Agreed, but the St.Gothard pass makes Llanberis look like a ride to the shops. If you want awesome roads try the Alps or the Pyrenees-you could ride for a fortnight in either of them and never use the same piece of road twice.

THAT'S why we go abroad-the other reason is that Richard Brunstrom is not Chief Constable-enough said!

John

Riding the roads of southern France makes you feel like you have died and gone to biking heaven

In the mountains you can, if you don’t over ride them, get in to a flow that is just poetry.
You feel that the road has been put they’re that day for you to ride. You have a, It really can’t get any better than this feeling all day. It’s all in the flow, it’s in the food and wine in the mountain town café, it’s in the over hanging trees dappling the light on the shady side of the mountain. You don’t feel intimidated you just feel alive, well fed and happy.
You are welcomed on a loud bike in the smallest town as a human and not an outlaw.

On a solo blast out I stumbled on a 360 with a sports exhaust out for a blast. Had some fun just following him for five or six miles but he was pushing on to much ,it’s too intense to keep that pace up
Comfortably for long because it just keeps on bend after bend. He pulled over let me lead for the next five or six. Not racing just both enjoying the road and the added entertainment of our choice of weapon. Magic sound but still think the duke had the edge at full volume.


I did get a pull out there in the middle of nowhere. Very nice lady with a pump action shot gun and her male partner. Using my universal language of mime and the odd French word I explained that my non-existent licence plate was an oversight. They then used there similar international mime skills to tell me it would cost me seventy quid if the bad ones got me. They liked the bike, which helped.

Then you throw in the Cote D'Azur and It just nicks it.

Best road riding for me by far

Wales

The roads are there , the weather, well yes got that if your lucky, but the wine food and attitude to large loud supper bikes, hummm need to think about that. in saying that anywear is better than Essex for road riding.


:lol:

You're welcome to Wales...

The SS21/D900 from Cuneo to Gap is the road for me - mountain pass then big open sweepies that mean an hour of hairpins then an hour of 90 - 130 mph - with the luggage on the 998 and the sun on my back!!!

Or the N94, or the N85, or the D94, or or or or all the other fantastic roads in and around the Alps that make you realise what bikes were really made for.

The scenery is bigger and the roads are emptier - the cops are scarce and the food and drink is excellent.

If I couldn't ride my bike abroad at least once a year I don't think I'd bother having one...

Giles

Funny how most of the southerners venture off to France...

When the Northern lot have Wales, Cumbria and Scotland :frog:

And we can go there and back in an hour or two whenever the mood takes us, non of this booking ferries, accomodation etc

JPM, plan a vacation in Italy next year.. you are my guest at Brogins's place in Florence.....

I'll hold you to that mate!! definitely.... although I have seen you ride, and I'm already worried ;)

Posting like this will get you fully booked for YEARS Broggins old mate.-Love Florence, and one of my all time favourite roads is the SS67 from Dicomano to Forli over the Passo Del Muraglioni-paradise.

John

Blimey - and it's WDW next year !!!!

Monty,

The SS67 indeed - in fact, I've attached the view from the road next to the bar/restaurant where I stopped for lunch in June on the way back from Misano - next to where the road splits either side of a dirty medieval great stone wall...

Nice...and no, Snowdonia doesn't come close!!!

Giles

Here are some reasons :-