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motorcycle touring holiday Germany Europe classic Ducati Bimota Superbike experience
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125cc Maico RS2s owned by Thomas and René Siebig.
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Manuel Hereros world championship winning Derbi 80 from 1989, riden by himself today in the fascinating 'Schnapsglas' class (schnaps glass) after the size of the tiny cylinders.
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A 1973 Kreidler 50GP belonging to Dominik Muheim.
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Klaus Schelligs' 1975 Simson RS receiving final attention.
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1978 Meikomots belonging to Werner Steege and Gerold Meißner.
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1978 Kreidler 50.
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1974 Zöllner-Kreidler.
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Unusual Montessa Impala Sport from 1967 belonging to Manfred Klingelhöfer.
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Equally rare, the 1959 Moto Morini Tresette owned by Werner Schöler.
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And one that I have never heard of is this Ravat found in the camping site.
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Marcel Ankones' 1974 Suzuki TR500 which we also enjoyed seeing on the track at Spa Francorchamps recently.
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Suzuki T 500 in beautiful condition.
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Honda CR50 and CB50R.
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On a Honda note, 'could be' future classic Honda VTR1000SP2 on the camp site.
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Edgar Rothenspieler bringing his 1939 Triumph BD250 to the start of his groups session.
This is of course a German made Triumph and not the same company as the British Triumph motorcycles. But I did read somewhere that the companies were both started by 2 brothers?
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Beautiful Indian sidecar outfit.
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4 cylinder 2 stroke Yamaha powered sidecar outfit.
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1976 998cc Hock-BMW R100 outfit riden by Jürgen Tiedje and Rymund Ehrichs.
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Close up of the fascinating Ducati 864cc kneeler of Hans-Hermann Fett and Bernd Riebel.
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Close by the Bimota SB6 with rare monarm conversion belonging to Peter Stimper.
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Also slightly more modern is this Weka-Ducati TT1 owned by Gerd Pfannmüller, entered in the Meisterklasse (master class).
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Always nice to see a Laverda SFC1000 too. Incidently, very few Laverdas to be seen the whole weekend . .