Generali Iron Road Prolog - Friday, 08.06. and Saturday, 09.06.2012

The biggest and craziest crowd in offroad motorcycling: 1.500 riders against the one, mean mountain!

The GENERALI IRON ROAD PROLOGUE offers drama and action in its purest form.
Riding skills, speed and the correct choice of your line through the many, many curves
decide if you win or lose on your way up the gravel road that is13,5 km long and up to 30 meters wide.

Almost anything resembling a motorbike is entitled to compete in this race, assumed it is technically OK.
Quads, scooters, sidecars und even street bikes like Harleys and Buells
are not a rare sight at the starting area of the ERZBERGRODEO‘s prologue.

No matter what, this race has its secret heroes: The big twin-cylinder bikes. On the ultra-fast uphill sections,
these behemoths with up to 1.250 ccm displacement reach speeds of 190 km/h,
showing breathtaking drifts and leaving the spectators with awe and gooseflesh.

Rules are as simple as it can get: Riders start in 20 second intervals, each competitor has two attempts to beat the mountain.

The best 500 riders - fastest run only - qualify for the toughest single day race in the world, the RED BULL HARE SCRAMBLE on Sunday. When the green lights say „go“, full throttle, optimal choice of track in the switchbacks, courage and riding skills take you from the paddock to the summit at 1,466 m sea level.