Norway recommendations
Not Beany, but Abel went with Funners in 2009 then again with me in 2016........He has been back twice since and spent his honeymoon in June this year with his new missus Jade on their KTM's.Count Steer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:18 pm @Bigyin and @Beancounter did a Norway trip with Abel iirc. They may have some info. I seem to remember a trip involving some local knowledge via LadyBMW? but apart from them (inc Nippy?) eating whale meat and having to plan quite carefully to get fed as food options seemed a bit scarce it's all a bit hazy.
) Couldnt edit the post on my phone but added these to give an ideaBigyin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:54 pm We loved the hyttes as they had electricity and a heater when we had been soaked on many days and it was handy to dry off wet bike kit.
Our plan was to wild camp but the shit weather meant we used hyttes more than planned. We still used the tents but the hyttes varied from a basic hut with bunks to one we had that came with separate rooms, a living room and a flatscreen telly. Cheaper than hotel or Air BnB and an alternative to camping
I was on the 2005 Nippy tour with m00, LadyBMW, SteveMac, Sam In Cumbria and Johnny Honda. We didn't cover the ground that Big and Abel did - we docked at Bergen and took the country roads to Andalsnes before heading south for the ferry home.Count Steer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:18 pm @Bigyin and @Beancounter did a Norway trip with Abel iirc. They may have some info. I seem to remember a trip involving some local knowledge via LadyBMW? but apart from them (inc Nippy?) eating whale meat and having to plan quite carefully to get fed as food options seemed a bit scarce it's all a bit hazy.
I think we saw 1 cop the entire time we were in Norway and he was manning a speed trap heading into a town on a main tourist route. We stayed off the main E routes and used back roads most of the time and, as those who know Abel , we also used routes and trails nobody else had been on in years judging by the rock falls that hadnt been shifted in the middle of the road and the fact we rode for hours at a time barely seeing anyone elseBeancounter wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:56 pm
As Big says, it's an expensive place. Seem to recall quite a few cops in the larger towns but not out in the sticks (YMMV).
On my trip we were on some major roads at times (we went from the south coast to north of the Artic Circle), but major in the sense that they were main roads between smallish towns in a very rural area. Traffic was very light, traffic police were invisible. IIRC they have a national 50 mph speed limit, we managed to exceed twice that in suitable places.Bigyin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:54 pmI think we saw 1 cop the entire time we were in Norway and he was manning a speed trap heading into a town on a main tourist route. We stayed off the main E routes and used back roads most of the time and, as those who know Abel , we also used routes and trails nobody else had been on in years judging by the rock falls that hadnt been shifted in the middle of the road and the fact we rode for hours at a time barely seeing anyone elseBeancounter wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:56 pm
As Big says, it's an expensive place. Seem to recall quite a few cops in the larger towns but not out in the sticks (YMMV).
Yebbut...they have an NSL of 50 but you can actually do more than that because there's no traffic. We have an NSL of 60 and you're lucky if you can do 40.
I do remember Abel clocking me at 80 on one of the gravel roads ……. Same as most places around that you don’t dick around in busy build up areas but out in the sticks game on
