Deus Cyclewine Borgoluce

Oct 08, 2018

The success of this edition of Deus Cyclewine was entirely due to all those who took part. It was incredible to see so many people who came from all over Italy and the world. It is no exaggeration to say that people came from as far away as Sydney, Boston, and Amsterdam. The participants’ enthusiasm heightened the sense of fun. Despite being somewhat tested by the steep climbs on dirt roads to reach the APEritivo with castle views, no one lost heart. Those who didn't manage to finish in the saddle ran the last few meters on foot so as not to waste precious seconds on the stopwatch, showing what Cyclewine riders are really made of! No big cycling competition can do without a “coup de resistance”, and Deus Cyclewine is no exception. Flying the flag was our super-cool Ape Piaggio that has been customized by Deus to both support our events and to rescue the “burnouts” along the way. It was such a hit that even those who didn’t need the race service lined up to try it. Immediately behind our flagship, followed the fleet of Volkswagens, with all the T Series available for both rescues and transport of journalists and accompanying passengers. The sun crowned the day by enhancing all the colors along the circular route. So, after 30km of full immersion in the countryside, we enjoyed the well-deserved food and wine experience. The Osteria Borgoluce offered us a lunch that knocked out those who hadn’t already succumbed to the rocky climbs. Back at the winery, the popping corks from the bottles of prosecco signalled the start of the chill out moment for the "burnouts" and the second special stage for the hardcore cyclists who got ready for the next time trial challenge though the vineyards with the help of the Tannico Double Decker tasting center. During the afternoon, even the children from the “Magical Cleme Onlus” Association joined the party, painting t-shirts and riding fantastical bikes round the fields. And so it continued until sunset, between the bubbles of the Brut of Borgoluce and crazy rides on vintage bicycles. For dinner two very long tables were laid out under the portico, giving way to a gran finale of roast meat: three meters of machines to roast kilos and kilos of meat all afternoon. Desert, coffee, a touch of grappa and everyone took to the dance floor: the "Italian Hits of the 70s” ballroom set up by the School Bus held up until three in the morning. 100 of us started, 150 took part in the dinner - but place your bets on the number of empty bottles collected up at the end of the evening… Photo: Marco Renieri, Loris Lillo ------------------------------------------------------------------- Se il Deus Cyclewine è stato un successo, è grazie a tutti coloro che ne hanno preso parte. E' stato emozionante vedere quante persone siano giunte da ogni parte d'Italia e del mondo, senza esagerare - c'è chi è arrivato da Boston, da Amsterdam e da Sydney. L'entusiasmo con cui i partecipanti si sono fatti coinvolgere dall'evento ha reso tutto ancora più divertente. Per quanto messi alla prova nelle salite su strade bianche che portavano all'APEritivo vista castello, nessuno si è perso d'animo. Chi non è riuscito a finire in sella, ha corso gli ultimi metri per non lasciare secondi al cronometro, dimostrando di che pasta sono fatti i riders del Cyclewine. Come in tutte le competizioni ciclistiche degne di nota non poteva mancare un'ammiraglia d'eccezione, la nostra The Ganzo, l'Ape Piaggio customizzata da Deus per supportare i nostri eventi e recuperare gli "scoppiati" lungo il percorso. Così bella che anche coloro che non hanno avuto bisogno del servizio corse hanno fatto la fila per provarla. Subito dietro la nostra ammiraglia, seguiva la flotta Volkswagen, con tutta la Serie T a disposizione per salvataggi e trasporto di giornalisti e accompagnatori. Il sole ha voluto coronare la giornata esaltando tutti i colori in cui era immerso il percorso ad anello. Così, dopo 30km di full immertion nella campagna, ci siamo goduti la meritata esperienza enogastronomica. L'Osteria Borgoluce ci ha offerto un pranzo che ha steso chi non è stato abbattuto dalle salite sassose. Tornati alla cantina, le bottiglie di prosecco stappate hanno dato il via al momento chill out per gli "scoppiati" e alla seconda prova speciale per i "grintosi", pronti a sfidare ancora il cronometro tra le vigne anche grazie al supporto del Double Decker di Tannico centro delle degustazioni per tutti i presenti. Nel pomeriggio anche i bambini dell'Associazione Magica Cleme Onlus si sono uniti alla festa, dipingendo magliette e girando con stravaganti biciclette per i campi. Si è continuato così fino al tramonto, tra le bollicine del Brut di Borgoluce e corse folli su biciclette vintage. Per cena due tavolate lunghissime sono state imbandite sotto il porticato della cantina, dando il via al trionfo dello spiedone - tre metri di macchina per rosolare chili e chili di carne per un pomeriggio. Dolce, cafe, grappino e ci si è catapultati in pista. La balera "only Italian '70 Hits" allestita dallo School Bus ha retto fino alle tre di mattino senza mollare un colpo. Siamo partiti in 100, abbiamo cenato in 150 - si aprono le scommesse sul numero di vuoti bottiglie seccate. Foto: Marco Renieri, Loris Lillo

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Sabtu pagi, 17 Juni 2023, menjadi hari yang ditunggu-tunggu oleh 250 peserta reli sepeda motor dan 80 kontestan flat track race di Bali. Itu merupakan acara Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure keempat yang diselenggarakan oleh komunitas pecinta motor trail vintage yang lebih dari sekadar menggemari motor dual purpose era 80-90-an. Dikenal sebagai Trail Asik Adventurer, AKA… Tasik Adventure yang telah menunggu setahun untuk merencanakan dan mengerjakan nya demi tidak mengecewakan siapapun yang ikut berpartisipasi.

Coba kamu bayangkan , ada dua sisi koin berbeda pada event kali ini. Yang pertama adalah Reli. Mereka memberi nama Challenge "Tantangan", menjadikan setiap peserta sebagai "Penantang" Challenger. Jadi, di tempat parkir Sangeh Monkey Forest, sambil menikmati keteduhan pohon jati raksasa yang awet muda, 250 Penantang parkir untuk menerima kode QR untuk etape pertama rute reli. Seluruh perjalanan adalah 3 etape dengan 3 titik pemberhentian. 4 jika Anda menghitung tujuan.

Ada beberapa motor keren di sana, Honda XR, Yamaha DT, Suzuki TS, Suzuki DR, dan beberapa custom modern, motocross dan scrambler. Sekitar sepuluh atau lebih, mereka berbaris di titik start dan memulai rally dari sana. Misi setiap orang adalah menyelesaikan setiap tahap dan berhenti di 3 titik pemberhentian untuk mendapatkan kode QR untuk bagian berikutnya. Keindahan Bali selalu menjadi pendamping, saat kami terbang di sepanjang kombinasi jalan aspal, jalan pedesaan, dan jalan tanah di daerah Tabanan. Kami perlahan-lahan terbang tinggi dan semakin tinggi ke perbukitan dan pemandangan sawah dan hutan akhirnya habis, sebenarnya lebih seperti perlahan menjadi satu ketika kami sampai di tujuan. Bali Outbound Farmstay (BOF) yang juga menjadi tempat berkemah semalam. Jika Anda mengumpulkan semua kode QR Anda, Anda mendapat medali Rally sebagai bentuk penghargaan.

Sisi lain dari koin yang disebutkan sebelumnya, atau event kedua, adalah balap jalur datar (flat track). Atau dalam hal ini jalur dengan landasan yang tidak rata karena tempat mereka membangun jalur itu berada di atas tempat yang dulunya terdapat dua sawah terasering. Jadi titik start finish lebih tinggi dari jalur lurus pertama dengan penurunan pada tikungan pertama dan sedikit menanjak pada tikungan kedua. Saat kami masuk ke BOF, kami sudah bisa mendengar suara motor flat track dan sorakan penonton yang berkumpul. Kami parkir dan membuat jalur jalur seperti lebah.

Keseruan seutuhnya pada acara, disaat tingkat kesulitan tambahan dimasukkan ke dalam jadwal sore hari menarik perhatian yang sangat luar biasa. Mereka berhasil menarik sekitar delapan puluh peserta, terbagi dalam 4 kelas: Kelas Mesin Horizontal, Kelas FFA 4T Max 250cc, Kelas FFA 2T Max 250cc Flat Track, dan Kelas FFA Big Bore.

Antusiasme untuk balapan flat track sangat terasa. Kegembiraan tumbuh saat kami melewati babak penyisihan dan membangun sesuatu yang luar biasa untuk final setiap kelas. Tidak ada kata menahan, mereka hadir untuk memenangkannya. Pembalap dari setiap komunitas bersaing sengit di setiap kelas. Nama-nama seperti Maulana Sandi, Dewa Dimas, Harris Manasi Ride, Nova Rider Sing Mebekel, Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel, Bontok Giga MX, dan lain-lain tak main-main, sebagian besar dari memamerkan skill mereka tanpa mengesampingkan sportifitas dan keselamatan.

Trek dengan permukaan tanah liat merah keras yang kering memberikan tantangan. Di awal, para pembalap disuguhkan dengan bagian menurun pada tikungan pertama, setelah itu mereka memeras gas di bagian trek lurus sebelum berputar ke kiri lagi tapi kali ini menjadi bagian menanjak pada tikungan kedua. Itu memaksa mereka untuk menggabungkan keterampilan balap trek datar mereka dengan banyak teknik motocross. Pada akhirnya, semua pembalap bersenang-senang dengan debu tanah liat merah yang menutupi segalanya dan semua orang.

Saat matahari terbenam ke arah cakrawala, saudara dan sahabat motoran kami meraih pecahan cahaya terakhir untuk mendirikan tenda mereka dan dalam persiapan untuk berkemah malam. Matahari menghilang di balik Gunung Batukaru memberi semua orang pemandangan yang menakjubkan, tetapi segera menyelimuti kami dengan udara yang jauh lebih sejuk dari dataran tinggi di Baturiti Tabanan ini.

Percakapan tentang rute reli dan balapan flat track mengalir dari pintu tenda semua orang yang berkemah, yang lain membaringkan tubuh mereka yang lelah untuk mengantisipasi perjalanan keesokan harinya, perjalanan yang relatif santai ke Pantai Pasut.

Dengan begitu, acara Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure 2023 pun berakhir. Sampai bertemu lagi tahun depan, salam untuk semua penantang, pengalaman yang luar biasa.

Berikut daftar pemenang Kelas Flat Track:

Flat Rack Horizontal Engine Class Winners:
1. Chiko GTT Bali
2. Panduk Pisaga Delodan
3. Andika Monkey Brothers

Flat Rack FFA 4T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Nova Rider Sing Mebekel
2. Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel
3. Bontok Giga MX

Flat Rack FFA 2T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Sandi Maulana
2. Dewa Dita
3. Eponk Road Country

Flat Rack FFA Big Bore Class Winners:
1. Dewa Dimas
2. Haris Manasi Ride
3. Sandi Maulana

Saturday morning, June 17, 2023, was a highly anticipated day for 250 motorcycle rally participants and 80 flat track race contestants in Bali. It was the Fourth Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure event organized by a community of vintage trail motorcycle enthusiasts who love more than fanging about on their dual-purpose motorcycles from the 80s and 90s. Known as the Trail Asik Adventure Community, AKA… Tasik Adventure people had waited a year for the follow up and none were disappointed.

Just so you can get it straight in your head, there’s two very different sides to this coin. The first one was the Rally. They hung it under the banner of “Challenge”, making each partaker a “Challenger”. So, in the carpark of Sangeh Monkey Forest, which enjoys the shade of giant ageless teak trees, 250 Challengers parked up to receive the QR code for the first leg of the rally route. The entire ride was 3 stages with 3 stop points. 4 if you count the destination.

There were some amazing bikes there, Honda XR’s, Yamaha DT’s, Suzuki TS’s, Suzuki DR’s, and some custom modern motocross and scrambler bikes. In lots of ten or so, they lined up at the starting point then let them out for the event. Everyone’s mission was to complete each stage and stop at the 3 stop points to get the QR code for the next bit. Bali’s beauty was the constant companion, as we flew along a combination of asphalt roads, rural roads and dirt tracks in the Tabanan area. We slowly winded up high and higher into the hills and the views of rice fields and forests finally ran out, actually, it was more like blurred into one when we reached our destination. Bali Outbound Farmstay (BOF), which was also to be the overnight camping spot. If you collected all your QR codes you got a Rally medal as a form of appreciation.

The other side of the aforementioned coin, or second event, was the flat track. Or in this case staggered track because where they had built the track it was over a spot that had once held two rice terraces. So the Start finish straight sat higher than the return straight with a drop on the first turn and an uphill bit on the second. As we were pulling into BOF we could already hear the flat track bikes and the assembled crowd cheering. We parked up and made a bee line track side.

What an absolute corker of an event, the added degree of difficulty jammed into the afternoons schedule made for the most marvelous distraction. They’d managed to attract around eighty participants, split over 4 classes: Horizontal Engine Class, FFA 4T Max 250cc Class, Flat Track FFA 2T Max 250cc Class, and FFA Big Bore Class.

The enthusiasm for the flat track races was palpable. The excitement growing as we whittled down through the heats and building to something of a crescendo for the finals of each class. There was no holding back, they were in it to win it. Racers from each community fiercely competed in each class. Names like Maulana Sandi, Dewa Dimas, Harris Manasi Ride, Nova Rider Sing Mebekel, Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel, Bontok Giga MX, and others were letting nothing slip, flaunting their skills without compromising sportsmanship and safety. Mostly.

The track, with its dry hard red clay surface, presented challenges. Off the start, the racers were presented with a downhill section on the first turn, they hit the gas on the bottom straight before spinning left again but this time into an uphill section on the second turn. It forced them to combine their flat track racing skills with a slew of motocross techniques. In the end, all the racers had fun with the red clay dust lay across everything and everyone.

As the sun dipped towards the horizon, our compadres and accomplices grabbed the last shards of light to set up their tents in readiness for a night of camping. The sun disappeared behind Mount Batukaru affording everyone a magnificent view, but immediately enveloping us in the much cooler air of these high grounds here in Baturiti Tabanan.

Conversations about the rally route and the flat track race flowed out of the tent flaps of all those who camped others bedded their weary bodies down in anticipation for the next day's ride, a comparatively leisurely meander down to Pasut Beach.

With that, the Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure 2023 event came to an end. Until we meet again next year, greetings to all challengers, what an amazing time.

Here is the list of the days winners:

Flat Rack Horizontal Engine Class Winners:
1. Chiko GTT Bali
2. Panduk Pisaga Delodan
3. Andika Monkey Brothers

Flat Rack FFA 4T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Nova Rider Sing Mebekel
2. Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel
3. Bontok Giga MX

Flat Rack FFA 2T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Sandi Maulana
2. Dewa Dita
3. Eponk Road Country

Flat Rack FFA Big Bore Class Winners:
1. Dewa Dimas
2. Haris Manasi Ride
3. Sandi Maulana