Albuch Kotter Nürburgring Columbus Multishape 1992

In 1979 former opera singer, restaurateur and cycling enthusiast Konrad Kotter started to sponsor his own cycling team: the German Kotter's Cycling Team. Among the riders were some pretty talented sportsmen like Dietrich 'Didi' Thurau or Hans Peter Jakst.

The Kotter bikes were basically upgraded bikes of the German brand Kondor. The frames of which were made by Romani in Parma, Italy.

Subsequently those bikes became pretty popular among cyclists in Germany who were able to acquire beauties like this Kotter's Racing Team Nürburgring.

The 'Nürburgring' was the top model of Kotter's 1992 Catalogue and was named after a very famous motor sports track which was also used for crit races on several occasions.

The frame of this masterpiece is formed by Columbus' famous MS or Multishape tubing. On this tubeset, every single part was shaped differently to optimize functionality. Of course the lugs had to have a specific shape, too to fit over the tubes. Look at that triangular left chainstay, the downtube and the bottom bracket shell, for example! Producing Multishape tubesets was pretty expensive, as was making a frame out of them because it took some time fitting all the joints. So MS was mostly replaced after some years by oversized tubes.

A top class frame like our Kotter needs an adequate groupset, in our case it is a complete Shimano Dura Ace gruppo.

Performance, style and steel - a bike that has it all.