Losing Your Cherry!

[Ali in Austria]

I have long forgotten what it felt like to ride a high pass for the first time. I was trawling through some footage a friend and his wife took when they were here earlier in the summer and particularly their first trip up a high mountain, in this case The Großglockner. Their comments made me chuckle. Unfortunately I don't have any fancy software to clean up the Audio but you can make it out.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_R_d-S6bRQ
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[recman]

for a decent vid and for knocking that awful music on the head before it ruined it entirely.

[barrkel]

I spent a good 10 days in the Alps this August (including Grossglocknerstrasse, Nockalmstrasse and others), and I have to say, I was fairly underwhelmed - most roads are straights connected by hairpins. Unless you particularly like the view (I've done the Alps by car before, I've taken all the photos I ever really needed), the video shows this quite well - you spend most of your time on straights and slow hairpins. Quite tedious / samey before long. And traffic, especially buses and noobs on R1200GSes (sooo many shiny new bikes), needs care in overtaking. Give me an abandoned road in the Pyrenees any day.

I did find some good routes though, I must cut them into clips.
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[Musketeer]

The only similar experience I had on a bike was a mountain pass... khm.. hill pass.. Bealach Na Ba But that's like 10 x smaller than the one in this video.

What's exactly the location of that place? I'd like to go there one day.

Nice video
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[Ali in Austria]

Sorry about the music at the start. It was intended to inject a light hearted feel in to the intro but obviously failed.

Mountain Roads tend to be straights and hairpins, being the most efficient way for a road to gain/lose altitude. But there are plenty of other types of roads in and around the mountains to attract all tastes. The Berwang Namloser Landstraße in the Tirol is one of my all time favourite roads and is hard to beat. That is the beauty of web sites such as Alpine Roads & Best Biking Roads who give pretty good descriptions of passes and routes. High mountain roads are more about the scenery rather than the similarity to a Race Track.

mJZ that was on The Großglockner and the narrow bit is up to Eidelweißespitze, also known as Bikers Point. From the top you have a 360 degree view of over 30 mountain peaks above 3000m. The Großglockner Alpine Road is about 48km long with an additional section up and back to Kaiser Franz Joseph Höhe where you overlook The Großglockner itself. The Großglockner is Austria's highest mountain at over 3700m.
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[RhynoCZ]

I bet my zxr wouldn't work at that height.
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[Musketeer]

[Cyclingbiker]

Brings back the wonderful experiences of riding the passes of eastern and central Switzerland back in April. I so wish I had a helmet camera so I could have recorded the rides in real time but for now pictures from where I stopped will have to do although it is something I will do next time I go to that area. Roll on August 2015...
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[Dave70]

That makes Snaefell look like a speed hump.

Some pretty spectacular views there, thanks for sharing.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

What a place!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/312469_10150328298116392_1285330926_n.jpg?oh=a8b069441ff4027ef0434b964f4f6457&oe=547A3DE0&__gda__=1417675627_162fbc56ea4817d1d83cd7ddf126a3a1

I drove the campervan down.... our brakes got cooked!
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It's amazing the places you've took that camper van Snoosnoo.

https://i.imgur.com/oY8GiiI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IUZ5AX8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Iyuwlka.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Sa3IPpl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/kyfTbqX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BsAKtMg.jpg

[barrkel]