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Travelling to The Alps

Zapa

Zapa

Cruisin' Guzzisti
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Me and a friend will be leaving town this Sunday all the way to The Alps. Thirteen days from 2nd to 14th to enjoy my Guzzi (and he his Royal Star Venture).

Our route:
Pamplona-Grenoble-Aosta-Montreux-Gstaad-Luzern-Hospental-St. Moritz-Innsbruck-F
 
I was in Aosta 2 year ago. Nice place. Italian, and yet not. Be sure to avoid the tunnels going there, if the weather allows! Also, if you have time there, visit Valgrisenche, leave the bikes somewhere, and hike up to Mario Bezzi's Rifugio. You'll be rewarded with great polenta grassa with venison, and the hearty local red wines ;)
 
Have a good trip together Switzerland is a beautiful country, just watch your speedo...

many beautiful passes I rode over the years and this was just one of them.
 
Hey Zapa - definitely wach your speedo - to make sure it's pinned to the stops as much as possible :eek:hmy:

Plenty pics please, been a long time since The Minister and I were in that part of the world.
 
Thanks for the tips guys :) I'll take lots of pics for sure.

I won't be able to watch my speedo though. The GPS cup sucker is held on it!
 
Que tengais un buen viaje, envieis unas fotos, y sobre todo que no os den calambres con el acelerador!
 
Zapa we hope pictures, here and in spanish forums also ;-). Good trip.
 
Zapa wrote:
I won't be able to watch my speedo though. The GPS cup sucker is held on it!
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Your call, but I'd suck it someplace else unless your GPS can show speed as easily readable. You'll be riding through places where you'd probably want to keep under a certain limit to avoid certain souvenirs. Annoyingly, that'll probably exactly there where you need the GPS most
 
Hehehe yeah RJV, the GPS (Becker Traffic Assist) shows the real speed. That's why I place it over the speedo. It's been that way for about 10,000Km of my 25,000 total in this bike. Rock solid and accurate too :D

We are carrying proper maps and also a netbook with AutoRoute for when the map's scale isn't enough.

In fact my travel partner is carrying his own GPS and he's usually lead. Maybe that's why we get lost so often, hehe -not that we care to get lost anyway ;)-
The best use I've given to mine is for night travelling. It's a good thing to see the bends ahead in unknown lands.

No os preocup
 
Well, of course it shows the real speed (although not necessarily much more accurate than the bike's estimate from the ABS sensor). My argument was about how easily it can be read in a glance.

And of course you won't get lost with a GPS. That is, it knows where it is, but most of the time, all you'll see is your position on a very small part of the map. I find that when I follow what I call the electronic carrot hanging in front of me, I have little idea of where I am unless I stop to zoom out to see place names
 
Bought a Becker Crocodile for this years trip, and I absolutely HATE it. Cannot be set to avoid motorways!!! :angry:

But, otherwise if the GPS is set to navigate to a goal for the day, you can go in any direction and take any interesting road, and then at the bitter end be lead to the goal set anyway.
At least that's the way I use it.

And on that before mentioned SOB I can't read the speed without reading glasses......
 
Bed time gentlemen. We leave tomorrow at 6AM. Bike is tuned and loaded.

Next stop, Grenoble. 950Km give or take. :D
 
Brian UK wrote:
Make sure your GPS does not have speed traps in its database - not liked by the traffic police in Switzerland.
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Don't know of any GPS's which hasn't that useful feature.
 
(Holt, did you wash your avatar too hot? :silly:)

yeah, I read about that the other day. Wonder if they really enforce that, esp. against people passing through. I think I can deactivate the feature on mine, but I wouldn't know if I can wipe the data and then hope to reinstall them!
 
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