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http://www.pre.org/album/Holidays/2009-Alps/index.html
A taster...
http://www.pre.org/album/Holidays/2009-Alps/slides/IMG_1638.JPG
For the stories, I may show my face at the Shire tomorrow.
philbut
07-09-09, 10:56 AM
Looks like, fun. I wish I'd had time to get across the channel this year. Next year maybe, i fancy getting back to Italy. Might do Portugal and Spain too on the way to Boom festival (hippys and psytrance)
plowsie
07-09-09, 11:35 AM
The Alps really is a fantastic area, all around it. Some cracking photos, I soooooo wanna go back there on a bike. Oh look 0% on a Versys with free panniers.
The Alps really is a fantastic area, all around it.
Some of it is. Switzerland I could happily never enter on a bike again. TBH I suspect the only reason we got away with what we did in Austria was because we weren't caught.
We had great fun in Bavaria but over toward the Black Forest things got a bit less enjoyable - maybe it's just their equivalent of North Wales but when members of the public start phoning the police to complain about your riding, things get tricky. Fast.
plowsie
07-09-09, 01:14 PM
Some of it is. Switzerland I could happily never enter on a bike again. TBH I suspect the only reason we got away with what we did in Austria was because we weren't caught.
We had great fun in Bavaria but over toward the Black Forest things got a bit less enjoyable - maybe it's just their equivalent of North Wales but when members of the public start phoning the police to complain about your riding, things get tricky. Fast.
Hmm yeah, I'm used to that round where I live TBH but I get what you mean.
In what way didn't you like Switzerland?
In what way didn't you like Switzerland?
They have a national 50mph speed limit and the locals stick to it like the penalty for breaking it is hanging.
They charge 40 euros to use their motorways even for a day (unless you sneak across the border somewhere else and hope for the best, not that I could condone that).
They're practically german, except they don't have the german cavalier disregard for rules and authority (!). At the top of the Grimsel pass we were given grief by some random biker who didn't like the way someone had done an overtake on the way up.
But the main way I don't like Switzerland is it took us an hour and a half to get out of the country and then only after two people coughed up 400 euros a piece for overtaking on a solid white line. Harsh!
Lovely scenery, shame about the rest.
plowsie
07-09-09, 01:42 PM
Hence why I still like Switzerland, I have only cycled on the roads :lol:
Sounds harsh and not fun.
400 euros is a slightly large amount :???:
400 euros is a slightly large amount :???:
It cost us 260 each (1300 in total) to get out of Germany.
The swiss aren't keen on fixed penalties, they love income-related fines, so the 400 euros was a credit card authorisation (or, as the cop put it, a "deposit") - a Judge will decide what the ultimate amount is some time this month. Apparently it could be more than the deposit.
plowsie
07-09-09, 02:25 PM
It cost us 260 each (1300 in total) to get out of Germany.
The swiss aren't keen on fixed penalties, they love income-related fines, so the 400 euros was a credit card authorisation (or, as the cop put it, a "deposit") - a Judge will decide what the ultimate amount is some time this month. Apparently it could be more than the deposit.
Bloody ell! :smt105
skeetly
07-09-09, 05:33 PM
Eye watering...
How come the fine in Germany? Did oberfuhrer disgruntled von beemer-driver film you?
How come the fine in Germany? Did oberfuhrer disgruntled von beemer-driver film you?
Obergruppenfuhrer disgruntled von beemer-driver phoned the police and they sent an unmarked bike to film us.
As the cop said while we were watching the vid, "siz is not ze isle of man, zis is just germany"
skeetly
07-09-09, 08:06 PM
Fek. Efficient though...
Warthog
07-09-09, 09:44 PM
But did you get a copy of the vid? :D
Alas, no. We almost got a video of Preston's MV being noise-tested, but Steve pressed the wrong button on his phone so all we got was the still.
chiefrick
08-09-09, 04:47 PM
Sounds like a good trip then, albeit a quite expensive one! Cant wait to hear about it tonight!
philbut
09-09-09, 10:22 AM
at least you got to keep the bikes!
Received a text today from another biker
"Some people got arrested on Sunday, kept in the cells for 12 hours. The group was joined by an unmarked silver Blade, one bike will be crushed, others will find out next month."
http://www.pre.org/album/Holidays/2009-Alps/slides/german-ticket.jpg
plowsie
17-09-09, 08:54 AM
Ouch
Warthog
17-09-09, 05:12 PM
You went 260 kph!!!! Oh wait, that's the fine. What's the reason translate as? "mumble mumble 40 kph, mumble unclear traffic something".
According to Google translate, something like "exceeding the speed limit by 40kph and overtaking where it is not clear to do so"
Which is fair enough really, because we were overtaking with some relish and the number on my speedo was rather more than 40kph over the limit.
Yup. That's what it says.
Update: The German nicking's now been to court, or so a letter in the post tells me.
I now have as many points on my licence in Germany as I do in the UK! Result!
Go to Spain next time and see if you can make it a hat trick of countries.
Warthog
21-11-09, 05:34 PM
Er, congratulations?
how long do they last for?
No idea. I'm in no hurry to go back there though, so it doesn't really matter.
DanAbnormal
23-11-09, 11:54 AM
Lol!
So not planning on visiting the ring anytime soon then?
At least you can speed round it almost legally there.
Very late bump - I've been writing this one up before my memory goes completely.
First two posts here:
http://eldaifo.blogspot.com/2012/01/alps-ukrm-style-part-1.html
http://eldaifo.blogspot.com/2012/01/alps-ukrm-style-part-2.html
Very late bump - I've been writing this one up before my memory goes completely.
First two posts here:
http://eldaifo.blogspot.com/2012/01/alps-ukrm-style-part-1.html
http://eldaifo.blogspot.com/2012/01/alps-ukrm-style-part-2.html
And part three, where we were all asked to leave Germany.
http://eldaifo.blogspot.com/2012/01/alps-ukrm-style-part-3.html
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