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#1 | Austria & Slovenia datum

Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:18 pm

Just back from 17 day, 3,000 mile tour from NE Scotland to Austria & Slovenia on my '21 R1250RS.

The less good: when I forgot to put my ear plugs in, I thought the engine sounded noisy / tappety before the shiftcam took over. Boring roads through the Netherlands (sorry, my Dutch friends). Slightly sore bum - need to get some sort of seat cover. Bastard to clean the black engine cases when I got home!

The good: New Michelin Road 6s performed well in dry, over cobbled and gravel hairpins, and in the wet - standing water on the Edinburgh bypass on the way home. Really got to grips and like my Navigator VI / Garmin Basecamp routes combination, so easy to modify a route (trip to Louis Motorrad in Monchengladbach) or skip a shaping / way point on the fly. Only complaint would be the location of the cradle, having to look down - I need to buy a bluetooth headset. Great fuel consumption (I'm quite a gentle rider). BMW panniers (bought 1/2-price from a mate), £50 S/H BMW rack and a Kriega 20 litre bag worked really well for me. Could stuff everything for overnight on ferry etc in Kriega. Germany, Austria and Slovenia accommodation and food great value compared to Scotland. I used booking.com & Google to find places to stay, then booked direct.

The great: got to see my daughter who lives in Graz (my wife flew down) and biker schoolmate who lives in Salzburg. He chose routes & accommodation for some of the trip. Nockalmstrasse toll road in Austria - amazing pass with fabulous twisties, hairpins, views (and shit coffee in cafe at top); rode with schoolmate's friend who is an ex-350 GP racer, so you can guess his approx age, on a latest model R1250RS, I could get nowhere near him or his wife on an R1200RS! Malta Hochalm Strasse toll road, also Austria, another great road of twisties, tunnels and great views, interesting dam / pumped storage and good coffee at top. Vrsic Pass in Slovenia - fabulous, limestone mountain country with another great twisty road. Off the bike: wandering from vineyard to vineyard crossing the Austria - Slovenia border in South Styria, tasting lovely white wines and feasting on cold meats and cheese - all at a good price; the Arnie museum near Graz.

R1250RS a fine bike for a trip like that.

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#2 | RE: Austria & Slovenia datum

Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:36 pm

I love Austria & Slovenia. I think next year I will have to go back. I stayed at a hotel in Maltatal in 2014 and did the Nockalmstrasse twice, as we had a free pass from the hotel as we stayed 3 nights.
It's 20 years since my last visit to Slovenia having first visited in 1999. Again, must go back soon.

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