MSV Wilhelmsburg

The track at Wilhelmsburg belongs to MSV Wilhelmsburg e.V., which according to the directory mx-info.de has existed since 1978 and has around 50 members. It sits on Strasse der Freundschaft, a good 30 kilometres north-east of Pasewalk. The directory gives a lap of 1300 metres on sandy mixed soil with corners, climbs and jumps; motocross and enduro machines are allowed, and so are sidecars. Training runs Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 19:00, guest riders pay 20 euros a day for a solo bike, and members ride at reduced rates. The site also holds a children's track of about 500 metres, a BMX track, parking and camping areas, wash bays, toilets and seating and barbecue areas. Once a year, on 1 May, it hosts a round of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state championship; locally the place is known as the Wilhelmsburg Kessel. Sandy mixed soil with jumps means the faces are soft and reshape over a training day - the lip on lap ten is no longer the lip of lap one, and the rear takes a different impulse off every take-off. If the bike kicks at the face and bucks you forward, the most common cause on our list is rebound returning too fast at the rear. Slow it by a few clicks so the rear stays down over the lip.