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Special: Alpen Masters 2011 – all bikes, information and videos

Special: Alpine Masters 2011
Summit meeting: all bikes, information and videos from the Alpen-Masters

For the seventh time, 20 current bikes – divided into five categories – met in the Alps to determine this year’s champion of all classes. Who will prevail in their group and who can achieve overall victory in the world’s largest motorcycle test this year?

Eva Breutel, Stefan Kaschel, Gert Thole

07/07/2011

It is an unpredictable, always surprising, yet fascinating world up here in the Alps. Take, for example, the weather, which at least for us lowland Tyroleans can hardly be assessed. It just looks like the end of the world, the view tends towards zero, the rain is lashing horizontally over the ground, the situation seems hopeless – and half an hour later the sun shines naturally from an azure blue sky. In the afternoon of the same day, a snowstorm suddenly raged over the top of the pass, covering all motorcycles with a centimeter-thick layer of ice within minutes. Thank goodness a snow plow is there in no time at all in June and removes the worst.

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Capers of nature that hit us bikers particularly hard. The same applies to the road network; in this respect, too, the Alps are simply different, unique. There are the greatest stretches there, but around every bend lurk the marmot, the coach, the cow dung or the group of recreational cyclists. And without warning, the grip suddenly changes from fine coarse grain to an indefinable conglomerate of emery, gravel and soil that has been washed over the road. If the surface contour was just as flat as a board, the pothole a hand’s breadth deep or the equally high frostbite is guaranteed to lurk somewhere. Somehow similar to the weather: incalculable.

This unique mixture again forms the grandiose backdrop – if you can see it in the cloud fog – for the seventh edition of the Alpine Masters. It is precisely these special conditions that are ultimately the reason why MOTORRAD carries out this major test every year on the highest passes in the Alps. It should show how the machines behave under these special, extreme requirements. And that harbors some surprises, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. Here, motorcycles suddenly behave completely differently than under the usual test conditions. Here some tame all-rounders mutate into springbok, here the inconspicuous underdog turns out to be an insider tip.

This year MOTORRAD returned to the place where it all began. In 2005 the first Alpine Masters took place at the Stilfser Joch. Host Hugo Ortler from Hotel Tannenheim in Trafoi invited MOTORRAD to his newly built domicile. Again 20 machines face the Alpine Masters, divided into five groups. For the first time, the testers did without the athlete category because there is currently nothing new here. Instead, the retro bikes are now included. Machines that – so much in advance – were a lot of fun and with their good-natured character they did better than expected.

In each group, the winner qualifies for the grand finale in order to choose the overall winner 2011 together with last year’s winner BMW R 1200 GS.

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