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April 29, 2009

The Kettenkrad

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

We’ve been hung up on the military vehicle genre, but that’s because there’s so much weird and cool stuff out there to look it. Here’s one more: the German Kettenkrad, or as we like to call it, the doomsday motorcycle. This is what you get when you cross a tank with a trike.

The vehicle was originally intended to be a light tractor for troops to use for pulling cannons or other guns through tough terrain. Its major design feature was that it would fit in the cargo hold of a plane and could be transported with relative ease and dropped into remote locations. Continue reading at BangShift.com

The Kettenkrad

Comments

hotrod_heven
May 3, 2009 at 8:34 am

Hybrids are hot stuff these days

oldscoob
Apr 29, 2009 at 9:48 am

3400 pounds in a small package. Seeing 2300 pounds can make a unibody longer than a s-10 blazer…all that welding…the auto industry is just as gay and retarded as the days it began. wanna know waht 3/16 rod does added to the length of a modern unibody? This crazy kettenkrad adds to frustration, just to look at and think: 3400 pounds of the real thing.

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