{"id":47827,"date":"2017-05-05T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=47827"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:25:34","slug":"deus-swank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/deus-swank\/","title":{"rendered":"Deus Swank Milano Rumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

One quiet day in the studio, still coming down from the high of the Sideburn\/Deus Ex Machina \u2018Snow Quake\u2019 event in Italy in January, I found my mouse hovering over the \u2018buy now\u2019 button on the flights I had just priced up back to Milan. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Within hours of the Deus Swank Rally promo video coming out, I know I had to be there so the credit card came out and the flights were booked.<\/p>\n

Two months later, the day was upon us. Set on the ex-Falck Steelworks site on the outskirts of the city, a friendly endurance series organised by Deus saw the descent of Milan\u2019s finest vintage dirt bikes and riders in the shadow of the huge, imposing skeleton of 1930\u2019s industrial architecture.<\/p>\n

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With a course of tight turns, banks, a tabletop, rubble piles and technical high speed sections taped off in the abandoned grounds, riders queued to race against the clock. Three riders on the track at a time, racing a stopwatch they stopped themselves. The energy in the paddock was amazing, the rain that had soaked the track through for the last 48 hours had paused for a while and the huge crowd of riders were gaining confidence with every lap.<\/p>\n

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The track saw all sorts of machines battling the loose dirt and rubble, from Moto GP rider Luca Scassa on his Buell to Sandro Tramelli on a Honda CR250R Elsinore, ME Electric scooters, BMW GS80\u2019s – Harley XR1000\u2019s. Basically anything suitable and totally unsuitable for the event was there and they all had two things in common, knobbly tires and a rider with a huge smile on their face.<\/p>\n\n\t\t