Alps/Pyrenees taster

If you have 15 minutes to spare then is a video
stream of some bloke's travel pics from the Alps & Pyrennes. The Spanish
pictures especially cheered me up, taken in October with lovely blue skies
and little snow around. It looked a lot colder in the Alps: I thought I
recognised the Passo Rombo but didn't recall the name. Turns out it is the
Italian name for the Timmelsjoch which I'd forgotten, despite traversing it
twice.

Loud music track which may not suit all tastes. Ffwd to 9.50 for the sunny
Spain shots, but you'll miss some great shots of Alpine roads. Very few
non-scenery pics.

Mr Corfield had better have the anti-vertigo pills to hand.

 

<adds to list of things to do before I die>

The pics look great, which means IRL it must be at least 10x better.

 

True on all counts. How the hell did he keep the bike so clean?

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Stops every 10 minutes to get the Mr Sheen out & take a photo. I've seen
dozens doing this on the tops of passes etc.

The hotel the Alpinestars used in Austria had a jetwash. A euro a pop. It
did a roaring trade. Sad, stupid fuckers.

 

I carry a camping bucket and little bottles of degreaser and shampoo.

 

Camping bucket? Sad, stupid gaylord.

 

Well true for some of the shots - definitely rather stomach churning.
However the photos are excellent and much of the scenery is truly
stunning. The autumnal colours on the trees were delightful. I have to
admit to being ever so slightly tempted.

Must be nice to have your own personal photographer on such a trip!

 

I wonder if blinkers like they use on a horse would work?

 

OK now I have a picture of PC in Pony gear with a couple of well known
characters in the hot seat

 

and the supplement:

someone has just posted a link to Google Maps that has "every" Alpine pass
marked

http://snipurl.com/alpine_passes [google maps]

now, there's a challenge...

 

I'm glad that's not on my PC

 

FRO the pair of you. When a bike's filthy one day into a fortnight's
holiday it needs washing. Period.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

Why? It'll only get all dirty again.

 

Not if it doesn't rain again.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

And what are the chances of that? Just admit it, you're a big girl's
blouse and that lovely wife of yours deserves far, far better.

 

So, periodic, precipitative poofery.

 

When I'm away from home I wait until it rains, then let nature do its
bit. The Versys got washed when I took it in for a service the weekend
after I returned from Malta. Steve the mechanic refused to work on a
bike that was so minging.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Sounds like someone's in need of a GWOCGB membership.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

<Real Biker Mode>

I piss on it once a year, then wipe it down with one of the other lot's
colours that I took from their cold dead body.

</RBM>

 

What do you go for? Bench tracksuit top or the Burberry scarf?