Chris's Bike Blog » Italy http://woodgen.com/wordpress Living with a BMW F800GS a Honda Goldwing and now, a Yamaha TTR250 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:51:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Italy 2008 http://woodgen.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/italy-2008/ http://woodgen.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/italy-2008/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 18:01:00 +0000 Chris Knight http://chrisjk.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/italy-2008/ Continue reading →]]> Back from a marvellous tour of Umbria, Tuscany and the Marche courtesy of Beach”s Motorcycle Adventures.

I was riding a brand new BMW 1200GS equipped with a Garmin 276C GPS (great system – miles better than my Garmin 2820 I reckon, at least for my uses) that was filled every couple of days with lots of routes all well researched by Rob Beach. He has found wonderful motorcycling roads, twisty, scenic and if you want them dirt roads. Umbria was spectacular – rugged scenery, mountains with snow and at times cold winds, as I found out when my brand new bike succumbed to an “immobiliser incident” at the top of a pass. The bike had to be transported to a dealers some 60 miles away so for a couple of days I rode a BMW F 800 ST – showing the value of the kind of back up provided by Rob – also the wisdom of using a simple old-fashioned bike if one wants to do a RTW trip!

A few pics



It was particularly nice to be with my friends from the Patagonian trip – Brian and Shira, even Mr Happy made it!

More photos are here.

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