Adler MX

[firko]

Gus Preim has decided to offer his unique Adler 250 MX replica for sale. This unique bike was built by Gus over a number of years and it's an absolute credit to his skills. The more one looks at this bike the more attention to detail is found. If anyone's looking for a unique Pre '60 mount for next years Nats, this could be the ticket. There's a five page feature on the bike in VMX # 37....       $5850

[Curly3]

What a ripper, looks like its outside the same shed as that T20 photo you put up before.
Slightly off track, did Gus work at Hazell & Moore?

[pancho]

 Would that be the original exhaust Mark?, it looks pretty advanced for the day.
cheers pancho.

[mx250]

Would that be the original exhaust Mark?, it looks pretty advanced for the day.

Funny, but that was my first thought .

[LWC82PE]

I think that is fairly cheap price, but i guess it is only a replica of the real thing. Good correctly restored road ones will pull double or 3 times that amount and even more back in Germany. I have just finished 2 complete restos on 2 black road versions (one was a one owner bike) and am currently doing another 3rd one which was brought to me as a frame, half a engine, a fender and a rear wheel and not much else. Luckily i had a stash of spares and a few spare rollers i could use for parts on this bike, but now that has pretty much dried up. This one is also going to also get a little Tom Thumb sidecar on it too.

[firko]

Well, Do you really think you could race that bike, it is nicly restored

Why not Dave? It's a going, ready to ride bike. Gus's son did a number of laps on the Adler at CD6 and it got around pretty well, much to my surprise and delight. I suppose you could upgrade the shocks to something more suitable, maybe some personal set up choices but as it is...it's ready to rock'n'roll.

[LWC82PE]

I seem to recall that the swingarm was from a later jap bike so that could be a grey area, but perhaps scruitineers could turn a blind eye to that ?. They do go quite good in std trim and with some 2T tuning i am sure you could improve them more. The last one i just did sounds really nice, the motor that its, very quiet as it is like new now. They are very built bike, way ahead of their time. The quality and engineering is amazing, especially in the motors, the forks and rear suspension units (on the normal road models). They are so far ahead of the english for the same period (mid 50's).

[firko]

I don't profess to know much about Adlers but I must say that Gus's bike impressed on my just how well engineered they were. I suppose the TS Suzuki swingarm might alarm some nit picker but seeing that it's been modified to within a poofteenth to replicate the original I reckon it'd pass muster.

One of the biggest Furpheys is the claim that the early YD Yamaha twins are copies of the Adler. I'm told that there are no design references between the two engines, the only similarity being that they're both two stroke twins. 

[LWC82PE]

They are quite similar to look at, but yes not direct copies. You can tell Yamaha got their idea from the Adlers. For anyone who does not know, Yamaha bought all of what remained of Adler in about 58 and used it to form the basis for the first Yamaha. Adlers have quite a following in Australia now. There is a club/group devoted to them now. They just had a national rally this year.