{"id":61,"date":"2019-05-26T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu.gernot-menke.de\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:05:58","slug":"felix-krahnstoever-und-pere-pi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/felix-krahnstoever-und-pere-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver and Pere Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver's encounter with bicycle trials in F\u00fcrstenhagen, described in the last paragraph of the page \u2018The Beginnings in Germany\u2019, was to have far-reaching consequences. Krahnst\u00f6ver was not only a dealer for Montesa trial motorcycles, but also a factory rider for Montesa. In this capacity, he travelled to the Montesa factory in Barcelona (Esplugues) two or three times a year, where he always met with Pere Pi (Pere Pi i Parera, born in 1940; at that time he was still called Pedro Pi), the then head of the research and development department at Montesa. During his visit to Pere Pi in March 1979, Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver enthusiastically reported on the boys in F\u00fcrstenhagen and informed him about the existence of bicycle trials in Germany. This was the first contact between the two developments of bicycle trials in Germany and Catalonia, which until then had been unaware of each other.<\/p>\n

Pere Pi's first encounter with Bici trials<\/h5>\n

At that time, Pere Pi had already come into contact with Catalan \"bici-trial\", albeit rather involuntarily. Pere Pi, who had been six-time Spanish motocross champion between 1961 and 1966 and the first Spanish trials champion in 1968, wanted his son Ot (Ot Pi, born in 1970) to follow in his footsteps and become a successful motocross rider\u2014I know this from stories told by Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver. In September 1977, however, Ot crashed during a children's motocross and trial event in Montorn\u00e8s del Vall\u00e8s and refused to touch a motorcycle ever again. 1<\/a><\/sup> That's why Ot was now supposed to compete in the rapidly developing sport of bici-trial, since he wasn't riding a motorcycle.<\/p>\n

But to do this, Ot needed a trials bike, which Pere Pi built with the help of the staff in his research and development department at Montesa, just as he had done previously with the children's motorbike for Ot. This fits with what Pere Pi said in a 2006 interview for Desmond Lee's video \u2018Leaps&Bounds\u2019: \u2018This sport came to me when Ot was seven and needed a bike\u2019 \u2013 right after Ot's fall in September 1977, because Ot was born on 22 September 1970. 2<\/a><\/sup> Accordingly, Ot's first bicycle was ready in 1978. 3<\/a><\/sup> In the same year, Ot rode his first bici-trial<\/em> in Bellaterra (near Sabadell). 4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Ot's participation in bike trials was only intended as a stopgap solution and a temporary measure to enable Ot to take part in trial events at all. As Pere Pi himself writes, he had \u2018NO idea that such a thing as bike trials even existed until (...) Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver came to Montesa. Until then, I knew nothing about it; I was involved in the world of motorcycles ...\u2019. 5<\/a><\/sup> That is why it was a key moment for Pere Pi when Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver enthusiastically told him about bicycle trials in Germany during a visit in March 1979. Pi now recognised the opportunities that bicycle trials offered and quickly turned his attention to this sport, which was developing rapidly in both Spain and Germany at the time.<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ot_Pi<\/a> 11 March, 2019 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXiMkDnQmos<\/a>(Pere Pi, 2006, 1:36:12). \u2013 In his autobiography a few years later, Pere Pi gives a date one year earlier for the construction of the special bicycle for Ot: \u2018I started in 1976 when Ot was 6 years old\u2019 (\u2018La empec\u00e9 en el 1976 cuando Ot tenia 6 a\u00f1os\u2019); Pere Pi: No tengo 200 a\u00f1os, 2012, p. 253. The date of 1976, moved forward by one year, is apparently intended to make the turn to bicycle trials appear to be his own idea and to avoid the impression that it was a turn to the already existing Bici-Trial that came about due to external circumstances, namely Ot's fall in September 1977. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u2018This bicycle was the precursor to the later Montesita T-5 (...), the first prototype of which was completed around 1978\u2019 (Aquella bicicleta fou l\u2019embri\u00f3 de la futura Montesita T-5 (...), el primer prototipus de la qual estigu\u00e9 enllestit cap a 1978); https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montesita<\/a> 07 March 2019 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Pere Pi: No tengo 200 a\u00f1os, 2012, p. 297. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. „… no tenia NINGUNA referencia de que existiera algo de trial en bicicleta hasta que (venia) Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver a Montesa. Hasta aqui yo no sabia nada, yo estaba en el mundo de la moto …“; <\/span>Pere Pi: No tengo 200 a\u00f1os, 2012, p. 255 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Die auf der Seite „Die Anf\u00e4nge in Deutschland“ im letzten Absatz beschriebene Begegnung Felix Krahnst\u00f6vers mit dem Fahrrad-Trial in F\u00fcrstenhagen sollte nicht ohne Folgen bleiben. Krahnst\u00f6ver war nicht nur H\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr Montesa-Trialmotorr\u00e4der, sondern auch Werksfahrer von Montesa. In dieser Eigenschaft fuhr er zwei- bis dreimal j\u00e4hrlich ins Montesa-Werk nach Barcelona (Esplugues) und traf dort immer…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}