The most beautiful Elefants on the planet, joined Elefant rides trough four European Countries, a great campsite with good food, Award show & campfire evenings - All these reasons will make it the event of the year that you can not miss: The 2017 Cagiva Elefant International Treffen.

The place today just before the storm:

Campsite

Elefant village (or better the place where it will be)

Unofficial Off-road Track

Meeting Point  for Route A & B

Farewell event place

Elefant Rally 2017

Finally this is what a lot of you have been waiting for! The ultimate part of each International Elefant Meeting event is the tour on the main event day. 2017 it is the 24th of June. As previously announced the initial plan was to run a tour across 4 countries. This is something that is only possible in Luxembourg and it would be a great target to achieve. Unfortunately we did not succeed to follow our ambitions here. After touring around the country we understood that we would have to make compromises regarding the quality of the tour. We expect that you come to Luxembourg to discover the most beautiful roads of the country. To make any compromise on providing the nicest roads to you, would probably not the best possible decision.

The final solution now covers “only” 3 of the possible “4” countries. We further decided after some mail exchange with the “Pfadfinder” from Germany to offer 3 different tracks. Not necessarily everybody has the ambition to do the entire 200km trip that we have foreseen for the bravest of you.

As highlighted already several times Offroad isn’t easy in our country. We promised to find at least a small replacement for that. If you really are interested you should ask for that option during the inscription process.  A secret map will be available only at the event on the reception desk. The option that we do not disclose publicly, because we don’t want to wakeup sleeping animals is only available for the brave guys that sign up for Route A (200km). We hope you have fun with it. During the 2nd test ride with road tires my Elefant ended up on the ground. It did rain the night before and there is a tiny hill climb covered by gras. In case of bad weather conditions we strongly recommend not to ride it.

In any case be aware that you ride on or offload completely on your own responsibility. Officially there is even no route guidance provided. We have only one guy per route that is available to ride upfront. There is no one covering the end of a convoy. In case you lose track, there is no support. Just try to reach the next meeting point on your own. There is no babysitting. You did manage to find Luxembourg, so we are confident that you will make it. Obviously the guys will try to ride upfront in a low pace.

There is still room for volunteers to ride upfront in any group. Thats why we publish the routes upfront. Don’t forget that the aim is, to see the beautiful landscape around you, which is provided by parts of Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. We did skip France even if it is a beautiful country because we would have to extend the already challenging “Route A” by additional 100 km. If you stay for a day longer than planed we encourage you to visit the vineyards of Mosel and have a short trip to France because thats the part that is missing. You find us during the meeting and we are happy to give you further advise on the possible routes.

Beside “Route A” there will be two additional routes: “Route B” and “Route C”. Both cover two countries: Germany and Luxembourg. Route B is still challenging. None of the routes stays behind if it comes down to experiencing beautiful country roads. If we don’t find enough guides, Route C is headed by our two ladies. It is the shortest and probably in that case the slowest track. You certainly would have the most beautiful tour guides: Laura and Irene. Please stay patient with them!

This year each of the routes offers an optional rally game. When you sign-up for a route you will get a questioner with exercises about your individual route. There is no difference if you sign up for a guided or non guided tour. If you fill them out you become part of the price draw on Saturday evening. If you have all answers filled out correctly you might have the chance to become the winner of the trophy for the route that you selected. There are trophies and consolidation prices for each of the 3 routes. The organisers and riders from Luxembourg are obviously excluded from the the drawing. We hope you like the show!

Here the Routes:

Route A:

ALarochette

at the main road turn left

turn right  direction Nommern

BNommern

Schrondweiler

Cruchten

at the main road turn right, then after  100m left direction Bissen

*Circuit Goodyear  on your right hand

Roost

cross the main road direction Bissen

CBissen

after the bridge turn right direction Colmarberg

Colmarberg

turn left just before joining the main road

Berg

*Residence of Grand-Duc  AD

Karelshof

DMerzig

EDellen

at the main road turn right

Hierheck

Fuel station

Eschdorf

at the central intersection turn left

FLultzhausen

right direction Esch sur Sure

HBarrage (Dam)

cross the dam at your left hand

direction Kaundorf

*Parking at your right with vue on the lake => Meetingpoint - break

49.913634, 5.924129

IKaundorf

Liefrange

when leaving Kaundorf turn left direction Bavigne

Harlange

*border Belgium

JLutremange

Lutrebois

KBastogne

*Main Place (close to the tank) => Meetingpoint - break (+- 1 hour)

50.000942, 5.715200

direction Clervaux

Neffe

Mageret

LAllerborn

border Luxembourg

Derenbach

Wilwerwiltz

Pintsch

Bockholz

MHosingen

at the main road turn right direction Diekirch till roundabout "Schinker"

Wahlhausen

direction Vianden

Mont St Nicolas (A322)

*SEO Oberbecken

NVianden

*castle Vianden

*Parking at left with view on castle  => Meetingpoint

49.932256, 6.201401

cross Vianden direction DE

border DE- after  Q8 left direction Bitburg

German Border

turn right direction Wallendorf

OWallendorf

Bollendorf

PEchternacherbrück

border Luxembourg

Echternach

after  the bridge right

tur right direction Centrum

*Market Place with Denzelt

49.932256, 6.201401

at the traffic light turn right direction Diekirch

after issuing of Echternach turn right direction Berdorf

*Perekop

QBerdorf

before the church turn right direction Grundhof

*Predigtstuhl

Vugelsmillen

left direction Müllerthal

Müllerthal

at the intersection turn left then at the next right

*Schiessentümpel

pass straight over the intersection "Breidweiler Brücke"( STOP)

Direction Blumenthal

after "Reilander Millen" turn right

RReuland

Heffingen

after the church turn right

Supp

after the bridge turn left

turn right direction Fischbach

SFischbach

*Summer Residence of the Grand-Duc

TSchoos

Angelsberg

when entering Angelsberg turn right direction Meysembourg

U Meysembourg

take the road at left of the church

*castle of  Meysembourg

at the  main road turn right

Larochette

before Larochette turn right to Camping Birkelt

Route B:

ALarochette

at the main road turn left

turn right  direction Nommern

BNommern

CSchrondweiler

DCruchten

at the main road turn right, then after  100m left direction Bissen

*Circuit Goodyear on your right hand

Roost

cross the main road direction Bissen

EBissen

after the bridge turn right direction Colmarberg

FColmar

turn left just before joining the main road

GBerg

*Residence of Grand-Duc  AD

Karelshof

HMerzig

IDellen

at the main road turn right

Hierheck

Fuel station

Eschdorf

at the central intersection turn left

JLultzhausen

turn right direction Esch sur Sure

Barrage (Dam)

cross the dam at your left hand (direction Kaundorf)

*Parking at your right with vue on the lake => Meetingpoint - break

49.913634, 5.924129

Esch-sur-Sure

turn right, then turn into the tunnel at your left

after another tunnel at the main road turn right

Direction  Heischtergronn

turn left direction Göbelsmühle

turn left

LGöbelsmühle

Hoscheid

MMerscheid

Weiler

NDirection Vianden

Mont Saint Nicolas (A322)

*SEO Oberbecken

continue direction Vianden

*castle Vianden

*Parking at left with view on castle  => Meetingpoint - Break -+ 1 hour

49.932256, 6.201401

Vianden

cross Vianden direction DE

border DE- turn left after station Q8 direction Bitburg

German Border

right direction Wallendorf

OWallendorf

Bollendorf

Echternacherbrück

border Luxembourg

PEchternach

after the bridge right

turn right direction Centrum

*Market Place with Denzelt

49.932256, 6.201401

at the traffic light turn right direction Diekirch

after issuing of Echternach turn right direction Berdorf

*Perekop

QBerdorf

before the church turn right direction Grundhof

*Predigtstuhl

Vugelsmillen

turn left direction Müllerthal

Müllerthal

at the intersection turn left then at the next right

*Schiessentümpel

direction Blumenthal

pass straight over the intersection "Breidweiler Brücke"( STOP)

after "Reilander Millen" turn right

RReuland

Heffingen

after the church turn right

Supp

after the bridge turn left

turn right direction Fischbach

SFischbach

*Summer Residence of the Grand-Duc

TSchoos

Angelsberg

when entering Angelsberg turn right direction MeYsembourg

UMeysembourg

take the road at left of the church

*castle of  Meysembourg

at the  main road turn right

VLarochette

before Larochette turn right to Camping Birkelt

Route C:

ALarochette Camping Birkelt

Bat the issue of the Camping at the main road turn left

Cturn right  direction Nommern

DNommern

Eichelborn

at the intersection after  Eichelborn cross the road

FMedernach

turn right then de suite left direction Ermsdorf

GErmsdorf

turn right direction Savelborn

HSavelborn

turn left direction Haller

IHaller

in the village turn left direction Befort

JBeaufort

*castle Befort

at the main road turn right

take the 2. issue at the roundabout

KGrundhof

at the main road turn right

LBollendorf

cross the German  border next the station

after the bridge turn right

NEchternacherbrück

OEchternach

border Luxembourg

after the bridge turn right, the next right once more

*Market Place > Meetingpoint -  break

49.932256, 6.201401

at the traffic light turn right direction Diekirch

after issuing of Echternach turn right direction Berdorf

*Point de vue Perekop

PBerdorf

before the church turn right direction Grundhof

*Point de vue Predigtstuhl

QVugelsmillen

RMüllerthal

at the intersection turn left then at the next right

*Schiessentümpel

Sdirection Blumenthal

pass straight over the intersection "Breidweiler Brücke"( STOP)

after "Reilander Millen" turn right

Reuland

THeffingen

after the church turn right

Supp

after the bridge turn left

turn right direction Fischbach

UFischbach

*Summer Residence of the Grand-Duc

VSchoos

WAngelsberg

when entering Angelsberg turn right direction  Meysembourg

X Meysembourg

take the road at left of the church

*castle of   Meysembourg

at the  main road turn right

YLarochette

before Larochette turn right to Camping Birkelt

The maps will of course be available in all four languages. We had already the request to deliver the routes in GPS format. Thanks to Pfadfinder we might be able to follow that request as he spends a lot of effort to develop them.

Again: We are still looking desperately for tour guides. We hope that Pfadfinder will join us. Feel free to volunteer!

Location & Event Program

The Camping Birkelt is located at about 1 km from the center of Larochette,. Ibn the chapter “Introduction to Meeting Location Larochette “ you find all the information to reach it easily. At the entrance of the campsite you will find, the registration area, and meeting point. We remind all those who wish to attend the event that reservations are mandatory and will exhaustively close on the 20th of June 2017.

You can book by using this link:

http://www.cagivaelefant.org/cagivaelefant.org/Home/Entries/2017/1/29_Elefant_Meeting_Registration_2017.html

After booking you will receive the bank details for the payment by bank transfer, which must be made no later than the 20th of June 2017. In case the payment is not received before the above mentioned date the cancellation will be automatic. The registration fee, in case of non-participation, is not refundable if the cancellation is not communicated by the 20th of June by e-mail at: elefantmeeting2017@cagivaelefant.org

Anyone wishing to anticipate or prolong their stay in the camp other than the dates of the meeting are invited to use the following link:

http://www.irisparc.co.uk/camping-birkelt/?_ga=2.181318498.473072470.1494798215-73044395.1484463933

The total amount of the registration fees, net of costs incurred, will be invested in the event.

Event Program

Friday June 23rd 2017

14.00 - 18.30  Participants Registration / Bikers welcome at the Camping Birkelt Larochette. Distribution of information material, gadgets, maps ....

Registration for tours for Saturday

Free afternoon to set up the tent and get familiar with the Camping

19.00  Official presentation of the Saturday program

20.00 - 22.00 Dinner with video of the Paris - Dakar

Luxembourgish evening with typical Luxembourgish food

small dinner but with the possibility to dine until late in the evening for the latecomers

! In case you are not open for Luxembourgish Cuisine we have Pasta as alternative. We apologise in advance to our Italian guests as Pasta is nowhere in the world like in Italy !

Saturday June 24th 2017

08.00 - 09.30 Breakfast buffet

Bread assortment, croissants,

butter, honey, marmelade, nutella

müsli, cornflakes with milk

fresh fruit, joghurt

cheese, ham, salami

boiled eggs, scrambled eggs with bacon

coffee, tea, cacao and juices

10.00 Meeting for the riding tours

Lunch up to you and not included in the package

17.00 Meeting in Larochette for the group photo

20.00 Dinner

Cold dishes

large salad buffet

potato salad,  pasta salad, cucumber salad,  tomato salad

bread, buns and butter

Warm dishes

pork steak, turkey steak

burger station

birkelt spare ribs

Luxemburger Grillwurst and Mettwurst (typical sausages)

fried champignon

butter, mayonnaise, ketchup, aioli, BBQ sauce

Dessert

Applepie, Icecream, Fruitsalad

21.45 Event speech 2017

Best motorcycle Awards

Assignment of the Alex Fisher Price

Disclosing the meeting location for 2018

Open End

Sunday June 25th 2017

08.00 - 10.00 Breakfast buffet

similar to Saturday

10.30 Farewell Greetings at the Castle of Larochette

Get you small farewell gift before leaving

More Program Info

When you register at the Camping scheduled for Friday 23th of June, from 14.00 to 18.30, it is essential to complete the form for the Saturday morning tour, specifying in the appropriate check box if you prefer the guided or free option. You further have to checkmark if you want to participate in Tour A, B or C.  After the registration you receive your welcome package including maps indicating all possible tours, information about the meeting area’s, cultural points of interest, event decals, event shirts and other stuff.

The two lunches on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of June are up to you and not included in the package, in order to let you free to organise the motorcycle tours as you like on both days. Please remember drinks are never included - not even at the Castel for the farewell greetings. Having said that we might have a surprise for Saturday late night. The legendary memory photo session of the event will take place Saturday 24th of June in the afternoon, after the ride and before the dinner. Sorry but on Sunday morning most of you guys are still dead from the Saturday night. Thats why we decided to organise it Saturday. There is an additional Photo session for the most amazing Elefant on Sunday at the Castel.

On Saturday 24th of June, at about 21:45, some Cagiva Elefant’s, will receive a prize according to a ranking exposed in the stand area. The event speech and award ceremony will not take place in the dining area but in our private Elefant village at the end of the campsite. Please make sure that you arrive there in time. The bikes together with the owners will be asked to go on stage to receive the prize. Finally we will end the formal part with the award ceremony of the Alex Fischer price and disclose the event location for 2018 (and maybe even 2019). After the formal part there is an open end informal part in the Elefant village with beer, MusikBähr & his Guitar.

On Sunday 25th of June we will close the event with a decent breakfast and some farewell greetings at the beautiful Castle of Larochette.

Remember to keep a civilised and decent behaviour within the campsite Birkelt. Please do not ride the bikes after 22.30 and stay cool!

Short Introduction of the campsite:

There is no one who prevents you to ride your Elefant on the gras in the Cagiva Elefant Village, but be aware that on the entire campsite walking speed is mandatory. Please leave the gras in a decent state.

Remember to keep a civilised and decent behaviour within the campsite Birkelt. Please do not ride the bikes after 22.30 and stay cool!

Event decals

The CAGIVA ELEFANT MEETING 2017 event decal are part of the welcome package and feature this year one front sticker and three bag stickers. To save costs the stickers are not perforated but we will offer scissors at the reception if you want to cut them at the event:

Wristbands

The wristbands for the 2017 event did finally arrive. Please make sure that you don’t loose them during the event. The wristband is you entry ticket to the meals and every other event attraction. Usually they should survive two nights. In case you have doubts then you should avoid to take a shower during the event. The drawback might be that you make less friends - so please handle the wristband with care. If you loose it anyway then please contact the organisers.

2017 Elefant Event Trophies

As usual there will be several Trophies for the Elefant that made the longest distance to travel to Luxembourg, for the most beautiful Elefant of the year and also the winners of the Route competition: Route A, Route B, Route C and Offroad (yes - even if we officially don’t have any offload track).

We wish you all the luck in the world to collect one of these!

Media & Entertainment

We will try to cover most of the event time with Music and Videos down in the Elefant Village. There are plenty of videos available on the internet that describe the last 30 years Elefant culture. The aim is to just collect some fun stuff that can run in the background during the event. We hope that no-one of the authors will bring us to court due to copyright issues. There is no business background for the event all the content is nowhere used with a commercial target. All the money that we did collect goes into the event. Even if it is not a charity event we will follow the example of our Italian colleges from last year and donate any cent that might be left to an charity organisation and make the donation public to you.

It is difficult to select music for so many different nations and people. If you have something tin an iTunes readable format, that you absolutely want to what or listen to during the event then feel free to bring it over.

Garvin did a tremendous job to create an DVD based on the old original Paris Dakar Video. We told him that we will find a way to show it to the crowd as this is an important tradition of the event. Unfortunately we are still struggling to read the content. If you have any Cagiva Dakar content please  bing it over to Luxembourg!

Castle of Larochette

We are very proud to announce that after a great show, our farewell morning ends exactly here.

“Larochette Castle, locally known as Château de Larochette or Burg Fels, lies above the village of the same name, east of the town of Mersch in Luxembourg. It is built on a rocky promontory, 150 meters above the White Ernz stream, a tributary of the Sûre river.

Larochette Castle consists of a main castle on the end of the promontory, separated from a large bailey by a natural dry moat.

The Lords of Larochette were first mentioned at the end of the 12th century. The castle itself probably dates back to the end of the 11th century. In 1255 Larochette Castle was bought by Arnold III von Fels who in 1270 took part in the crusade against Tunis with Saint Louis; the French King Louis IX.

At the end of the 14th century Larochette Castle had become a 'Ganerbenburg'; which meant that it was owned and lived in by several noble families. In this case the Homburg, Créhange (or Criechingen in German), Pittingen, Fels and Fels-Reuland families. All the rules of this joint ownership were laid down in a 'Burgfrieden'; a Castle Peace. All these families resided in their own houses which were built in the main castle. The Homburger House was built in 1350 after the brothers Friederich and Konrad, Lords of Homburg, married the sisters Irmgard and Mathilde of Fels. The Criechinger House was built in 1385.

In 1565 the castle was destroyed by a large fire and fell to ruin. Because of quarrels between the many heirs the castle was never rebuilt and was used as a quarry.

In 1979 the ruins of Larochette Castle were acquired by the State of Luxembourg after which restoration works followed. The ruin of the Criechinger House was rebuilt between 1983 and 1987 and now houses a small museum.”

I did “steal” that text from: http://www.castles.nl/larochette-castle

The castle is the place for our farewell ceremony.

Very important: We did find an agreement with the manager of the place (who is btw. a very nice guy) that we are allowed to use the place. Just after the entrance of the castle there is a nice terrace where you can get drinks and snacks - (Be aware that they are not included in your event package!). We know form the past that the group on Sunday morning is obviously much smaller, because a lot of you will be exhausted by the tours on Saturday and even more from the party on the night before. The Elefant parking is outside of the castle. Approximately 20 Elefant are allowed to enter the castle of a photo shooting. We will try to select them on Saturday during the trophy challenge. Please don’t destroy any green fields inside the castle there is plenty of space outside the castle that you can use to practice with you Elefant but also there please stay reasonable. Inside the castle you absolutely have to stay on the terrace and you are not allowed to walk around as the castle offers guided visits. We did arrange with the manager a guided tour that you can join if you like. It is in absolutely worth to see it and the guidance is offered in French, Englisch, German, Dutch, and of course Luxemburgisch. Sorry, there is no Italian but Irene might be able to support. The tour lasts up to 90 minutes and is for maximum 25 people. The price is 4 Euro per person and if you are interested it is absolutely worth the money.

In case you are one of the guys that decide to go for the guided tour then you can of cause also walk around anywhere on your own. Again: Otherwise please stay at the terrace because otherwise the organisers have to pay for you.

When you finally decide, that you have seen enough old stones then you will get you farewell present and are free to ride back to the camping or somewhere else into the sun. The official program ends here, but as usual you might still see plenty of Elefant for a couple of days at the campsite or in the surrounding villages. We wish you some great days and a safe trip back home.

Final Words

Registration is now closed!

• In case you are really very late you will get the option to register onsite and get the event shirts and sticker for a small uplift send to you after the event

1. •You will further be able to order additional shirts at the event
   

Drinks are unfortunately not included in the event package. There is a bar and a shop at the campsite. Please make sure that you collect enough booze before everything might be closed at midnight and you risk to miserably die of thirst.

National holiday:

For the guys that arrive already Thursday the 22nd of June: You are really lucky. On the afternoon before the national holiday (23th of June) entire Luxembourg city becomes one big party. There are all kinds of festivities and  famous fireworks in the Luxembourg city. Its probably the best way to start you Luxy weekend.

As the event inscription did officially end now but we still have people that do inscribe themselves for the event, we kindly ask you to not pay via bank transfer but to do the payment at the campsite when you register. We will find a place for you but please note that your T-Shirts and Gadgets might be only available after the event. They will send to you by post.

Be aware that you ride on or offload completely on your own responsibility. Officially there is even no route guidance provided. In case you lose track, there is no support. Just try to reach the next meeting point on your own. There is no babysitting. You did manage to find Luxembourg, so we are confident that you will make it.

All rights reserved and contents are subject to change without notice. We of course try to keep you updated under www.cagivaelefant.org

We wish you all a great 17th INTERNATIONAL

CAGIVA ELEFANT MEETING 2017

Your 2017 event team:

Laura, Irene, Tun, Arm & Mikel