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Podium for the Pirates at the 24 Hour in Duisburg


The problems for this race began with the preparation....
Sam Baeten was ordered to join the Belgian Nationial Team that weekend... our replacement "Fish Pit" (acting Northern German Champion in his time trial age division) was suddenly struck down by a cold...



Quickly Captain Ubi Blutsventje was called and we had our replacement:Alex Bauer.



Alex fit into the team wonderfully! We were ready to go.
We were competing to teach the world the meaning of the word fear... and things continued to go super, our first rider Alex arrived at the biker camp with a flat tire... puke.



the time it cost us had to be caught up, but, after all, 24 hours are a lot of time!



At the top you can see "Jenno" from the team "Pirate + X"



here Robert messes with the Hirschen... who, funnily enough, came in 2nd in the end.

in this pic: Hirschen discussing their awesome lap times....


here Alex is about to attack the Pink-Lady....


...and then it was nighttime.


...and yet man and machine were in the best of moods.



everything was running smoothly...


until Miss Kruse didn't show up for the exchange for the second time (he was still on the shitter) and Niels Nielsen ran through the biker camp yelling and screaming to pick him up personally...

Let sleeping dogs lie!!


The guys from the Pirate-Fuerte team were definitely doped!?!? or from another planet???



and luckily the sun came up again and we could wear our sunglasses again.


weirdly enough man-machine Niels was still riding the same lap times after almost 24 hours...


...and "Malloca Paule" got faster and faster!?!?!


cool rides over steel grating...


Some other cool Pirates were there too:





In the end we did make it onto the podium.... not in 1st, unfortunately, but at least we came in in 3rd.... we'll be back (in Munich)

Ron
P.s. The negative aspects of the event were probably created by the economic strategies of the organizers....

1. The worst aspect was the use of transponders, which the organizers obviously received as a free loan from the Slovenian long distance ski club... the transponder had to be held to a certain spot on a board until you heard it beep and you were free... if you didn't hear it on the ride through, you had to drop anchor to give the transponder to one of the waiting helpers, who had to run back with it .... see the film
2. The second worst aspect would have to be the breakfast... which you could only get if you ordered it earlier on the internet and paid the € 5.- the day before.... What you got was hearty meal of greasy pieces of sausage a strange tasting egg and ONE cup of coffee.
Yup, ONE cup of coffee... neither money nor kind words could procure another! UNBELIEVABLE!!!
3. Just one person was responsible for the handing out of starter numbers (supposedly there wasn't room for another person...)
4. Toilets... at first I though: hey finally a couple of clean toilets, but after the event began it quickly became apparent that there weren't enough of them... continuous lines and no toilet paper/paper towels....gross...etc.
5. Track marshals: some just weren't there and those that were, were hardly or not at all qualified and on duty for 24 hours straight, abandoned by the organizers. One of the marshals complained that his 2 litres of coffee (that he had to bring himself) were empty and the organizers refused to give him anymore when he asked
.
The marshals were unable to master the simplest situations!
It was a miracle that there weren't many more crashes during the night, since dangerous points and turns weren't illuminated accordingly.

I hope they get their act together next year!!!

Here are a few extra movies:
Robby.K
Volker
Timmie
Alex



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