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Completed my first tour over three mountain passes in Switzerland on Saturday: Grimsel (2165m), Furka (2429m) and Susten (2224m). The latter left me half dead 
. 120k, and 3500m in total. I'm chuffed 
Highlights were the overtake of a dutch camper van with oncoming traffic downhill to Gletsch (don't ask!) and the 25km final descent to Innertkirchen, which was absolutely awesome.
View from Totensee on top of Grimsel:
View of Grimsel east side and the Bernese alps from Furkapass (of Goldfinger fame):
. 120k, and 3500m in total. I'm chuffed Highlights were the overtake of a dutch camper van with oncoming traffic downhill to Gletsch (don't ask!) and the 25km final descent to Innertkirchen, which was absolutely awesome.
View from Totensee on top of Grimsel:
View of Grimsel east side and the Bernese alps from Furkapass (of Goldfinger fame):
Edited by florian on Monday 1st August 18:47
A photo from Saturday's BWC Final.....a Tweed stampede, I'm the extra medium chap on the left. Harry, on the right of the picture, besides being terribly posh & a jolly nice chap, was riding one of the Bloodhound teams Bromptons, kindly donated by Will Butler Adams at Brompton.
Edited by IN51GHT on Tuesday 2nd August 13:38
Unusually the family came to a race on Sunday, rather worryingly they took position on a down hill section with a jump just before a corner and shouted "get some air Daddy" everytime I passed. I had no choice but to be a little less cautious than usual, thankfully I just about stayed on 2 wheels.
So we went to the Nurburgring to do RadAmRing and a great time was had by all, we even got a kit made up special.
That's the first bunch past our pitch, they are coming down the GP track before joining the nordschieffe, you camp all round the GP track which is quite cool.
Then it got dark
But only for a short while, we counted them out and we counted them in, no one was eaten by the bears that roam the forest.
Easily the best weekend of biking ever, very few people will lap the ring at night but we did and a few got close to 100kph too... We had two teams of four and two soloists, some support crew and between us rode something close to 2000kms over 24 hours. Schnitzels were consumed, beer was drunk, sweary words were deployed up Hohe Acht and Anglo-German relationships post Brexit have been restored...
That's the first bunch past our pitch, they are coming down the GP track before joining the nordschieffe, you camp all round the GP track which is quite cool.
Then it got dark
But only for a short while, we counted them out and we counted them in, no one was eaten by the bears that roam the forest.
Easily the best weekend of biking ever, very few people will lap the ring at night but we did and a few got close to 100kph too... We had two teams of four and two soloists, some support crew and between us rode something close to 2000kms over 24 hours. Schnitzels were consumed, beer was drunk, sweary words were deployed up Hohe Acht and Anglo-German relationships post Brexit have been restored...
vwsurfbum said:
Not into this roadie thing but that looks like a cool event.
There's a MTB route that runs at the same time. It does a little bit of the circuit where all the camping pitches are (our Neighbours were MTBers) then when the roadies head off onto the Nordschleife the MTB turn right into the woods and a 9km off road track coming out again just before the GP circuit starts.All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
Edited by CoolC on Wednesday 3rd August 10:32
CoolC said:
vwsurfbum said:
Not into this roadie thing but that looks like a cool event.
There's a MTB route that runs at the same time. It does a little bit of the circuit where all the camping pitches are (our Neighbours were MTBers) then when the roadies head off onto the Nordschleife the MTB turn right into the woods and a 9km off road track coming out again just before the GP circuit starts.All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
Edited by CoolC on Wednesday 3rd August 10:32
IN51GHT said:
CoolC said:
vwsurfbum said:
Not into this roadie thing but that looks like a cool event.
There's a MTB route that runs at the same time. It does a little bit of the circuit where all the camping pitches are (our Neighbours were MTBers) then when the roadies head off onto the Nordschleife the MTB turn right into the woods and a 9km off road track coming out again just before the GP circuit starts.All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
Edited by CoolC on Wednesday 3rd August 10:32
If you can get 4 Bromton-ers together for a team it would be awesome. 
CoolC said:
IN51GHT said:
CoolC said:
vwsurfbum said:
Not into this roadie thing but that looks like a cool event.
There's a MTB route that runs at the same time. It does a little bit of the circuit where all the camping pitches are (our Neighbours were MTBers) then when the roadies head off onto the Nordschleife the MTB turn right into the woods and a 9km off road track coming out again just before the GP circuit starts.All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
Edited by CoolC on Wednesday 3rd August 10:32
If you can get 4 Bromton-ers together for a team it would be awesome. 
CoolC said:
There's a MTB route that runs at the same time. It does a little bit of the circuit where all the camping pitches are (our Neighbours were MTBers) then when the roadies head off onto the Nordschleife the MTB turn right into the woods and a 9km off road track coming out again just before the GP circuit starts.
All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
I could be up for that.All of us there this year are already talking about next year with even more teams of others interested. Get together a PH MTB team and the more the merrier.
Edit to add: https://www.radamring.de/en/information-mtb-en
Edited by CoolC on Wednesday 3rd August 10:32
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