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Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:46 pm
by Cousin Jack
It is ace, but hard work too. Forget a lie in, most days are on the bike and away by 8:30 at the latest, and sometimes arrive at the hotel at 7:30 ,with dinner at 8:00.
OTOH the scenery has been fantastic, the roads ditto. Hard work, but good things are never easy.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:57 pm
by KungFooBob
Did you get to see Lake Bled?
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:08 am
by Cousin Jack
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:57 pm
Did you get to see Lake Bled?
No, not even sure we went near it
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:08 am
by Cousin Jack
Today is Villach (Austria) to Fussen (Germany) with a choice of routes, Timmelsjoch or Brenner passes. Weather looks as though I will get wet. My waterproofs are not. Hey, ho, the joys of motorcycling.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:20 am
by Skub
This thread still lacks something....can't quite put my finger on it....
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:13 pm
by Cousin Jack
I know, pictures. Have patience!
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:28 pm
by Cousin Jack
Brenner, bit of non event. Then on to Fussen, biblical rain for final 25k, and the hotel bar is closed for refurb. Can it get worse?
Watch this space.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:43 am
by Noggin
Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:28 pm
Brenner, bit of non event. Then on to Fussen, biblical rain for final 25k, and the hotel bar is closed for refurb. Can it get worse?
Watch this space.
Hope you found somewhere dry for a wet!!!
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:36 am
by Cousin Jack
Restaurant served beer, so we took over that.
Today it is raining again, and I am soaked already. It is going to be a long day. Do you think I can return a rainsuit that leaks 10 years after I bought it?
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:27 am
by Skub
Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:36 am
Restaurant served beer, so we took over that.
Today it is raining again, and I am soaked already. It is going to be a long day. Do you think I can return a rainsuit that leaks 10 years after I bought it?
You maybe bought
@formula400 returns.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:43 pm
by Dodgy69
I imagine it's been a very picturesque trip.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:44 pm
by Asian Boss
Have you got any pictures?
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:08 pm
by Horse
Skub wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:20 am
This thread still lacks something....can't quite put my finger on it....
Visualise ...
Close your eyes, imagine ... just
picture it ...
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:36 pm
by Cousin Jack
Wait you bastards, WAIT!
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:05 am
by Cousin Jack
Sorry for lack of update yesterday, it was a looong, wet, miserable and cold day. Not helped by knowing there was no fuel near last nights hotel, so I planned a fuel stop only to find that place only had deisel. I am now running on fumes, so watch this space.
Currently in La Bresse in the Vosges mountains and heading north for 1 more stop before the Tunnel. Todays forecast is cold and wet too. I can remember now why I like being a FWB.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:58 am
by Count Steer
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:05 am
Sorry for lack of update yesterday, it was a looong, wet, miserable and cold day. Not helped by knowing there was no fuel near last nights hotel, so I planned a fuel stop only to find that place only had deisel. I am now running on fumes, so watch this space.
Currently in La Bresse in the Vosges mountains and heading north for 1 more stop before the Tunnel. Todays forecast is cold and wet too. I can remember now why I like being a FWB.
Maybe buy a one-piece waterproof oversuit for the next tour?
Putting on yesterday's wet gear in a morning is enough to ruin any trip.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 8:52 am
by Skub
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:05 am
Sorry for lack of update yesterday, it was a looong, wet, miserable and cold day. Not helped by knowing there was no fuel near last nights hotel, so I planned a fuel stop only to find that place only had deisel. I am now running on fumes, so watch this space.
Currently in La Bresse in the Vosges mountains and heading north for 1 more stop before the Tunnel. Todays forecast is cold and wet too. I can remember now why I like being a FWB.
You can bask in the warmth of shared experience when it's all over.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:09 pm
by Cousin Jack
Didnt run out of petrol, have got cold and wet again. 5C on the t op of the col this morning.
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:17 pm
by Noggin
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:09 pm
Didnt run out of petrol, have got cold and wet again. 5C on the t op of the col this morning.
Liking for the not running out of petrol!!
I can manage cold on a bike but I do so hate cold and wet
Hope you warm up/dry out soon
Re: Almost ready - old codger on tour
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 3:36 pm
by Cousin Jack
At hotel, old, and weird, but (and this is a big plus) the radiator in the room is working, so no cold soggy trousers for me tomorrow!
Now in Bouillon, Belgium, so tomorrow should be a short trip, although the tunnel is booked for 18:20.
