Heos
HEOS was a manufacturer of off-road motorcycles and off-road teams. 1985 Willi Heitmann founded the brand in Ostbevern . The company name was a suitcase word from the surname of the founder and the first letters of the hometown. (Not to be confused with HEOS, a Berlin-based manufacturer of sidecars for light motorcycles founded in 1922.) Heitmann launched enduro and motocross motorcycles and sidecars that were equipped with Yamaha and Honda engines.
history
Willi Heitmann was an active participant in off-road sport events in the 1970s and 1980s , the forerunner of today's enduro competitions. There were almost only two-stroke motocross and off-road motorcycles, with the exception of a few models with English engines, which he did not like. With series engines from Honda and Yamaha, with frames he had developed himself and purchased add-on parts, he even built off-road motorcycles and sidecars, which were then given the name HEOS in 1985. He did not have much success with the solo motorcycles, but at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s all German champions of the Enduro Championship rode Heos chassis in the sidecar class.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heos Willi Heitmann, Ostbevern. In: gtue-oldtimerservice.de. GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ^ Peter Mergelkuhl: Willi Heitmann: Art on the frame. In: motorradfahrer-online.de. Magazine: Motorradfahrer, October 1992, accessed January 15, 2019 .