6th NORDIC RUN 15. – 24. juli 2024

Text: Jens Fredrik von der Lippe (Greven)
Photo: Greven, H-DOCN, Prowlers MC arkiv

The Nordic national HD clubs organize a trip between the Nordic countries every two years, where you can participate in the whole trip or in parts of it (Iceland has also participated on a few occasions, but not this year). In total, the trip in 2024 was 3,000 km and it was the 6th time the Nordic Run was organized. On the trip, the participants arrange their own food and lodging at the places where there is accommodation. There will also be some overnight stays at clubs where they come. New destination every day.

DENMARK • SWEDEN • FINLAND & NORWAY
The tour started this year with the BORNHOLM MEETING on the weekend of 12 – 14 JULY. On Monday there was a ferry to southern Sweden and a start party at Easy Riders MC in Ystad in the evening. Then the trip went day by day up through Sweden, ferry over to Vaasa in Finland, around the bay over to Norway and south to Trondheim ending at Prowlers MC. For those who wanted to extend the trip, an alternative was to drive to Sauda for the H-DOCN meeting "Late Summer Run" 26 - 28 July. Responsible for the Nordic Run this year was the Danish Harley-Davidson Club Denmark; H-DCDK. Note: The national HD clubs are not the same as HOG - Harley Owners Group. The national HD clubs are part of the Federation Harley-Davidson Clubs Europe, which, with over 38,000 members distributed across clubs throughout Europe, is the largest community of independent Harley-Davidson clubs in the world. HOG, on the other hand, is linked to H-D centrally and their authorized dealer network.

LAST MAN STANDING
Scanbike had a chat with Erik Johnny Engø after the group had reached the "finish" at Prowlers MC in Trondheim, where they stood ready to go to their respective ends, while some gathered to drive over Sognefjellet to take part in the H- DOCN's Late Summer Run in Sauda. Erik Johnny drives a 2011 model Ultra CVO Screamin' Eagle which has now covered more than 110,000 km, a suitable machine for such a long trip. He has been with us all the way since the tour started in Ystad in Sweden after the Bornholm event. He says that the weather has been extremely changeable on the 10-day trip, but that no one joins such an extensive trip and expects that it will only be good weather. Along the way, there were participants who only took part in stages of the trip, but the Danes were the ones with the most participants. Sweden was also well represented, and a few fewer from Finland and Norway. In fact, the fewest from Norway. At most there had been 27 bikes on one of the stages.

PLEASANT HOSPITALITY
PROWLERS MC TRONDHEIM was the tour's last "official" host and the twenty participants who had ended up there were well taken care of. Prowlers MC was established in 1982 in Sjetnemarka in Trondheim. The club is based in a bunker at Tiller outside Trondheim. The bunker was built by the Germans during World War II and was used as a communications center during the war.