Comments on: Turbo Egli Kawasaki http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Thu, 24 May 2012 15:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Wolf http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/#comment-260739 Wolf Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:57:23 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1058#comment-260739 Hi, I am a collector of racing motorcycles and I am riding Eglis since 1984 I knew Erich Korman and of course I know Fritz W. Egli. Erich went back to the US and I lost contact. If anybody knows how to find him again, please email me classicracer@gmx.net. Anybody who wants to know more about Eglis or this bike in particular is also welcome and of course any other collector or racer. Greetings from Germany Wolf Hi,

I am a collector of racing motorcycles and I am riding Eglis since 1984
I knew Erich Korman and of course I know Fritz W. Egli. Erich went back to the US and I lost contact. If anybody knows how to find him again, please email me classicracer@gmx.net. Anybody who wants to know more about Eglis or this bike in particular is also welcome and of course any other collector or racer.

Greetings from Germany

Wolf

]]> By: Rob http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/#comment-250706 Rob Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:26:45 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1058#comment-250706 I was stationed in England when the article was released. I think on the cover of the magazine it went something like this: Question: What do you do with over 230hp pumped through 210moh gearing?" Answer: Anything you want. I have been looking for this bike or 1 that may have stayed in England, Germany, Switzerland for a long time. I have yet to read or even hear of a bike that has scared the test riders the way this bike did back in 1988. Street Bike that is. Some of the comments in the article were amazing and down right hilarious. Some went something like this: It is as easy to smoke the rear tire at triple digit numbers as it is in double digit numbers. This thing is not a motorcycle at all, but agroung to groung missle in disguise. Never wack the throttle unless you first, make sure you have found secure seating somewhere on top of the gas tank, second, the road ahead of you is long and straight, ecttt..... I was stationed in England when the article was released. I think on the cover of the magazine it went something like this: Question: What do you do with over 230hp pumped through 210moh gearing?” Answer: Anything you want. I have been looking for this bike or 1 that may have stayed in England, Germany, Switzerland for a long time. I have yet to read or even hear of a bike that has scared the test riders the way this bike did back in 1988. Street Bike that is. Some of the comments in the article were amazing and down right hilarious. Some went something like this: It is as easy to smoke the rear tire at triple digit numbers as it is in double digit numbers. This thing is not a motorcycle at all, but agroung to groung missle in disguise. Never wack the throttle unless you first, make sure you have found secure seating somewhere on top of the gas tank, second, the road ahead of you is long and straight, ecttt…..

]]> By: thc http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/#comment-238835 thc Wed, 13 May 2009 01:18:34 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1058#comment-238835 I love the Egli frame formula of limiting all unnecessary members, running the others straight as an arrow and then introducing a powerful engine. He seems to have the sensibilities of a bicycle manufacturer with the head of a drag racer. I love the Egli frame formula of limiting all unnecessary members, running the others straight as an arrow and then introducing a powerful engine. He seems to have the sensibilities of a bicycle manufacturer with the head of a drag racer.

]]> By: Frank http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/#comment-124715 Frank Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:42:55 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1058#comment-124715 The bike is a MRD-1. A journalist wrote this in a 1983 bike magazine after visiting the factory in switzerland. When the devil's in him, Egli searches for the limits of his MRD-1 Replica. This astonishing machine utilises a 1200cc Kawasaki four boosted by turbocharging and nitrous oxide injection. For your money - around £9000 - you get a 180bhp projectile capable of between 180 and 190mph and that accelerates to 124mph in just 7.2 seconds. He cheerfully admits that neither he nor 99.9 percent of his customers are remotely capable of fully exploiting the machine, safely or not, along German autobahn and explains that he builds MRD-1s because people ask for them. 'I know of only one rider who is capable of properly handling the model, and that is Hubert Mullier, the Can-Am car racing ace. He bought one last year. And there's a gang of crazy millionaires in Hamburg who spent the practice week of the last Nurburgring motorcycle F1 event blowing off the works Kawasakis. Then they go autobahn hunting for Porsche Turbos to 'Kill'. They wear their tyres out in 1000 kilometres'. The bike is a MRD-1. A journalist wrote this in a 1983 bike magazine after visiting the factory in switzerland.
When the devil’s in him, Egli searches for the limits of his MRD-1 Replica. This astonishing machine utilises a 1200cc Kawasaki four boosted by turbocharging and nitrous oxide injection. For your money – around £9000 – you get a 180bhp projectile capable of between 180 and 190mph and that accelerates to 124mph in just 7.2 seconds. He cheerfully admits that neither he nor 99.9 percent of his customers are remotely capable of fully exploiting the machine, safely or not, along German autobahn and explains that he builds MRD-1s because people ask for them.
‘I know of only one rider who is capable of properly handling the model, and that is Hubert Mullier, the Can-Am car racing ace. He bought one last year. And there’s a gang of crazy millionaires in Hamburg who spent the practice week of the last Nurburgring motorcycle F1 event blowing off the works Kawasakis. Then they go autobahn hunting for Porsche Turbos to ‘Kill’. They wear their tyres out in 1000 kilometres’.

]]> By: Mark http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/06/06/turbo-egli-kawasaki/#comment-86503 Mark Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:08:32 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1058#comment-86503 Wow! I can't believe someone else remembers this thing. I clearly remember the article and have often wondered about the bike and the builder ever since. That thing really sparked my imagination, so much so that I logged on tonight 19 years later trying to hunt it down. I'd love to find out what happened to that monster. Wow! I can’t believe someone else remembers this thing. I clearly remember the article and have often wondered about the bike and the builder ever since. That thing really sparked my imagination, so much so that I logged on tonight 19 years later trying to hunt it down. I’d love to find out what happened to that monster.

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