Ready at last: In four
days, on Saturday June 9th, 2007, the starting gun for the CRAFT BIKE
TRANS GERMANY will be fired in St. Wendel (Saarland). Approximately 300
teams of two – consisting of hobby bikers, ambitious amateurs and
mountain bike pros – will head towards Oberwiesenthal in the Erz
Mountains at 10 AM. Almost 600 participants will face 836.79 kilometres
including 18,313 metres of elevation gain in eight legs of the Germany
crossing stage race.
Top pros will start
The first mountain bike stage race across the republic will be
classified in five different categories (Men, Master Men, Grand Master
Men, Women and Mixed). Top aspirant for victory in the men category are
last year’s Transalp winner Karl Platt and his team mate Stefan Sahm
(Team Bulls) who already won the 2007 Cape Epic . In addition, Swiss
riders Sandro Spaeth and Thomas Zahnd (Team Texner-Stoeckli) as well as
the German-Austrian duo Andreas Strobel and Silvio Wieltschnig (Team
Fiat Rotwild) are aiming for the podium.
On the women’s side, the Klose twins Sandra and Peggy (Team
ZwillingsCRAFT) will pedal for victory. They have to face French Daniθle
Troesch and Germany ’s Kerstin Brachtendorf from Team Fiat-Rotwild.
Carsten Bresser who will tackle the route together with Canada’s own
Alison Sydor who won Olympic Silver in 1996, are the mixed team (Tea,
Rocky Mountain / Haywood) to beat in the battle for the Champions ring.
Extensive support programme
Besides the sportive action, a fringe programme will be offered for
the spectators in every stage town. 32 exhibitors are part of the Trans
Germany circus and will inform all mountain bike fans about the latest
innovations and news in the bike scene. No matter if you are in St.
Wendel, Neustadt, Erbach im Odenwald, Frammersbach, Bischofsheim a. d.
Rhoen, Oberhof, Bad Steben, Schoeneck or in Oberwiesenthal – the bike
expo shortens the waiting period for the competing teams and invites the
fans to stay even longer.
