few bike park photos... Dijon

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few bike park photos... Dijon

Postby Fw190 » Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:12 am

couple of weeks back, I wobbled up to Dijon to meet up with the UK bunch. I rode up with a good friend of mine who lives near Lecco (about 8kms from the Moto Guzzi factory) meeting him at Ivrea at the bottom of the Aosta valley.

Time was tight so we hit the Autostrada and the motorway up to Dijon; the plan was to have a ride out on the Friday... pretty uneventful trip up, the sun was shining and the roads pretty quiet, we stay in a small hotel in Quetigny, tram ride into town is about ten mins and the hotel is Ok..

Ride out to the Jura mountains on Friday, we managed best part of 400kms just messing around on some very nice roads..
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My old Rockster... Poalo is phoning in the dead fly count!

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Its funny, it said bikers welcome in the window, we were made to feel as welcome as a fart in a space suit!

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road sign says it all
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bike park randoms
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lots of 9T's in the bike park

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nice Guzzi MK1

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nice little cafe racer, think it was a /5..?

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they do like their outfits in France!

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as mucky as it gets...

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all clean!

was a great weekend, the weather managed to play ball, we had about ten mins of rain on Saturday, then it kind of warmed up... if you've never been to Moto-Legende, it's a really cool event, €25 for a 3 day ticket and as much vintage stuff as you can look at. Freddie Spencer and co were mashing out demo laps on the 500 two strokes, plenty of autojumble type mess to wander through.. the numbers of folks was pretty impressive, they reckon 50,000 over the weekend!

Trip back was dry, warm and sunny, right until I got 50kms from home, then the biggest thunderstorm I've ever ridden through! just enough to get the bike minging...

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Postby Mitch1100 » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:30 pm

Nice machines on show! :wink:
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Postby Topcat » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:04 pm

Cheers for that, good pictures and write up :D

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Postby boxerscott » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:59 pm

Thanks for sharing that, never been to that bikefest, but I have been to Aosta, nice fertile part of the world you live in :) We went on to do the St Bernard pass after that. Memorable day on our way back from Barberino Di Mugello.

Some lovely old boxers in the piccies.
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Postby bikemad99 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:05 am

Just back from our MX5 trip to Lake Como,6 cars did the Stelvio pass,down then back up,then on to Lake Como.We then went over the Furka,Susten,Grimsel & St Gothard passes & through the Gothard tunnel twice,not because we were lost,because there was a mountain road closed.
Great weather apart from the odd rain storm and thick fog high in the mountains.The Derbyshire Peak district will seem very tame now.
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Postby Fw190 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:41 am

boxerscott wrote:Thanks for sharing that, never been to that bikefest, but I have been to Aosta, nice fertile part of the world you live in :) We went on to do the St Bernard pass after that. Memorable day on our way back from Barberino Di Mugello.

Some lovely old boxers in the piccies.


thanks for the comments, I live a few hours south of Aosta in the Apennines mountains, nearest big (ish) town is Villa Minozzo, we're close to the Cerreto pass which is the SS63 running from Reggio Emilia to Aulla, it's pretty beaten up after the winter... My best memory of the Grand St Bernard pass was of a mate who ran out of fuel at the top and coasted all the way to the garage at the bottom...

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Postby er-minio » Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:12 pm

Wow nice pics. Thanks!

Those italian plates (and all those corners) are making me homesick a bit :D
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Postby Fw190 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:08 pm

er-minio wrote:Wow nice pics. Thanks!

Those italian plates (and all those corners) are making me homesick a bit :D


:lol: the Italian plates look so much cooler than the billboard size UK plates eh!

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Postby gus » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:24 pm

Cool pics Ty. :D
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Postby er-minio » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:36 pm

than the billboard size UK plates eh!


I know. Immagine the piss-taking by my friends everytime I ride down to Italy on my yellow plated GS :D
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