Revival of the machine: Herzbube?s Indian Scout 101
BMW?s annual Pure&Crafted show is a goldmine for seekers of unusual motorcycles, and not just those manufactured in Berlin. At this year?s shindig in Amsterdam, one of the most intriguing machines we spotted was this 1928 Indian 101 Scout, resurrected from the dead by Bernhard Elflein of Herzbube.
Bernhard has finally managed to arrange a photo-shoot for the Scout, and he?s filled us in on its unusual backstory.
He?s owned the Scout engine for 14 years. It has an interesting history: in the days before the German reunification, the engine was used in East Germany to power a tractor, and the rest of the bike was discarded.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a professor of philosophy bought the engine to save it from the crusher. He took it home, but it fell onto the leg of his child?and his partner told him to get rid of it.
So Bernhard bought the engine from the professor, and decided to use his blacksmithing skills to recreate the frame.
It takes a special kind of builder to persevere with a case like this, and Bernhard is that man?a true ascetic who eschews meat, alcohol, drugs and consumerism, and instead ploughs all his energies into the construction of motorcycles.
But recreating a Scout 101 around an old engine was a massive undertaking, and a distraction from his day job at the time. Bernhard wisely decided to source an original frame, tank and front end.
?I applied for a job as a engine overhaul guy, and rebuilt the engine in that workshop by usin...
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