The Alp Days Europe's largest annual (Vespa) scooter event!
The Scooter Center Team was there again. At this great event you will meet that Scooter Center at the booth and on the track - it’s clear that we’ll be there again in 2020 - oh spoilers… 2020? Let's wait and see:
The "Alp Days" took place in 2019 on tenth times in the "secret Vespa capital of Austria: Zell am See. With 7 days of trips through wonderful landscapes and places, evening programs with live music, awards and honors, it was also the longest Vespa meeting ever! There was a pajama ride out to Lake Zell, the organizers invited over 1500 Vespisti to a chocolate bed cup and in the Alp Days bed as a photo point. The result was fantastic, funny pictures that the participants from 23 nations were able to take with them.
Each day offered a variety of program items and the participants were enthusiastic.
All of Zell am See and Pinzgau succumbed to the Italian flair of the cult scooters again this year.
DRIVE THE DAM
The absolute highlights this year were THE LEGEND! - DRIVE THE DAM! Spectacular driveway to the Tauernmoossee and the longest winding dam in Europe, with a small health snack in the national park core zone and the large common driveway to the Großglockner with a goulash canon on the Fuscher Törl.
Over 1500 participants from 23 nations took part. From 50 cc to 300 cc, from old tubular handlebars to switch scooters and automatic scooters, everything was represented. The whole Grossglockner High Alpine Road was filled with Vespas like a colorful field of flowers!
This year took place for the first time Plush rabbit hunt through the Pinzgau and Tyrol instead of. All Vespa drivers who had answered their stamp cards with the questions could look forward to a cute plush bunny and a reception with live music at the finish in Fieberbrunn.
Fringe events
The supporting program this time was more colorful than ever:
- A movie was shown by Wolfgang Pröhl and his colleagues, who had a special adventure in 2018: ELEPHANT to INDIA - the story of a long Vespa journey into the heart of Asia.
- Markus Andreas Mayer circumnavigated the world on a Vespa in 2018 days in 80 and he gave this lecture about the fantastic journey in Zell am See.
- There was a Concourse d'Elegance where the jury chose the most beautiful Vespas.
- In the middle of the city of Zell am See at the Congress Center Platz, the Vespa stunt & acrobatic driver Nicola Campobasso presented his spectacular show.
- Performance artists on stilts in mirror costumes (dragon and hare) offered themselves for photo shoots with the Vespas.
- The artist Renate Berghaus from Germany showed her colorful Vespa pictures in the shop windows of the pedestrian zone in Zell.
Alp Days charity campaign
In all the years of the ALP DAYS in Zell am See, we have always tried TOGETHER to take into account the idea of “WE HELP”, and through various campaigns we were able to make a - sometimes smaller, sometimes larger - amount available every year for an important purpose to be provided and handed over.
This year, as part of the DER ALP DAYS 2019 charity campaign:
- 2.000 euros (in cash) for an 8-year-old child with cancer in Zell am See. Handed over to Mrs. Doris strengz as representative of the parish Zell am See
- 1.000 euros (in cash) for the VESPA FOR LIVE campaign to Marc Dedulle and Michael Boschloos 1.000 euros (by PayPal payment) for the VESPISTI AGAINST CANCER campaign to Gernot Pajman
During the event, donated collectibles were sold to the Vespistis (that's what the Vespa drivers call themselves) and the family was able to receive a substantial amount through additional donations.
Vespa Alpdays 2020 !!
The crowning glory of the event this year was the corso around Lake Zell with a stop in Thumersbach for a chocolate snack and the scooter blessing by Pastor Dr. Friedemann Steck of the Erlöserkirche from Munich-Schwabing (organizer of the famous Vespa Corso every year on Ascension Day on Leopoldstrasse in Munich under the name of the true Ascension).
This year, Franz Schmalzl did not make it easy for himself to decide whether the event would continue. The decision was really only made in the last 30 seconds in Thumersbach. The tension rose and the participants were visibly moved when the good news was announced:
The 11th ALP DAYS will take place from June 2nd to 9th, 2020.
