following my return from the Isle of Man on Sunday, 3rd I went off to this years Technorama in Hildesheim again. The Technorama is an oldtimer fair for both cars and bikes with a huge market of memorabilia and old vehicle spares. Also there are regularity races held on the airfield for both cars and motorcycles. I took the chance to meet my friends Jan & Rommy de Vries as well as Aalt & Adrie Toersen again and spent a great weekend with them. To see these boys, well in their 70s, and still racing on their iconic bikes (and being fed up when a run was redflagged and not restarted due to time restrictions) is really good, if not great, stuff.
Yep, I've missed out on (partly) MotoGP, BSB and Goodwood but had another great weekend otherwise. Frohburg in two weeks will be my end of season and I`m really looking forward to it as I know that some mates will come over from England as well as meeting my mate Shaun Anderson there again, who comes up from Austria to race there.
Well, here are a couple impressions of last weekend
#2 Aalt Toersen on his 50cc Jamathi during the wet practice on Friday
Still Friday practice but bikes from 350 to 750cc. Honda CB 400 here
Suzuki RGB 500, same class
#1 Jan de Vries, 50cc van Veen Kreidler. Jan told me that this very bike, with its 12 (!) gears, was clocked once with 204 km/h top speed at old Spa-Francorchamps in the early 70s
#34 Jan Bakker on the 125cc Yamaha 3 V3
A bit of sidecar fun out of T1
