Opel Motoclub

The Opel Motoclub, also known as the Motoclub 500, was an avant-garde motorcycle from the German maker Opel and one of the first motorcycles with a pressed-steel frame. It was presented at the Berlin automobile and motorcycle exhibition of 1928 and built until 1930, and its end also ended Opel motorcycle production. Opel took over the Elite-Diamant works to gain capacity and in 1928 licensed the steel-frame machine that the designer Ernst Neumann-Neander had shown earlier that year as the Neander P3. Riveted pressed-steel sections cut assembly time from 15 to 20 hours to about four, and the frame was electroplated with cadmium instead of painted. The machine was 2200 millimetres long and weighed about 135 kilograms. It came as the Tour model with 16 PS and the Supersport with 22 PS, with top speeds of 105 and 120 kilometres per hour, only in red and silver, at 1,290 Reichsmark for the sport version.