ISDT 1939: the movie

23 Thursday Mar 2017

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ISDT 1939, Salzburg, video

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, come inside come inside.

The ‘Great Escape’ as it was known amongst UK ISDT fans, possibly the ‘Great Escape 2’ to those who are most familiar also with the events around the ISDT 1914, is one of the iconic events in the international off-road motorcycle reliability series dedicated to testing motorcyclist and motorcycle endurance where they did not expect machines to excel for a mere continuous 24 hours but a full 6 days to test their mechanical stamina and that of the riders mounted on them. You will find an embedded copy of the video down underneath the below photo of a British Norton.

image- frame clipped from the NSU promotional movie of a British team Norton ISDT 1939

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Mapping the ISDT:West Germany 1956

17 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by Highwayman in Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Map, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Międzynarodowa Motocyklowa Sześciodniówka, Motorcycling, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Garmisch Partenkirchen, ISDT 1956, West Germany

Thank you to our Euro correspondent SB for digging up a route map for the 6th day of the ISDT 1956. We have now loaded it into Google Earth to protect it’s history and provide a copy of the scanned map here for those studying the 1956 event held at Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Image – The route of the 6th and final day of the ISDT 1956 to the east of Garmisch PartenKirchen

If any readers have any experiences or photos of this route please drop a line so we can add them to the events route profile.

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ISDT 1956: Official event programme now on-line

11 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by Highwayman in Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Międzynarodowa Motocyklowa Sześciodniówka, Motorcycling, Programme, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Garmisch Partenkirchen, ISDT 1956, West Germany

With great thanks to our Euro ISDT expert we now have a scanned copy of the event programme for the ISDT 1956 which has been hand annotated to record the final starting list on the first day.

The program can be found at our issue.com library along with other programmes and magazine reports from the original events

ISDT 1964: newly discovered event photos.

13 Sunday Nov 2016

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BSA, East Germany, Erfurt, Greeves, ISDT 1964, Steve McQueen

I am grateful as always to our Euro reporter SB who has provided these amazing snaps for our 200th blog post taken at the ISDT 1964 including some of the British team machines. I do not know the origin of these images and as soon as I know I will arrange a full credit.

Photo – GB Trophy Team #222 J Sandiford’s BSA 350cc ISDT 1964 (Speedtracktales Archive)

Check below for the rest of the images which are going to produce a bit of a bountiful harvest for the fans of Greeves bikes with plenty of action from this event possibly made most famous by the presence on the US Trophy Team of one Steve McQueen, whose team mate Dave Ekins can be found here. Continue reading →

ISDT 1939:Recently rediscovered images from the internet

04 Friday Nov 2016

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ISDT 1939

More images from the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – National Digital Archive of Poland this set featuring moments from the ISDT 1939.

photo – two riders at checkpoint #35 Ofeldw Forstner BMW 494cc of Germany #30 Fred C Perks BSA 496cc ISDT 1939 Germany (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe)

The ISDT 1939 was put on by the German Government with a view to demonstrating its army motorcyclists supremacy. The organisers encouraged many other European nations to send military teams. However, before the event came to an end the British withdrew their teams as the declaration that commenced WW2 was being made and the government wanted al its military personnel home before they could be detained. More images from the event from this collection are provided below. Continue reading →

ISDT 1936:Recently rediscovered images from the internet

04 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by Highwayman in Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Międzynarodowa Motocyklowa Sześciodniówka, Photography, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Autobahn, Bavaria, Black Forest, Freudenstadt, Garmisch Partenkirchen, ISDT 1936

Our gratitude to a reader Adam Sliwka who forwarded details of the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – National Digital Archive of Poland web site where an amazing library of historic images included a number from historic ISDT events. The images here are of the ISDT 1936 held in Germany. Of particular interest is the inclusion of images taken of riders on a very new Autobahn, one of the major civil engineering projects that Adolf Hitler had set about after he became the leader of Germany which it is contended were purposely designed to facilitate rapid advancement of his army should a war break out.

photo – Victorious British Trophy team with Stuart Waycott, A Belstun, George Rowley and Vic Brittain with Walcott’s #42 works Velocette 495cc – the 1930’s ISDT dream team ISDT 1936 Germany (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe)

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ISDT 1964: Painting of Steve McQueen at Erfurt by Jürgen Valdeig

18 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by Highwayman in Art, Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Media, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Erfurt, ISDT 1964, Steve McQueen

Sorry its been a while time waits for no-one and I’ve been struggling to keep up with a lot of things. Just checking through some old emails and I think I missed this one from our German contact SB who shares this image with us featuring the king of cool Steve McQueen.

image – painting of McQueen on start in Erfurt ISDT1964

Jürgen Valdeig is an artist (art painter). He lives in Erfurt. Mr. Valdeig had contact with Dave Ekins, a team member of USA-Silvervase in ISDT 1964. Ekins helped the artist Jürgen Valdeig in the scientific research.

Dave wrote:

“Dear Juergen,
Beautiful work! How kind of you to give me credit on the International Six Days Trial 1964- September page in Calendar 2014….. Wouldn`t it be great if we could meet in person someday.
Your friend,

Dave Ekins Los Angeles, Januar 2014″.

The website of Jürgen Valdeig was partly written in English.

http://www.valdeig-fineart.de/

Speedtracktales XMAS Present Bonanza 3 ISDT Programmes to check out.

25 Friday Dec 2015

Posted by Highwayman in Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Italy, Magazine, Media, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Motorcycling, Poland, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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ISDT 1967, ISDT 1968, ISDT 1969

Thanks to the generosity earlier this year of Brian Catt who started scanning his collection of ISDT programmes, here are the first that have been uploaded to our online library at issue.com

Image – scanned cover Official Programme of ISDT 1969 (Greenwood Family Collection)

Link to browse 1969 programme at Speedtracktales ISDT programme library at issue.com.

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Mapping the ISDT : 1964, Erfurt – East Germany

22 Saturday Nov 2014

Posted by Highwayman in Enduro, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Map, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Erfurt, ISDT 1964, map

2014 sees the 50th anniversary of the holding of the ISDT 1964 in Erfurt, East Germany. The event is one which gets a lot of attention and is number one International when it comes to enquiries and hits on our web search.

image – route of day 1 ISDT 1964 (Google Earth)

Thanks to the help of our contributor STB who has sent the route maps for the event which we will add to the ‘mapping the ISDT project’ this winter. Keep watching this page to see how it progresses.

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Mapping the ISDT: 11th ISDT – 1929 Munich to Genéve

12 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Highwayman in Austria, Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Italy, Map, Motorcycling, Photography, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux, Switzerland

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ISDT 1929

STT editor recently had a trip out to Valasian Alps on the Southern Swiss border with Italy. Arriving at Genéve was followed by a train ride along the northern shore of Lake Genéve through Lausanne, Montreaux, Aigle and at Martigny I realised this was more or less the reverse of the final closing stages of the ISDT 1929 which had begun in Munich and finished in Genéve.