The Kettenkrad

[snapper]

The Kettenkrad (http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/2994/password//sort/1/cat/all/page/1)

[Marmot1]

http://www.kettenkrad.com/Kettenkrad.gif
and more in:
http://www.kettenkrad.com/gallery.html

BTW recently one guy in poland found Kettenkrad in mountain forests and restored it to working condition

[snapper]

i quite like the Kettenkrad myself, strange looking vehicle and a liitle top heavy by all accounts. If you see one with a spoked front wheel it is a prototype.

Heres another pic (http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/1284/password//sort/1/cat/all/page/1)

[He219]

http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/me262.jpg

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/images/update_11_1_03b.jpg

http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/KKspeerk.jpg

This is the title of the same magazine from December the 10th, 1942. The picture shows the minister for armament and ammunition, Albert Speer, testing the Kettenkrad. The text in the right lower corner of the page says:

"The minister tests himself! In difficult terrain the minister for armament and ammunition, Speer, tests the latest model of the Kettenkrad, which is because of its capabilities off-road and in the mud excellent for the difficult terrain in the east".

Note: I didn't translate the above ... p-)

http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/kkruss.jpg

http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/kkdesert.jpg

From the Movie:

http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/kk_pr2.jpg
http://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/kk_pr3.jpghttp://www.kettenkrad.de/bilder/kk_pr4.jpg


And I always thought it was called Kettenrad. Can anybody explain the 'Krad'; Kraft-rad perhaps?

Thanks!
p-)

[Ichhabe]

Krad is short for Kraftrad = Motor cycle.

[Zentrum Jagdkampf]

I thougt it stands for "Ketten Rad"

[shrek]

That thing is sweet: Leave it to the Germans to think something like that up. Smartest people in the world, hands down. I dare anybody to say otherwise, with proof of course!

[Obergefreiter]

They are not to hard to find in the US. Rather expensive though. SS re-enactors like them.

They were origionally made for the German forest service before the war.

I like them and would really like to have one, but they are really just a high maintinence motor cycle.