Ehinger Kraftrad

In 1986 Uwe and his partner Alejandro visited the Chilean holiday paradise Viña del Mar. The Lloret de Mar of the Humboldt Current was also the summer resort of the Pinochet Clan at that time. This didn't bother Uwe much. What did bother him, though, was one of the severest earthquakes of all times, which was afflicting Chile while they were there. When their hotel started dancing in the middle of the night, Uwe could stop Alejandro just in the nick of time from jumping from the balcony on the third floor. After they had made it outside, they watched how another hotel down the street slid down the hill and disappeared into the floods of Pacific Ocean. However, this kind of nature's capers could not dissuade Uwe from his original plan - someone had told him that somebody near Viña had two old motorbikes to sell. (more...)