October Trip Pictures Plockenpass

This is the collection of pictures from the trip.

Maps and routes of October road trip

Maps (part 2) from Trip to SIOUG and HrOUG.

This post will hold the maps of the return-trip and a collection of pictures for linking.

The trip from Lubljana to Rovinj was un-eventful except maybe for a chance-meeting with two other speakers when I overtook them (they spotted me), and when I then stopped to take a picture and this car with two strangers stopped next to me.. "Hi! It had to be you on the bike, and taking pictures like that".

I did the trip to Rovinj one day earlier and with no detours to go in front of the expected bad weather and that turned out to be the right decision: it rained a lot the next days.

The return trip from Rovinj to home was more of a tourist-ride. Here are the maps.

18Oct: over plockenpass

(I had forgotten to switch on google-tracks, so first part is missing, but Autostradas from Rovinj to Koper and from Trieste to Telmezzo are not that interesting anyway)

The details of the nicest parts:

Then on 19Oct, first straight West with lots of road-works between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Then a bit of touristing between Karlsruhe and Pirmasens, and a detour to Luxembourg to save 2 euros on fuel (with another bad detour for road-works). The final ride to visit Spa was nice as always, but quite busy on Sunday afternoon.

The part from Spa to The Hague is unrecorded, but was annoying because of... roadworks, accidents and detours.

Overview of 19Oct

Detail for Pirmasens

Details for Belgium (the road via Burg Reuland was closed, hence the funny drop-down.

next, I'll put up some pictures.

trip to SIOUG

The trip to Sioug was uneventful, but very nice.

First day, Friday, was used for some catch-up in the ardennes, and since the weather was good, I rode the bike till dark and ended up near Kaiserslautern.

Second day: Made good time (speed) in the morning crossing Germany (took the road with the least Baustelle) and got to Austria by lunchtime. Immediately into Austria, I went off the boooring Autobahn. Then I spotted a lot of other motorcycles and decided to see where they came from. I had time and I didnt care as long as I could more or less follow my plans and end up near Villach for the night.

Afterwards, I discovered that the adhoc detour had taken me close to Gross Glockner: I could have gone over it... But my plan included St Johan, Radstad, Tamsweg, and when I saw an arrow "St Johan", I followed it.

No problems: the Unter- and Obertaurn, followed by Tamsweg and the Thuracher hohe were Worth the trip. Good Riding.

Ended up in Villach in the last daylight, where the wifi at mcdonalds was not sufficiently reliable to find a hotel or Gasthaus. I rode into some villages and found one anyway.

Note: google-tracks crashed on a dead-battery-phone and never recovered the route. I used google-maps to re-draw my routes.

Third day: on a tip from Motor-Forum.nl, I took roads 85, 82 and 210 to enter Slovenia. Beautiful!
I crossed the mountains at 10:00 on Sunday morning, and when I came down into Slovenia I could already see it would become quite busy with Sunday-motorcycle riders (polished bikes, shiny outfits, undisciplined-group-riding... )

Since I was early, I wanted to take a detour around Ziri for more nice roads. But a set of dark clouds moving in over mountains in the west made me return to Lubljana for my hotel. In the end, it didnt rain, but when I got to the hotel in the early afternoon I fell asleep after a quick shower. Tired but Happy.

This is the reason I do the job: To allow me to ride my motorcycle...

Work to Live,

Live to Ride, 

and then Ride to work...

Here are the routes.

First two days: just go.

Details of detour in Austria, see how close I got to Gross Glockner ?

Third day: scenic routes to Lubljana.

and the detail: how to cross into Slovenia...

Live to Ride, Ride to work

Here is the next road-trip-project:

click map to expand

The  way down will be done in 2 days: from The Hague to Lubljana.

From Lubljana to Rovinj will be a nice  morning ride (I need to work in between).

The road back is open for meandering, but depends a bit on when I have to be back for work.

Anyone up for coffee on the way ? 

mf_collection_pics

I need a place to quicly dump picture for motor-forum. hence this landing page.
(I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but I'm too lazy to search)

need  to post this on some internet...  for petfles game...

few more maps and pics

final writeups : I need a place to put maps and pics..


First two more dash-snaps (Dashies ? )
For those who wanted to know the fuel consumption of the BMW again: a tank of 252.7 km, with an average speed of 138 (due to roadworks, the actual cruising speed was 180-200 wherever possible).

Fuel consumption is actually still quite reasonable a 6.2 l /100km
(or 38MPG, or  1:16, or 16km from 1 Liter, for the dutch).

Under normal dutch circumstances, and sticking to speedlimits: 1:20 (5L/100km) is well within reach (50MPG is quite possible!), but avg speed will be closer half of 138 on the Autobahn, count on  60km/h in NL - if the traffic allows for lane-splitting and filtering.

Speed limits: It will take twice the time to get anywhere, but at least you have the fun of Riding a Motorbike!

Final, Fast leg of journey; the Slovenia Vignette is already giving in..

The final leg of the journey:

And this: you cannot use the credits from the 2-de-loo, machine broken:

needed this for MF-petfles-game... 

collect jokes here..

let me use this to collect a few jokes...

two cases of PMS..

collection of routes

Here is the collection of map-prints.

My biggest blunder: losing the Nexus7 somewhere on Transfagarasan. That made me lose my track of that day. The phone is now doing the tracking, but phone-battery is limited.

Detail of Slovenia: Great little ride: 

The truly boring part: Through Croatia... 

(Croatia has much more interesting routes.. I have to return sometime)

First try on 2-lane roads: taking the slow route to Arandjelovac:

(Forgot to record: route from Belgrade to Poland)

Then on to BBQ near Warsaw:

And on to Augustow

Forgot to record the morning, but here is part of Via Baltica to Riga:

And the return from Talinn to Bialyostok, 

in a hurry to gain time for Romania. 

I was lucky: Brilliant weather.

And another day of "rush" to gain time, again, excellent weather conditions made this possible:

Forgot to record the morning but this is the afternoon: labouring over Transalpina, including an hour lost going west: the south-part of the Transalpina was supposedly closed, but some of us did it anyway:

Detail:

And the next day: the biggie... 

The Bulgaria: details of the route from Ruse to Plovdiv: Really Relaxed and lovely mountain ride:

From Plovdiv to Sandanski: ditto, lovely ride.