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simonhep

Member Since:	July 21, 2007
Membership Level:	Tourist - score: 25
Region:	West Midlands, United Kingdom
Motorcycle:	BMW R1200RT Honda VTR1000
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Latest Entries by this user:	B5324 / A6006 : Ashby-De-La-Zouch - Melton Mowbray (United Kingdom) October 15, 2008 One of my favourite local roads. Usually give this road an outing a couple of times a year, especially on Tuesday evenings during the summer with a stop off at the Grey Ox bike meet on the A46 near Six Hills, before heading back to Bassetts Pole in time for all the nutters to have gone home! Most unusual sight was a full fox hunt one Saturday crossing the B5324 near Belton. SS26 / N90 : Thulle - Villard (Italy) September 21, 2008 Rode this in June 2008 from Italy to Seez, which takes you over the Petite St Bernard Pass. The ride into France from Thule provides some great scenery at the top. As the road descends there are long sweeping curves at the top, the road then drops into the tree line and the hairpins start - long straights with tight hairpins which give you get an excellent view of oncoming traffic as you are above the switch back. Definitely worth riding this road, and at Seez, you can turn left onto the Route de grande Alpes / Val dIsere etc... D902 : St Michel de Maurienne - Le Pied de Col ( Col du Telegraphe / Col de Galibier ) (France) June 30, 2008 Rode this in June 2008 - wow. Simply a fantastic road with two significant passes to negotiate, firstly the Col de Telegraphe through woods with dozens of hairpins and excellent road surface. Good stop point at the Col with large restuarant and photo opportunities. Then on to the big one, the Col de Galibier. This pass is above the tree line so has a surreal other world-like quality. Lots and lots of cyclists pounding away up the hairpins, but the views are very open so they are not a problem, just watch out for them coming down on your side of the road! An absolute must and part of the Route de Grande Alpes. D902 : Bourg-St-Maurice - Lanslebourg Mont-Cenis ( Col de L'Iseran ) (France) June 30, 2008 Rode the French side of Mont Cenis in June 2008. Fantastic road with surreal scenery once at the Lac du Mont Cenis. Brilliant cafe next to the lake, dont miss the stuffed Marmot! The Italian side was closed by the dam wall due to road problems (typical Italians?), but still worth doing the loop before turning around and dropping back into Lanslebourg. Bex - Saint-Rhemy-En-Bosses ( Grand San Bernardo ) (Switzerland) June 30, 2008 Just completed the Grand St Bernard Pass (June 2008). The Swiss side coming up from Martigny was decent enough in terms of road condition (typical of the Swiss), very narrow with ice walls on one side and water streaming across the road in many places. Very, very quiet traffic wise with most sensible car and motorhome drivers taking the Mont Blanc tunnel or the St Bernard tunnel, I think we saw one car on the way up. View from the top of St Bernard was pretty good. Then started the descent into Italy and had a real shocker of a ride - I think the Romans are still building the road! The surface is truly terrible with large potholes, gravel everywhere and lots of subsidence on both side of the tarmac. In some places the sub-surface road piling posts are becoming visible. This means that you certainly need to be sharp on the observations since it was almost impossible to stay on the right side of the road. In some respects they ought to shut the route as I wouldnt classify it as a road. Would only recommend trying this route if you have a GS / traily or a 4x4 jeep!
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