Private company

Van Veen

Type of motorcycle

Van Veen or Van Veen Kreid is a former motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in Amsterdam by Henk van Veen, the Dutch importer of Kreidler motorcycles. Van Veen completed its first prototype in 1974 using a 1000 cc Comotor 624 twin-rotor Wankel engine, and in November 1974 it was exhibited at the Cologne motorcycle show with front and rear cast wheels and triple Brembo disc brakes.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Van Veen OCR1000 cropped
Photo: Klaus Nahr at Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Van Veen or Van Veen Kreid is a former motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in Amsterdam by Henk van Veen, the Dutch importer of Kreidler motorcycles.2

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3