Off on another Adventure ..

Start the ride down to meet the tour group tomorrow for our Alpine wonder. 😀

That's the first 80 miles done, on to Folkestone to meet Steve. Well impressed , hardly know I have these panniers on with this Dynamic suspension. 👍

The ride around the M25 / M26 was as expected , variable speed limit down to 40 mph in parts. Had time to play with the cruise control as a speed limit and great to find I could switch between TFT and the Navigator media as expected with voice prompts routing through too. I can, now at last turn GPS voice prompts off at will.

Apart from the ten minute stop near Oxford I stopped to fuel up just outside Folkestone, really pleased with the MPG almost the whole 207 miles on one tank of fuel.

Steve arrived first, came out to meet me in the car park sporting one of his Harley T-Shirts as is customary on a trip done his Mrs won't let him wear them when she is around 😀. A few drinks in the bar and a meal and catch up, we met a couple from Nottingham driving down to Montpellier in the car though they do have an RT and used to touring by bike. Nice couple. A few Harley's here again too all waiting for that early morning train ride.

Riding to Verdun tomorrow (Sat),

Intro'

Late Summer 2018 I will be joining my friends Steve and Ian and others on the Motorrad Tour:  Mountains-Alps. 

This years tour is more Swiss and Italian focused to include the following highlights:

• Vosges Mountains in Alsace  France and Lake Biel, at the foot of the Jura Mountains.

• Susten, Furka, Nufenen, San Gottard and Oberalp Passes staying close to St Moritz, Switzerland. 

• The iconic Stelvio Pass and Albula, Fluela and Ofen passes and the Italian Medall and Nigra Passes.

• The Passo Gavia, Penserjoch, Timmeljoch and Ofen Passes and the Stelvio for the second time riding through Austrian Southern Tyrol.

• Germany's Black Forest (B500) and then across the Rhein to Obernai and then the Champagne region of France.

Having received the latest Tour instructions and GPX files for my Navigator I have put together a few instructional videos on how to load and verify the routes on a Garmin device. Please be aware depending on the time of day you load these routes the device may interpret the route differently depending on if some of the mountain passes are currently closed (it assumes you want to ride the route soon) e.g. the Timmelsjoch pass closes at 8PM. 

Loading Mountains Route Files Part 1.

Loading Mountains Route Files Part 2.

Loading Mountains Route Files Part 3.