| Col du Galibier a few years ago returning from South of France where we had endured temperatures of about 40c As we got about halfway up the snow started and got worse and worse until the road was covered, it was very very cold and wet. And very scary as just at the very edge of the road are very long drops down the mountain, soaked to the skin wearing a Bks one piece suit that was full of those little holes for ventilation and summer gloves. What made it scarier still is that year I had gone on a Honda Blackbird with the linked braking system so everytime I used a little rear brake the front came on as well which was no fun on snow. A few hundred metres from the top is a cafe where we stopped to thaw out, by the cafe is a little tunnel about 70 metres long that takes you to the other side of the top of the mountain, it goes without saying that the tunnel was closed and we had to carry on right to the very top before slowly descending the other side. I have never been so unhappy whilst sat on a motorcycle.  |