At the kick -off of the new year, everyone in Assen had the mouth full of the celebration of 100 years TT. And that the city is waiting a lot with all kinds of festivities. But soon the fired TT fire extinguished again. To the great sorrow of catering boss Geert in Velde.
He was the first in the city center to put his company in historic TT atmosphere. “I challenge the rest to do the same. Come on entrepreneurs, make something of it. We have to dress the city.”
The manager has renamed his company on the Markt in Autentieq, and flooded three birds with one stone yesterday. Ensuring the first TT atmosphere in the city center, the living asser motor legends Jaap Geerts and Egbert Streuer give a nice birthday party, and also celebrate the first lustrum of Auttentieq. “Everything comes together nicely.”
Former side drivers Jaap Geerts and Egbert Streuer, for many years, best comrades, celebrated their 86th and 71th birthday yesterday. And the honor of both men to reveal a specially manufactured TT light box on the facade of the catering company. With an image of Jaap Geerts on his old BSA as a surprise.
“I am shy,” stammered Geerts’ birthday. It emotionally emotional, when he had pulled the canvas away from the facade and saw that he himself appears pontifically as a motorcyclist on the facade. “He deserves that honor,” says te Velde, “he is sometimes forgotten, wrongly.”
As a sidecar driver, Jaap Geerts drove all Grand Prix for four years in the seventies. The Assenaar became Dutch champion twice. “But if there is something official around 100 years of TT, as the Asser kicks off recently, then it will be forgotten. And the same applies to Egbert Streuer. Both sidecar drivers are true Assenaren, these men have to cherish.”
Te Velde, who has continued his business with historical racing photos of the TT, hopes that more entrepreneurs in the city will follow his example. “And I mean not only catering companies, but also shopkeepers. We celebrate TT for 100 years throughout the year, the visitors to our city have to notice that on all sides. I go full for it, and hope that the rest also wants to go a tooth in . “
From now on, Witt-Bier is also on the AUTtenTieQ tap. “To stay in the atmosphere. And the TT circuit is also against Witten,” grins the catering boss. “Let’s all make it a nice TT atmosphere. It is only 100 years TT once.”