DMFF OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024
THE GREAT MALLE MOUNTAIN RALLY
Short Film | UK | 12 mins
Director: Charlie Bristow
Summary: 100 motorcycles, 2000 km, 6 countries in 6 days, Austria to Monaco. Riding across every highest road and highest mountain pass in each Alpine territory. With a long distance endurance Rally adventure, you need to push your limits and push your boundaries, but you come back a better person.
Film maker Charlie Bristow joined the Malle team for The Great Malle Mountain Rally, to document the longest motorcycle Rally ever attempted across the entire Alps mountain range, from East to West and North to South. His short film tells the story of the annual ‘Mountain Rally’, which starts in Austria, 2000km through 6 Alpine countries in 6 days, across every highest and greatest mountain pass in each Alpine region and then completes at sea-level in Monaco.
Each year the Mountain Rally attracts 100 custom, classic and rare motorcycles/riders from around the world, who throw themselves into the Mountain Rally challenge. This year saw highly custom Harley-Davidson Pan America and other new and old classic Harleys, custom Royal Enfield 650’s, Norton Commandos, custom 1980’s Dakar BMW’s and many stock Triumph Scramblers, BMW R9T’s etc.
Each road rally stage is approximately 300-350km per day, with 5 Rally checkpoints in each stage and Marshalls timing. Being a road rally, speed limits must not be broken, The Malle Marshall team know the precise timings and for each minute early or late the rally teams lose a point, meaning a winning team at the end of each stage and an overall winning team.
