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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