MODE BY ROCKERS

Grossglocker Trophy 2010 -- The second hill climb --

The curve no.7, you are supposed to be able to see a fantastic white mountains behind the U shape bend but... there was nothing!

Norton M30 1937

Motosacoche D50 1930

Sunbeam Model9 1932

Rudge Ulster 1934

BMW R63 1929

Engine stopped! I thought it may have been seized up in the worst case. Helped him to push his Rudge.

Kicking and kicking. You can not see how hard it was raining on this small photo but it was pissing down! His machine fired up after a short break and carried on climbing, phew. She must have been a bit tired of the high altitude? She is 71 years old!

Rudge Leigh 1934 Despite the poor weather, some of the riders were very quick. Some modern bikes would be even beaten up!

BSA ZB32 Competition Model 1949 He knew what he was doing! One of the fastest men at the event.

I could not be more wet... SOAKED! The 2nd run was cancelled in the middle due to the heavy snow at the top! The rain was transformed to snow even at my place towards the end.

Although that must have been one of the toughest situation to rider motorcycles, everybody seemed to be so proud of their-selves and fulfilled. Thank you for the riders who showed your happiness to my lens.

Motosacoche 414 Aport 1930

You are a drama maker!

Norton Inter 1935

Thumbs up! Yes!

Grossglocker Trophy 2010 -- The first hill climb --

FN M67 1927

Rudge Ulster 1934

Standard DR 500 1931

BMW R631929
BMW 51 R/S 1938

Rudge Ulster 1939

Brough Superior SS100

Honda CR77 1961

In the middle of the hill climbing, I heard something barking at the opposite of the road, there was a little fawn! The bambi kept singing and unexpectedly, started crossing the race course towards me! I really struggled myself if I should make me to get in the middle of the race course and warn the bambi or do nothing, but what if it stays there, a racer try to avoid and then mis-handle.... That moment must have been a couple of seconds but felt quite long time. I decided to pop into the road and stepped loudly, the bambi was probably very friendly and did not seem to have wariness so my loud stomp gave him a big shock (Good!) but his foot could not grip the man-made ground enough and slipped over! (OMG!) I made the situation bloody worse! A man and a fawn would have looked like playing in the middle of the road! But, luckily, his action was pretty quick and jumped back into the bushes, then soon after, a next racer turned out without knowing any drama between the bambi and me...

AWO 425RS 1953

Triton Manx 1957

Vincent Black Lightning 1950

BSA GOLD STAR ZB

BSA GOLD STAR Daytona 1955

Vincent Racer 1952

Harley Davidson WR 1941

BMW R50 1960

Margan Super Aero 1930



All racers got back to where they started and all faces looked absolutely fulfilled and people had waited there were praised the racers, thumbed up and were smiling everywhere. The scene made me quite emotional and I definitely will never forget it.







To be continued...

Grossglocker Trophy 2010 -- People I met and thank!--

Thomas, the organiser of the special event. Grossglockner Trophy

Gerald, the team leader of the organiser. Thank you very much for giving me lots of lift. He chose the first place for me to shoot the hill-climb.

Oliver, a Velocette racer. His result was very good! Thank you very much for picking up and giving me a lift to Thomas's place.

Mary, we shared the Gerald's lift once and talked to me warmly. She kindly gave me a opportunity to get a lift from her friend's, Keith.

Keith, thank you very much for the lift from Thomas's to Zell am see town.

And of course, Geff! I can not thank enough, I owe you many pints!

Nadine, thank you very much for your hospitality at the party.

Tim and Fiona, thank you very much for showing snowy photos.

Classic dirt bike
Old bike mart

Another Veloccete racer, Mick. Thank you very much for sending me some nice snowy shots. Fiona and Mick's photos will be updated to end this story.

Paul the Vintagent! Bumped into purely by a chance but it was great to see you! Let's have a pint or two when you pop in London. I really envy you rode the beautiful winding road with your friend's Vincent!

Vintagent

To be continued...

Grossglocker Trophy 2010 -- Miss. Brownie --

On Friday, we went up to the goal point for Johnny's test run to check the road and carburation, the scenery was outstanding, most part of mountains were still covered with snow and I am sure you will not often see this kind of real picture in your life, and even with a works BSA!

雪山をバックに、ワークスマシンとの稀有な写真を撮ろうとした瞬間、観光客がマシンの回りに集まってきた！白い山々と、BSAの雄姿に一般人も魅せられるのかと感心したのも束の間。実は、その後ろにひょっこりと出てきた、ふさふさしたアルプス・マーモットを写真に収めようとしたのでした。見る見る間に霧が雪山を覆い隠し、後に残されたのは霧ばかり・・・と思ったら、再びマーモットが登場しBSAに近づいてくるのでその様子を連写して気を晴らしたのでした。でも、こんな写真も多分滅多にとれないでしょうねー、だから満足です・・・？

The Daytona was moved to near the wood fence and OK, let's shoot the beast, move out guys! And yes, that was the moment I was going to take one of the most exciting motorcycle photos ever BUT, tourist started gathering around all of the sudden. I was so impressed as even for ordinary tourists, the combination of the white mountains and the Daytona pulled the crowd.

However, after a few more seconds of watching, noticed their eyes were slightly "off" from the machine and there was a little, hairy creature was sniffing around behind it, so people gathered to catch its figure in their cameras! He/She was a marmot! By that time, fog was coming very quickly to shut the curtain to hide the beauty of the white world but all I could do was standing and watching people and the marmot from the distance...

After the marmot charmed people enough and disappeared, all you could see was just fog, fog and fog. Then finally, the moment was set up for me to shoot the curtain and the racing machine. But, the marmot, let's call it as,,, Miss Brownie, she jumped back again, was sniffing and coming closer to the art of metal, at least she was interested in the works machine! Probably I was lucky to take these photos with Miss. Brownie, don't you agree?





Thank you Miss.Brownie for your interest.

To be continued...

Grossglocker Trophy 2010 -- At the scrutineering

1923 BMW R23 Beautiful machine, I was not familiar with classic BMW's but fell in love with their simple but sophisticated figures.

これまであまり間近に見たことが無かったBMWのクラシック・ヴィンテージバイクですが、その独特の雰囲気にノックアウトされました。

DBD34 Racer, the front brake is Ceriani one!? It must do a good job! And nice rear sets, too.

気合の入ったDBD,本番でも快走していました。さすが、伊達じゃないですね！

1968 Egli-Vincent Corsa I am wondering how good the handling is!

カフェレーサーの極みの一台。

Racing machines in the raining.

Kicking on behalf of her, a piece of the warmness.

旦那さんが替わりにキックしてあげてました。心があったまるシーンですね。

1938 Velocette KSS

1930 Morgan Super Aero Isn't that heavy?? Actually Morgans were very quick on the race!

Mr Seifert and his son with their Norton Internationals, envy combination, isn't it? He explained his 1949 inter is one of the very early or even first DOHC inter to a privater according to the record, wow!

http://www.nortonmotors.de/index_Gb.htm

親子でノートン・インターナショナル、いいですねぇ。息子さんはコマンドーの方が好きそうな感じでしたけど・笑 手前のインターはDOHC化されてプライベーターに渡った最初期の一台だそう。

Inspector "I need to check the swinging arm bushes for play." Then Mr. Preston's Daytona lecture was started. :-)



6T side car racer with the upgraded front brake!

Nicely prepared Internationals. There will be a story about them in the end.

全て絶好調のインターナショナル達。最後に仰天の事実を大公開!?



To be continued... Next story is about.....Marmot?

次回はこの動物、マーモット特集です。 お楽しみに!?