Enrico ‘Ricky’ de Haas founded Wannabe-Choppers at just 15, brimming with imagination and unaffected by the conventions that often accompany adulthood. 20 years later, he’s still breaking the mold.
Based in Hüttenberg, just north of Frankfurt in Germany, Wannabe’s latest build is a 172 cc two-stroke land speed motorcycle with a curb weight of just 53 kilos [117 lbs]. There’s no front brake, the seat barely exists, and the bike is almost certainly not street-legal. But it is wholly awesome.
Nicknamed ‘Zwei’ (German for ‘two’), this cheeky racer is a sequel of sorts to a bike that Wannabe built a few years ago. A diminutive chopper with a deceptive electric motor, that bike tipped the scales at 79.4 kilos [175 lbs].…