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- To cool off: motorcycle races on the ski slopes Snow Speed Hill 2016
- “Oaber goanz so often is ned”
- Spikes are strictly prohibited
- Starting places allocated after a few minutes
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The Snow Speed Hill is floodlit fun.
Rossen Gargolov
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
Rossen Gargolov
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In the end, Stocker-Daniel beat everyone. Later, at the hearty party in the paddock, everyone goes really steep again.
Rossen Gargolov
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One run after the next starts, a staccato of races, the pilots dash “up” and then twitch at walking pace to the left of the runway again “oabi” (down).
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The first three advance one lap, the rest have to go to the repechage. This is how it works until the final.
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The spectacle works according to a simple pattern: seven to nine men line up below each other in motocross style. The starting belt jumps up, everyone rushes up the mountain.
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550 meters of piste, nicely groomed by the piste bullis, up to 40 degrees steep.
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… and the right line.
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They don’t like to hear about the fun at the organizing MSC Reiteralm.
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The recipe for success for the ski slope hunt: …
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… Mitas coarse stoller, lots of power, little weight …
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The start is in motocross style.
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Only for wild dogs: up the steep ski slope with full throttle and skill.
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Starting places are in great demand, but the slope is too steep for some cracks.
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Impressions from Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria.
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Motorcycle racing on the ski slope
To cool off: motorcycle races on the ski slopes
Snow Speed Hill 2016
They all came. Reitbauer-Peter, Stocker-Daniel, Scheiflinger-Christian and the other almost 170 summiteers who climb the Reiteralm at Snow Speed Hill in Pichl, Austria “aufi” thunder.
Markus Schocker
March 31, 2016
Stop, contradiction. They don’t really like to hear about the fun at the organizing MSC Reiteralm. “Well, that’s not just fun,” says the MSC press officer, Erhardt-Franz. “We hoam top athletes doa.” Top athletes? Well, says Erhardt, after all, a win at Snow Speed Hill counts something in the motorcycle scene. He probably means: in the Austrian motorcycle scene.
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Erhardt stands in the start area, to the left of the Reiteralm valley station, and looks up: 550 meters of piste (name: “Grande Finale”), nicely groomed by the piste bullis, up to 40 degrees steep. The thing about the top athletes is true insofar as Marcel Hirscher was here. Hirscher, Austria’s flagship ski racer, trained on the Grande Finale for the two World Cup giant slaloms in Hinterstoder. Hirscher comes to the Grande Finale more often. The motorcycle and skidoo pilots only once a year, to this Snow Speed Hill.
“Oaber goanz so often is ned”
The spectacle works according to a simple pattern: seven to nine men line up below each other in motocross style. The starting belt jumps up, everyone rushes up the mountain. The first three advance one lap, the rest have to go to the repechage. This is how it works until the final.
“Oaber goanz so oifach is des ned”, says Stocker-Daniel, who has won the Snow Speed Hill Race several times. According to Stocker, it always begins with the one question: “Which line is the fastest this time? More on the left, like the year before? Or is this time, because the snow is harder, the track on the far right better? “
If the press demands a competent person to talk to, they recommend the Stocker-Daniel at the MSC Reiteralm. The 41-year-old once drove the Enduro World Championship, he was there at the Six-Days and also had a works contract with KTM. He has remained loyal to the brand: He uses a 560 supermoto, refined by the tuner he trusts. Stocker reveals what is important when it comes to a motorcycle. First, power – the more, the better. Second: weight – the less, the better. Therefore, unlike the summer hillclimb races, you will look in vain for vehicles with extra long wings at Snow Speed Hill. That would only make it difficult and sluggish. Light and strong, that’s what counts here.
Spikes are strictly prohibited
In addition, the tires are of crucial importance. Because spikes are strictly forbidden. Reiteralm freaks like Stocker know that there is basically only one type of tire with which you can win here. Which one exactly? Stocker falters. Should he reveal it? But almost everyone here in the paddock knows, so he says: “Mitas, the C10 or the C12.” The Mitas, designed for snow and mud, has an extremely soft rubber compound. The key to success. This year Stocker opted for the C12 because its profile has a larger contact area than that of the C10. In view of the hard and icy snow, this is an advantage, Stocker believes. And because he wanted to make it perfect, he cut additional slats into the Mitas C12, by hand. He sat on it for hours.
The story of Snow Speed Hill began in 2003. It was a handful of Styrian speciacs from the Schladming-Pichl area who occasionally roared up the Reiteralm on their motorbikes in the evenings after the slopes were closed. For the pleasure of ski tourists downstairs in the Kuhstall après ski bar. They made big eyes because the crazy locals rode their bikes up where they could hardly get down safely even on skis. “We thought: If people are having so much fun with it – then let’s have a real race,” says Erhardt-Franz, one of the men from the very beginning. They founded the MSC Reiteralm, and in 2006 it took place: the first official Snow Speed Hill.
Starting places allocated after a few minutes
The enormous popularity of the Reiteralm event becomes clear every year when you register. On the club’s website, a clock counts down the time until the registration period starts. Accurate to the second. On January 13, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. it was time. Five minutes later, all 170 starting places were taken. Most of the almost 600 pilots who wanted to register were left behind.
The Snow Speed Hill is floodlit fun. Training from 5.30 p.m., preliminary runs from 6.30 p.m., finals from 8.00 p.m. Before that, the drivers’ briefing: 170 men in racing clothes are waiting in the paddock, Purstl-Hans, President of the MSC Reiteralm, is standing above in the snow and gives out the rules of behavior. Very important: “The environmental mats always look good under oak motorcycles!” The supervisors, sent by the environmental attorney of the federal state of Styria, must not be annoyed under any circumstances.
Once President Purstl has finished his speech, things get serious. One run after the next starts, a staccato of races, the pilots dash “up” and then twitch “oabi” (down) again at walking pace to the left of the runway. Aufi-oabi, aufi-oabi, at some point the observer loses the overview: is this a run of hope or a run-up? Anyway, the main thing is action. Fresh mountain air? Not that evening.
Then the result: The Stocker Daniel has beaten everyone. Later, at the hearty party in the paddock, everyone goes really steep again.
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