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Motorcycle trip and summit tour

Motorcycle trip and summit tour

Motorcycle trip and summit tour

Motorcycle trip and summit tour

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Lace up hiking boots and head up the mountain.

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One last turn, whoops, and up!

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BMW R 1200 R in the Alps.

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Snack for when you’re really hungry.

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Silver thistle – nice too.

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Whether rubber cows or ibex, both species are widespread in the Alps and are protected by species.

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Without words.

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The city dweller turns pale on the via ferrata. Or something like that.

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Well then, practice it.

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Exuberant MOTORRAD readers at the summit.

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Motorcycle trip and summit tour

Alpine tour tip: motorcycle tour and summit tour
A little closer to heaven than possible with a motorcycle

Turn after turn you screw your way over the Alpine passes to dizzying heights, but you are never really at the top. Left and right, the rugged peaks protrude a few meters further into the steel-blue sky. “There is only one thing left: lace up your hiking boots and head up the mountain”, says MOTORRAD editor Werner Koch.

Werner Koch

04/26/2012

One last turn, whoops, and up! Now a cozy place with a panoramic view and a frothy cappuccino. Helmet down, sunglasses on, lean back, take a deep breath. Such moments are burned in and last forever. Perhaps happiness and contentment in the magnificent mountain world are even more powerful than anywhere else in the world. Possibly because the mountains can also be very different. Brutal, spooky, scary. Everyone has already experienced it, black clouds, thick fog, freezing cold between rain and snow and no improvement in sight. Then the fascination of the mountains turns into the complete opposite, and you look for the fastest way out of the valley of tears. Just like you savor every minute, every second when the sun is beating down from the azure blue sky.

Do you occasionally catch yourself thinking of being at the top? Not at the top of the pass, but at the very top, where the rugged peaks scratch the blue sky and the ornate pass road with all its hustle and bustle remains far below you as a Marklin railway landscape. A hot tip for all alpine freaks who are physically fit enough to cope with a few hours of ascent: be sure to do it – exclamation mark. Because the alpine tour experience becomes even more intense with a summit ascent. Hand on it: Anyone who dares will not regret it.

Do you already have the next alpine tour in your head or on your GPS? Then try to get an overview of the peaks along the way on Google Earth. Almost even better, because it is clearer, the route planning can be pieced together on the good old map. Exact alpine maps on a scale of 1: 100,000 or 1: 75,000 not only show the smallest mountain routes, but also all peaks with altitude information and the most important hiking trails and their starting points.

When choosing the climbing route, you should not necessarily commit to the highest peak, but to the most beautiful one. And the one that fits your stamina and experience. A good overview of what to expect can be obtained from relevant literature, websites or the local tourist association. The ascent with friends is of course even better. Squat down and think about what works and what doesn’t. Who can pack and who prefers to follow the ascent from the beer garden.

On day tours starting from the inn, the luggage problem is solved because it can usually be stored in the drying room in the room or in the evening for free in the drying room. The situation becomes more difficult if you approach the starting point by motorcycle. I have had good experiences with asking friendly at the next best hotel or guesthouse whether you can put panniers, helmets and station wagons in the drying rooms, which are used for ski equipment in winter. On the other hand, there were bad experiences with the shirt-sleeved method of tying the helmet to the motorcycle. Have you ever put on a helmet that was soaking wet from the violent summer thunderstorm? Exactly, you’d better look around for a drying room, even if it’s a little bit connected with running around.


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Exuberant MOTORRAD readers at the summit.

For motorcyclists who love to conquer the summit but want to do so without dragging and water bubbles on their feet, the mountain railways remain, but they often do not go directly to the summit. You usually have to walk a few meters in altitude. But please don’t be surprised if you spend the money on a full tank of fuel for the fare in lofty heights.

It doesn’t have to be the Grossglockner. There are plenty of peaks with a long view. Even on the home track. Most of the time you have pounded past it carelessly 100 times, your nose in the tachometer, your eyes focused on the curves, always quickly following the road. If you take the time to explore the landscape more closely, you will be surprised what nice spots you have missed with something to see. Yep, I admit, I haven’t looked at it for years. Swabian Alb, Black Forest, Franconian, through the Rhon, across the Vosges, the Alps all over the place – always full soup, curves at any price, but no time to stop the time. I’ll catch up now. And hey presto, the whole clique joins the rush of heights, climbs up dilapidated castles and ruins, climbs countless stairs to wobbly observation towers or scrambles over dizzying alpine ridges in a climbing harness. Then you crouch upstairs and enjoy the view over the landscape that you have previously only roamed through at low altitude. The good feeling after an endlessly long alpine tour on foot: the motorcycle is waiting below. Sit on it, start and if it gets so steep, just accelerate and up the mountain. Lord, what a divine invention, such a crackling internal combustion engine. And it is precisely this biting contrast between physical torture just to get a little closer to heaven and the casual movement in the motorcycle saddle that makes this ingenious combination.

The idea for this idea came up, where? Exactly, on a summit. Exactly 767 meters above zero, where you can count all the peaks of the Allgau main ridge from the Upper Swabian Busses, a stone’s throw south of the Danube, on a clear day. Once again, the thought was based on a quirk that was more likely to be a marathon: “In the morning, walk to the Bussen-Kirche, then on an enduro across the Allgau and in the afternoon at a goose step up the 2533 meter high Widderstein, the mightiest mountain on the horizon.” also done this crazy idea. What remained was a dreamlike motorcycle route between two highly distinctive mountain ranges, which, worked out in their subtleties and taken under the wheels without rushing, connects half a dozen highly rewarding panoramic mountains. A pleasure that the participants of the guided two-day MOTORRAD action team tours (www.actionteam.de) with top marks. Because my nice travel companions found the idea of ​​a combined motorcycle / hiking tour over five days very seductive, I am already looking forward to the sweaty but extremely relaxed bikers who find the wheat beer and the bacon platter particularly delicious up on the mountain hut. I tell you: a little closer to heaven.

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