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Motorcycle event: Leben Glemseck 101
Life Glemseck 101
Hundred and one always works
Anyone who has had enough of the plastic frippery and the digital tsunami could sit back and relax during the ninth edition of the Glemseck 101. With ingeniously beautiful motorcycles, weird guys, shrill girls and a touch of lived anarchy, you could even turn back the time a bit.
Werner Koch
09/25/2014
Open face helmet, jeans, jacket, the flab in the corner of your mouth and a motorcycle under your ass that is at least as casual as the driver himself. No question, from a safety point of view this is often the last groove, but more desire for the passionate flaring of expensive fuel on two wheels it does not work. The convoy of maximally minimized machines never ends. Guzzi, Harley, Triumph, Bavarian flat twins in all imaginable variations, in between blaring mopeds from the 70s and Japanese classic cars from all eras.
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Stripped down to the cooling fins, as handcrafted sculptures of the highest quality or brashly “self-made” pieces. Regardless, everything is allowed at Glemseck 101 because there are no drawers, no watchdogs who refuse the unrestrained mix of classic and high-tech. A circumstance that therefore attracted the big manufacturers who, beyond all marketing requirements, stole the show from their series machines with the wildest bobbers and cafe racers. Above all Triumph, who mingled with the people and passionately accompanied the turnaround to the mechanically manageable motorcycle.
The older we get, the faster we drove earlier
Logically, in the center of the retro earthquake with over 40,000 visitors, the established artists have also pitched their tents at Glemseck 101. Rolling mill Markus Walz, Jens von Brauck, Urban Motor and pretty much everyone who has dedicated themselves to down-to-earth mechanics. Beautifully made unique items, no question about it and well-known from the press and the internet. But somehow also worn out, dragged from one fair to the next and at some point almost degenerated into a soulless model.
And, as is so often the case, the scene of cafe racers and classics really comes to life where the spotlights only flit past shyly on their way to the next “highlight”. Outside on the camping meadow and the tent avenue away from the show mile. Fully packed with a roll of luggage and embarked by the nasty cloudburst, such fine creations arrive that they are in no way inferior to those of the great customizer gurus. On the contrary, these machines even drive on a day-to-day basis. And that is TuV-compliant and value-oriented. Because that is exactly the great art of professional customizing.
Simply trim the frame with the Flex, straighten a five-liter puddle of petrol and put an inaccessible, fat studded tire over the rim at the front, it looks martial – but it sucks, and the TuV puts the box on site. The big applause therefore goes to the boys and girls outside on the meadows and squares in front of the Glemseck. Where 50 years ago John Surtees, Carlo Ubbiali and the like put their caravans and workshop tents in the meadow, wafts of smoke from spicy grilled food and the no less spicy scent of well-stuffed pipes waft through the Glemstal until the early hours of the morning. Back to the roots, crackling campfires and eerily beautiful stories from the past, true to the motto: the older we get, the faster we drove earlier.
Standing ovations also go to those who set up this grandiose event, including exciting quarter-mile sprint races: Hannelore Sonnet, Jorg Litzenburger, Steven Flier and Peter Herrle and their many helpers and henchmen. Thank you, thank you, merci, grazie, thank you and goodbye until the next Glemseck 101.
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