French Alps 2005

Monday - Here we go again...!

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Riding the Grosglockner Pass in Austria last summer had given us a taste for high places, so a plan was hatched to thoroughly overdose on mountain passes with a ride over the French Alps via the La Routes des Grandes Alpes. It's quite a ride over 14 mountain passes, starting in Thonon les Bains on the banks of lake Geneva to Menton on the French Coast 400 miles south, but first we had to get there...

La Route des Grandes Alpes!

The riders were:

• Graham (Kid): Kawasaki GPZ 500

• John:                Honda CBR600rr

• Dave S:           Suzuki 650 Burgman

• Dave J:            Suzuki SV650

• Patto:               R1100RT

• Ebbo:               R1100RT

We all met up at the Ferrybridge services at 2 O'clock Monday 20th June for the ride to Hull and the overnight P&O ferry to Zeebrugge. I'd booked the ferry earlier in the year for just £105 each return, not a bad deal.

Meeting up at Ferrybridge services.

We had an easy ride to Hull, around 50 miles, just before entering the Port we filled all the bikes up so as to be ready for good start in the morning.

Queuing just in front of us was this French K1200LT with the nicest trailer I've seen, it was absolutely stuffed full!

Once the bikers are on board there's plenty of places to tie them down with the dirty blue rope kindly provided by P&O.

Here, Patto's using a Motrax handlebar strap, quick and easy!

Innocents abroad, John, Patto, Dave S, Dave J, Ebbo & Kid

As usual we gorged ourselves at the buffet evening meal and after a few beers retired to bed, tomorrow was going to be a long

day on the Autoroute .

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