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Elefantentreffen 2016? elephant rally anyone? 29th till 31st

elephant rally 2016, anyone going/ heading that way?
i've never been before, i'm heading that way on my own probably.
bit scary, so any company for the journey or the camping would be groovy.
mind, i am on a 125, so the going will be slow.
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Most of the people arrive by car and just get their bike off the trailor 100 meters before the camp and are drunk 5 minutes after they arrive. Thats why i dont go there anymore. Sorry...
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I've done it a few times over the years on small bikes - last time in 2013 solo on a 40yr old 125 Suzuki two stroke (a couple of pics below).







In brief it took me three days each way and you get to see the back of a lot of trucks. The previous time, when three of us went, we camped each night as well as at the site but everything was such a mess by the end - covered in mud and permanently wet - that I caught flu and spent a week in bed afterwards.





For 2013 I hotelled the trip and camped at the rally.

I'm going this year, again on the Suzuki, but to the Altes version at the Nurburgring which is a couple of weeks after the main Bayerischen Wald one. Being a bit closer it's a. cheaper and b. something I can do in a long weekend.

It's great fun to do, particularly if you go on something totally unsuitable (like a 125) but take it (semi) seriously. There's nothing worse than being stuck at the side of a snowy autobahn in the dark with a bike that won't start or with blown bulbs or frostbitten fingers /toes because your gloves/ boots leak. Part of the fun at the rally is seeing what others have come up with to combat the cold - and if it isn't cold / snowy you can feel kind of cheated
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I've done a few:





Totally agree with the comments above.

Its a good way to get a few ideas and you meet some interesting people (some are as "interesting" as a box of frogs ), but ultimately the drunken antics and trailered cruisers/GS's get boring. You should do it once. Enjoy

Andy
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I'm a first timer too!

Hallo Rymm

It's my first time too tbh I'm also a little bit scared! I live in Germany although I'm English so I'm travelling down on Wednesday from my house which is about 3 miles from the Altes Elefantentreffen and 4 miles from the Nurburgring but I must tick the Thurmansbang-Solla Solla box office my bucket list! I will be on a Black German registered BMW F650GS please meet up, I will also be going to the Altes Elefantentreffen so anyone going to that I hope to meet some English people there too..
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