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Reply #2220 on: February 08, 2023, 06:40:35 am
I start to hate winter when I see your pics, even if our landscape is beautiful now. Bike has changed, sorry for offtopic.
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Reply #2221 on: February 09, 2023, 02:44:15 am
Holy cow, Karl! I'm impressed by those high-tech longitudinal stabilizers. 'Franzoesischer Maschinenbau' at its best. Did you test-ride this contraption down the Kesselberg already? ;) ;)


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Reply #2222 on: February 09, 2023, 02:46:51 am
Do your ski boots clip into your pedals?


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Reply #2223 on: February 09, 2023, 02:38:43 pm
Holy cow, Karl! I'm impressed by those high-tech longitudinal stabilizers. 'Franzoesischer Maschinenbau' at its best. Did you test-ride this contraption down the Kesselberg already? ;) ;)
Who told you that Kesselberg is just 15 miles away from the village where we live?
By the way - did you know that its forbidden now for years to drive with the motorbike from Kochel up to the hill at the weekend? - too many crashes.
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Reply #2224 on: February 09, 2023, 03:09:43 pm
Actually, I did not know that you live that close to Kochel, I just remember that the Kesselberg was and probably is the "Mecca" for Bavarian motorbikers. And I also read about the weekend restrictions. Safety is certainly one reason for that, but I think that also noise abatement plays a role.


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Reply #2225 on: February 09, 2023, 09:45:26 pm
Actually, I did not know that you live that close to Kochel, I just remember that the Kesselberg was and probably is the "Mecca" for Bavarian motorbikers. And I also read about the weekend restrictions. Safety is certainly one reason for that, but I think that also noise abatement plays a role.

Noise is the main reason, they are trying to put the same thing in place in Alsace near the border with Germany


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Reply #2226 on: February 11, 2023, 01:16:38 am


Oregon! Mossy country roads on a fine Feb afternoon.


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Reply #2227 on: February 11, 2023, 02:10:16 pm
Nice pic !
And a perfect road for the Interceptor  :D


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Reply #2228 on: February 11, 2023, 09:29:11 pm
Nice pic !
And a perfect road for the Interceptor  :D

Perfect road! It's covered in Moss! The road in the National Park in Sydney used to be like that in some places during winter. Not much fun to ride when it's like that in reality.

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Reply #2229 on: February 11, 2023, 10:08:20 pm
We have that kind of country roads, mossy or grassy in the middle, in some places in France too,  but I take these conditions as a part of the thrill  ;D
What I meant by perfect road is the nice curves that will surely follow and the landscape


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Reply #2230 on: February 11, 2023, 10:15:25 pm
We have that kind of country roads, mossy or grassy in the middle, in some places in France too,  but I take these conditions as a part of the thrill  ;D
What I meant by perfect road is the nice curves that will surely follow and the landscape

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Reply #2231 on: February 11, 2023, 11:22:43 pm
We have that kind of country roads, mossy or grassy in the middle, in some places in France too,  but I take these conditions as a part of the thrill  ;D
What I meant by perfect road is the nice curves that will surely follow and the landscape

Too much caution required for me to enjoy a road in that condition. You only need to be foot off line and you can easily go down. I mean you can't even use decent lines when the road's like that. Ok if you're a potterer I guess but I like to ride a road like that with some Gusto.
I always tippy toed through though the sections in Nasho when the road was in that condition.

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Reply #2232 on: February 11, 2023, 11:23:50 pm
Perfect road! It's covered in Moss! The road in the National Park in Sydney used to be like that in some places during winter. Not much fun to ride when it's like that in reality.

Phil

This area was actually dry and the road wasn't slippery at all...so it was very fun! There's other moss patches out there--looks like moss forming on rocks submerged in a stream...that appears on shady, seldom used, seldom dry roads.  No bueno.


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Reply #2233 on: February 12, 2023, 01:10:04 am
Too much caution required for me to enjoy a road in that condition. You only need to be foot off line and you can easily go down. I mean you can't even use decent lines when the road's like that. Ok if you're a potterer I guess but I like to ride a road like that with some Gusto.
I always tippy toed through though the sections in Nasho when the road was in that condition.

Phil

Nasho used to a great arvo run (i lived 10mins from the Loftus end), but then they started to drop the speed limit from 100 to a mind numbing 60 and then the revenue raisers came in hiding in the bushes. God knows what it's like today, haven't been through there for 12yrs or so.
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Reply #2234 on: February 12, 2023, 06:52:09 am
Nasho used to a great arvo run (i lived 10mins from the Loftus end), but then they started to drop the speed limit from 100 to a mind numbing 60 and then the revenue raisers came in hiding in the bushes. God knows what it's like today, haven't been through there for 12yrs or so.

Yea I haven't ridden it for 20 years since moving to Victoria. Std ride was early on a Saturday morning, through Nasho down the freeway, up Macquarie pass, pie and coffee at the Pie Shop and back down the pass and home before 0930.

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