Danish 50cc championships

First 50cc race held under DMU (Danish Motor Union) management
took place at Roskilde Ring, 25 september 1955. One class
contained in the programme was a race for modified- mopeds.

Waiting to go at the Roskilde Ring 1955.

Celebration of 50cc race winner Palle Høst Andersen - BFC Stafette.

Palle Høst Andersen finished the heat with an average speed of 63km/h from a standing start

A happy Palle Høst Andersen receives trophy and flowers.
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Ten years later at Roskilde Ring:

1965 Roskilde Ring - #2 Billy Kraul - Puch 50cc in a 250cc field.

In 1965 there was an invitational 50cc race held at RingDjursland with riders from Germany, Holland, and Sweden present.
J.A. Hansen, Danish Kreidler import, had succeded in getting two works- Kreidlers to the race with riders Cees VanDongen and Oswald Dittrich.
Following pictures are from the three heats that day:

Oluf Steffensen - Sachs special

Start - 33 Börje Jansson, Derbi - 39 Björn Carlsson, HM - 36 Chris Fisker, Tomos - 37 Vilhelm Kaas, Guazzoni.

Off they go - HM-Sachs - Tomos - Guazzoni.

Again VanDongen early leader, then Jansson, Johansson, Nielsen and Fisker.

VanDongen initial lead, but Jansson passes again!

The O.E.MotorCup race, Roskilde Ring, 8th of May 1966, class under 250cc:

Start - #17 Vilhelm Kaas, #23 Jørgen Nielsen, #7 Kent Nielsson, #5 Sven Haakonsson #21 Bengt Larsson #8 Sven H Svensson #11 Billy Kraul #10 Niels Holm, #4 Leif Rossell.

The two lightweights gets an initial lead.

Billy Kraul out- accelerates the 12-speed Kreidler of Jørgen Nielsen.

And here the whole picture is revealed - showing Chris Fisker, Tomos, quickest starter of them all!

Billy Kraul lapped Roskilde Ring with an average speed of 85km/h.

The 50cc race was cancelled in 1966 - not enough participants, but a bunch of fifty cc specials turned up for the 1967 race.

Dan Jeppesen hunting down the Honda of Larsson.

Dan Jeppesen,works Puch ahead of Hasse Larsson,Honda C110.

Jørgen Nielsen, Derbi, ahead of Oluf Steffensen, Sachs

67 RingDjursland - Oluf Steffensen charging on ahead of: Bengt Svensson, Jørgen Nielsen and Hans Larsson.

11 Chris Fisker - 4 Lasse Johansson - 10 Jørgen Nielsen - 5 Håkan Johansson - 3 Håkan Svensson/ Suzuki.

1967 RingDjursland - 11 Chris Fisker,Tomos special - 4 Lars Johansson,HM Sachs - 10 Jørgen Nielsen,Derbi - 5 Bengt Johansson,HM

Several of these bikes are still around like the Sachs- engined special built and ridden by Oluf Steffensen, Grenå:

A few 50cc racers were active in the seventies where they participated in the 125class.
Poul Erik Oversø and his Fantic Minarelli:

Latest known active danish 50cc racer Theis Jørgensen and his Kreidler:

Watercooled Kreidler racer - Theis Jørgensen.

Anderstorp 1974 - where is this bike today?.

50cc racing has returned big time to Ring Djursland in form of classic racers!

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

And for 2013 we were enough riders to form a national championship! Three races in all - at Ring Djursland, Padborg Park and Jyllandsringen. First race saw these competitors:







Pictures from Saturdays race:

And sundays....
Second round of the 2013 Danish 50cc classic championship took place at Padborg Park. Found the crank to be the culprit of the vibration felt at last outing - and a fresh crankshaft were installed on route to Padborg, in the well- equipped shop of: Arriving at the track first thing was to install the rejuvenated engine, and finished just before the Tech- inspection turned up!!!
Friendly tech- inspector shows how its done right, and then gave me a lesson on how to bring the right tools! I was not really sure about the authenticity of these tech- inspectors, having seen the other tools in their tool- basket? Was that a chainsaw?
	Competition was fierce as the guys from Classic 50 Eurocup participated in this race too. They had their own battle going on, and we locals could only watch and learn.




Third and final round at Jyllandsringen. My Kreidler engine lost all traction due to a cracked primary- pinion. Sponsor (Mopedspeed.dk) saved the day once again!


I must say that the final race- weekend of the season was a real cliffhanger! First outing was a qualifying heat for saturdays race - 3/4 lap out engine cracked the primary gear - bummer! No spares - nothing! Chose to ring a friend instead of a Psychiatrist- he maybe had a dryclutch mounted on an engine, and maybe it had a straight- cut primary? But he was out of town that weekend. He called back later with good news - his son had offered to pick up the engine and bring it to the track - bad news was that he was busy shop ping with the miss´es. Worst hours of my life listening to my competitors whirling round the track lap after lap during the second qualifying session. The engine finally arrived and upon diassembly it was revealed that it was in fact a straight cut primary - but of a different ratio! Did my best to adapt the whole dry- clutch unit to my engine and it did fit - only a very tight fit - like no tolerance at all! Late in the afternoon now and saturdays race were only minutes away - so I had to decide - leathers on - go for broke! Dead last in the lineup and a very bad start on an unknown track - managed to finish in third place. Engine backfired through the carb at exit of corners making more downshifts necessary - what a mess! Before that heat I was only a single point behind, and now six! A long wait for sundays race - not daring to go out at the morning warm- up. If I hurt those borrowed pieces I was really in trouble! Sundays race should have been a wet one, but for some reason it suddenly stopped raining and a dry track waited for us - bad start again but being highly motivated by the fact that in saturdays race, my lap- times, all problems aside, had been three seconds faster than everyone else :o) Now familliar with the track I was plowing through the field and in third lap I spotted the points- leader - it took a whole lap to pass him but I did - only to discover that yet another were ahead. Some one and half lap later he was passed and I finished the race almost half a lap before him! Felt really dizzy when they ordered me to the top of the podium - the ride of my life :o) The bike had produced some slight drifts - nothing hazardous - I promise!

2014 As the first championship- race of the 2014 season came closer I had to leave the Puch- project and concentrate on the Kreidler. The to-do list involved more than just a dust- off as I intended to make the chassis more agile in the bends. Axle- axle length were reduced 35mm by shortening rear swingarm and raising steering angle a few degrees. Engine had produced some nasty cut- outs during last season so a thorough revision were needed. And a new primary drive/ clutch from MopedSpeed.dk.

A very wet race- weekend at Ring DjurslandMachines present at the season opener:



	The dreaded and VERY annoying cut-outs haunted me once more: Sundays Classic 50cc race video.
I did NOT find a solution to the problem before next session at Padborg Park raceway. However, learning that several new racebikes will join our championship later this season sort of cheared me up - just take a look at these:


The Padborg races were actually three different championship races combined! Second round of the danish national 50cc championship were joined by the 50cc Eurocup- boys and the new 50cc FreeTech class.





$when Müller- Kreidler power fractured the frame!$




Onboard video from saturdays race: Race 1 video	Sundays: Race 2 Video

Third and final round of the 50cc classic roadracing championship:
Onboard video from saturdays race: Race 1 video
	Sundays race: Race 2 video

2015 Went to the season opener with a friend. Peter being a rookie soon became so familiar with the racebike on loan, that he ended up as a podium finisher! The ex- Honda, now Kreidler- engined racebike were strong all through the weekend.
Onboard video from saturdays race: Onboard video: Race 1

Onboard video from sundays race: Onboard video: Race 2.	Had the frame back in the jig and - everything checked out okay :o) I have to stay on the wheels from now on!!!
Participated in the Roskilde Ring jubilee races and Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix doing motorcycle demo- runs Here´s a link to onboard video: DeJager Kreidler at Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix.	Televisions- view of Sundays demo- run.
Second round of the championship races took place on the lovely RingDjursland track. A VERY wet weekend were ahead with non- stop rain friday through saturday, and even well into sunday! Saturdays race brought a new experience - with that much water on track, my discbrake combo rendered useless! Brake- lever and pedal were rock- hard - I couldn´t even block the rearwheel with that 210mm disc, which on a dry track normally demands a very delicate touch? Only way to slow that damn thing down were to use the little engine braking a twostroke offers - bummer! Qualified on pole but ended up in third place.	Saturdays race- recording.
	Sundays race were much better, but I was rewarded with a 20sec penalty due to a stupid jump- start! Only chance of winning were to finish twenty seconds ahead, but I only managed to reel- in some fifteen seconds and was relocated to third place. This was later changed to a second place finish due to another riders unfortunate disqualification?
Youtube link to sundays race.
Third and final round took place at Jyllandsringen. As the Classic-TT event were both an invitational race and the final round of the UEM european cham- pionship, a few foreigners turned up :o) Following pictures (pictures by Tim Christensen) shows all participants in the 50cc field:









Classic TT Heat 1.
	Classic TT Heat 2.




Results of the Danish 50cc Classic championship 2016.


Results of the Danish 50cc Classic championship 2017.


Results of the Danish 50cc Classic championship 2018.


Results of the Danish 50cc Classic championship 2019.

New for 2019: an unofficial championship for pistonported, fairingless, standard framed mopeds:




Results of the Danish 50cc Classic championship 2020.