"Elefantentreffen 2006" Bavaria by marco2005

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The Treffen

Choose the most freezing days of the year.
Choose a site in the Bavarian mountains overloaded of snow.
Choose to permit the entrance only to who arrive here with the transport less suitable for the snow: a motorcycle.
Choose to made them to sleep in a tent on the snow.
And ask them to pay for all this.
Well, they will come from all over Europe for one more Elefantentreffen!

The History

This huge tribute to the motorcycle is born in the 1956, when lovers of the Zundapp sidecar, used by German army in the WWII, for the first time gathered in Nuerburgring (the legend says they were Wermacht veterans).

In the following years the event was moved first to Salzburg and then, in 1989, to Loh/Thurmansbang-Solla, in the middle of the Bavarian Forest.

see you at the Elefantentreffen 2007.

Here some useful links:

Elefantentreffen official site:
www.bvdm.de/index.php?id=47&lang=3

my own Elefantentreffen team, see the pics at:
www.vespaclubbiella.it/elefante/galleriafoto.htm

alternative Elefantentreffen:
www.altes-elefantentreffen.de

nice pics of the Elefantentreffen 2007:
rides.webshots.com/album/557289619CWagNO

italian site:
www.elefantentreffen.it/modules/news/

and, of course, the best video on you tube:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Elefantentreffen+&search=Search

Pros and Cons
  • Pros:if you are a biker, you must do this!
  • Cons:if you are not a biker, what the hell you are doing there!
  • Last visit to Bavaria: Dec 2005
  • Intro Updated Dec 5, 2007
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  • BillNJ's Profile Photo
    Jul 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM

    Interesting and entertaining page.

  • ant1606's Profile Photo
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:30 AM

    Complimenti per l'Elefantentreffen in Vespa!

  • ludogatto's Profile Photo
    Apr 21, 2006 at 12:18 PM

    bellissime le tue foto dell'elefanten....verrei anch'io il prox anno, ma dovrò venire in sidecar perchè cresceremo di una unità...le romantiche isole venezuelane hanno colpito!

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