The #Elephant Meeting 2015 in the Bavarian Forest/ Germany
For all who want to attend next year to the legendary Elephant meeting in Germany: the organization announced new necessary rules for attending the meeting. During the last years this motorcycle meeting developed more and more into a folk festival with participants arriving with big trucks and cars unloading huge tents and masses of cateri...ng. Also last year the limits were overpassed: disturbing noise levels (fire crackers etc.), a great input of police and fire fighters, the paramedics reaching their limits - just to name a few problems. Therefore the German organization for Motorcyclists set up a set of new rules which I briefly translate:
1. The participants may arrive only by motorcycle (two or three-wheeled. trikes only if on a motorcycle basis) The car parking in Solls is only for local visitors. No trucks, vans or cars with trailers allowed for participants.
2. The motorcycle must be street-valid even on the event site. No admittance of motorcycle without a valid license.
3. On the roads leading to the site there is a strict 30 Km/ hour rule and the helmet compulsory. On site only a walking speed is allowed. Violations against these rules will lead to a laying in of the vehicle during the entire duration of the event.
4. Putting up tents on site before the event is forbidden and they will be confiscated until the event is over.
5. A prematurely blocking of tent space is not allowed. Blocking of space without a tent on it will be disregarded.
6. Pyrotechnic articles, hooters and stuff alike are forbidden and will be confiscated at the entrance. The smugglers of noise-making devices will be removed from the event site immediately.
7. The unloading and parking of cars, trucks and vans is forbidden on the streets around the site and in the neighboring villages one week before.
By these rules the organizers want to bring back this famous meeting to its origins. It has been always a meeting for true, genuine motorcyclists and it should stay like that in future. The annoying incidents of the last years endangered the image of the legendary Elephant meeting which dates back to 1977.
http://bvdm.de/
For all who want to attend next year to the legendary Elephant meeting in Germany: the organization announced new necessary rules for attending the meeting. During the last years this motorcycle meeting developed more and more into a folk festival with participants arriving with big trucks and cars unloading huge tents and masses of cateri...ng. Also last year the limits were overpassed: disturbing noise levels (fire crackers etc.), a great input of police and fire fighters, the paramedics reaching their limits - just to name a few problems. Therefore the German organization for Motorcyclists set up a set of new rules which I briefly translate:
1. The participants may arrive only by motorcycle (two or three-wheeled. trikes only if on a motorcycle basis) The car parking in Solls is only for local visitors. No trucks, vans or cars with trailers allowed for participants.
2. The motorcycle must be street-valid even on the event site. No admittance of motorcycle without a valid license.
3. On the roads leading to the site there is a strict 30 Km/ hour rule and the helmet compulsory. On site only a walking speed is allowed. Violations against these rules will lead to a laying in of the vehicle during the entire duration of the event.
4. Putting up tents on site before the event is forbidden and they will be confiscated until the event is over.
5. A prematurely blocking of tent space is not allowed. Blocking of space without a tent on it will be disregarded.
6. Pyrotechnic articles, hooters and stuff alike are forbidden and will be confiscated at the entrance. The smugglers of noise-making devices will be removed from the event site immediately.
7. The unloading and parking of cars, trucks and vans is forbidden on the streets around the site and in the neighboring villages one week before.
By these rules the organizers want to bring back this famous meeting to its origins. It has been always a meeting for true, genuine motorcyclists and it should stay like that in future. The annoying incidents of the last years endangered the image of the legendary Elephant meeting which dates back to 1977.
http://bvdm.de/
