Hello all,
finally the time has come...tomorrow I´ll start to my personal "Iron Butt Tour 2008"
I will take the Monster 695 from Denmark through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein to Italy.
On the way I will see Mr. Stoner hopefully take a another victory for Ducati, visit friends and family and ride a lot of the German Autobahn and small alpine back roads and passes.
At the end of the tour I will be in Sweden for a track-training weekend too.
I will post images and updates how it goes and if the machine and I get along on our first long trip.
This is the map showing the main stations of the tour :
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/18e53d835778ad037c073781d4df912e.jpg)
A. Home - Copenhagen
B. Berlin - Friends and family
C. Sachsenring - MotoGP race
D. Munich - Studio and Ducati friends
E. Pfullendorf - Family and Goa party
F. Milan - Cappuchino and Hellboy 2
G. Bolzano - Train back to Hamburg
And here the google.maps link for the interactive crowd
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The bike is ready to go, I´ve been through my equipment a couple of times and I´m burning to start...finally :)
That's awesome! I'd love to ride through Europe, particularly scandinavia.
Show us some pics of your bike loaded and ready to roll!
Post lots of pics and have fun!
Look forward to the pictures
travel safe
Wow have fun cant wait to hear all about it!
Have a great time and take lots of pictures! [thumbsup] [moto]
Good luck. Looks like it will be a great trip. [thumbsup] [thumbsup] [thumbsup]
Please keep us posted.
Sounds like a great trip! [thumbsup] Ride safe [moto] and of course, we need pics [popcorn]
Well, I'm officially extremely jealous [evil]
Please be safe... We're looking forward to photos [thumbsup] [moto]
Well done that man! Too few of us go on long trips! :-[ Take plenty of photos - and notes! Desk jockeys like myself live for trip reports. [beer]
Just got back from Copenhagen a few weeks ago. I am jealous if the weather you guys have over there but dang it never gets dark!
Drove a little over 660 miles in Denmark while over there. Beautiful country with little traffic.
Have a great and safe trip!
Hello everybody,
So here I am, 05.30 in the morning, sitting in Berlin and enjoying some sunrise.
First a picture of the Monster, fully loaded :
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/78a7593178ea709de0a3052670566c58.jpg)
Day one was quite interesting...I started in Cph with nice dry conditions and arrived at he ferry around lunchtime.
Checking in on a ferry is still quite cool.. especially if you find the only two security belts for the bike taken by some Swedes.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/885fc899e70be9408fab57fadb827b52.jpg)
But the sea was flat like a centerfolds babe ass and two hours later we hit land at the german coast.
The sun was hiding behind some gray shades and within an hour the sky turned into a soft wet spray.
Arriving in Berlin soaking wet I found out the Cortech saddle bag covers were finally gone...great
I really spent a huge amount of time mounting them but anyway...blown by the wind...from now on I pack the stuff into plastic bags first and thats it...lesson learned.
Oh..another noob mistake..found out my pockets on the trousers are not waterproof at all...
And SONY phones cant stand rain it seems...tried to dry it...no chance...there goes the 880i [bang]
So the next day I had to head to Neu-Koeln where people only live of cell phones, gold and shawarma it seems..
Anyway I needed a replacement to take a picture of this all time Berlin Special : Currywurst Rot-Weiss ... 6$ for the whole plate [popcorn]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/b8b8a38c593089e4afab9413eda48d43.jpg)
Today we will drive down to the Sachsenring...watching the qualifying of 125,250 and 800cc.
I hope Mr.Stoner will storm to the podium tomorrow with another blazing victory.
Hope I get some good pictures of the race...if not, I´ll photograph the video wall
Stay tuned for the upcoming reports
jattebra!
more pics!
To all you young blokes out there without kids and a wife, get out and travel, i am so envious.
Keep the pics coming!!! That looks like one hell of a good time! [thumbsup]
That puts things into perspective... I rode 3000 miles last year and I never left my own country! I've got to ride in Europe one of these days.
I want the Berlin Special!! reminds me of a meal from back home in Chile.. yummy!! Good luck and keep safe!!
Awesome! [thumbsup] [thumbsup]
I'm taking notes. I've got a similar trek in the works, though with far fewer border crossings and no MotoGP race.
You are living on of my dreams! What a great trip [thumbsup]
Just remember..as you head south all of those perfectly planned and orderly German roads gradually give way to the "organized chaos" that is Italy. Be safe and enjoy! [moto]
edit: I just noticed that you are ending only a few hours from Bologna. And you aren't going to make the pilgrimmage to the factory? ;)
Awesome trip! Can't wait to hear more!
[popcorn]
Hello Ducatisti, friends and colleges.
I just arrived down in Munich after a great weekend in the dark eastern part of Germany.
Actually it was not dark at all..more friendly and open and really cheap as well.
I skip the traveling part from Berlin because absolutely nothing happened but Nic and myself riding the highway in the early morning, very relaxed...like this
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We checked in into our little BnB home and went straight to the track.
Man is it huge ! Its a frigging village within two other villages !
We had to park among the other low lives way back behind the tent town and so we marched towards the main gates
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This is the camping site on the hill and I guess those guys already did 294626527 liters of booze the night before...minimum
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There were about 10 trucks with video walls standing across the tribunes and this one was showing the Coke Zero spot...had to take the pic
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/436548205cc8254ddc5be138e67f0b1c.jpg)
Those tribunes are stunning metal constructions with the worlds best garbage disposal system...just drop it below yourself ...and this was Saturday morning only [popcorn]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/2e5d7fa5bcd136b25090d238148e9051.jpg)
I tried to talk to the security bulldogs to let us take a sneak peak into the paddock, but he was strangely uncooperative, even with a logo like this !
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/602226f8f1d4680f9f76a2b270716104.jpg)
That was the closest we could come to the pit lane so we decided to find a nice spot to see the 125cc.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c99d55016861e6aeac6f33db117dc040.jpg)
We found it at the exact other side of the ring...total relaxed, no people, we were sitting on old snad and straw bags and watched the kids fly by
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/6c6fecb8364533276d888658682781c6.jpg)
ZEE GERMANS ! Feed em beer and make them happy...
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/760bfce33d014e0d3acf709ff409af83.jpg)
This is the view from the Ducati tribune. Lorenzo crashed just right in front of us...what a pity [cheeky]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/65e9b7c47ef7f94fe51ea6ebd35e8b58.jpg)
Well...it went well in the end and "we" won the third in a row ... HURRA DUCATI [thumbsup]
But as great as the bikes were...the best was the super side cars.
Those guys ride 1000cc Suzi engines in modified space ships and it was a slide and slip fest...just great to watch...here a pic from the winners on the extra lap...fireworks provided by track stewards from Finland I guess
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/1188a2f0443be678d72b1efe426580a3.jpg)
Sunday afternoon, the last thing to do was to find a way through the 200.000 wet, drunken people on our way home...It was GREAT ! [beer]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c25446a9524c7469b558fe975dd01ca4.jpg)
The morning after we split and Nic went home to Berlin, I continued down to Munich.
I was really lucky and had zero rain today. The Autobahn around "Vogtland" is just great, three lanes, nicely bending around the landscape and no speed limit at all. Bring your S4Rs and 1098s and have a great time before they put up more 130 signs.
The Monster went ery well and, oh boy, I love my DP comfort seat...totally worth the money .
1200 km so far...more to come [moto]
What a fun trip! Keep the updates coming :)
My favorite brand of internet crack. [thumbsup]
Good morning ,
another beautiful sunny day in the best part of Germany just started.
Down here in Bavaria the air is sweet as pie, the girls are more sexy and funny than anywhere else and the streets are just built to give us a pleasant ride on the monsters...day by day.
This is just 10 minutes from here...
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Early in the morning my motor cycle mentor Rüdiger and I saddled the horses and went for a pilgrim trip to "THE KESSELBERG ".
Its a legenday windy route in southern Bavaria on the way to austria, curvy, in the woods and just a perfect thrill ride if you want. Its so popular among riders, the police closed it on weekends and put up a speed limt (60kmh) and also you should not take over.....yeah...sure ;) [evil]
Here is a video I found that shows this great street...just sit back and enjoy the save ride :
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=797yE2g--GM
We did the track three to four times in both directions...wow...its a lot harder than it looks
This is Desmo Master Knobi-Wan and Padavan ArguZ on top of the hill
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/a64cb37b66295c53e255cff999ae1381.jpg)
Count Knobi meditating over the meaning of the desmodromic circle of live and gas
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After visiting some local food places we got enough energy to ride back home to Munich, not without having two stops to check his 600 Desmo for funny noises and stuff [roll]
I went on another trip to visit my friend Gabriel in his studio watching the birth of some more great sound design.
Instaed of going out into a beer garden we spent the whole evening infront of the machines...of course
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/74904c5265a8e30b74514f7f7c97ceae.jpg)
Today I will ride to the Lake of Constance at the Austrian and Swizz border and present the Monster to my mum..that will be fun [moto]
great thread [thumbsup]
Looks fun, more pics when you have time please!
mitt
Great pics....bummer the race was wet, but it looks like the weather has cooperated for the trip so far. Your friend has a classic there, and the leathers to match 8)
Halfway there...
The ride from Munich to my mums place was the best one on the whole trip so far.
I told the TomTom to take me the shortest route and I could enjoy a lot of winding,small and traffic free roads in fantastic sunshine.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/e7a8fdc6596bd8ee4f065538629741b9.jpg)
The next days i will relax and just take advantage of the southern german cuisine.
Cheers
Looks like a great trip!!! Thanks for sharing the pics. Makes me want to go and ride right now :)
Excellent thread. Thanks for posting all of this.
great story
i'd pay good money right now for a good currywurst [thumbsup]
Nice trip ArguZ ...... [thumbsup] I wish I had the chance to do that [bang]
Ciao Ragazzi, I am in Milano, its warm and sunny and there are more beautiful girls in the streets than flies on my windscreen ;)
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/369018c01b0bf1b52f88944bf6ceb8f8.jpg)
Which brings us back to the topic, right ? THE RIDE !
After enjoying the love and kindness of my mum and blazing my head of a couple of times at this ubercrazy German traditional festival it was time to pack everything back into the Cortechs,check the babe for oil and air and continue the trip back south.
When I got up I checked the weather forecast for Germany, Austria,Lichtenstein, Swizzerland and Italy…and it got more promising every mile down there.
The first 100 km around the Lake of Constance where pretty straight forward and nothing really happened.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/00b4684222079ed0e5940da60b79b07b.jpg)I got robbed by the authorities like always by paying toll for the 13km of Austrian highway and of course I needed the Swiss one too…too colourful badges on the fork…yeah
As the weather got worse my only hope was Heidiland…and yes, I made it in time.
Heidiland is just surreal. If you EVER come to Switzerland you HAVE to stop there.
Imagine a four star Bistro where everything is made freshly in front of your eyes, like juices, steaks, fish, salads and so on next to the highway…In perfect swiss quality..Its just heaven.. [wine]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/99768fdc1d26aaeaa78a88cb174544ff.jpg)
After the rain stopped I joined a group of other bikers on their way to France and we reached the Spluegen Pass…Ok..I have to admit I chickened out because I never did a pass before.
Also it would bring me to much of course and so I decided to stick to the plan and ride up San Bernadino.
Holy mother of the mountain gods !!!! What a blast !
Forget about fly screens and high speed and all that nonsense !
What you want is a pass !
The monster just flipped trough those curves over and over again…after a while I could do it faster and faster and really got into a perfect flow of accelerating, up shifting, breaking, downshifting, line finding, leaning and again and again…God is was great.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c2826be25a2d6a49172cecc2a54925aa.jpg)
On the top it was freezing cold and I decided to just take a quick picture and continue to the other side.
But down there I saw the tunnel….and I rode back to do it again ;)
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c595017cb340fa4ecc34d56f6a8cd787.jpg)
This time I stopped on the pass and had a fellow Ducatisto take a photo and I got a little silver shiny San Bernadino sicker for the bike as well…hell, when I am back it will look like a Panini sticker album.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/6c3d9425584c82d71229d4b6d592ab60.jpg)
Anyway…Down the valley of Mesocco of course I couldn’t ride without actually stepping inside the old walls and recall memories of one of the best Goa Parties ever.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c65cd417b66a87ccd84c74820e36b651.jpg)
Taking the old road down to Bellinzona was actually the best ride at all. It runs parallel to the highway and has no traffic at all..for half an hour its just me and the bike and not too slow curves.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/481a0b6054e9af44cb4d040c45a30fe6.jpg)
A nice lady warned my before the cops and I could wave to them instead of handing them out my budget for beer for a year…Its still Switzerland even if it looks and feels like Italy there already.
The temperature went from 5 to 25 degrees celcius in under and hour…And thank god I brought my summer mesh jacket..
After riding another two hours through the Tessin I arrived at the most beautiful spot on earth…yes…Its where young Darth Vader married his princess and also where James Bond shot Mr. White in Casino Royale …Lago di Como, Lago Maggiore.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/8580e4374fb3a33e292ec9ae013b540f.jpg)
This is Lugano, the pearl of Switzerland and the place I need to be when I am old and grey…Just to beautiful to describe.
I am sooo jealous. Great trip!
[thumbsup] 8)
So I decided to ditch the highway again and ride down old roads to Milan. And it was 5 pm and very very crowded with commuters…well…this was the time to learn something from the Italians .
I am now a fully certified lane splitter [clap] I am sure I passed 500 or more cars the next hour.
After you did it the first times it feels to right and rewarding to let all the cagers behind , melting in their cars [cheeky]
Traffic in Milan was only half as a crazy as I expected and after 10 hours on the road with an average pace of 63 I know I have a fantastic looking touring bike .
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/558d140f5c0bea7b715da0ca9580c2df.jpg)
Today we did the full Milano schedule with a lot of Icecream, beer, Pizza, looking at models passing by and finally, finally watching HELLBOY 2 . Congrats back to Denmark and my fellow Ghosts, you did such a nice job and it made me wanting to come back soon.
Wow…just three more days on the road and its over…
Tomorrow from Milano to Bolzano … stay tuned.
Quote from: ArguZ on July 23, 2008, 11:44:14 AM
Anyway…Down the valley of Mesocco of course I couldn’t ride without actually stepping inside the old walls and recall memories of one of the best Goa Parties ever.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/c65cd417b66a87ccd84c74820e36b651.jpg)
Aaaahhhhhhhhh, Goa parties........ ;D ;D ;D
Been to a few
amazing ones myself back in the early '90's... I miss those days. :'(
-Beautiful pics + great story though, keep it coming!! [popcorn]
Amazing roads, pics and story.
So jealous.
Hej hej from denmark,
After packing the bike in the the best summer attitude (rain ? HA HA ! Its Italy !) I started the next morning from Milano to Bolzano in South Tirol.
Moving through the traffic in Milan was fun as tow days ago...everybody honking, but they see it as a sport and do it very fair.
Nobody really steals the place from you, its just a game it seems.
I continued the highway up north to the right side of the lake of Como. George Clooney picked a nice place to live it seems.
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So i just needed to have brunch in this calm hidden place and enjoy some more great Italian specialties.
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I decided to go down to the lake and ride the coast line along upwards till the end of the lake and then enter the valley of Veltin.
Driving along the river for one hour wasn't very interesting, especially because of all the trucks making their way trough roundabout after roundabout.
But then the street started to climb back into the mountains and the fun started again...here the view back through the valley
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Riding the last hours through this amazing landscape really made me think about life and all and really felt home for a short while.
Maybe I will open a little hostel for riders one day from where you can see the mountains and just enjoy existence
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The next POI was the Passo Tonale, a small skying area
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Very empty in the summer but you still can do rafting and walking and climbing of course.
I continued downwards the Passo Mendilo and got right into a downhill bicycle race...Jesus ! Those guys were crazy !
I took some of them over with 70-80 kmh and we are talking about small alpine roads with traffic.
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Slowly the landscape got less high alpine and huge fruit planes took over.
Here they make the best high percentage fruit liquor too...I´ll buy some for the train [wine]
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While the sun turned the Dolomities into a beautiful red our bikes where already loaded on the train.
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I met some funny dutch guys I wanted to spend the evening in the train with and we went to buy some perfect Italian picknick things for the 16 hour ride.
No pics from the fest, sorry, but when we arrived in Hamburg I new the journey is slowly coming to and end.
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/cf23da385651f556cc668f26980a6e1e.jpg)
We have outstanding weather here in Scandinavia right now and I looking forward to Sweden and the racetrack tomorrow.
Still one country I have yet to visit. Thanks for the great pictures.
beautiful!!..enoying your trip , ..... [popcorn] thanks for the pix... & stay safe [moto]
Here we go...the last chapter of the Iron Butt 2008 saga has been written and I am here to tell you about it.
Packed like the last two weeks , but now also with tent and sleeping bag and my brand new shiny self inflating 150 bucks sleeping matte I drove over the Oeresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden.
The ring lays hidden in the most cute Swedish postcard landscape and is only used for special private events like this one.
http://www.ringknutstorp.com/ (http://www.ringknutstorp.com/)
When I arrived in the late afternoon a lot of people already had their first track day and the scenery was looking like a camp site somewhere in greece, just with the distinctive smell of gasoline, rubber and dozens of BBQs. I felt home immediately [beer]
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Italian Bike Store, the shop I bought my Monster from three months ago, invited us to this event and they organized this cool tent, fantastic food, drinks, snacks and a full blown mechanical area too.
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After packing out and erecting the tent the new guys had the possibility to go with one of the racers over the track and get first impressions.
This was the moment when the tingling sensation of the next morning started to build up.
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The evening we spent walking the area, watching other peoples passion on wheels and I this is my personal favorite :
KTM 625 engine, Ducati frame, self welded exhaust and a lot of other highly geeky parts I never heard of before.
It was also the loudest bike on the track [thumbsup]
(http://pics.pech.dk/files/98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84/574df1b3e21b79eeab8272f17879cdd2.jpg)
But the bikes we had in the tent where also very very cool, of course...or hot...maybe too hot...so hot one engine exploded the next day in a big column of smoke and oil...
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After a very short, uncomfortable, snoring, walking around, cold and hard bottomed night ( ok, I fukking HATE camping [puke] ) the morning looked as fresh as Dr. Best and we got served a good danish breakfast...Sausages , bacon and beer [bacon]
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The tech people helped me preparing the bike for the races...all glass parts covered in duct tape, mirrors taken off and then I could show it to the inspector and get my race number...yeah !
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The whole even consisted of four different classes...the rookies in green with an instructor and three sub levels.
Then red with instructor and action parts, blue was free driving with master drivers on the track and black for the Rossi wannabes....Sorry...Stoner of course...hehe
Each group had 15 minutes track time and 45 min resting time to get cold drinks and cool down after the run..
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And , Oh sweet Mother of J. WHAT runs :o
This day totally opened my eyes what it really means to ride a motorbike...I managed to get my tire down to 1cm at the edge and it looks like a frying pan full of rubber all over now.
Incredible I survived the last 3000 km without taking curves like we did on the track...or maybe...that's why I survided.
But anyway...it was really thrilling every time we got out and we did it for 6 hours...6 times 8 laps of 2000m
I also met some very nice guys from where I live among the group and at the end of the day we packed everything together and rode back over the big bridge to Denmark.
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And this is where the story ends....This is the verdict of the GPS and I have nothing to add.
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Well...just some credits maybe...
i probably had one of the best vacations in my life and this is not only because of the bike and the roads and the weather.
Its especially because of all the great people I could see again and who took me in, helped me out, drove along side and partied hard with me...
Thanks a million to my family, Sabine+Sabine, Klara, Nic, Pattex, Gabriel, Rüdiger, Roberto and the Ravensburgers for sharing time with me.
Kudos to Ducati, TomTom, Apple, Dainese and Cortech who are building just great things to ride with.
I hope you enjoyed reading it too and i just have to say : DO IT whenever you find the opportunity to got away from the RL for week or two.
Ride save , so long and thanks for all the fuel [moto]
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Awesome
Amazing!
Great write up and pictures.
Can't wait to get my sh!t together and do something like this w/ a few friends.
Such an amazing adventure [thumbsup] [clap]
Thanks for sharing it with us!
I hope to have something to show for my 1700 mile 2 state trip that starts in 6 days :)
Okok I know its old news , but I just found this picture on the track days page and needed to share it.
Can´t wait to do it again...there is way to much unused rubber at the sides of my tires [bacon]
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