Now lets see how its done on an Aprillia

We have seen the guy on the skates do it now see how 3 Aprillia's do it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kyEh_e9djA irate

That looks a nice place might go there in the summer ;-)

Wow that's the place Iv'e dreamed about mg

Oh I wonder who that is

Check out the other related videos in Pete's section.

There's last September's trip to the South of France yet to be uploaded, Route Napoleon etc...

Omg that road looks amazing. Where is it?

the Grimsel Pass in Switzerland

:dunno Is it anybody off here as i see they r on Brit plates :dunno

Looks kin awesome. Grimsel is one of the three passes that basically do a lap of the swiss alps, the others are Susten and Furka, and they're all like that. Went there when I was about 9, always wanted to go back and do it on a bike.:inlove

try this it's behind chamonix ..thanks to my mate James for hi camera work.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=101167673233840

Very nice vid, thanks for posting!

skrall said:

Looks kin awesome. Grimsel is one of the three passes that basically do a lap of the swiss alps, the others are Susten and Furka, and they're all like that. Went there when I was about 9, always wanted to go back and do it on a bike.:inlove

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did those 3 in one day a couple of years agoa and it was one of the best days of my life - pity it was in a honda s2000 and not on the bikes, but at least it's sowed the seed to go bike someday on the aprilia.

we stayed in interlaken and had a superb week's holiday. the train ride up the jungfrau via the inside of the eiger is awesome, and paragliding over interlaken was superb. i would highly recommend the place for a base for a weeks riding holiday with a few bits of days off to do plenty of other things :thumbup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ao_FMO4nsw&feature=related cheia, romania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatczAozPwk&feature=related siriu, romania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeR7U0ThJeM&feature=related cheile bicazului, romania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBudD4HG_U&feature=related transfagarasan on top gear. even if it's with cars you should see it, it says how it was made and it shows it to you from a helicopter.

and a bit off-topic, some girl-bikers form romania. my girlfriend's there, too, her name is danutza :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UJe0h_22Mc&feature=related

littlescrote said:

we stayed in interlaken and had a superb week's holiday. the train ride up the jungfrau via the inside of the eiger is awesome, and paragliding over interlaken was superb. i would highly recommend the place for a base for a weeks riding holiday with a few bits of days off to do plenty of other things :thumbup

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Ah bringing back memories of my first family holiday abroad when I was 9. except for the paragliding, That sounds cool.

danish ep said:

Oh I wonder who that is

Check out the other related videos in Pete's section.

There's last September's trip to the South of France yet to be uploaded, Route Napoleon etc...

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Was that you with the headcam then danish :devious that looks a great road :doug

The headcam is from Pete's brother on a Tuono, the tricolour Mille was mine (now written off sadly) and the Yellow Mille at the front is Pete's 02 R with a host of tasty upgrades.
Note we tried to hide the Honda
Interlaken:



If you look at other related videos of the trip, you'll see that we experimented with different mounting points i.e. head, nose fairing, air ducts, rear mounted.
This was with a bullet cam attached to a DV recorder in the tank bag. If you look at the following years related video 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zusrIQuWOyQ&feature=channel (where I'm riding the GS) we had a different bullet cam recording direct to a solid state recorder. The picture doesn't come up as well on YouTube as on personal computer.
We just duck tape the camera and it's mounts on, and tape the wire to the fairing, making sure you've got enough so that it allows suspension travel, but not so much that it gets tangled in anything!

I prefer the low down mount as it gives the feeling of speed in relation to the movement of other static objects such as white lines:
See here for the Tuono on the same trip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYkHknu-2o&feature=channel

I personally prefer mounting it low down on the side fairing as you get the feel of the lean of the bike, however are impaired by the mudguard and front wheel. Mounting on the helmet allows the viewer to see more of what's going on around, but you don't get the same feel of the movement of the bike imho.

We've been discussing this year's trip, and are certainly keen to do the Grimsel pass again.

We did Grimsel, Splugen (sp.), Furka and the Julier pass amongst others, the latter wich went from this on Lake Como



to this



in approximately 45 minutes - it was fecking freezing!

Any interest in this years trip?

European fun

Must say out of the trips I have done over the last 10 years, this one does stick as one of the most memorable when it comes to the roads.
Think I might have to go and do it again soon. :biggrin
Pete (with loads of memories on SD )