Norway twisty tour '12 (+ another August 10.)

[stopintime]

I finally found an opening to do this again.
The google map sums it up to ~600 miles/three days - narrow and mostly empty roads
http://goo.gl/maps/o3ia

The two videoIZ are just east of the blue marker dots on the map.
Måbødalen/Vøringsfossen and Lysebotn/Suleskar.
(I need a GoPro and editing skills...)

Hardangervidda



Hardanger Fjord



Lyseheiene



1894 Hotel Dalen





Vest juli 12

Going up 3,300 feet - 1st gear turns - not my thing, but enjoyable enough.
Promised two younger Danish guys they would be on YouTube (skip the last part if you want, but the scenery is nice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8L057-ffs#

[The Don]

Absolutely beautiful, your a lucky man living in that environment

[supperduc]

Awesome! 

[glbrto]

that last bit riding through the rocks, along that lake, was my favorite part 

[ducrider45]

Very nice!

[Rob Hilding]

Beautiful - thanks for posting

[koko64]

Beautiful riding country. Thanks for sharing.

[stopintime]

Another

What a privileged Ducatilife I live
500 open country/mountain miles.

If you'd like to see details, I suggest googling or maps.googling Valdresflya, Sognefjell and Sagasøyla
http://www.google.no/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGHP_noNO425NO426&q=sagas%c3%b8yla

http://youtu.be/UXYZ1_QmRdU

http://youtu.be/rd1jwF99okA   

[IZ]

Nice pics stopin'...even better videoIZ!




WTH?!   > 

The two videoIZ

 

[DesmoPete]

Hi stopintime.
Nice pictures, looks like some great rides.

Me and a buddy went for a 6 day trip to Norway (from Sweden) just last week. Our trip went through Skien-Rjukan-Lysebotn-Preikestolen-Odda-Geilo-Kongsberg. Super great roads with smooth curves and very good paving. Not sure how you do it in Norway to prevent frost damages to the roads  . They are so smooth most of the time. Rode through some twisties as well and they're cool but I'm having the most fun on the not so twisty roads, where the curves are not 180 degrees  .






Sorry for the tread jack, hope you don't mind  

[stopintime]

Nice to hear that you enjoyed it 

Road surface is worse above the tree line (~900 m above sea level) and during spring until it settles in late May.
The trick is to use a rock/gravel base that is deep enough - I think the Norwegian standard is 90 cm/3 feet.

[Fergus]

Sandwich shots. Is this a Scandinavian thing? I like it.

[ducpainter]

Nice to hear that you enjoyed it 

Road surface is worse above the tree line (~900 m above sea level) and during spring until it settles in late May.
The trick is to use a rock/gravel base that is deep enough - I think the Norwegian standard is 90 cm/3 feet.

In NH they have a different standard...

something like if the rock doesn't protrude past the pavement more than 3 or 4" it's all good.

[ungeheuer]

wow...........

[stopintime]

In NH they have a different standard...

something like if the rock doesn't protrude past the pavement more than 3 or 4" it's all good.

Then, let's just call it good and ride 

wow...........

... and it's free for all to enjoy - even Aussies