29. – 31.1.2027 | Austria
WINTER MEETING at Mühlviertel | Helfenberg
Attention: NEW LOCATION !!!
Date: Fri., 29 to Sun., 31 January 2027
Upper Austria, Mühlviertel, A-4184 Helfenberg, Tavern Haudum
From 2013 to 2026, our small, family-run winter gathering took place at the tavern in the Prandegg castle ruins. We always enjoyed an exciting ride and had a great time. Many thanks again to tavern owner Franz Leitner for his excellent hospitality over all these years!
We think it's time for a change. In 2027, we're moving to the Tavern Haudum in Helfenberg as our base camp. There, we'll find comfortable beds in warm rooms, we can use the ballroom as a dormitory for our own camp beds or air mattresses, and the inn has a wonderful atmosphere and excellent cuisine.
The legendary drive through the winter landscape, taking detours and side roads, remains the same, now in the western part of the Mühlviertel region.
ALSO NEW: The meeting starts on Friday (morning) at the parking lot in front of the Congenia showroom in Marchtrenk with goulash soup from the kettle over the campfire, salt sticks, poppy seed rolls, 0.5 Freistädter beer, or preferably 0.33, with a joint drive at 2 pm via farm roads to the Haudum in Helfenberg.
You are now cordially invited to register for our meeting at office@ural.at.
Rooms can also be booked through us (not through Haudum).
There is no participation fee; we will announce room rates shortly.
We look forward to your arrival!
Hari Schwaighofer
Congenia GmbH
Here the report from URAL Winter Meeting castle ruin Prandegg
2nd – 4th February 2018
We like to remember: as always a motorcycle ride on detours, bridleways, dirt roads and trails is planned, the very popular path through the forest behind the castle was from the first higher slope no longer passable – too much snow! We took another easier route 400 meters after leaving the castle.
After 1 km drive a steep descent in deep snow was planned. After the departure everyone should wait for each other. The first fifteen motorcycles in the column wait in the deep snow after the descent. They wait and wait and no one comes after.
After a long wait we drive around the castle to look for the rest of the group. We do not find anyone. We drive to the start of the exit, maybe the rest of the group is already there. There is nobody here. After an hour, the nervousness increases. Almost the whole group of sidecar drivers disappeared. Telephone calls begin, further search parties are starting to search. There are indications from the population that sidecars were seen here and there.
After two hours, the missing sidecars finally drive up the mountain, in time for lunch. What happened? Right at the first little mountain, so almost at the start of the exit participant number 6 got stuck in the snow. Thereby the group divides and drives to the not passable rise and fails. In a collective action, the group helps each other, to get individually to the mountain. One and a half hours hard work with the sidecars in the forest. An action that will be unforgettable for the sidecar drivers. This adventure was unfortunately not planned.
In the afternoon there was a highlight: The driveway to the castle can now be traveled individually and the URAL sidecars forms a queue. A BMW X3 comes along the road and wants to pass the queue. The BMW X3 drives into the ditch and hangs in the snow. The BMW four-wheel drive luxury vehicle can not get out of the ditch! With our URAL spades we remove the snow around the drive wheels and push and pull the BMW on the rope of a URAL Ranger out of the ditch.
A beautiful picture: a BMW four-wheel drive on the rope of a URAL Ranger.
It was very funny at this winter meeting at the castle ruin Prandegg.
