LES 2 JOURS DE SOULTZ
6 et 7 JUIN 2015
The Moto Club 68 was again calling for its great Twinshock trials in the woods above "route des vins", de Alsace vine route. This is always a highlight for me, as I like the atmosphere in woods near the trainings ground of MC 68 Soultz. After 2 hours driving, I arrived on Saturday morning. The Stampflis and Jo were already there, keeping a nice place for my car to park next to their campers. There were many campers from France, Belgium, also UK, few Germans.
The weather was fine on the 2 days, with a thunderstorm on Saturday evening after the trial. But the earth dried quickely and Sunday was no problem to ride (except maybe the zone 2, where the rocks got muddy and slippery.
The start was at the usual place in the wood, with a buvette, grill and a Flamchueche oven. This is always the dream: After a nice day's trial you could enjoy the hot Alsace Flammchueche out of the oven with a cool beer!
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| start, sunshine in the wood | inscription |
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| a Sneezy Honda with a HRC engine | happy Bultaco rider |
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| Ernst Stampfli on his BSA 350 | Asterix and the Brits Greenland and Bull |
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| John Bull on DOT light | a tiger in the wood |
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| Andre Vermeulen on the nice Greeves | Ernst and grand boy Claudio |
The zones were easy because it was dry. I still made 16 points in the 12 zones in the first round. As I got used to the soil (and was not missing a "flèche"), I came back from the 2nd round with only 2 points lost. Not bad, but also my "new" light Honda TLR 250 was really perfect and easy to ride. The new clutch was a big improvment. But there was the green Kawasaki boy named Jack to beat with only 16 marks.
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| brand new Puma Racing Bultaco | beautiful ! |
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| the proud owner Pierre Marchal | |
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| nice Bultaco thumb Logo | engine |
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| front | pegs |
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| slime line | waiting to start |
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| Mark Stokes on Trifield | |
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| Mark starts (nice sound, see also clips) | new Mr. Majesty Steve Martin |
The zones were easy because it was dry. I still made 16 points in the 10 zones in the first round. As I got used to the soil (and was not missing a "flèche"), I came back from the 2nd round with only 2 points lost. Not bad, but also my "new" light Honda TLR 250 was really perfect and easy to ride. The new clutch was a big improvment. But there was the green Kawasaki boy named Jack to beat with only 16 marks lost.
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| zone 6 | ups? a rowdy on a DOT kicked the Honda off its side stand, broken back mud guards |
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| Stefan in action | on the nice RL 250 Suzuki |
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| Jo on his Noriel | tries to master the power of the 499cc thumper |
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| Stefan and Jo at the last zone 10 | Puma Bultaco waiting for his master |
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| Mister President himself is ordering 2 flamchueche | le chef avec flamchueche |
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| Ërnst is coming back from round 2 | the great Triumph 2 cyl |
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| Royal enfield crusader frame and Triumph engine, some trick parts | great pipes |
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| cooling down after the trial by shower or beer |
So, a great day ended as in the Asterix & Obelix stories: Big party and a lot of cervisia.
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| The winner (twin blue) Jack Aebi on Kawa and brother Chris on Majesty | the belgian armada |
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| a Cota 247 | Patrick Thur on Tiger Cub |
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| a great BSA | |
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| Sneezy Hondas with Tanja | Rothmans Honda |
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After the rain in
the night, some zones became a bit more challanging, but most of them were
"grippy".
The Exception zone 2, were some 5 losts could be withnessed.
I enjoyed 2 great days in the Alsace forrest.
Classements:
Twinshock Experts rouge: 1. Jean-Luc Nictou on BSA van Marvick, 17 points, 2. Steve Martin, Majesty (UK) 89 points, 3. Mark Stokes T350, 108 points
Twinshock Pre 65 bleu: 1. Patrick Garcia, Ariel 89 points in 2 days, 2. Guy Totems, T200, 24 points on Sunday
Twinshock National bleu: 1. Jack Aebi, Kawasaki (1975) 19 points, 2. Patrick Frei, Honda TLR (1985), 33 points, 3. Adrien Nictou, Fantic, 52 points
by Honda Pat