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Werner Koch and his motorcycles – loads of favorite motorcycles

Werner Koch and his motorcycles
A different favorite motorcycle every day

His favorite motorcycle? Every day a different one. No wonder, as MOTORRAD editor Werner “Mini” Koch’s workshop is bursting at the seams. But he always has a dry place for his kant’n.

Werner Koch

December 20, 2012

MOTORRAD colleague and innovation specialist Ralf Schneider is serious about the question: “Can you please write me two pages about your favorite motorcycle?” Uh, yes, which one should it be? “Well, your favorite motorcycle.” Now I sit on the workbench for two hours and three beers and still have no plan for the story. My favorite motorcycle? I look out of the workshop window, in front of which in the light of the street lamps, fluffed snowflakes pounce like paragliders on my “everyday mopeds”. That’s right, such a tarpaulin at Gericke doesn’t cost the world either. But every morning the tugging and creasing with the stubborn, cold cape – then better sprinkle a few splashes of WD 40 over the mopeds, that helps against rust.

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Whether the snowed in Yamaha WR 250 R is my favorite? Hm, it always runs, is good for everything, eats neither fuel nor hay, and when it’s urgent, the thing is speedometer 160. Lying down, of course. But darling? No, not that after all, rather a good buddy with helper syndrome. It could be the one next to it. Puzzled together with parts from all technical eras, it has become a really nice moped, the Suzuki GS 400 E from 1978. And nobody can get past it without speculating with all the question marks in the world: What kind of brand is it? Grin, I like it! But the mix of scrambler and racer lacks the temperament for darling. However, the 30 hp are more than enough for the slow rider excursion with jeans, open face helmet and jacket.


Werner Koch and his motorcycles - loads of favorite motorcycles


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The right thing for the discovery of slowness: Suzuki GS 400.

Pfump – one more beer and then it’s clear: No, not because I have to have a nice drink from the “Kant’n”, but because the edges just look like a real power bar. Lines that cut through the wind, fat tires in a sparkling aluminum swingarm, a pointed rear end, a cheeky muzzle and right in the middle of it the hammer mechanism: Vau-Zwo, even in idle, as entertaining as any four-cylinder in the red area, with a rumble and pulsing, the dead brought to life. A dervish that gives the solid feeling of a neatly trimmed square timber made of the best oak during the swift beating of the curve. Now I just don’t have load change jolts, vibrations and clumsy gearshifts. And spare me the 1000 point rating and the shortcomings in the MOTORRAD endurance test. In this handicraft shop, the boss is still doing the work himself, so the ailments at Kant’n have long been cured.

But should I reveal something? Pst, don’t tell anyone else: Kant’n is not allowed at all. Every now and then the fleet Rainer gives me a red number so that the RC8 at least gets to know my home routes. In return, my silver wedge is allowed on the racetrack regularly. Really with slicks, tire warmers and without a TuV gel pump. Then almost looks like a real racer. And me too. For at least five turns per 20 minutes, the RC8 is then my absolute favorite motorcycle. Even if I rattle back to the editorial office with the little Yamaha or the old Suzuki the next morning. Real buddies, who also make sure that the driver’s license doesn’t work. What can happen to the Kant’n on any straight that is a little longer than the wheelbase.

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