2007...Tornanti 1
September/ October 2007
Nearly 3 years of planning....
This was it!!
THE BIIIG MOMMA!!
6 (SIX!!) weeks of carving the European Alps
Anything and everything from the gorges in the south of France, the Mediterranean Coast, Route Napoleon through the French Alps, Switzerland inside-out and upside-down, Southern Austria, the Dolomites, the Alto Adige and the little-known Friuli in Italy... Northern Slovenia, Liechtenstein and various little tax-havens...100s of passes, 9000km of twisties without end....and literally, carve-'til-ya-barf.
Starting with the bikes we DIDN'T book and pay for, to finishing up in a brothel in Milano/ Italy.
From 2ft. of overnight snow on the Stelvio to sharing the "Roof of Europe" with a fashion model on the glaciers above Grindelwald, Switzerland. From a meet with the Alpenbikers near Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany and Hitlers Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden/ Germany to the tiniest single-laner dirt roads above Martigny in the Rhone Valley (Switzerland/ French border), the list is endless.
The ride-report has turned into a reference-work even for the locals (it was also translated)...and has had over 500.000 hits through the various forums around the globe.
The pics are scattered around the globe, from Brasil to South Africa, Sweden to Canada.
Where you shouldn't go, definitely not on a hire-tourer
Col de Tende/ Italian/French border
Col d'Izoard, France
OMG!!!
On the Stelvio
The tiny Mortirolo Pass/ Italy...with all the Giro d'Italia Bike Race graffiti
Dolomites
Mangart-Madness/ Slovenia
Segantini Hut, St. Moritz at our feet
Riding Skilifts...bloody dangerous, I tells ya!!
Here's the full yarn with over
TWO-THOUSAND-FIVE-HUNDRED gobsmacking pics.
Lock the door to your office, arrange hourly coffee-infusions....enjoy
Don't mind the shakes and that terrible yearning in yer belly at the other end....it's just part of that sort of thing
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