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Modo
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: French Alps 2008 Reply with quote
This is where I want to go again next year
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https://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e104/modo66/Alps.jpg

Date isn`t set in stone but probably around mid June. In 2006 we stayed just outside Chamonix for 10 days using it as a base to set off on the of the most awsome roads I have ever riden. I don`t mind riding on my own but prefer to euro tour as part of a group.

So with that in mind is there anyone else who is thinking on a French alps tour next year??
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PostPosted: 11:39 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Me, but I'm undecided how it should be done, ie set off a week earlier than Ram doom's pack via Spain, getting to Nice then north to Mont Blanc or just a straight run down.
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PostPosted: 11:43 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
how about you setup a rough route , then riders can join you for certain sections and peel off to do their own thing for a bit and maybe rejoin you sometime later,

SavageKymco wants to do this he wants to stay in Nice for a bit , I want to maybe see the Pyrnees.
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PostPosted: 15:39 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
I want to maybe see the Pyrnees.


https://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e104/modo66/SSA50728.jpg

I took this from just inside Andora. The road infront is the N320 heading back into France, the road heading of to the right crosses the Pyrenees into Spain.

The only thing with this picture is.......all the bloody cars Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 15:56 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I didn't get my tour done this year, but would hope to do it next year instead.

posted about it here:

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=107509

takes in the French alps, as well as the Stelvio pass...
https://www.aaanetserv.com/turismo/lombardia/images/stelvio.jpg

but stays in a Gite in the Verdon Gorges, rather than in the alps.



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PostPosted: 18:12 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
been over to France for the last 3 years and it's always made me want to go back again.
next year we re off in September and staying Frujus on the south coast in a static for a week before coming home via the Alps
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if anyone is interested in going some other time during the year i can send you the e mail addy of the owner of the caravan sleeps 6 in 3 bedrooms and its at a good rate
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PostPosted: 19:14 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
feef wrote:
takes in the French alps, as well as the Stelvio pass...
https://www.aaanetserv.com/turismo/lombardia/images/stelvio.jpg


I've cycled up that Very Happy It's a killer!

Anyway I'm definitely going to be doing some sort of tour next Summer... Although what exactly I don't know. I'd love to go along with some like minded souls!

I will be on a new bike too Very Happy

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PostPosted: 20:11 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stiffler wrote:
I've cycled up that Very Happy It's a killer!


I can smell the savlon from here Razz

Stiffler wrote:
Anyway I'm definitely going to be doing some sort of tour next Summer... Although what exactly I don't know. I'd love to go along with some like minded souls!

I will be on a new bike too Very Happy

Tim


I've motorcycled up it on my VFR400, it's definitely a pass to do for the experience but it's nowhere near a knee-down fest. The surface in parts is shocking with pot holes everywhere, cars are on your arse on the way down. According to my phones GPS the summit is at a massive 9200ft, it's do-able to climb up there from near sea level in a day, but bear in mind you can actually get altitude sickess from that much daily ascent.

Here was my view from the top, there was a few bands of four metre visibility cloud on the way up.

https://www.motocapers.com/siteimages/photos/centraleurope05/PIC000022.jpg
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
maurice wrote:
I've motorcycled up it on my VFR400, it's definitely a pass to do for the experience but it's nowhere near a knee-down fest.


I'm still bemused by the whole kneedown concept...

I go touring to see some amazing scenery and ride some amazing roads.. I don't have to get my knee down on the road to be faster than most, so using it as a measure of how much 'fun' a ride is is somewhat flawed.

I'm Sure we could have got our knee down on lots of the roads we were riding last year if you ask those who were there, but there was more important things on our mind. Smile

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PostPosted: 20:30 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
feef wrote:
I'm still bemused by the whole kneedown concept...

I go touring to see some amazing scenery and ride some amazing roads.. I don't have to get my knee down on the road to be faster than most, so using it as a measure of how much 'fun' a ride is is somewhat flawed.

I'm Sure we could have got our knee down on lots of the roads we were riding last year if you ask those who were there, but there was more important things on our mind. Smile

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Tbh I barely got my knee down at all last summer touring, I was just trying to illustrate the hairpins weren't the baby-face smooth race-track quality hairpins you often see in the lower Alps (France especially).

I'm often amused when 'fast' people get defensive when it's mentioned Wink
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PostPosted: 20:33 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
maurice wrote:
I'm often amused when 'fast' people get defensive when it's mentioned Wink


It's more down to the obviously slow, crap and shit-scared riders who are trying to get their knee down as if it's some holy grail that piss me off. hanging off a vertical bike making an arse of themselves, where they'd be better off learing to ride properly..

aaaaanyway.. that;s not for this thread..

the only place we could have easily got our knee down last year was on the motorway leading up to Millau from Montpellier..

Imagine a Motorway with hairpins on it Very Happy Thumbs Up

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Fair enough. If my knee goes down on the road it's because I've taken a corner (this is just relative to my ability) fast. It's my natural riding style and I don't have to think about it to do it.

feef wrote:
the only place we could have easily got our knee down last year was on the motorway leading up to Millau from Montpellier..

Imagine a Motorway with hairpins on it Very Happy Thumbs Up

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I did that motorway last year in that direction... wow. I was pretty gutted to have my leather pants bungee'd on the back seat at the time. I had to take a picture of my rear tyre after having stopped at the rest park as the sides had gone a strange indigo blue. Smile
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feef wrote:
maurice wrote:
I'm often amused when 'fast' people get defensive when it's mentioned Wink


It's more down to the obviously slow, crap and shit-scared riders who are trying to get their knee down as if it's some holy grail that piss me off. hanging off a vertical bike making an arse of themselves, where they'd be better off learing to ride properly..

aaaaanyway.. that;s not for this thread..

the only place we could have easily got our knee down last year was on the motorway leading up to Millau from Montpellier..

Imagine a Motorway with hairpins on it Very Happy Thumbs Up

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have you seen some of the motorway off ramps in France? , the one south of Calais towards Ameins (has a huge wind turbine at it) I got me pegs down on.
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maurice wrote:
Fair enough. If my knee goes down on the road it's because I've taken a corner (this is just relative to my ability) fast. It's my natural riding style and I don't have to think about it to do it.


Knee down isn't really an option on an FJR, but as some on here will testify, I do frequently leave sportbikes behind Very Happy

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I did that motorway last year in that direction... wow. I was pretty gutted to have my leather pants bungee'd on the back seat at the time. I had to take a picture of my rear tyre after having stopped at the rest park as the sides had gone a strange indigo blue. Smile


yeah.. I was wearing my Draggin jeans, and was careful not to start draggin' them on the deck (I was on the firestorm that time)

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Itchy wrote:
have you seen some of the motorway off ramps in France? , the one south of Calais towards Ameins (has a huge wind turbine at it) I got me pegs down on.


The slip roads on French motorways are often worth the toll-fee alone.
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PostPosted: 22:27 - 10 Sep 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is plenty of Knee down roads, (if thats your thing) in the Alps. ,Not mine getting around the corner in one piece is what I like to do Mr. Green

www.alpineroads.com Shows you some of the routes
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