Egli BILLION 1

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Manufacturer Fritz Egli
Production period 1979 to 1981
class motorcycle
design type Super athlete , superbike
Motor data
Four-stroke engine , DOHC air-cooled 4-cylinder with exhaust gas turbocharger
Displacement  (cm³) 1016
Power  (kW / PS ) 155 hp at 9,500 rpm
180 hp at 10,000 rpm
(depending on boost pressure)
Top speed (  km / h) 297
transmission 5-speed (Yoshimura)
Wheelbase  (mm) 1480
Seat height (cm) 77
Empty weight  (kg) 221

The Egli MRD 1 is a sports motorcycle from the Swiss motorcycle manufacturer Fritz Egli , which was built from 1979 to 1981. With a top speed of 300 km / h, the MRD 1 was the fastest street-legal motorcycle in the world until the end of the 1990s .

History and technology

The development of the Egli MRD 1 was initiated by the magazine MOTORRAD Revue . For the first edition and a suitable cover story, the editors commissioned Swiss Fritz Egli to build the fastest motorcycle in the world. Egli started building the engine in September 1978. As a basis he chose the air-cooled engine of the Kawasaki Z 900 , the case of which had a thicker wall than the successor model Z 1000. The engine was dismantled and the cylinder block drilled out, forged pistons installed and an exhaust gas turbocharger from ATP increased the performance. The valve train and cylinder head remained unchanged. Depending on the charge pressure (0.7 to 0.9 bar), 155 PS (114 kW) (140 PS (103 kW) on the rear wheel) and, for engines with an oil cooler, up to 180 PS (132 kW) were measured. The chassis was a central tubular frame that Urs Scheidegger made. A 36 mm Egli Racing fork with fork stabilizer and cantilever rocker led the cast magnesium wheels with tires of size 100/90 V 18 (front) and 120/90 V 18 (rear). Braking was carried out with Brembo double disc brakes of 280 mm (front) and single disc brakes (rear). The paintwork and stickers were designed by Rainer Schuler, then chief designer for Motorrad magazine .

The 155 hp version of the Egli MRD 1 (1979) accelerated from 0 to 100 km / h in 2.4 seconds, from 0 to 200 km / h in 7.1 seconds, and the quarter mile in 9.3 seconds and a top speed of 297 km / h, values ​​that were only exceeded by a production motorcycle in 1999.

TV chef Horst Lichter is one of the owners of a rare Egli MRD 1, of which "a handful" (five) were built. The number of replica engine kits sold is unknown. The magazine Oldtimer Markt estimates the current value of an Egli MRD 1 at 65,000  euros .

Egli-Colani

Egli-Honda (1978), forerunner of the MRD1
Egli-Colani in the museum at the Hockenheimring

In 1986, Egli and Luigi Colani developed the Egli-Colani , a fully faired racing machine based on the MRD 1. The central tubular frame carried a Kawasaki engine that had been bored out to 1425 cm³ and with a turbocharger achieved an output of 300 hp (221 kW). On December 6, 1986, a speed record of 10 km with a standing start of 272.414 km / h was achieved.

literature

  • Motorrad Classic 1 + 2/2015, pp. 16–22
  • MOTORRAD Revue, 1979 edition, pp. 8–20

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue (1979), p. 3
  2. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue (1979), p. 10.
  3. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue (1979), p. 11.
  4. ↑ Motorrad Classic (2015), p. 19.
  5. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue (1979), p. 10.
  6. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue (1979), p. 11.
  7. ↑ See Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 .
  8. ↑ Motorrad Classic (2015), p. 22.
  9. ↑ egli-racing.ch ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) MRD-1 (Replica)
  10. ↑ Oldtimer Markt, Motorrad-Spezial No. 8 (2014), p. 48.
  11. ^ Mick Walker: European Racing Motorcycles. Redline Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0953131136 , p. 218.