It's not 'bird related but I thought some of you might like to see this :
An early flight to Munich and then to the South West of town to get my hire bike. It's a KTM dealer and I'd booked a Supermoto Touring (SMT)
..... however a guy who'd flown in on Thursday night to get his Superduke found if had been smashed and ended up with my SMT and I ended up with a Supermoto Race (SMR).
As you'd expect it's set up fairly differently. I had them stick a screen on for a tiny bit of wind protection but, as I was to find, the suspension and seat were a whole lot more race focussed than the SMT.
We rode down to the Berchtegsgarten area of Germany (which is the very far South Eastern corner) and the home of Hitlers Kehlsteinhaus (i.e. the Eagles Nest). We didn't visit (I've been up to it before) as there were better things to do like bendy roads! One of these was the Rossfeldstrasse.
http://goo.gl/maps/aylqO
Some great views and a good introduction to the mountains and hairpins. We wound our way over to our hotel which was about 5Km from Kitzbuhel arriving in just in time to neck our first weisbeer, meet the 30odd others and tuck into a meal .... before more weissbeers
Saturday morning and the weather was as perfect as possible. It was clear and sunny and around 24C. Not too hot for riding and plenty warm enough not to worry about wrapping up.
The car park has a variety of bikes and with 36 of us there, we were devided into groups depending on our preference for distance. Of course the Brit contingent opted for the "Long and Fast" group
After riding through the flat valley floors with their flowing bends but also various small towns we suddenly turned off to head up a narrow winding road where the tight hairpins were almost vartical and some involved crossing small wooden bridges which looked like they would have been "interesting" had it been raining.
An early flight to Munich and then to the South West of town to get my hire bike. It's a KTM dealer and I'd booked a Supermoto Touring (SMT)
..... however a guy who'd flown in on Thursday night to get his Superduke found if had been smashed and ended up with my SMT and I ended up with a Supermoto Race (SMR).
As you'd expect it's set up fairly differently. I had them stick a screen on for a tiny bit of wind protection but, as I was to find, the suspension and seat were a whole lot more race focussed than the SMT.
We rode down to the Berchtegsgarten area of Germany (which is the very far South Eastern corner) and the home of Hitlers Kehlsteinhaus (i.e. the Eagles Nest). We didn't visit (I've been up to it before) as there were better things to do like bendy roads! One of these was the Rossfeldstrasse.
http://goo.gl/maps/aylqO
Some great views and a good introduction to the mountains and hairpins. We wound our way over to our hotel which was about 5Km from Kitzbuhel arriving in just in time to neck our first weisbeer, meet the 30odd others and tuck into a meal .... before more weissbeers
Saturday morning and the weather was as perfect as possible. It was clear and sunny and around 24C. Not too hot for riding and plenty warm enough not to worry about wrapping up.
The car park has a variety of bikes and with 36 of us there, we were devided into groups depending on our preference for distance. Of course the Brit contingent opted for the "Long and Fast" group
After riding through the flat valley floors with their flowing bends but also various small towns we suddenly turned off to head up a narrow winding road where the tight hairpins were almost vartical and some involved crossing small wooden bridges which looked like they would have been "interesting" had it been raining.