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Chuck
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Eastern European Vintage Biker Rally

Post by Chuck » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:16 am

From the BRB e-mail -- if you happen to find yourself in Romania in July:

Hello
This is Alin from Transylvania Riders Motorcicles Club from Turda, Transylvania.

We would be honored if you and your club members will accept our:





Invitation to the second Eastern European Vintage Bike Rally Transylvania, July 2007

Organized by the Transylvania Riders motorcycle club.

As you can imagine this is about stunning scenery and terrific places to ride. Transylvania and the Carpathian mountains are the very best parts of Romania. The main roads apart from the major truck ways are mostly quiet and on the small roads traffic is an exception. Romania has recently become EU member and is charming and has the feel and energy of United States as we remember it in the 60's.

The arrival date is Thursday July 20th with the events going over the weekend of the 20th to the 22nd and leaving on the Monday the 23rd.

The Transylvania Riders club of Turda has about 30 members all of which work for the club and all love bikes. They all have road bikes of one form or another and part of the rally consists of ride outs to show you the best scenery.

The club members are interested in classic machinery and especially German, British, American or Japanese bikes because they come from the era when they were closed off from the rest of Europe. This rally is for everyone on whatever sort of bike and irrespective of age or size. There is a very good mix of machinery in the club so do not worry about coming on your Matchless or Vincent or BMW or other old or new occidental bike.

The club is running their second international rally this year in July.
50 years ago the town ran an annual rally and street racing and now we will see the street races also restarted.
The rally is in Turda a town with a lovely atmosphere, classic architecture and a rich past. If you are looking at a map of Romania then Turda and the Turda Gorges are in north central Romania about 30km south of Cluj Napoca.

Apart from the ride outs there will be the normal socializing made all the more interesting by the international nature and the diversity of machinery.

Once you realize the price of good beer and wine you will probably not want to return.

You can stay at the very special and very luxurious Dracula Hotel. There is secure parking and it is just off the middle of the town as are the other two standard but good hotels.

Plenty of English is spoken and you will find the people are friendly and open. No visa is required and you can get green card extension insurance from your insurer to cover Romania.

So if you think you might like a rally with an element of adventure then do come to the second one. More than 90 British bikers attended the event in 2006.

Find more about the rally at http://www.riders.transylvania.bz.



This could be a package holiday, as Transylvania Live, a tour operator specialized in tours in Transylvania offer a 7 day tour with Budapest Departure, with a good long interesting ride and with a rally at the end and then a different ride back. There are no bad routes and the whole point of a distant rally is to enjoy what you see getting there. Also Private motorcycles tours from Bucharest with first class accomodations, domestic flights and BMW motorcycles rental included are available.
Learn more here: http://www.visit-transylvania.us/motorcycle.html

If you are interested in this tipe of holiday please let us know your telephone number and we will call you back !







Testimonial from previous guests:

Anyone thinking of going on this rally I can tell you now, you will have an excellent holiday.
Two of us from the Lincolnshire section went last June.
Because of the dstance/time scale involved we went on modern B.M.W.s
Our route took us across France,swiss/austrian alps, Hungary, into Romania and our destination The Dracula Hotel in Turda.
After chilling out for three days in Turda we started our return journey by travelling south into Bulgaria on into Greece then caught an overnight ferry to the east coast of Italy.
The trip took two and a half weeks and we rode more than five thousand two hundred miles through the most stunning scenery Europe has to offer.

It must be said that the Romanian people we met and in particular the rally organizers could not have done more to make us welcome.
Oh, and Malcolm Saggers did the rally and back on his 350 Matchless special.TWO UP! And he showed all the locals how it's done in the street racing in Turda town centre.
Great rally this one, what are you waiting for?

Received from R.B. - Lincolnshire, UK






Press about the event:

If you're looking for something a little different this summer consider accepting the invitation sent to Canadian motorcyclist…
Read the article from the prestigious Canadian Biker - magazine : http://www.visit-transylvania.us/home/a ... e-tour.jpg



Contact details for the rally:
Romania: Alin Todea, Transylvania, Republicii street, no.28, Turda, 401167 Cluj; mobile: +40 723 336 512; phone/fax +40 264 313112, +40 364 405642, +40 364 405641 riders@transylvania.bz

UK: Adrian Trim adrian@cbmt.co.uk;



Contact details for motorcycles tours:
USA: Toll free: 866-376-6183 Andreea Leaha, Transylvania Live US, PO BOX 44 Cape May, NJ, 08204, U.S. or reservations@visit-transylvania.us



So what do you think about our invitation?

Good Riding!

Alin Todea
Eastern European Vintage Rally - Development Director

e-mail: alin.todea@visit-transylvania.eu , riders@visit-transylvania.eu
url: www.visit-transylvania.eu www.visit-transylvania.us www.riders.transylvania.bz
phone/fax: +40 264 313112, +40 364 405642, +40 364 405641
mobile: +40 723 336 512
head office: Republicii street, no.28, Turda, 401167 Cluj, ROMANIA

Transylvania Live, expert in Transylvania, offers guided tours and tailor-made holidays in Eastern Europe.
Transylvania Live is member of the American Society of Travel Agents and National Association of Tourism Agencies.
Founded in 1995, the company powers the Romanian travel section for more than 4000 travel agencies and agents in USA.
Transylvania Live's Halloween in Transylvania with Vlad the Impaler tour was placed by the prestigious Fodor's Travel Guide in Top Ten Must-Do Adventures in 2007.

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