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[misterpink]

maybe instead of all that rock weighing they know it takes 125 tonnes to squash 2 germans?????

[philthy]

Originally Posted by Athelstan

Philthy
Easy - they measure the mass of the large rock - then weigh a tiny piece of the same type of rock and measure the mass of that little bit - then they simply multiple the weight by the difference in the mass of the two pieces.

My mental vision of them levering it up onto a massive set of bathroom scales was wrong then?!

[ath748]

Originally Posted by Athelstan

Whylie
The largest town near to me that you see on a map is probably "ZUG" - it has a large lake attached to it called the "Zugersee". Look dirctly south of Zurich. Be glad to see a fellow Brit Ducatista.

There's another Brit Ducatista in CH mate..... down in Montreux I am. Don't have the bike with me though.

[the phantom pieman]

Originally Posted by ath748

There's another Brit Ducatista in CH mate..... down in Montreux I am. Don't have the bike with me though.

As am I, on the hill above Duebendorf.
But moving back to the UK this time next week .....

[Athelstan]

ath748
Lovely spot Montreux - pity you don't have the bike there as we could meet one grand sunny day in the Wallis

[Athelstan]

Pieman
Are you moving back permanently to UK next week - or will you be coming back to the delights of Dübendorf?

[ath748]

I am in discussions at to whether to move out here permanently or not....in which case the bike will be coming too! So it might be a possibility at the end of this year.... Mind you, not in the snow!! Keep you posted.

Ade.

[Athelstan]

The Swiss have blown up the mountain side and announce that the offending rock face is now safe and so will open the Gottard Motorway to traffic from Friday morning at 5am.

That's good news for bikers as the "over the mountain passes" will be clear of all the recent diverted traffic - so on Friday morning I'm off over the mountains for a short day's dash n fun in northern Italy - the Sud Tiröl and Merano.

Anyone from Blighty coming this way get in contact - I'd be glad to see a UK Ducatisti

[Wylie1]

Originally Posted by Athelstan

The Swiss have blown up the mountain side and announce that the offending rock face is now safe and so will open the Gottard Motorway to traffic from Friday morning at 5am.

That's good news for bikers as the "over the mountain passes" will be clear of all the recent diverted traffic - so on Friday morning I'm off over the mountains for a short day's dash n fun in northern Italy - the Sud Tiröl and Merano.

Anyone from Blighty coming this way get in contact - I'd be glad to see a UK Ducatisti

Thanks for the update. We're leaving blighty on 20th July en-route to Italy. Not sure of route yet....got a route planning session on Sunday.
Any ideas? We need to be near Bergamo on 22nd around 10am. One of the blokes going wants to do Route Napoleon on the way down & we'll be heading home via the Nurburgring.

[Trig]

We are leaving for the Alps (maybe the Stella Alpina rally) next Friday assuming Ducati get my bike sorted out. We do not plan on using the motorways but the guide we have states that the 'vignette' is also needed for 'semi-motorways'. What are they?