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chickenstrip Super Spammer
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Posted: 16:05 - 17 Oct 2018 Post subject: |
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Into 2017, and wanted to see more of Europe. After a couple of half-hearted efforts at organising going with others, I thought, sod it, go alone, or never get going at all. So booked up a few nights, bought a sat nav and some Michelin maps, and went.
Some repeat photos here, but, well, just had to really
First destination, Picos de Europa:
https://i.postimg.cc/x14t1z6W/DSCN8799.jpg
It was good to meet up with Enduro Numpty, last minute thing, and we rode from Potes to Riano together, a brilliant stretch of biking road with plenty of great scenery too:
https://i.postimg.cc/YChzZSt8/DSCN8827.jpg
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If you only ever take one photo of mountain scenery, you could do worse than make it this view at Riano:
https://i.postimg.cc/wvHJqxYC/DSCN8892.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/ZK0NKDX5/DSCN8903.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/wv6yKWhH/DSCN8963.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bNKZYYQm/DSCN8989.jpg
Then it was on down the famous N260 in the Spanish Pyrenees, and spent some time exploring from a base at Sort:
https://i.postimg.cc/d1t1NhYV/DSCN9286.jpg
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https://i.postimg.cc/3wy7k2Yp/DSCN9591.jpg ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 14:22 - 18 Oct 2018 Post subject: |
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Having done the Route Napoleon and Grossglockner Pass on the tour in 2016, and now having ridden in the Picos and done most of the N260, I decided to hit another "tick-list" route, and zapped across southern France to do the Route des Grande Alpes.
I think I learned about all these routes and favourite biking destinations right here on BCF, since I started to visit Europe after having joined, so you could say that this forum has played an influential part in my recent biking life - so cheers to the tourers of BCF!
On the RdGA:
https://i.postimg.cc/660LBSjg/DSCN9689.jpg
On the Col de la Bonette:
https://i.postimg.cc/Kv87jNCz/DSCN9708.jpg
...which was the highest point I've ever reached on a motorcycle:
https://i.postimg.cc/1zww2YVW/DSCN9710.jpg
Fun roads in the French Alps:
https://i.postimg.cc/bJPkhHQq/DSCN9721.jpg
With view after stunning view:
https://i.postimg.cc/90F94m8S/DSCN9724.jpg
Favourite Col on the route, Col du Galibier:
https://i.postimg.cc/cH5xmd1P/DSCN9774.jpg
...for these reasons:
https://i.postimg.cc/8zBTYRPR/DSCN9766.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/5yhfhpC3/DSCN9769.jpg
Which have given me the idea of one day going back to explore the region in more detail. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 19:51 - 19 Oct 2018 Post subject: |
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The whole of that last trip had been in sweltering temperatures, in contrast to the previous year, and by the time I reached a little beyond Annecy, I'd had enough, was exhausted. I thought I'd seen enough of mountains for a while again. Ha. Beginning of the next month it was off again, this time down through Luxembourg, B500 through the Black Forest (tick!), and to Switzerland. Headed for the Grimsel/Furka/Susten Pass loop (tick!), and threw in the Neufenen Pass (tick!) and a couple of other destinations for good measure:
https://i.postimg.cc/BnZwwg1f/DSCN0091.jpg
Sublime views, sublime roads:
https://i.postimg.cc/jqXHkr6C/DSCN0107.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yY8FMrnj/DSCN0143.jpg
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https://i.postimg.cc/qRBY6H2Y/DSCN0151.jpg
Plenty of hairpins on the passes, but plenty of good roads to ride too:
https://i.postimg.cc/nrcDtCKr/DSCN0261.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Y929vTvy/DSCN0134.jpg
Entering the outskirts of Grindelwald:
https://i.postimg.cc/1RjtzCsJ/DSCN0157.jpg
Neufenen Pass:
https://i.postimg.cc/4y7XtGsw/DSCN0198.jpg
And headed home via the Route des Cretes through the Vosges mountains - tick! - and Metz.
Then it was just back to riding around locally, mostly in the Lake District. No more tours, not even any particularly long days out. This year, I've only actually been for about 5 or 6 proper rides all year - unprecedented in all the time I've been riding bikes, while I still actually owned one. But at least I've still got it!
And I guess you could probably understand now why I've become so attached to this bike, more than any other. Never has it let me down, never missed a beat or given me cause for concern - it just gets me wherever I'm going, gets me home again, and makes going anywhere a ride to look forward to. So to finish, a few favourite shots of Fazer no.5:
https://i.postimg.cc/VvGDyyty/DSCN8273.jpg
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"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - Roadhouse Blues. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!
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Stinka wrote: | Wow. This thread is amazing. One of the best stories of the life of a biker I’ve ever read. RESPECT ! |
There are some other good ones here if you trawl through some old threads. I'm particularly wowed by Fizzer Thou's one, 40-something years of biking. If you're into Jap nostalgia from the 70s on, you can't beat it:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=238955 ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 13:11 - 21 Jan 2019 Post subject: |
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Been a member just over a year and just found this.
absolute brilliant read,
I can remember seeing my first black RD350 whilst bumbling around on my Suzuki GP100
thanks for taking the time to write it
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It was fun while it lasted...well, some of it was
I also recommend reading Paddy's and Fizzer Thou's stories.
Fizzer:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=238955
Paddy:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=288578 ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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