I took the keys out overnight and emptied the tankbag but left my panniers & rollbag on the bike. I’m not in the UK now so you can actually trust people a bit more.
I’ve done the Elephant 5 times and now I’m old and decrepit I prefer the smaller rallies. This one is great and they’ve made us really welcome so it’s one I’d come back to.
Update: we paid the equivalent of £16 for 2 evening meals, 2 breakfasts, unlimited wood for the fire and beer is £24 for a crate of 30 bottles of Tuborg. I quite like this place.
I will do a slightly more detailed report later but I’ve just had 3 glasses of local schnapps forced on me so it’ll have to wait.
We’re close to Bjerringbro in Jutland, Denmark so it’s really an easy ride here. The weather was crap yesterday so we stopped just outside Flensburg in Germany and did the last 160 miles today.
The club that organised the rally is really friendly and bikers come from all over the country so there’ll be somewhere approaching 50 people here but it’s strictly bikes only, none of this bring a bike in a van or on a trailer crap, ride here or don’t come.
The building at the end is their clubhouse which they purchased for the grand sum of DKK35,000 about 3 years ago. That’s just over £4K for what used to be the clubhouse for the local football club and included the pitch and car park. Not bad when you find out that there are only 11 members of the club and they own it all equally between them.
In Denmark clubs are subsidised by the state and the country is full of different clubs and most people are members of several, well that’s according to a book I’ve recently read.