Since 1964 the BMW Club Mulheim an der Ruhr has organised a 3 day training course on the famous Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. I only found out about this course through David Halsall, our BMW GB dealer representative for Cotswold BMW where I work on Saturdays, who put me in touch with Barry Salmon, one of the bike instructors. Full details of what the course offers can be found ...
Some people say you can't tour on a sportsbike so raise your hand if you think you can ... alright, alright, calm down all of you that say of course you can, it's easy, they don't build 'em like they used to, and I remember the good old days when a sportsbike was fully focussed and damn uncomfortable with it. Ok then, scratch that. Raise your hand if you think ...
Four weeks after this year’s BBOT Tour had ended I had occasion to travel again to Switzerland. As the weather forecast was good – or at least better than it had been for the BBOT tour I decided to take one of my bikes, this time my K1200S ...
The B500 is a very famous biking road and today we were all going to ride it ... setting off through Baden Baden we picked up the B500 until we reached a point where the signs offered a choice of routes to Freudenstadt – the B462 or the B500 also known as the Schwarzwald Hochstrasse, which translates to ...
On these so called “Touristfahren” days the circuit is open to anyone who pays the toll – and we mean anyone. Unless their bike or car or van is obviously not roadworthy anyone who pays the toll is allowed on. You could have Sabine Schmitz driving the ‘Ring taxi – a BMW M5 – or the biggest idiot on the planet driving a beaten up old van. All this means you have to ...
After the previous day’s rest for Gaz, Pete, Taj and Bob we agreed on a group ride out to knock off the last of the top 10 highest passes in Europe - the Gavia, and then ride round over the Mortirolo, Bernina, Julier and Albula passes the back to Livigno. Mark decided to take a break as he’d been on the road for at least 8 to 10 hours every day for the last 10 days. We had the usual false start ...
Since we started motorcycling in Europe in 2006, Phil has used John Hermann’s excellent motorcycle touring book Motorcycle Journeys Through the Alps & Beyond as a valuable resource in planning trips, and Kyle has since joined the Hermann fan club. Trip 52 (in the fourth edition) is entitled “I Dare You; 17 Passes in One Day" ...
As soon as we woke up this morning it looked like we'd struck gold with the weather. By all accounts the previous weeks weather in the Dolomites had been dreadful, cold and lashing it down with rain, but today it was blue skies and sunny, and the forecast was for more of the same .... The plan today was to tick off another of the 10 highest passes in Europe from our bagging list by riding out towards ...
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