Brauchi's Kawasaki W650 - ‘JagdBobber’

So, we've just had a sweet BM tracker. Let's continue the Germanic thematic with a bike not made in Deutschland, but perfected there. And with a Red Baron theme, no less. It's interesting to note that Germany and Japan have an intertwined engineering relationship when it comes to new automotive developments. For almost all the most important road safety developments of the last 50 years, it was the Germans who developed the technology and the Japanese who perfected it. Take ABS as a great example. An electronics system created by Bosch and then installed by BMW on their K100 in 1988 was the starting point for ABS on motorcycles, but it arguably took Honda and their current generation ABS system available most notably on their CBR1000RR to perfect it. Many a professional motorcycle reviewer noted that in their minds it was the first truly unobtrusive ABS system that functioned on track as required without sacrificing lap times. You can see a similar development path for other technologies such as EBD, seat belt tensioners, and traction control. So what happens when you feed motorbike through the system the wrong way around? Oh, don't worry - the results are better than you think. Meet the JagdBobber.

Source: http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2012/4/6/brauchis-kawasaki-w650-jagdbobber.html

Adrian Bosshard Christian Boudinot Roy Boughey† Dennis Boulom Christian Bourgeois