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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Cool looking old bike 10/24/22 at 03:02:03 What isit? https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1rbOpVybPeBdN8jg...
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10666 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #1 - 10/24/22 at 04:17:48 Looks to be a WW2 Soldier with a streamlined bike ready for the salt flats. Interesting.
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Reply #2 - 10/24/22 at 06:54:10

Anyone have any idea what kinda trees those are?
Flat front tire?
I don't see room for much in the way of an engine.
The front suspension sure looks skinny..
Yeah, looks very WWII to me.
Are those olives growing there?
And I don't remember where I found that picture. But I looked and didn't see anything that would tell us anything.

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Reply #3 - 10/24/22 at 08:28:20

https://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-news/art-deco-was-the-greates...

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The Killinger and Freund Motorcycle was an attempt in 1935 by a group of five German engineers from Munich to design a more streamlined and modified version of the German Megola front-wheel drive motorcycle. The work took three years to complete but the result was striking. The engine displacement stayed the same as the Megola at 600 cc but was much lighter and more simplified than a standard 100 cc motorcycle of the time.

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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5106 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #4 - 10/24/22 at 10:40:02 I’ve never seen one before , very cool , way ol skool motorcycle porn. I would definitely ride that. You would have to dress the part everytime out too ! Front wheel drive must be strange.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #5 - 10/25/22 at 06:59:08
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10666 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #6 - 10/25/22 at 07:06:11 I think the dude who came up with this design must be an ancestor of Arlen Ness.
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wheelbender6 Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 145	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #7 - 10/28/22 at 14:50:19 If I got a chance to ride that bike, I would wear jeans and a linen blazer. I love that huge front tire.
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Reply #8 - 10/31/22 at 12:21:15

https://www.bikeexif.com/killinger-und-freund
This is one of the most unusual motorcycles I’ve seen in a long time: it’s a ‘Killinger und Freund’ built in 1935 in Munich, Germany. The art deco styling is obviously eye-catching, but it’s hiding something even more interesting: this machine has a driven front wheel, like the Rokon Trail-Breaker. And underneath that huge front fender is the engine itself.

The motor is a sizeable 600 cc two-stroke triple—or perhaps three one-cylinder engines joined together. Yet the bike was reportedly very light, at just 135 kg. There’s obviously a story behind this picture too: is the soldier an American who found the bike in the dying days of the war, and posed for a picture taken by a colleague? The Allies rolled into Munich on 30 April 1945, and Wikipedia reports “One motorcycle was discovered by the US Army in the spring of 1945 at a German military installation, but it is not known if this was the original prototype or another Killinger und Freund Motorrad.”

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #9 - 10/31/22 at 12:25:24 Better article with more pics... http://www.ridingvintage.com/2013/10/killinger-and-freund-motorcycle.html
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wheelbender6 Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 145	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #10 - 10/31/22 at 16:10:58 Servicing the engine must have been fun.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #11 - 10/31/22 at 16:11:46 What a cool design.
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wheelbender6 Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 145	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #12 - 11/04/22 at 19:18:35 Must have been really loud - straight pipes. Steering must have been very heavy with a 600cc engine in the front wheel. I'd still buy one!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #13 - 11/04/22 at 19:42:04 That should be the picture next to Unsprung Weight in the dictionary.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5106 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Cool looking old bike Reply #14 - 11/04/22 at 23:24:12 Shapes and Lines my friends , a classic example. No straight lines.and absolutely aerodynamic. Pure motorcycle porn , the longer I stare at it the more I love it. In my book it’s the sexiest design I’ve ever seen !
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