HRD Vincent - one of the valueable bikes ever. This one of 1946 I found at Agentine Anselmo. In his area he bought everything up that has two wheels and one engine.
Most of these drove the police. Long time ago the actually drove the Brough Superior as Lawrence of Arabia. He owned 6 of these till died by an accident sitting on one of the bikes.
The HRD Vincent is the fastest street bike of the 40s. More than 200 km/h top speed and a self-carrying engine. There are a few modern bike designed that way. Especially clever: The oil is in the frame. That makes an oiltank needless.
Today you often see the HRD Vincent at races in the Hamburg Stadtpark.
Norton OHC international 500, excellent restored, VHB 600$. That was the small ad in a newspaper in Mendossa, Argentina. As the collector opens up the garage door the eyes of my partner try to out-shine the engine block of the bike. He knows: There is an upright shaft enthroned.
The engine of 1949 is completely rebuilt. If they didn't had change the original condition with all its Patina and not using a curved can sheet the bike would have doubled the value. We made „only" 6000$ out of 600$.
At that time as today the OHC is very much desired because it is a near „relative" of the Norton Manx - the fastest racing machine of it's time
There's a sucker born every minute. At a bright blue summer day in 1987 it is a citizen of Mendossa, Argentina. His face got more wrinkles than the cooling fins of the Giulio Cesare Carcano 500 V8.
The bike flashed out of a sandy stack at his farmyard. Even laying it still looks very fast. It was designed before World War II and built in 1955.
Actually we have been there because of another bike. Actually. But I will pay 100$ and take „the crap" as well to sell it for thousands of $ within the next second. A performance that managers of Hedgefonds are dreaming of but I've reached it - once in my lifetime.
That's me with my 65s Panhead in front of my house in L.A.. Nothing felt more beeing at home as sitting on this bike. It is the last Harley Davidson made by a family business.
An uncommon mix of Panhead and electric start with a primary cover plate made of one piece. Ok it is not convenient to remove the top cover for adjusting the clutch. That's special at this bike. It is the only one of its kind.
The status shown at the picture does not last for a long time. I tinkered with the bike until it was really stylish.
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...
In 1983, an elderly gentleman replied to a classified ad. It was the kind of ad that Uwe used to place in different Chilean papers these days: „Poor student looking for an old, defective motorbike to repair. The older the bike and the worse its shape - the better.“ The man said he owned an old, broken motorcycle, which had been dusting in his shed for ages. After the man had given a short description, Uwe knew that the trip to Bío Bío, a county south of Concepción, would be worth it.
The find was a 46 Harley Flathead UL (hard-tail frame, 73 cui, side valve engine with cast iron heads). By the saddle and the chrome parts it could easily be identified as the deluxe version. The Harley was still in its original condition and it had obviously been used as an everyday motorbike. Successful repairs and maintenance of US bikes used to be a matter of luck in Chile then, as the land is metric and old Harleys are imperial. more...
Uwe has found the HRD Vincent – one of the rarest motorbikes in the world – in 1985 in Argentina. Only 500 bikes per year had been produced and especially this model from 1946/1947 had been used as Argentine police bike. more...
This former police bike from South Korea has been in much better condition than all other police bikes that stood around for a long time and only for private use. The red Early Sovel was Uwe’s everyday bike.
Uwe selected these three bikes from a bigger delivery from Chile. He sent these to Hamburg in order to restore them by himself. Uwe was always interested in the special and extraordinary bikes out of the huge plenty of motorbikes. In this case it’s a Panhead from 1952. It’s rare because the 1952 camshaft cover in this form was implemented only in this year. Furthermore the ULH Flathead with original aluminium flathead from 1946 and the FL Knucklehead from 1946. Only a small number of these bikes have been produced during that year.
This was a delivery vehicle with a sidecar of a German pharmacy in Santiago de Chile.
Uwe Ehinger lives for motorbikes - he has been passionate about them for many years. This passion for antique race bikes and sports motorbikes incited him to become a race driver and also encouraged him to go on a 14 year around-the-world-trip. Since then he always developed designed concepts and realized them together with partners. At the end of the trip Uwe Ehinger settled down in Hamburg and created along with design expert Katrin Oeding the concept of Ehinger Kraftrad.
"Kraftrad" is the traditional German term for motorbikes.
Ehinger Kraftrad started in 2008 to design and construct a limited edition of motorbikes and components with the quality criteria of German craftsmanship.
Ehinger Kraftrad creates design concepts for motor bikes with perfect and unique technical solutions. These are realized with precision, highest quality standards and reduced design. To work with German craftsmanship criteria stands for technical perfection but it also represents German virtues and characteristics such as reliability, loyalty, industriousness, discipline and bravery which we live up to our daily work.
The Ehinger family is a very traditional German family with almost 900 years of family history. The redesigned family crest illustrates German tradition with a modern spirit. The image of Ehinger Kraftrad!
