France and Italy on a naked ER6n!!

[mark83]

It's thanks to you lot at BCF that I plucked up the courage to actually take off.

And apart from the poor pictures in Paris (my camera is shite at night) I'm well glad I did it.

I even met loads of bikers on the ferry and on the trip. One of them had this gorgeous Busa! (see pic)

Oh, and here are some pics of France and Italy... Well worth the trip.

My only regret is that I didn't push it to the Italian lakes. Next time!
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

Good stuff, what was Mont Blanc and the surrounding area like? Always fancied going there at some point.

[Keen]

nice the er6 looks tasty in black with the red frame.

So where did you go/ what route?
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[mark83]

Mont Blanc is absolutely amazing. Top biking country.

Long sweeping bends over bridges and the motorway surface is almost track-standard.

I went though paris and spent a night there. Then through Dijon and followed the signs for Mont Blanc.

If you are planning on going down there, though, I recommend pushin on towards the Italian lakes. Lake Como and Lecco are absolutely brilliant. People are fairly decent too.

The winter is harsh, though, so spring/summer is probably the best time. Well worth the trip though...
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[colin1]

the 'yeh right' pic is now my desktop background
thanks
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[quik_d]

how long did you go for? and was it on your own? looks really nice around mont blanc
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[bin]

Some cracking pics mark....how did the tyres react, they look like pilot roads....
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[mark83]

[bin]

See what you mean....I went from bt 020s to michelin pilot roads a longer lasting tyre with better road holding wet or dry.
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[Keen]

[bin]

The pilot road's where tested by gsx1400 owners across the globe and was given a good report for this heavy torquey bike....thats why I had them and found the vagueness of the 020s dissapeared....but if you fitted the pilot roads to a sports bike and they lost grip while getting your knee down then you would get conflicting reports....the right tyre for the right usage....my next tyres are going to be pilot road....
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[Keen]

ok I'm a sports-touring tyre person myself, seen as how I commute with the bike and can't be replacing them every 3000 miles... just when I needed new tyres a while ago a couple of bad reports (true or not) were enough to make me hesitate.

I got some continental road attack tyres in the end, I'd recommend them if you fancied a change
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[mark83]

[natv4]

Well Done! Glad you took the chance and enjoyed it. It takes a fair bit of bravery to decide to do something like that on your own.

On tyres - I have always liked the 020s and now they've released 021s, I shall be trying them next. Supposedly more wet grip and 15% longer lasting than the 020 (for me that'll be about 9k then). So pretty good from where I'm sitting.
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[ultras]

nice pics,i have never been outside romania with motorcycle,i am planning next summer to do a short trip around hungary!

[ultras]

nice pics,i have never been outside romania with motorcycle,i am planning next summer to do a short trip around hungary!

[mark83]

[kawakid]

I love France, was a student there many years ago.

I don't have this negative opinion that many people have of the french, perhaps parce que , je habite en bretagne and they have a different outlook.

[Keen]

[kawakid]

Its quite different in Bretagne (Britanny).

They all had quite a gaelic outlook and they were told as Bretagnes that they must visit Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland.

They had their own language, which some people spoke.

For the non french speakers and that includes me now. Bretagne is french for Brittany and Grande Bretagne is the french for Great Britain. Hence brittany is viewed differently to the rest of france, its own language, flag oh and weather system.

The other thing I loved about Brittany in the early 1990s was how cheap things were, my uni accommodation on campus was £16 per week (I could claim £8 back off the french state), I could buy 24 beer bottles for less than £2.50 and a cheap bottle of wine was less than 4 francs. Ohh and I was getting about £130 a week in grants.

[mark83]