For those of you that check in on Rare to learn something new, class is in session. Those with experience or knowledge of the brand, please share it in the comments section. What you are looking at is the Swiss interpretation of Bimota – only Elgi started many, many years ahead of the Rimini company. Founded by Swiss motorcycle racer Fritz Egli in the mid 1960s, the original goal of the company was to modify existing motorcycles for competition use. When Egli frames started winning hill climb events, people took notice. While he started out with a Vincent Black Shadow, Egli made frames to carry many different Japanese engines over multiple decades – which brings us to this CBX powered Red Baron machine, the EH10 (Egli-Honda number 10). Unfortunately there is almost NO detail available via the eBay auction, and only a single picture of the bike (above). One would expect a bit more when the opening bid is nearly $55,000 USD.
1983 Egli Honda EH10 Red Baron for sale on eBay
From the seller:
Egli Red Baron Superbike in perfect condition!!!! One of only 45 ever builds! Too many extras to list. Has a Swiss title. Additional setting for an Egli Target Design, only 6 build worldwide!
While the seller did not include many pictures, I found a similar EH10-C Red Baron for sale on multiple Swiss sites. The mileage and pricing leads me to believe that this is the same motorcycle, and as such I am sharing them here. Note that I am not certain this is the identical machine being listed on eBay. As always, interested parties should do their homework, talk to the seller and ask for more pictures and information.
Read into the title anything you’d like. It was intended to be a pun on the pre-packaged chocolate powder drink, but after some research and finding more pictures I am inclined to believe it should be interpreted more along the lines of a free throw air ball; the baseball equivalent of a whiff. Swing and a miss! Makes me wonder if Egli is pronounced “ugly” in another language. But here is the thing: Fritz Egli’s frame designs flat out WORK. Sure it doesn’t have the flair of a Bimota. It may look like something that escaped from a Mad Max / Road Warrior movie. But mechanically it is a work of art. And rare. The additional bodywork noted in the auction is for another CBX-based Egli machine – the Target – which is even more rare than the Red Baron model. Does a specialty frame maker ring all of the right chords with you? If so, check it out here!
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Only 5 sentences of description provided!! Just one picture of the bike itself! Located in Switzerland!! 6 exclamation points used!!!
Yeah, I’ll be wire transferring $55,000 to Switzerland for this one today.
It’s a period cool, seriously bad ass sportbike, but come on- you could buy four nice Bimotas for that much investment.
Once again Sixth….you hit the nail on the head ! Fiitz Egli stuff used to be the stuff of my adolescent fantasies (along with Samantha Fox of course……!) . They used to have his bikes on the cover of Hein Gericke . They had some wicked stuff in there ……but I had to get my German buddy to translate it for me . I had two CBXs back in the day , at different times . Also Egli had a Kawasaki with twin turbo featured in I think it was Cycle or Cycle World . The bike had a top speed I think ot 230 mph ! All this to say yeah Fritz Egli has something going for him . Nowdays I find it a bit bulbuous ….but still it is after all a CBX with an inline six !
Still as Sixth says more pics would be nice if one is to lay out a cool 55K on a bike !