tour reports » My last Pre-Brexit European Road/Business Trip

Hi all,

Well Susanne has had the full cast removed and now just from the knee down and can move around a lot easier so she has been pushing me to do a last Pre-Brexit road trip into that there foreign land so I have parked with with my early stage dementia suffering mother and loaded the bike.

I was originally thinking of the South of France but a growth opportunity for the MOTO-MATE business has changed the plan slightly so the current agenda is:

11th Sept: Catch the 19:20 Eurotunnel to Calais and overnight there
12th Sept: Piage to St.Quentin then back roads down to Triburg
13th Sept: B500 and lots of other back roads around the Schwarzwald
14th Sept: Back roads to Wolnzach just outside Munich for a meeting and to look at premises
15th Sept: B roads and back roads up to say hello to Holger of this Parish
16th Sept: Back roads up to Schmallenberg to meet up with friends
17th Sept: Head for the ferry

So, the bike had new Z01 tyres fitted on Saturday, its 6K service yesterday and all the routes for each day uploaded them to the Nav VI.

Slight fly in the ointment when looking at the day 1 route on the Nav' is that it all appears fine until approx 3/4 of the route then it just shows a straight line to the destination! I am hoping that splitting it into two routes will help that but will be mighty pissed off as starts the straight line just as I get into the mountains :-( But will play with that later in Calais with a beer and some seafood.

Bike all loaded this morning including 3 Nav mounts to drop at DPD, now parked outside the office waiting for holiday o'clock and the run to Folkstone.

I'll try to take some pics as I go and update this thread through the week when I am sat outside with a well earned Weissbier

Product testing the new MOTO-MATE luggage straps was also a success

Have a good trip Phil,see you when you get back.

That bikes looking good. Enjoy the trip and keep safe.

Have a great trip Phil, still very pleased with my aux lights - thanks

I deliberately planned the day away from weekend to avoid the local "specialists" and hopefully the law as I may be enjoying myself

Although I did have a small heart attack on the train when I sat this beneath the bike, only took a couple of seconds to realise it wasn't mine but those few seconds felt like hours.

Zitat von Boxerboy im Beitrag #5

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Have a great trip Phil, still very pleased with my aux lights - thanks

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Have a great trip brother

OK was absent yesterday which was more to do with the crappy attitude of the owner of the hotel I booked rather than me murdering the GPS but here goes:

Yesterday

Woke to find Calais under a blanket of low foggy cloud and mist which when I got onto the Peage to St. Quentin turned to rain proper - bollox the BBC never said anything about that!
Off the Peage at St.Quentin and onto the back roads and by lunchtime had stopped raining and the roads and my gloves started to dry out.

Had a great run down through France across the vinyards of the Alsace and into Germany via short ferry ride across the Rhine, just over 800Km's done and got to my hotel at 19:40 to be told reception is closed so I cannot have a wifi code, I can eat in the restaurant if I go now, no shower, no cold beer after 11 hours on the road, must order now. So told him to poke it, dropped my gear , showered and walked into town for a few well earned beers and a schnitzel and all was well with the world again.

Today

Was up early, mainly due to the traffic racing passed the window of my salubrious hotel (I really should let Susanne book my hotels) so got up and was on the road at 07:00 so whilst it was a bit quiet I had a run down the B500 and then on to Lake Titi or as it's properly pronounced "Titisee" but there were no tits to be seen so carried on with my run into the hills and smaller streets. The B500 is all of the awesome but is a bit busy but is fast, fast and fast.
Fast enough that I called my route today short and looped around to the end of the B500 and ran it back now I was more dialled in, thing is I didn't see a speed camera that I saw in the morning so that could be interesting, or pretty sweaty depending if you're thinking about it or me.

Only did about 400km's today but all twisty stuff so all good, but have to say the RS is a pain in the arse! Popped into a cycle shop and bought some padded cycling shorts as tomorrow is 450Km for a MOTO-MATE meeting so will try to behave.

Also arranged to meet up with Holger Sunday afternoon and he is going to show me around his region so really looking forward to that.

Zitat von Fugly im Beitrag #13

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Today

Was up early, mainly due to the traffic racing passed the window of my salubrious hotel (I really should let Susanne book my hotels) so got up and was on the road at 07:00 so whilst it was a bit quiet I had a run down the B500 and then on to Lake Titi or as it's properly pronounced "Titisee" but there were no tits to be seen so carried on with my run into the hills and smaller streets. The B500 is all of the awesome but is a bit busy but is fast, fast and fast.
Fast enough that I called my route today short and looped around to the end of the B500 and ran it back now I was more dialled in, thing is I didn't see a speed camera that I saw in the morning so that could be interesting, or pretty sweaty depending if you're thinking about it or me.

Only did about 400km's today but all twisty stuff so all good, but have to say the RS is a pain in the arse! Popped into a cycle shop and bought some padded cycling shorts as tomorrow is 450Km for a MOTO-MATE meeting so will try to behave.

Also arranged to meet up with Holger Sunday afternoon and he is going to show me around his region so really looking forward to that.

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Nice pics. This yank really enjoys the scenery in Europe.