Fritz Egli

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Egli-Vincent (1969)
Egli-Honda (1978)
Egli-Colani (1986)

Fritz Walter Egli (born June 30, 1937 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss motorcycle racer , world record holder and motorcycle manufacturer .

history

In 1967 Fritz Egli founded a motorcycle workshop in which he reworked a Vincent Black Shadow and provided it with a central tubular frame . This made Egli Swiss champion in motorcycle hillclimbing in 1968.

He became famous with his own frame designs for Japanese motorcycles of the 1970s , especially for the Honda CB 750 Four , the Honda CBX ("Egli Red Baron") and the large four-stroke engines of the Kawasaki Z series . Significant chassis unrest due to chassis defects arose at the high speeds that can now be achieved. Egli took the Japanese drives and built them into their own stable frame constructions. Characteristic of the Egli frame is the central tube with a diameter of approx. 100 mm and the use of straight struts that are only subjected to tension or compression. Egli was not the inventor of this frame construction, but he made it popular. Initially with a Ceriani- telescopic fork , then with Egli- fork stabilizer and electron-cast wheels equipped Egli motorcycles were delivered mainly in red. The Egli motorcycles of the 1970s and 1980s have a fan base that comes together at the annual Egli meetings. Fritz Egli is now an importer of the Indian Enfield motorcycles from Madras / India, which are checked for quality defects, revised and improved after import.

Models

MRD1

One of his most famous street motorcycles was the Egli MRD 1 based on the Kawasaki Z 900, which was increased to an output of up to 180 hp (132 kW) by drilling to 1016 cm³ and using an exhaust gas turbocharger from ATP. The 155 PS version (114 kW) with a boost pressure of 0.69 bar achieved an acceleration from 0 to 200 km / h in 7.1 seconds and a top speed of 297 km / h; a value that was only exceeded in 1999. TV chef Horst Lichter is one of the few owners of an MRD1 of which "a handful" have been built.

Egli-Colani

The fully faired Egli-Colani with exhaust gas turbocharger and 1425 cm³ Kawasaki engine was developed in 1986 for record drives. The power was given as 300 hp. With the Egli-Colani, a speed record of 10 km (with a standing start) of 272.414 km / h was achieved on December 7, 1986.

literature

  • Jürgen Gassebner: Egli - The Official Book . Elementbuch Verlag, Schlierbach 2007, ISBN 3-9811662-0-5 .

Web links

Commons : Egli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On January 9, 2009, Fritz Egli drove a motorcycle combination 331.969 km / h.
  2. ↑ Motorrad Classic 1 + 2/2015, pp. 26–29.
  3. ↑ Classic Motorcycle: The Great Fritz W. Egli Story ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.classic-motorrad.de
  4. ↑ egli-racing.ch ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Egli Red Baron (accessed February 22, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.egli-racing.ch
  5. ↑ Motorrad Classic 1 + 2/2015 , p. 26.
  6. ↑ Other frame builders from the same era (e.g. Rau or Martin ) also used this type of construction with a round backbone tube.
  7. ↑ BILLION1
  8. ↑ Motorrad Classic 1 + 2/2015 , p. 19.
  9. ↑ MOTORRAD Revue, 1979 edition, p. 11.
  10. ↑ See Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 .
  11. ↑ Motorrad Classic 1 + 2/2015 , p. 22.
  12. ^ Ulrich Hoffmann: The great motorcycle lexicon. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag Berlin, 2004, ISBN 978-389602-535-7 ., P. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Egli, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egli, Fritz Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich