My new "motorcycle"

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Can you imagine riding on those skinny wheels and keeping the bike between 14,000 and 16,000 rpms? Lol

Van Veen was the Dutch Kreidler importer but he built his own bike a 1000cc jobbie using a Citroen car engine. It actually looked pretty good.

It has a very special motor, an 2 disks Wankel engine. Don't know that Citroen has ever built such an engine.

I remember the tests in a magazine "MOTORRAD" in the 70s.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.motorra...-veen/amp/

This article is a later one, more kind of a look back than testing an actual bike. After I read the text, the motorbike was modified rereleased and its engine was based on a NSU RO80 by Citroen.

The Van Veen was only produced in small numbers, very rare and expensive. In the 70s I owned a Hercules W2000. So I found Wankel engines somehow fascinating and extraordinary. Not many motorbikes have had them.

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