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Well I hit the big 50 today but by way of compensation SWMBO has allowed me to have a wee trip down to the Alps on the GS

Me and a good mate sail from Hull tomorrow night to Zeebrugge and then travel down to the Alps. We plan on doing as many of the passes as we can before heading home next Saturday. Got some amazing routes programmed into the Zumo so I'll take a few pics and bore you to death with them once I'm back

Should be a nice 2,500 mile round trip

I'll keep my eyes open for any Falco's en-route of course

F9

Enjoy. Look forward to the report when you return.

your gonna love it

take plenty of photos

Lucky bstd.
Oh to be 50 again........

Have fun and take care Rich. Try and take in the Gross Glockner Pass (near Floss/Saltzburg) if you can, amazing. Look forward to the seeing the pics.

Congratulations Young Man !

Falco9 wrote:Well I hit the big 50 today but by way of compensation SWMBO has allowed me to have a wee

Well that's nice of her - at least you can celebrate by un-crossing your legs

Got back on Saturday, had a fantastic trip and can thoroughly recommend the Alps as a destination. Great roads, nice and quiet and the bends.................................go on and on and on and on.........

Heres a few pics
Coming down back from Switzerland

Dicking about (as susual)

Top the Aosta valley just out of the Mont Blanc tunnel (28 degrees and beeeeeeutiful!!)

The top of the Gran San Bernardo Pass, mucking about................again...

The pic doesn't do this justice


One of me at the top of the Aiguille du Midi (Mont Blanc)

Looks fabulous.

Awesome mate, good to see that although you've made the half century you've not grown up at all.

Sounds like a great trip Rich, got me feeling jealous!
Just to make you feel younger, I worked out some similar calculations to yours, and now I feel even older.

I have spent 75% of my life legally riding bikes,
(they only let me have a licence when I was 16),
so I wasted some of my time before that ........................................

but there were some adventures in the local fields on old 125 BSA Bantams and similar.


(The young ladies always complained that they were not very comfortable, but the grass was wet!)

I officially started riding bikes 47 years ago!

I'd go and get mi pipe and slippers if I could bloody rember where I'd put them.
P.S. just remembered I packed up smoking 5 or 6 years ago, so forget the pipe.
Then again I've done that already,
Dooooh.

Dementia don't you just love it.

Forget the bloody slippers, I know where my bike boots are........
and I know where the bikes are .....................

HowardQ wrote:
Forget the bloody slippers, I know where my bike boots are........
and I know where the bikes are .....................

Better go for a wee before you set off .... at your time of life you don't want to be stopping 10 mins into your journey.


Rich - great trip - nice pics - shame about the ugly bloke in the last pic

D-Rider wrote: shame about the ugly bloke in the last pic

That needs putting in this thread too. https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.php?t=2736

... and a lot of other peeps are missing too.

I don't appear in pictures - I have a policy to avoid such things to avoid scaring those of a nervous disposition ..... and those not of a nervous disposition ........

D-Rider wrote:

HowardQ wrote:
Forget the bloody slippers, I know where my bike boots are........
and I know where the bikes are .....................

Better go for a wee before you set off .... at your time of life you don't want to be stopping 10 mins into your journey.
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Obviously you fully understand the problem, Andy !

HowardQ wrote:Obviously you fully understand the problem, Andy !

Yes - thanks to my Father-in-Law ..... he even has a bottle he takes with him on journeys for "emergencies"