MooN Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 I was looking through some pics for a froggy farceburke page and thought you migt like to see thm here, though some of you saw them back in 2015 on Maximumbikes, so you may pass your way. The pics are from a ride I did in september 2015, I rode with a group from Auxerre up to Sixte Fer A Cheval on the Saturday and when they turned around to ride home on the Sunday, I headed off on my own. The plan was to ride the Grimsel, Furka and susten passes in the day, finishing at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland overnight and riding home from there, via Belforet and the Autoroute on the Monday. the day got off to a bad start with a flat rear tyre. I think a pinched tube when having the rear tyre replaced a day before leaving so I lost a lot of time furking about with that and then riding gingerly as far as Chamonix before making a decision as to whether to continue on alone into the swiss alpes, or turn for home and ride the autoroute where I had garanteed air pumps at regular intervals and easy assistance if required. The tyre seemed to be pretty much holding pressure when I checked it at Chamonix so I said "Furkit" and kept going. up towards Martigny looking back to Chamonix and Mont Blanc I had lost so much time in the morning that when I got to the junction of the furka and Grimsel, it was clear that I no longer had time to do all 3 passes in the day and get to Lauterbrunnen before dark ( september, swiss alpes, 1500m plus altitude, in the above pic I had stopped to put on winter gloves already and it wasn't midday yet, so I really didn4t want to have to ride at night with the temperatures involved) After much soul searching I decided that I should skip the up and back trip up the Grimsel pass and push on to the furka and sustenPass and complete the loop round the Jungfrau to Lauterbrunnen as planned. so I turned my back on the grimsel pass that had been on my bucket list for years ( i'll obviously have to come back) and headed east up the Furka Interlaken The Jungfrau, from Lauterbrunnen. The Campsite handyman lent me his compressor the next morning as my back end was flat again. It had survived all day previous with no problem... Riding in Switzerland on the secondary roads rather then the autoroutes is a slooow business and I averaged only 50 odd km/h all the way from lauterbrunnen to the border, but once back in France I hit the autoroute at Belfort and it was a long booring run home checking the rear pressure at every fuel stop. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Brilliant shots Chris! What happened to the Transalp in the end......did you sell it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted June 8, 2020 Author Share Posted June 8, 2020 12 minutes ago, XTreme said: Brilliant shots Chris! What happened to the Transalp in the end......did you sell it? I did mate, I guess it had about 135000km in these pics, I sold it in december 2017 with a little over 140000km on the clock for 600€. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Must have been strange to sell it after all those years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Good stuff, Moon. Bet those are great roads if you find with little traffic, but they're getting a little too strict with the speed limits now, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 That was a great old bike in its day, cool pics too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted June 8, 2020 Author Share Posted June 8, 2020 2 hours ago, XTreme said: Must have been strange to sell it after all those years? it was very odd, i'd had it 17 years and done over 100000km on it. i do sometimes wish I'd kept it but not realistically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted June 8, 2020 Author Share Posted June 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Pedro said: Good stuff, Moon. Bet those are great roads if you find with little traffic, but they're getting a little too strict with the speed limits now, aren't they? The swiss have always been strict on speed limits, nothing new. To be honest, off the motorway it's not easy to speed anyway. All the secondary roads are in the bottom of the valleys, and so are the villages ( cos the valleys are too steep to build on) so you're almost constantly in a village or small town limits and plenty of trafic, and the local traffic simply obeys the speed limits so if you want to enjoy yourself you have to make the mind shift and just go with the flow. When you find some open twisties, gas it but don't get stupid. I've never been bothered by the police there despite having ridden there numerous times. I know however that they are NOT to be trifled with and have only slightly less sense of humour than the german Polizei... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Excellent shots Chris, I'll see if I can find any from when we did that area. Switzerland is so neat and tidy but the buggers don't like you riding off road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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