Felix is still selling and dealing in trials machines and was editor of Trialsport Deutschland when it began in 1977. No longer competing, but still an enthusiast Krahnstöver is still dedicated to the local club. Photo: Kurt-Patrik Beckmann, Hanover.Īccompanied by Rainer Heise friend and trials rider and was the photographer of Fahrerlager (Paddock) and Trialsport magazine from the beginning of the 1970’s to 2000. Jill and Mick Andrews have a look at Rainer Heise’s photos with Felix Krahnstover. Some old friends also showed up in support, none other than Felix Krahnstöver, former 10 times German national champion and Montesa and KTM factory rider.
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Recently, Mick Andrews held a trials school near Celle, Lower Saxony near to Luneberg and Hanover in Germany for the local ‘Celler Trial Club’. More Justyn Norek photos of trial and motocross: HEREīarcelona Justyn Norek Mick Andrews Ossa SSDTįrom the left: Rainer Heise Mick Andrews & Felix Krahnstover – Photo: Kurt-Patrik Beckmann, Hanover. Many thanks to Justyn Norek for the use of his copyright photographs. … Can you tell if these are models or the real thing? These are 1:5 scale models lined up!įor more information: You could be forgiven for thinking that is a real motocross bike! … The finished article, a toffee sweet is placed to give an indication of scale and that this is a model, not a real Ossa! … Components painted and plated, ready for final assembly Pere Tarrago at work on the 1:5 scale Ossa MAR The handiwork of Pere Tarragó of Barcelona, Spain … It’s hard to believe it’s not photos of a real Ossa MAR motorcycle, just look at the detail!
This time it’s a trials machine, the Ossa 250 Mick Andrews Replica (MAR). Once again, Justyn Norek from Turin was on hand to take photos of another wonderful model. OSSA bikes continue to enjoy popularity even today among collectors and enthusiasts.We are always looking for something different on Trials Guru, usually trials, recently we featured a scale model Montesa Cappra motocross machine from the late 1960s. In addition to their suitability for racing, in terms of power-to-weight, Ossa motorcycles gained a reputation for reliability on and off the race track.
In the United States and Canada, off-road motorcycling – and particularly the newly imported sport of motocross to which the lightweight and powerful Ossa was well suited – enjoyed surging popularity. OSSA reached its highest production levels in the motorcycle boom of the 1960s, exporting large numbers of exports to other European countries, but also significantly, to North American markets.
In 1940 Giró changed the primary focus of his company to building racing motorcycles and after the war, he obtained superior two-stroke engine technology from the German DKW factory as war reparations and was mass-producing his two-stroke motorcycles by1949. Before World War II, Giró was the Spanish sidecar racing national champion, along with his co-pilot, the future founder of Bultaco motorcycles, Francisco Bultó. The company’s four-leaf clover emblem wasn’t actually a four-leaf clover and rather an escapement mechanism of a film projector.
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Founded by Manuel Giró, an industrialist from Barcelona as Orpheo Sincronic Sociedad Anónima, the original OSSA company got its start in 1924 by making movie projectors for its home market in Spain. Love this shot of Ewan McGregor his original OSSA Motorcycle.
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