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Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: on January 07, 2008, 02:05:33 PM

Hello Maurizio!
Maybee you can enlight me about Kappa.
Is it right that Kappa is the Italian word for the letter K and also an Italian nic name for KTM?

Mats from Sweden

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: mau10 on January 09, 2008, 06:36:22 AM

Hi Mats,
it's right.

Do you know Mats Johnson (the monark expert)?
Ciao, Maurizio

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: on January 09, 2008, 01:40:06 PM

Thank you Maurizio!
Yes He is a real nice guy and he's got the most fantastic Monark and Penton collections I have ever seen!

Is it true that Franz Kappa own's well over 50 KTM bikes?

Mats from Sweden

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: mau10 on January 09, 2008, 04:29:09 PM

Hi Mats,
FranzKappa owns almost 100 KTM bikes (disassembled ones included):

http://vmxktm.net/Articles/Reader-s-Bikes/Franzkappa-A-KTM-Enthusiast.html

Greetings from Italy
Maurizio

Maurizio from Italy

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: Rain Man on January 09, 2008, 04:46:22 PM

Heck, I thought you guys were talking about Frank Zappa for a minute here [8D]...
But a 100 KTM's, I'm impressed !! ( and not easily BTW)
Nice almost endless website, and a rare 76 KTM 340 GS ta boot !!
Someone on this website mentioned that the 340 KTM was out there. I don't rememba the whole story...

Raymond
Down East Pentons

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: sixdazed on January 09, 2008, 05:11:53 PM

Maurizio,Really neat website.As a bonus,looking at Franz' pictures of his workshop gave me a few storage ideas for my own flock of bikes(most of them in pieces[:0])!Please feel free to post neat Euro stuff any time.Thanks,
Ric

ric emmal

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: tmc3c on January 09, 2008, 07:17:58 PM

Hi Maurizio,
Thank You for posting your site it is very informative!

Thomas Carmichael

1970 125 Six Day
1976 250 Hare Scrambler

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: mau10 on January 10, 2008, 09:26:55 AM

All the vintage bikes in the pics belong to Franzkappa:

(http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1760/hpim15809cx.jpg)

(http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9074/hpim15815me.jpg)

(http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/8807/hpim15835dh.jpg)

(http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/3276/hpim15849tp.jpg)

(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/5658/hpim15861br.jpg)

(http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/809/hpim15875ft.jpg)

(http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/127/hpim15889ej.jpg)

(http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/9297/hpim15896yr.jpg)

(http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/9783/hpim15908fg.jpg)
(http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/2603/hpim15914tk.jpg)
(http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/56/hpim15922zp.jpg)
(http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/7649/hpim15938hb.jpg)
(http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/461/hpim15943lx.jpg)
(http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/7539/hpim15956bo.jpg)

(http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/2708/ktmfestktm125gs19831dp.jpg)

Franzkappa rides his Honda 500 CR:
(http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/4020/hpim16016qx.jpg)

Maurizio from Italy

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: firstturn on January 10, 2008, 09:52:49 AM

Maurizio,
Thanks for sharing the pictures. Where and when were the pictures taken....was this a show?

Ron Carbaugh

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: mau10 on January 10, 2008, 11:31:10 AM

Hi Ron,
it's the 2° K T M FEST in Badia Polesine (the city of Franzkappa, near Verona), 29 october 2006.
The square is in front of the Franzkappa's home.

Maurizio from Italy

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: sixdazed on January 11, 2008, 11:47:13 AM

Maurizio,The Ancillotti makes my mouth water-it is cool!Are they as rare over there as they are here?
Ric

ric emmal

Title: Franz Kappa?
Post by: mau10 on January 11, 2008, 03:14:39 PM

Hi Ric,
there are a lot of Ancillotti bikes in Italy, but they are expensive.
Ciao, Maurizio

Maurizio from Italy

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