Suzuki RM 63 – Kreidler GP 50cc & Anderson, Degner, Anscheidt, Itoh etc – 50cc

Description

A superb and rare photo, taken during on
June 29, 1963
during the
Grand Prix of the
Netherlands
/ aka the T.T. of Assen / aka the Dutch T.T.
which was held on the gorgeous and famous circuit of Drenthe close to the Dutch city of
Assen
in the
Northern Netherlands
.
The photograph gives testimony of he more then fierce rivalry between Suzuki from
Japan
and Kreidler from
Germany
and their amazingly complex miniature two stroke racing bikes. Hyper small power bands with 10+ speed gearboxes were the ingredients of this great racing era.
Shown on the #2
Suzuki RM 63 50cc
works GP racer is
Hugh Anderson
-- on the #8
Kreidler 50cc two stroke single
we see
Alberto Pagani
-- on the #7
Kreidler 50cc two stroke single
we see
Hans Georg Anscheidt
-- on the #6
Suzuki RM 63 50cc
we see
Mitsuo Itoh
and finaly
-- on the #1
Suzuki RM63 50cc
we see
Ernst Degner.
Ernst Degner would WIN the race with an average speed of
73.87 mph
(
118.88 km/h
).
Hugh Anderson
would become
50cc World Champion in 1963
, the year the photograph was taken.
Anscheidt finished 2ND and Degner 3RD in the 50cc World Championship that year.
The Japanese
Suzuki
company started manufacturing motorcycles in 1952, the first models being motorized bicycles. During the 1950s, 1960s and the better part of the 1970s, the company manufactured motorcycles with two-stroke engines only, the biggest two-stroke model being the water-cooled triple-cylinder GT750. A large factor in Suzuki's success in two- stroke competition was the East German Grand Prix racer Ernst Degner, who defected to the West in 1961, bringing with him expertise in two- stroke engines from the East German manufacturer MZ. Suzuki hired Degner, and he won the 50cc World Championship for them in 1962. However, it wasn't until 1976 when Suzuki introduced its first motorcycle with a four-stroke engine, the GS400 and GS750. Since then, Suzuki has established a reputation as a manufacturer of well- engineered sport motorcycles. Suzuki's racing machines have become legendary.
From the 1960s small capacity 50cc and 125cc two strokes to the magnificent RG500 Square Four two stroke, a machine that played a vital role in the 1970s world championship roadracing scene. In the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000's Suzuki wrote history with riders like Kevin Schwantz and, more recent, Kenny Roberts Jr.
Kreidler
was a German manufacturer of small motorcycles and mopeds, based in Kornwestheim, between
Ludwigsburg
and
Stuttgart
. The company was founded in 1903 as "Kreidlers Metall- und Drahtwerke" (Kreidlers metal and wire factory) by Anton Kreidler and started to build motorcycles in
1951. In
1959 one third of all German motorcycles were Kreidler. In the '70s Kreidler had very great success in motorsport. Especially in the
Netherlands
the riders Jan de Vries and Henk van Kessel were very successful. The company went out of business in 1982; the rights to the trademark were sold to the businessman Rudolf Scheidt who had Italian manufacturer Garelli Motorcycles make mopeds under the Kreidler name until 1988. The rights to the Kreidler mark have since been bought by bicycle manufacturer Prophete. Kreidler was active in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, scoring eight world champion titles in 50 cc class:
* 1971 Jan de Vries
* 1973 Jan de Vries
* 1974 Henk van Kessel
* 1975 Ángel Nieto
* 1979 Eugenio Lazzarini
* 1980 Eugenio Lazzarini
* 1982 Stefan Dörflinger
* 1983 Stefan Dörflinger
This is a very nice and very rare
non pweios
photo that reflects a wonderful era of Kreidler’s and Suzuki’s great racing history in a wonderful way. This is your rare chance to own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 8" x 12" (ca. 20 x
30 cm
). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing!
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