Tornanti_3...ABRACADABRA!

No castle-bash without a dance…just check those faces, those guys are having FUN!





















Not a trespassing warning…but something that's got a Middle-Eastern ring to it:
Get caught thieving and the executioner will hack your hand off!!






Trying to take it all in…Tim and Doug just watch it all in wonder.















OOOOHHH Yeah, them Holy Brothers always knew how to make a great brew.












Period cop…or tax collector, maybe?? Anyone broke the fun-limit?














Before the steam-age…the String-Engine.

Lenzburg Old Town







One last look into the Castle square






…before it's back into town with lots to talk about.








No idea what this means, but it looks cute and again it's a surprise that it hasn't been vandalised, painted or otherwise destroyed. Nice!








"I'll be an ST1300 and camper trailer when I grow up!!"







Whatever that used to be…or still is. It's still showing lots of character, wealth, stature, contentment and self consciousness.







Doug!! Forget it, mate…we all know, you've eaten your ticket!!






Straight down to Moto Mader where the bikes are just parked under a canvas-annex.
Imagine an Aussie bike-shop leaving their stock regularly parked day, night and weekends just outside their locked shop, no fence, no barbed wire, not even cable-locks….just unthinkable!



Tim's G650




Another Pizza and Kebab night…those boys are mighty quick and don't muck around when it comes to portion sizes.





We even come away with a couple of bottles of local red.






The bikes are packed quickly; everything's already prepped to go into the panniers.

Tim and Goodie on the G650GS's (mine was swapped by Mader for an F800GS at the very last minute/ late Saturday afternoon), Doug and Andrew on the F700GS's and Dave on another F800GS.

All the bikes come with topboxes and panniers (BMW OEM stuff…fine for the job but I'd never, ever buy the stuff) OEM Tankbags, heated grips, ABS and the other fruit salad of electronic fluff.

More on that as we roll along as this trip certainly isn't about the bikes... but rather everything else.

Tim…Lenzburg, the Castle, all the hubbub, train-rides, bikes, finally bgetting ready to roll...it's finally got him beat.
Christ, what a day!!
Guess, that red makes things a bit blurry










Tomorrow: On the road, REAL twisties, getting lost after the first 30k's, "Oh shit, it's snowing!!", riding the Furka blind, soaked to the jox, salvation in Fiesch….

glitch said:

No idea what this means, but it looks cute and again it's a surprise that it hasn't been vandalised, painted or otherwise destroyed. Nice!

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It´s an insect-hotel, that means, that many of insects live there in peace in our dangerous world.

https://www.google.at/search?q=inse...wbu4IDoAg&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1022&bih=539&dpr=1

asphalt said:

It´s an insect-hotel, that means, that many of insects live there in peace in our dangerous world.
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THanks mate!!
Was hoping someone had an idea.

Great stuff.

glitch said:

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Beer flavoured tickets?

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Nice rack?

Does not sound like a comment from some one who'll be looking for a coldie in the camper esky at the AGM.

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Besides, I got one already - here's number one Son and Gransons going for a ride in Granda's oufit .....

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One too many beer tickets me thinks!!!


I'm / we're all waiting, more, more, more ........... please!

Yum Yum! 1st breakky stop!



Couldn't help wondering how much this cobblestone street would cost back home. ( Williamson..when your in the hood, giz a price!)

dougman1 said:

Yum Yum! 1st breakky stop!

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Had a cholesterol check lately? From the bottom shelf?

dougman1 said:

Couldn't help wondering how much this cobblestone street would cost back home. ( Williamson..when your in the hood, giz a price!)

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City of Moreland a ripping uo the bluestone laneways and replacing them with concrete. Don;t think we have any in Whittlesea.

Williamson said:

Does not sound like a comment from some one who'll be looking for a coldie in the camper esky at the AGM.

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Ohhh, that's you in the trailer? Where's the tinnie? Cuuute!!

Shyte...now I did it!!

Another GOOONNGY wakeup, but this time nobody minds. There's a busy shuffle and bustle for the lift, the little cage is bursting at the seams with panniers and gear.








Being a Monday, breakfast is part of the deal again and at the sight of the offerings turns into an extended hot-battle-at-the-cold-buffet-affair, whroohoo!






Finally it's time to prod the clouds out of the way, dodge a few solitary raindrops and tack south. Having worked out a local bypass route via Staffelbach and Reitnau, we're into the single-laners and off the main roads within 10 minutes…beautifull, little roads with the occasional tractor the only traffic. Just south of Uffikon, a narrow road cuts underneath the A2 Autobahn, then creeps across some low, rolling, "FAT-green" hills south to Wauwil.

Known locally as the Chaetzigerhoechi (dialect for Cat's Hill…or something like that), I'd read about it and seen a few pics, but it had been from a ride in the other direction.
Still…despite the maze of tiny, sealed roads all across those hills like a cobweb, a route of a lousy 6km in total shouldn't be too hard to find, eh?







The friendly guy on the treadly nearly keels over when he hears where we're hailing from, then offers friendly advice and a shortcut " that'll be fine with the bikes".
Oh Jeez…that phrase has nearly always gotten us into the shit in the past!!


Soooo, it's a mix of following the advice and with some gut-feeling-turning-into-shaky-bravado that gets us up the hill via some "stabilized grass track" type of thing.

Yo, coming out of that bush down there…and as always, reality is a fair bit steeper than digicam-optics are able to show!







The rest comes together just fine and it's a sweet, little hop across the deep-green hills and paddocks to Wauwil, picking up some easy main roads from here. With good weather, we're supposed to the the Alpine Main Ridge from here, hmmmm...


Wollhusen, Entlebuch, Schuepfheim…then south again on the Rothorn Panorama-Road towards Soerenberg.
Clouds are getting lower and lower, this isn't just a get-together of a handful of blackbellies up there…this is SOLID shyte!
Panorama-Road…my arse!
Still, it's a nice, easy ride up the valley to Soerenberg, a well-known family ski-resort.






Things get narrower and wetter as well as COLD on the easy climb up the fairly shallow Glaubenbielen-Pass….it's just AMAZING where those local Post-Bus drivers take those big monsters,… certainly taking public transport to a whole new level.











Even if the rain has stopped temporarily...it's time for a cuppa.






What might those 2 school girls think, hearing the strange tongue and banter…







The Bruenig Pass is shallow and short…and being a main route, busy with busses and trucks…off to Hasliberg then for the narrow Hohlfluh road into Meiringen, finishing right at the local Dairy for some of those incredible Quarks and Yoghurts. This is heaven for the taste buds, folks!! Just devine!



And the hazelnut is on special…this is better than a birthday!