Spectators saw some of their own top riders test two of the Quantya bikes riding around the impressive track there many times between the main events.

Both riders were well impressed by the bikes’ cornering ability, acceleration and handling on track.

We are all very grateful to Neil Irwin and his team for inviting us over and to Nigel and Lorraine for taking the bikes over there for us. We look forward to returning to Culham very soon.

Comments or questions are invited from spectators and riders – and any invitations to show the silent power of these amazing electric bikes at other parks in future will be most welcome.

To find out more about Culham Park go to: http://www.culhampark.com/

Photo by Nigel Newnham

“This is a historic moment and you have all opened a new page in the history of motorcycling,” said Anders Minken, member of the FIM Alternative Energy Working Group at the gala dinner.

Indeed, after three days of intensive race on different types of soil, in the opinion of all present riders is that the electric bike is now the future of off-road disciplines.
Absence of pollution, noise, a light, agile and fun motorbike with enough power to amuse you while riding, that was the analyse of riders like as Joël Smet, five times motocross world champion, Fabien Planet, winner of the enduro race, Pal Ullevalseter or even Pedro Bianchi Prata, Paolo Gonçalves, Matteo Graziani, Annie Seel…

Despite a shock treatment, no mechanical case was to regret for the Quantya bikes nor the single Zero Motorcycle of Tommy Heimberg from Switzerland, who received a special ‘fair play’ prize for having the courage to come to fight alone with an American motorcycle against a great… Swiss motorcycle!

“I trusted this project to Quantya” entrusts Ivan Reedtz-Thott “and the international riders who have agreed to meet the challenge have confirmed me that I was right. They did the rest by showing the world that we could adapt to climate problems without abandoning our passion and satisfaction!”

Today, riders have rolled of Super Bike special in Svanemøllens Kaserne, not far from Copenhagen´s downtown. Stefan Olsen won this last day, before Joël Smet and Mikkel Caprani.

All actors in this extraordinary event felt a great relief after the race: the motorcycle has yet beautiful days before it… with an electric engine!

Check out the video:

From MCN:

The FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro achieved tremendous international attention with top officials from the United Nations using their day off from the UN Climate Change Conference, COP15, to watch zero-polluting, noise-free motorcycle races.

The event, which consisted of a total of nine forest stages and a separate super-final, was attended by a number of international star names, including the five-time motocross world champion Joël Smets from Belgium.

But for Smets it was difficult to cope with not only forest-winner Fabien Planet, but also the Dutchman Advocaat Amel who finished second and third placed Dane Kasper Lynggaard.

Smets had to be satisfied with a fourth, one point behind Lynggaard, who lost the chain on his electrical Quantya motorcycle on one of the stages and therefore didn’t feature in the overall standing.

See photos of the EcoEnduro race.

Results:
The world’s first FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Champion:
Fabien Planet (FRA).
The world’s first FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Super Champion:
Stefan K. Olsen (DEN).
The world’s first FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Champion for women:
Vanja Kollmann (SWE).
The world’s first FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Champion for women:
Annie Seel (SWE).

Finale positions FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Forest Stages:
1. Fabien Planet (FRA), Netherlands, 175 points
2. Amel Advocaat (HOL), 170 pts.
3. Kasper Lynggaard (DEN) 161 pts.
4. Joël Smets (BEL), TopCamp Feddet, 161 pts.
5. Pål Anders Ullevålseter (NOR), 132 pts.
Finale positions FIM Ride Green Eco Enduro Superfinale:
1. Stefan K. Olsen (DEN)
2. Joël Smets (BEL)
3. Caprani Mikkel (DEN)
4. Brian Kjaer Jorgensen (DEN)

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