6 days in Southtyrol

motorradrudi

Tour Pro
Hello @all
Here is my report of the South Tyrol trip of the Alpenbiker, pentecost 2009!

Like last year we started our tour in Montan, South Tyrol.
The house Heinrich was fast fully booked and we could start the further route planning. Unfortunately Heike („Dirty Osirius “) , Franz („Aquarius “) as well as Inge and Rudi („katfish “) failed just before start of the tour, so the number of participants reduced to 17.
Together with Alfred, Jacky and Thomas we arrived already on Thursday. Chris and Kurt also came on Thursday. The others should arrive on Friday.

Thursday, 28th May 2009

We met Alfred (“Merlin”) at 9:30am at McDonald in Sonthofen. Passing Hindelang we went up the pass called “Oberjoch” to meet Thomas (“Toutou”) and Jacky. Now on four motorcycles we continued through the valley “Tannheimer Tal” to Weissenbach. We crossed the valley of river Lech and went up the valley “Namlostal”. Here we enjoyed the empty, winding roads and in Bichlbach wejoined the main road to “Fernpass”. There was amazing little trafic and we soon arrived at the road works at the coaching inn Zugspitzblick. When the traffic light showed green again, we had the road to Nassereith for us!

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After a short stop at the service station in Nassereith we continued passing Telfs on our way to Innsbruck. Here we selected as usual the beautiful ancillary road via Ellbögen to Mattrei.
We had lunch in St. Peter in the hotel St. Peter. We only can recommend it!!!

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The 3 course special was only €6,80. The nice land lady would have liked to sit on Thomas BMW and come with us!

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After lunch we continued via Mattrei to Brenner Pass, Sterzing and Brixen. Here we turned left to the pass called “Würzjoch”.
The route up to St. Andrea was wunderful! A wide road with good tarmac and wonderful curves –motorcycling at its best!
But leaving St. Andrea behind there we experienced the disillusionment! The next 15 km down to the junction leading into valley Villnöss were repaired in the worst way possible! On the entire section you are in constant endeavors to find the gaps in the bitumen rag rug – awful!

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We continued to ascend throuhg the valley Villnöss via Gufidaun to Lajen.

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The route is very narrow and very steep, but it offers wonderful of views into the valley Eisacktal down below. In Lajen we had a break for cappuccino.
Then the way led us down to Waidbruck. Because of time restrictions we drove then directly via Bozen and Auer to Montan to the guesthouse Heinrich.

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[FONT=&quot]Mrs. Amplatz welcomed us very friendly and during dinner and later on - together with Kurt („medicus47 “), Chris („sir footloose “) and Gabi (they arrived on Thursday) we could recall the impressions we had on our first day.

With the best greatings from Germany
Rudi

[/FONT] To be continued - after translation - just wait a little time
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
:drool::drool::drool:

Another trademark Rudi-report :clap::clap:
Great yarn....and dead-gorgeous pics !!
Thanks for the post....can't wait for the rest.
 

motorradrudi

Tour Pro
Hi everybody,

thnak's for your reply!


And here is the next part of the RR:



Friday, 29th May 2009

A view from the balcony: The sun shining - exactly like the day before - and promised a beautiful day.

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Today we had planned the “Montan Fittanze Tour“.

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The tour is quite long (370km), especially the 70 km section between Recoaro and Passo Tittanze is fastidious and poses high requirements to the drivers ability.
 

motorradrudi

Tour Pro
With six motorcycles we took the direct way via Trento to Rovereto as a start. From there we enjoyed the wonderful road up Passo Pian delle Fugazze - wonderful!!!
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motorradrudi

Tour Pro
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Then a first longer break had to be announced.

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Afterwards we went down to Valli del Pasubio turning right to Passo Xon and then to Recoaro.

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Just before enterimg Valdagno we turned right to Castelvecchio and further ascending to Marana. Shortly after leaving this village we turned left, steeply down towards Crespadoro. Then steeply up again to Bolca and San Bortolo. Again downhill (this time on a better road) to S. Andrea.
Via Selva di Progno we arrived in Velo Varonese. There, at the left side of the road there is a beautiful cafe, I already knew. Unfortunately they close between 1pm and 3pm (we arrived at about 1:30pm) and so after a short break we left without coffee.

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motorradrudi

Tour Pro
Via Bosco we came to Passo Fittanze and the valley Etschtal near Ala (very steep descend with predomonantly more than 20 % gradient).

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The view is impressing!

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Then we went to Avio, to the next highlight: The road up to the Bocca di Navene - marvellous!!! Swinging from one side to the other we wend steeply uphill. In the rear view mirror I still could see my fellow bikers. After approximately 10 km we turned left and the road went further steeply uphill. When we arrived on the highest point (yield sign), only Kurt and Alfred were behind us! I asked Alfred to wait on the others and together with Kurt we drove to the Bocca di Navene.

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In expectation that the others would come soon, I ordered two Cappuccino. Still waiting for our ordered Cappuccini I worried, because none the others came!
Kurt went back. After we finished our cappuccini we went back together with Alfred, who had arrived in the meantime to search others. On the way downhill we met Kurt who told us that Chris and Gabi were delayed and they, Jacky and Thomas decided to drive directly down to Mori. Telephone contact was not possible. The rest of us drove up again and we had another cosy break with views to Lago di Garda.
Then we also drove on the narrow road via Brentonico to Mori.

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Due to the late hour we decided not to take the planned way via Monte Bondone but to drive directly via Rovereto and Trento back to Montan. Just before 7pm we arrived in Montan. Soon the others arrived too (they also had a break).
Also the remaining participants “Alpenbiker South Tyrol Trip“ arrived one after the other.
Together we had dinner and a following cosy gathering terminated this day.

That was the 2nd day of the trip!

Best greatings from Germany
Rudi
 
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