Every year again, the Pirates from Plettenberg made their way to Duisburg, to the industrial area-north. The is the hardest and best MTB-race of whole NRW and just waited for some maniac Pirates:
24h of Duisburg

We were splitted in mixed teams of eight and one single rider ( no one wanted him to join their team). Just arrived we built up our camping area and made it safe against crossovers from enemies. We had orignal barrier tape from the Interstate police of Lüdenscheid. Finally we raised our PIRATE-FLAG, visible for everyone, so that there be no misunderstandings with the other teams.

Well,after we had eletric power...

for the refridgerators, filled with steaks and tasty liqiud something filled with yeast. The refrdgerators were surrounded soon by tents, like a Pirate rule said, first of all, the important things…

After tall that happens, the head cook Benno, started his work at the BBQ. For the musical ambience Pirate Schnuffi brought his guitar and were accompanied by stamping foot.

For those, who didn´t know the lyrics, was the rule, just sing, anything you got on your mind, but it should be in the official PIRATE-Language – Engman(Denglish) – But after 11o`clock PM you were allowed to sing without any consonants.

After we emptied both of the refridgerators, some of the Pirates left the camping lot...

They played along, singed along on the festival lot until early in the morning. As a salary they got paid by two blond girls with Kümmerlings and liqiud yeast. At this moment, no one of them thought about the upcoming quests of the next day, but sometime later, they finally find the way back in their chambers.

10 hours and about 3 packets of asprin later, everything finally started.

The bell from the tower just ringed for the first hour after midday, when all the Pirates from the Monschau-Sauerland-Express and of course Mallorca-Paule as a single rider, made their way up this massacre.

Like expected after a few rounds all the poison from the night before left their bodies on the sweat way, now only minerals and carbohydrates find their way in the bodies of the Pirates and were of course at this point vitally important.

We even got some high-tecnology stuff, like the I-Phone of Capt´n Stede, which provided us with th lap-splits.

Every round were a fierce fight, and at the end of the day(24h) the 8-mixed team had 71ounds and 489km on the schedule and a 5th place overall. Mallorca-Paule did a good job as well, he finished the race with 317km, with only 3 brakes, each no longer than 30minutes and reached a the finish line as 27th.overall.

For all Pirates and their friends was it a succesful weekend, which had everythin a heart of a biker needs and make it beating like a drum.

We like to say a special thank you to the organizer of this event Pities for this excellent organization of this whole weekend and before…

Greetings and with pleasant anticipation for the next year

your

Mallorca-Paule