SATURDAY
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ADDRESSES:
TiB HQ - Map Link
Tempelhofer Feld - Map Link
Panke - Map Link
Satellit - Map Link
Plattenladen - Map Link
Fahrwerk - Map Link
Brandenburg - Map Link
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Update: Please note that Triangle sprints take place at TiB HQ (not at "other location").
RACE COURSE BUILD-UP
race course build-up
Time: 7am
Location: TiB HQ
This is the most important task and we need all hands on deck. We cannot race until the race course exists and we need your help! Please meet at the front of TiB HQ at 7am sharp.
Consider it a warm-up.
BREAKFAST
BREAKFAST & DINNER
Time: 8-10:30 and 18-20:30
Location: TiB HQ
For ECMC, the Fläming Kitchen will be cooking with us for the championship. They’re a vegetarian/vegan action kitchen, focused on using cooking to support political and alternative projects whilst saving vegetables. They work with fresh, ecological produce that is often deemed “wonky”, “too short, too thick, too long, too big” and doesn’t make it into the supermarket shelves. Every vegetable is sexy!
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION & STARTER PACK PICK-UP
Time: 9-10
Location: Tempelhofer Feld
Registration for ECMC is open. If you've registered, you can pick up your starter pack.
Check-in (registered, paid and confirmed) is possible on the Tempelhofer Feld tomorow between 9-10am, however we have no more space for new registrations. Check-in will be at Race HQ.
This your last chance to ensure you're registered for the main race.
MAIN RACE QUALIFICATIONS
MAIN RACE QUALIFICATIONS
Time: 8:30-16
Location: Tempelhofer Feld (north west section)
The ECMC Main Race is a workday simulation on a closed-course with unique road regulations specifi c to the course to give everyone a level playing field. The exact format varies from championship to championship, but several elements are always the same: You’ll receive a Manifest with your jobs for the work day, and it’s up to you to route yourself to the various checkpoints with with as much skill and efficiency as you like to do as be as successful as possible in as little time as possible. The course will be on Tempelhofer Feld, a former-airport. It’s flat, it’s fast, and it’s not all smooth sailing.
This event is open to all for cheering: please come and spectate, cheer and enjoy!
Qualifications for both Main Race and Cargo Race will take place on Saturday. You cannot take part in both.
Main Race and Cargo Main Race finals will take place at the same time on Sunday.
There will be 4 heats. Each lasts 100 minutes. Please arrive 30 minutes before your heat starts for a race briefing.
Further race details will be provided at the start of your race, with opportunity to ask questions. Please arrive ready for your qualifiers with time to spare.
Bike issues? On Saturday, the Ruckenwind mobile workshop will be at the race course, staffed by mechanics Anna and Jess - the DIY workshop is yours to use tools from. Thanks Ruckenwind for supporting riders!
On both Saturday and Sunday, Tempelhofer Feld also has a DIY Workshop that you can visit. More info is here.
WTNBIA+ FORUM
WTNBIA+ FORUM
Time: 17-19
Location: TiB HQ
Originally birthed from the *BMA – a group that formed to connect, empower and support anyone who doesn’t benefit from cis-male privilege within the messenger community, these meetings invite WTNBIA+ folks to come together to share experiences and build structures to improve ways of working - past meetings have led to changes to how events are run. You can be as active as you like, but there’s always space for you; finding like-minded folks who have had similar experiences is powerful and fun.
CRITICAL MASCULINITY WORKSHOP
CRITICAL MASCULINITY WORKSHOP
Time: 17-19
Location: TiB HQ
The messenger community is still very cis-male dominated: In our experience WTNBIA+ are always a minority on events and most of the messenger companies we know have a strong surplus of cis-male riders. With this workshop on critical masculinity we want to invite you to reflect on your own behaviour in order to make the messenger community a more inclusive space for all genders (including yourself!).
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
Time: 17-20:30
Location: Satellit, Weinstrasse 11
Your last chance to see the exhibition.
Running on Friday and Saturday, explore an exhibition of pictures, spokecards, manifests, and posters. For starters, Berlin has one of the longest-running alleycats in the world and we’re looking forward to sharing some memories with you.
Johnny poses with a book for illustrative effect.
This event is open to all, even if you aren't registered for the overall ECMC event.
HAND CRAFTING WORKSHOP
HAND CRAFTING WORKSHOP
Time: 19:30-21:30
Location: Plattenladen, Neckarstrasse 19, 12059
Join a metalwork workshop of sorts to engrave and decorate yourself a stem cap, craft derailleurs into spurs (think: wild west-style), give your baseball caps (or any cap with a brim) some spoke- shaped piercings, and bleach a t-shirt with a print of your favourite bike parts. You can buy a cap from our merch stand, if you like.
Thanks to Will and Plattenladen for hosting this one. Plattenladen is a collective workshop space that specialises in bikes, metal, wood and screen- printing. They have open bike work- shops and support the local community. More info: plattenladenkollektiv.de.
This event is open to all, even if you aren't registered for the overall ECMC event. To join, please talk to an Orga Team member on site.
WTNBIA+ CAT
WTNBIA+ CAT
Time: 19:30-21:30
Location: Starting from TiB HQ
An open course event that’s also an art tour. There might be a few different options of how to ride this race, whether you take on trickier checkpoints with a side quest, or hit as many stops as you can. Thanks to Siri for organising this one.
This event is open to all WTNBIA+ riders, even if you aren't registered for the overall ECMC event. To join, please talk to an Orga Team member on site.
TRIANGLE SPRINTS
TRIANGLE SPRINTS
Time: 19:30-23
Location: TiB HQ
Expect a “Triangle Sprint” format within this: a short distance two-checkpoint race contre la montre.
This event is open to all, even if you aren't registered for the overall ECMC event. To join, please talk to an Orga Team member on site.
PARTY
PARTY
Time: 21-3
Location: Panke, Hof V, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347
Get ready for a weekend full of music: from “Massenkaraoke” - a pedal powered goldsprint karaoke fest - through to post-industrial psych-noise with tasty visuals, experimental and noise, psy-doom, punk, and DJs playing DnB, Jungle, liquid funk and ambient jungle into the wee hours, and a Gabor- special during the daytime. Get your dancing SPDs on.
On Saturday, we have bike-based group Karaoke with from Pony Tyler, then live music from It Sleeps, Kettenblatt Massaker, Etta Harbar, followed by a DJ into the wee hours.
After-party bike trains.
To get you home from parties safely, we’ll have “bike trains” for you to join and pedal your way back to the ECMC HQ in a supported way. We’ll be running these regularly after parties, and information will be communicated in the ECMC Signal Group.
This event is open to all, even if you aren't registered for the overall ECMC event. Suggestion entry €8-10.