August Rabeneick

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August Rabeneick GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1930
resolution 1960
Seat Brackwede , Germany
Branch Motorcycle manufacturer , bicycle manufacturer

The August Rabeneick GmbH was a German manufacturer of small motorcycles and bicycles in the district Brackwede the East Westphalian city of Bielefeld .

history

August Rabeneick (1902–1992) began building motorcycles in the 1930s. The product range ranged from mopeds and mopeds to motorcycles with 250 cm³ engines. ZF-Sachs motors were mostly used for the mopeds and mopeds. Ilo motors were installed in the motorcycles over 98 cm³. Machines with 500 cc four-stroke boxer engines from the Swiss company Universal were also used as prototypes. Another prototype was the Rabeneick Opti 250, around 1955. This had a very modern single-cylinder four-stroke engine with 15 hp, which had been developed by the Opti company. Both prototypes are now in private hands and are accessible to the public in the club building of the motorsport club in Herford. In the mid-1950s, the two-wheeler market became saturated, as cars in particular replaced two-wheelers as a means of transport. It was a long period of time before two-wheelers became popular again as a recreational vehicle, and a number of large two-wheeler companies did not survive due to the resulting price war between trade and industry. The motorcycle production at Rabeneick was then stopped at the end of the 1950s.

After long negotiations with the then largest supplier, Fichtel & Sachs AG from Schweinfurt, a cooperation between Rabeneick and Fichtel & Sachs came about in 1958 for the production of parts for clutches and their general overhaul with the option of a later participation of Fichtel & Sachs in Rabeneick. Fichtel & Sachs held this stake at the end of 1960. The Rabeneick family left the company in 1964 after further shares were sold. F&S discontinued bicycle production at the Brackwede location in 1964/65 in favor of the former competitor Hercules , which had already belonged to Fichtel & Sachs before taking over shares in Rabeneick, and relocated parts of production to Hercules in Nuremberg. The plant in Brackwede was completely converted to the production of clutch parts. After the later takeover of Sachs by ZF, the former Rabeneick company now (as of 2014) belongs to ZF Friedrichshafen , which continues to manufacture clutch parts there as an automotive supplier .

Cycling

Rabeneick ran its own racing stable. Among other things, the Green Belt race was won in 1949 with Harry Saager . At the end of 2014, while cleaning up the old factory of August Rabeneick GmbH, the current ZF factory, a 16-minute film about this bike race was found among files, old brochures and bicycle spare parts. Until then, these recordings were considered lost. However, the film treated with nitro shows only 9 of the 13 stages. It is believed that there is still a second part, but this has so far remained undiscovered.

Bike brand

The Schlote company from Oldenburg asked to be allowed to produce bicycles under the name Rabeneick. The Schlote company (later renamed Rabeneick GmbH) was taken over by the two-wheeler manufacturer Prophete in 1999 , which in 2007 bundled the Rabeneick brand, together with the Kreidler and vsf Fahrradmanufaktur brands , which also belong to Prophete , under the umbrella of the cycle union.

Plastics processing

A plastics processing company, Rabeneick GmbH, emerged from the former plastics department of the August Rabeneick bicycle factory. The company has been developing and producing pipe and cable seals made of stainless steel and plastic for supply and disposal lines, building entries and accessories since 1962. Until the end of 2015, the managing director was the grandson of company founder August Rabeneick. The company was taken over by two employees and has relocated its headquarters to the neighboring Augustdorf .

Bicycle models

Rabeneick model 80
  • Model 80 (from approx. 1956 "Pletscherplatte" below) (double tube frame; top tube)

Motorcycle models

Model "GD150", built in 1954
  • LM 100 (1948-49) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 98 cm³, 2.25 PS)
  • KM 100 (1950-52) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from ILO, 98 cm³, 3.3 HP)
  • LM 100 E (1950–52) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 98 cm³, 3 HP)
  • LK 100 (1952-55) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 98 cm³, 3 HP)
  • LM 100/3 (1957-62) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 98 cm³, 5.2 HP)
  • LM 104 (1962-64) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 98 cm³, 7 HP)
  • SM 125 (1950-52) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from ILO, 123 cm³, 5.4 HP)
  • SM 150 (1951–52) (1 cyl., 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 147 cm³, 6.5 HP)
  • GD 150 (1952-55) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 147 cm³, 6.5 HP)
  • SM 175 (1951-52) (1 cyl. 2-stroke from ILO, 174 cm³, 8.5 HP)
  • LS 175 (1952-55) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 174 cm³, 9.5 PS)
  • GM 175/4 (1953-55) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from ILO, 174 cm³, 8.5 HP)
  • GI 200 / LI 200 (1952-55) (1 cyl., 2-stroke from ILO, 197 cm³, 11 PS)
  • SM 250/1 (1952) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from ILO, 247 cm³, 10.5 HP)
  • SM 250/2 (1951-52) (2 cyl. 2-stroke from ILO, 247 cm³, 11 HP)
  • F 250/1 (1952-55) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from ILO, 247 cm³, 12.8 HP)
  • F 250/2 (1953-57) (2 cyl. 2-stroke from ILO, 246 cm³, 15 HP)
  • SM 500 (approx. 1955) prototype (2 cyl. 4-stroke boxer engine from Universal 500 cm³)

Moped models

Rabeneick Binetta Star ( 1959 )
Lastboy model
  • Taxi (1951–53) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Cyclemaster 33 cm³, 0.9 HP)
  • M 53 (1953-54) (1 cylinder, 2-stroke from Cyclemaster 33 cm³, 1 HP)
  • Ilo-Moped (1953-55) (1 cyl. 2-stroke from ILO, 49 cm³, 1.5 HP)
  • Sachs moped (1953-55) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.25 hp)
  • Binetta (1955-57) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs or ILO, 47 cm³, 1.25 or 1.6 hp)
  • Binetta III / Tours (1957-61) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.6 HP)
  • Binetta III Sport (1957-60) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.6 PS)
  • TM50 Transport (1956-60) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.6 HP)
  • Binetta Star (1959-61) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.6 HP)
  • Lastboy (1960-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 2.1 HP)
  • Binetta SK (1961-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.8 hp)
  • Saxonette (1962-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 1.8 hp)

Moped

  • Binetta Superstar (1960-61) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 3.2-4.3 hp)
  • Binetta Super 4 (1962) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 4.3 HP)
  • Binetta Super 5 (1963-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, type 50s, 47 cm³, 4.5-5.2 hp)
  • KS 50 (1963) only briefly (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, type 50s, 47 cm³, 4.5-5.2 hp)

Scooter

  • R 50 Super (1963-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 4.3 HP)
  • R 50 (1963-64) (1 cylinder 2-stroke from Fichtel & Sachs, 47 cm³, 2.2-2.6 HP)

literature

  • Michael Mertens: Quality from Brackwede. An interview with Martin Rabeneick. In: The bone shaker: newspaper for lovers of historic bicycles. Volume 30, Volume 11, No. 1, 2004, ISSN  1430-2543 , pp. 2–8.

Web links

Commons : Rabeneick motorcycles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.degraeve.de/
  2. ^ Martin Rabeneick: Origin and development of the August Rabeneick GmbH company, Brackwede-Bielefeld, May 2007. Family archive
  3. ↑ Harry Saager in the Radsportseiten.net database
  4. ↑ A cinematic gem discovered at ZF Neue Westfälische, accessed on March 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ www.genios.de/firmen/firma/CY/cycle-union-gmbh.html
  6. ↑ Company history Prophete ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.cycle-union.com/marken/ [1] .
  8. ^ History. Retrieved March 27, 2017 .
  9. ↑ http://www.oldiemofa.de/html/taxi_cm32.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 4.1"  E