fichtelberg.

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Monster scooter run from the Fichtelberg.

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As an old MZ driver, he knows the 2500 most beautiful bends around Oberwiesenthal: Mayor Mirko Ernst.

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2500 grams of mushrooms … including many tasty porcini mushrooms are quickly collected for mushroom lovers like Karl-Heinz Koch (center) in Vogtland. A visit to the Neudorf Soup Museum (www.suppenmuseum.de), where the best soup cook is crowned every year, shows that the wooded region in the extreme south of the Free State of Saxony is a paradise for mushroom pickers. The jury already liked a mushroom soup six times. The winning dishes can be tried in the neighborhood in the “Gaststub zr Bimmelbah”.

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Curving fun with the used bikes.

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Acclaimed: More than 2500 impressions collected, planning for the 3333rd edition is underway. No hangover mood in Karlsbad.

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2500 milliliters … beers, divided among four travelers, are of course an easy exercise – especially when it comes to delicious Franconian specialties. Including the winning beer from the MOTORRAD comparison test (issue 1/2012), the alcohol-free Kapuziner wheat. The amount becomes much more explosive, however, if you consume it per capita during the European Championship semi-finals Germany – Italy and wash down the frustration in the Oberwiesenthal ski hut “Prijut 12” with the Russian Baltika beer No. 9. Eight percent alcohol actually makes the barrel overflow.

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The 2500 € motorcycles: Suzuki DR 800 S, Honda Black Widow, Triumph Speed ​​Triple and BMW K 100 RS.

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Suzuki DR 800 S … the doctor with the big heart.

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Cockpit of the Suzuki DR 800 S.

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Dirk Gladen (48) from Hattingen gives his “fat” pensive.

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Honda Black Widow chopper without any chopper quirks.

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Cockpit of the Honda Black Widow.

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Mileage 26319: BMW dealer Karl Maier gave the Black Widow a wellness cure and fresh HU.

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Triumph Speed ​​Triple English woman with rustic charm.

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Triumph Speed ​​Triple cockpit.

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Had to shrink a few tears. Previous owner Wolfgang Fellmeth (51) will miss the view of the cockpit.

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BMW K 100 RS the dignified kilometer eater.

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BMW K 100 RS cockpit.

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Perfect private seller: With Gunter Fabrig (54, right), the BMW had an exemplary garage home for 14 years.

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Motorcycle trip to the Ore Mountains for the 2500th edition of MOTORRAD

Germany: Ore Mountains motorcycle expedition
The 2500 tour for the MOTORRAD anniversary

Have you ever raised a number as the leitmotif of a motorcycle trip? As pathological as it sounds, we tried the 2500. It was the common thread of our mission to shake the Ore Mountains with used bikes. You can read what the 2500 contributed to this in the travel report from the Ore Mountains.

Thorsten Dentges

08/02/2012

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Suzuki DR 800 S, Honda Black Widow and Triumph Speed ​​Triple.

Two thousand five hundred: The number sounds like a steep advance for long-distance travel-savvy travel junkies. The simplest exercise: just do a 2500-kilometer lap around Stuttgart. Sounds banal, everyone can. Side feed: unwind the whole thing at 2500 revolutions per minute. Sounds better, but it will not be practical to implement. A trip to places 2500 meters above sea level? Oops, the colleagues from the test department quickly get nervous, after all, the Alpine Masters is their territory. But locality and 2500 should be combinable. The right answer pops up on Google: Oberwiesenthal in the Ore Mountains not only has 2500 inhabitants to offer, but is also Germany’s highest town. If that’s not an appropriate goal for the four-person service and travel crew from Europe’s largest motorcycle magazine! The whole thing, of course, not on new motorcycles, but on well-hung, 2500 euros expensive parts. And four travelers can certainly dress themselves completely for a total budget of 2500 euros … The basic structure for the anniversary tour is in place. Is there more? Meeting 2500 motorcyclists on the route, looking for vehicles with 2500 HP, covering the daily requirement of 2500 calories during the trip exclusively in the form of regional dumplings – when we brain we quickly slide into absurd spheres. On closer research, however, there still seem to be some 2500 highlights in the travel region: for example in Zwickau a jeans shop with the imaginative name “Jeansdepot 2500”. Always worth a visit. Gunter Rossler, the most famous fashion and nude photographer in the GDR, who is said to have photographed 2,500 nude models so far, lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig. We invite ourselves to the 86-year-old for a coffee. Around the corner from Oberwiesenthal, the Pressnitz Valley Railway also operates a historic class 01.5 steam locomotive: an output of 1839 kilowatts, which equates to an enormous 2500 horsepower. Shouldn’t we treat ourselves to a drag race with our used planes with a total of 293 hp? The operations manager laughs over the phone: “Then you would have to steam up into the Spreewald, where our zero-one is currently being serviced. 250 kilometers and you are already there … “

We decide not to be too cramped about the “two five” and first of all drive off: Jorg on a Triumph Speed ​​triple from 1995, Klaus on a Honda VT 750 Black Widow (2002), Thorsten on board a BMW K 100 RS with ABS from 1990, and Markus drives a 1998 Suzuki DR 800 S. Voilà, so we have a representative cross-section and are already in the middle of it, with our one-, two-, three- and four-cylinder engines on the road through the Franconian region To enjoy nature. Not a single sign with a 2500, instead at least 2500 other charms, such as plump ladies in garden bars, crisp winding roads and a defective starter fuse of the Honda, which does not hold us up for long. Sure, there are cars with 2500 cubic meters or signs that announce an attraction at 2500 meters, but that seems too simple to us. Our spirit of discovery calls out for more.

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In no relation to our magical number, but all the more cozy, the 100-year-old country inn owned by the Hans-Georg Haueis family in Hermes near Kulmbach gets down to business. The typical regional specialties gently flatter our palates, just like ice-cold capuchin wheat, the total consumption of which therefore quickly exceeds the 2500 milliliter limit. The silence is breathtaking.

The next day, those are the bends that our 2,500 euro bikes rush through in the Franconian Forest. We become cross-border commuters on the smallest secret paths, shimmy further eastwards in the green no man’s land along the “state border” until we finally end up in the brightly colored Fiji markets directly in the Czech city of Aš, where 2500 Czech crowns for the advertised “all original” goods would be spent quickly. Just go on quickly.

At Bad Elster we go back to Germany, and in the instrument-making metropolis of Klingenthal, we extend our feelers: Is there a 2,500-euro violin in the shop window here? Vain. We only hit the brakes in the Vogtland region of Auerbach. An old GDR truck from the Robur brand pokes out from behind crumbling warehouses. Is it the LO 2500 model? We are just about to climb over the fence for the photo when a local resident stops us: “This is the 3000 meter,” Karl-Heinz Koch instructs us, but offers a numerically appropriate alternative. The retired machinist has just come from mushroom picking and feels that he has “exactly 2500 grams of porcini and pearl mushrooms” with him, which are “with butter and caraway” tonight. As a farewell, there is not only the valuable hint that greetings are greeted with “Guten Tag” in Vogtland, but with “Gluckauf” in the Ore Mountains, but also a small pocket Bible (less than 2500 pages) finds its way into the tank bag. What feels like 250 bends further, a MiG-21 crosses our paths. The fighter is in front of the German Space Exhibition in Morgenrothe-Rautenkranz and was once piloted by the most prominent son of the small community, GDR cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn. Mandy Dienelt, the good soul of the museum, does not have a rocket with 2500 kilopond thrust on offer, but can at least provide information about the ISS space station, whose intersection points on the equatorial axis are each 2500 kilometers apart. Well, finally, life is slowly coming to the dead number.

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The 2500 euro motorcycles: Suzuki DR 800 S, Honda Black Widow, Triumph Speed ​​Triple and BMW K 100 RS.

We finally arrive in Oberwiesenthal. Mirko Ernst, acting mayor of the “Hochstadt” in the Ore Mountains, welcomes us with open arms and willingly gives us information about the history. We learn that Oberwiesenthal had already changed from a mining location to a center of excellence for winter sports during the GDR era and that Germany’s most successful ski jumper Jens Weibflog now runs his own hotel in his hometown.

The time after the reunification should be particularly problematic for the ski resort: Due to nepotism and felt, the once attractive ski resort was on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, and now, according to the mayor, one can look positively into the future again and is even about to Designation as a “state-approved climatic health resort”. However, there is still plenty of potential for expansion in the summer season. Mayor Ernst is absolutely convinced that there are “the most beautiful 2500 bends in the Ore Mountains around Oberwiesenthal for motorcyclists”. The final question that remains is which model from our quartet would appeal to the old MZ-ETS-250 pilots? The question is hardly asked when the mayor is already sitting on the BMW, “godfather” Thorsten grins.

The landscape around Oberwiesenthal is terrific, we bump with monster scooters down a hiking path from the 1215 meter high Fichtelberg, chat with the train drivers of the Fichtelbergbahn, whose old passenger wagons are still pulled daily by steam locomotives, and thus find out that the model 99.73-76 is exactly 2500 kilograms of coal are bunkered in their tender. Bingo. The fact that we can no longer find the jeans depot 2500 listed in our road book in Zwickau hardly bothered us, especially since shortly afterwards we actually tracked down a Robur LO 2500 in the original NVA look in Bad Schlema. And we also have the 2,500 women as a “sharp highlight” on our list of stages.

One of them is waiting for us in Markkleeberg near Leipzig: Ex-model Kirsten Schlegel and now wife of fashion and nude photographer Gunter Rossler. Charismatic and cultured, she takes on the role of a moderator between our curious questions and the friendly, peaceful personality of her artist husband, 42 years older, who recruited his models “on the street” in GDR times, always looking for simplicity and naturalness. In 1984 a ten-page “Pictorial” appeared for “Playboy”, which quickly earned the prominent GDR photographer the nickname Helmut Newton of the East.

A comparison that Rossler doesn’t like to hear: “Newton was an excellent photographer, but I have a completely different style!” Even if none of his 2500 models were ever shown with a motorcycle, we still want to know which one of our group was for a motif would be an option. Rossler briefly points to the black Honda chopper, which in turn euphorizes trend hunter Thorsten, who had predicted exactly this election result in advance. Even if we missed the 2500 kilometer mark quite a bit at the end of our expedition, we are sure that the 2500 search gave us a lot of impressions, experiences and encounters that we would have missed on a “normal” trip.

Suzuki DR 800 S.

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Suzuki DR 800 S … the doctor with the big heart.

A fancy, travel-ready single-cylinder enduro should enrich our 2,500 euro used vehicle fleet. There was no getting around the world’s largest series single. What else can the Suzuki DR 800 S do today??

I was always hooked on Suzuki’s thick steam hammer. And now I can buy one, on a service order. The offer: many older “Doctor Bigs”, real bargains thanks to high mileage. The original 750 version (1988 to 1990) is almost off the market, and the early 800s with the two-part 29-liter tank have conversions that testify to the aesthetic derangement of their owners. In the variant with a 24-liter tank that was built until the end of production, there are a few nice specimens, unfortunately all too far away. Then I come across the offer from Dirk Gladen from Hattingen.

Because I have to go to the Ruhr area at the weekend anyway, I’ll stop by Dirk. In the back yard of his house there is a well-filled garage with a pit, because Dirk likes to do everything himself on his gas-powered Golf III convertible. In addition to boats and bicycles, the Ruhrpottler has two motorcycles. The Big and a Honda SLR, on which it looks slightly disproportionate at 130 kilograms and just under two meters. The Bigger, which is more suitable in this respect, should make way for an older GS, Dirk needs something other than single-cylinder. His Suzi looks passable: new black paintwork with original decor set, except for a few flaws on the swing arm and engine housing, well-kept condition, 32,460 kilometers, first registration 4/1998, TuV up to 9/13, complete stainless steel exhaust system, stainless steel chain guard, handlebar riser . The front disc brake is down. Dirk says okay and “Bye, fat one” at 2100 euros. The engine sounds very healthy.

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Dirk Gladen (48) from Hattingen gives his “fat” pensive.

After returning to the editorial office, it is clear what the big one needs: new Dunlop TR 91 tires, new brake discs with pads and brake cylinders as well as speedometer cable. Now we are at a total investment of 2500 euros.

The steam hammer lasts a long time if you wait for it every 6000 kilometers. There are said to be engines that ran unopened – 100,000 kilometers. My power plant, which is still fresh, thuds out of the stainless steel system, which eliminates one of the biggest weaknesses of the big series: rusted exhausts.

Thanks to automatic decompression, the big pot starts willingly, you have to do magic for the first few kilometers with the choke. The Suzi twitches below 3000 rpm, the 50 horses hum between 3000 and 6000 rpm, and especially from 4000 rpm, the hearty tearing is a delight. Only a single cylinder can do that in this directness, and it fits perfectly into a boyish enduro chassis with fat suspension travel.

With it, my doctor hovers over the lowlands of everyday life, finds the ideal line with a stable track and looks as handy as a bicycle. The weight stands in the way of real dirty games, but on bad, winding asphalt we can chase stronger bikes with cheeky leanings. Big’s turning circle is small, the bench is 86 centimeters high. Long stretches of the motorway are less fun. Although the engine runs up to 5500 rpm thanks to two balance shafts, it vibrates quite hard at 130 km / h. In addition, you hang like a sail in the wind. Nevertheless, I do not register any unrest in the chassis or consumption of more than five liters.

All in all, my big ones still doze the other bikes in terms of comfort, handling and range and tempt me to give myself this original for Christmas.

Honda Black Widow

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Honda Black Widow chopper without any chopper quirks.

You’ve only been driving a Harley for 30 years privately, and you’re committed to chopper. Okay, I’ll just do the long fork part, but there’s no original for 2500 euros. At least not one that is ready to drive. Then a copy from the Far East. A very good one.
Have you ever tried buying a roadworthy chopper or cruiser from 750 cubic meters for two five? Forget it! The potential for frustration is unbelievably great. The “well-kept original condition” turns out to be an ancient carrot that has been ridden down for ten years and is on tires that are at least 15 years old. Alleged first-hand treasures are being sold by ominous private dealers with a migration background on behalf of even more ominous, short-term owners without a driver’s license. And “from the hand of a woman” is synonymous with “has various accidental and / or fall damage and a defective clutch”.

After two weeks of arduous internet research and countless phone calls with quackers, I’m fed up. Now the last of all possibilities is used: I rummage through our trusted dealers for trade-ins. And find what you are looking for at BMW dealer Karl Maier in Neufinsing, Bavaria: A 2002 model of the Honda VT 750 Black Widow, which was offered in this country from 2000 to 2004, has just arrived. The previous owner had acquired the Black Widow from an accident-free woman’s hand (with the exception of a very small dent on the tank) and discovered after only 1500 kilometers that he liked a BMW R 1200 GS better. Karl Maier gives me the exact 26,319-kilometer-old Honda for the purchase price. Oil change, front brake pads and HU (TuV) are on the house, and in the editorial workshop the seven-year-old tires give way to new Bridgestones.

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Mileage 26319: BMW dealer Karl Maier gave the Black Widow a wellness cure and fresh HU.

The chopper sister of the tried and tested Honda Shadow 750 looks decidedly adult. And with its official proportions, it also inspires people without a pronounced chopper affinity: an incredibly long wheelbase, an equally long caster, flat steering head angle, an astonishingly comfortable seat at knee height, driver footrests where normal motorcycles have their front wheel, and suspension struts with rigid frame – the Specifications from the textbook “The Great Chopper Builder” were carefully read in Japan and consistently implemented.

But the black widow, named after a poisonous species of spider, also cuts a fine figure when driving. While many conspecifics punish inclined positions with cutting activity on footrests and / or exhaust, you can romp around corners surprisingly long and happily with the active Honda without any ugly grinding noises being heard. Of course, 45 hp, which hit 238 kilos plus driver, is not a performance revelation, but the low-vibration Vauzwo pulls through cleanly from 2000 rpm. The economical engine is not familiar with pronounced high and low pressure areas, it is a rock-solid assembly line worker who harmonizes perfectly with the perfectly geared five-speed gearbox. The exhaust system is largely a blender, but still bollert’s pithy, provided the speed does not increase excessively. Then the sound becomes shrill Japanese, but at a speed of 130 km / h for reasons of comfort it is usually voluntarily over. A fact that the Honda has in common with many Harleys.

Triumph Speed ​​Triple

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Triumph Speed ​​Triple English woman with rustic charm.

The Speed ​​Triple becomes the successful flagship of the revived Triumph brand in the nineties. The youngtimer has cult potential. If you are looking for it, you shouldn’t hesitate for a long time: prices are rising again!

The fairy godmother gives you 2500 euros, you can buy a motorcycle, you have a free choice. Sounds heavenly, but at first it is grueling. Simply enter the price range in the Internet sales portals and be overwhelmed by over 10,000 offers. After half an hour your head smokes, you can no longer see the forest for the trees. New attack after a creative espresso break. The raster search is running, now with the activated search filter “Triumph”. Many sprints, then finally the monitor glows in Fireball orange. An original speed triple, built in 95, ran 37,873 kilometers. In addition, right in the neighborhood. The photos look delicious, the description of the private seller is clear and coherent, no pompous gossip. At 2790 euros, the price is above budget, but is shown as “negotiable”.

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Had to shrink a few tears. Previous owner Wolfgang Fellmeth (51) will miss the view of the cockpit.

Even on the phone, the owner is hard to come across as personable, the chemistry is right from the start: In your head, the thing is as good as bought! And of course there is no nasty surprise at the on-site appointment. As a Bosch engineer, Wolfgang Fellmeth is responsible for the development of ABS brake systems for motorcycles and is therefore permanently on the road with bikes of all kinds. “Which is why the Speed ​​Triple always had to back off and just stood around in the garage,” he admits grudgingly. “And I bought it six years ago mainly because I felt sorry for the way it rotted on the sidewalk, motionless and also being slapped by birds.” The plan, the original Speedy with the 2500 Euro exit from MOTORRAD The Triumph fan, whose passion for the English began with a 1972 Tiger, likes to bring new splendor back to life. And the price reduction on “two five smooth” doesn’t give Wolfgang any stomach ache either. Handshake, departure. In the luggage: the passenger cover and the original stub of the Speedy, which is now equipped with a superbike handlebar from Lucas. Which makes the three-cylinder much more comfortable. Because with the deeply chipped stumps, a tube of Mobilat for the wrists should have been in the hand luggage on this tour! Below you can still feel the crisp layout of the sporty sister Daytona. The high pegs literally cut off the blood circulation in the legs. No comparison to the current Speedy generation, on which you sit down in a sporty, but much more relaxed manner.

On the country road, the Triumph is in its element and chirps brutally from every corner with an unmistakable triple sound (with carburetors a touch more authentic than the injection generation). At most, the very old tires ruin the clean line and are exchanged for a set of current Pirelli Angel STs. So nothing stands in the way of sporty speed cruising through the Ore Mountains. The chassis responds cleanly, the engine pushes deep out of the rev range even when the gear is lazy, and the consumption of just under six liters per 100 kilometers is acceptable. The crowning glory, however, is the triple pilot’s view of this fine, white-highlighted cockpit landscape. Deliver with a heavy heart, sigh.

BMW K 100 RS

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BMW K 100 RS the dignified kilometer eater.

I was laughed at and had to put up with questions about why I pulled this boring philistine bike ashore, where is the fun – and so on and so bleak and bleak. Dear friends: You will be billed at the end of the tour!

Even in semen white. My goodness, what do my colleagues do with a film. As if a K 100 RS wasn’t an absurdity in itself, and now this color, still very much in comfort? But well, 22 years ago – at that time the BMW was just rolling off the assembly line – I would have joined in the canon of blasphemy. A four-cylinder from Bavaria was pretty much the ugliest and boring motorcycle on the planet. A bourgeois bike par excellence, not for us, the self-proclaimed motorcycle bohemian. And sacrifice my entire annual income for such an ABS planer? Unthinkable!

Times change. Firstly, I now have 2500 euros in cash, and secondly, the luxury chair of yore now only costs an average monthly salary. The hammer, isn’t it? And to be honest, when I was panting after a BMW 16V-1000 and its 100 hp with a sparkling single-cylinder on the track at the beginning of the nineties – I was jealous of their sovereignty. Incidentally, I never rode the motorcycle, long-haired people had no chance of a test drive at our BMW branch … I can now overcome this trauma with private seller Gunter Fabrig from Weilheim near the Swabian Alb.

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Perfect private seller: With Gunter Fabrig (54, right), the BMW had an exemplary garage home for 14 years.

His offer has been in the advertisements for a long time 1000ps.de/gebrauchte-motorraeder I became aware of the white BMW. In contrast to the boxers, older row fours are not used hits, and since the range is large, the price-performance ratio is usually right without major negotiations. Almost new, up-to-date tires, original case, regular workshop service, garage, condition completely okay for its age. Of course, when you get closer to the slightly aging lady, some wrinkles are revealed in the form of small paint damage, scratches and surfaces with a slightly tired shine. But the engine runs very smoothly, first hums impatiently, then roars hoarsely from 4000 rpm and screams fervently over 7000 rpm. Sounds really rocky, by no means softly washed, the 1980s development period is still in every valve and every screw, great! At medium speeds, however, you have to live with plenty of tickling vibrations. The vicious Brembo stoppers still anchor first class by today’s standards, but the ABS regulates frighteningly tough. In retrospect, I would like the machine to have no brake assist – a few kilos and one component that is at risk of failure less.

The Erzgebirge with its many tight curves is not the territory for the K. Too tough, too sluggish the driving dynamics, modern sports tourers can do that much better. After all: when taking a stroll, the consumption is less than five liters. If the curve radii open or if you go onto the autobahn, the thousands will pull all jokers. Top ergonomics, great wind protection even over 200 km / h, excellent directional stability – I would love to continue to Andalusia or St. Petersburg, super great! And the look? Folks, please take a look, this lady in white has something: angular, technocratic-clean design, yet elegant. In any case, this BMW drove fully into my heart.

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Travel time: 4 days. Distance covered: 1400 kilometers.

Travel time:
The Erzgebirge is “only” a low mountain range, but climatic should not be underestimated. Winter often prevails here until Easter, and snow can fall again from October. The main season is clearly winter (up to 90 percent of the tourism business). In summer, the hikers come, for example retirees with mobile homes or Dutch people with caravans! Hence the tip for motorcyclists: choose early or late summer. June and the end of August / beginning of September are perfect, as the roads are mostly free.

Getting there:
The temptation is great to use the relevant “approach lanes” (A70, A9, A72) to get east as quickly as possible, but especially north of the Bamberg-Bayreuth line, dreamy motorcycle areas (including Franconian Forest) that make the journey an experience are attractive be let. If you still want to get to the Ore Mountains as quickly as possible from the south, it is best to travel via the Czech Republic. Motorcyclists are exempt from the mandatory toll for cars, the main roads are consistently well developed.

Stay:
Where there are sometimes ambitious prices in winter, prices are often paradisiacal in summer. From 30 euros there are good single rooms, nice double rooms from 50 euros. On the way there, MOTORRAD stayed (and ate or drank) superbly at the “Landgasthof Haueis” near Marktleugast (www.landgasthof-haueis.de, single / bed 35 euros). Our base in Oberwiesenthal was the “Rotgiesserhaus” in the center (www.rotgiesserhaus-.de, single / bed 50 euros). Alternative right at the Fichtelberg driveway: the BMW test ride hotel “Sachsenbaude” (www.sachsenbaude.de, BB from 49 euros).

Activities:
Admittedly, the actually mandatory visit to a show mine was not part of the MOTORRAD short trip, but a stroll through the German Space Exhibition in Morgenrothe-Rautenkranz (daily 10 am-5pm, 5 euros, www.deutsche-raumfahrtausstellung.de). A must for two-wheeler junkies is the monster scooter descent from Fichtelberg. Start in Oberwiesenthal, duration just under an hour (15 euros including mountain railway ticket, www.monsterroller.info). You should plan around 45 minutes for the bizarre soup museum in Neudorf (daily from 11 a.m., 1.60 euros, www.suppenmuseum.de).

Info / literature:
Information package from the city of Oberwiesenthal at www.oberwiesenthal.de (point out motorcycling holidays!); Travel guide “Ore Mountains and Saxon Vogtland” from Reise Know-How Verlag, 14.80 euros.

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