Riding the Alps – The San Bernardino Pass

The San Bernardino Pass was definitely one of my favorites. Maybe my favorite all around. We snaked our way up and down the pass after stopping at a small grocery in the town of Splugen. The way the road is laid out, the quality of the pavement (and the color, which made it very easy [...]

Riding the Alps – Some quick lessons

Once we left Como on the way up to Bellagio, we immediately learned an important lesson about roads over in Italy – sometimes they aren’t very wide.  Often, you are sharing road space with oncoming traffic in what we would consider a narrow one-way street in the States.   At times the road tightens with [...]

Riding the Alps – Our trip begins

After landing in Milan, we stopped in to Rent a Dream (http://www.rentadream.it) where we picked up 2 f650GS’. BTW, I highly recommend them – it’s a FANTASTIC shop with very well-cared-for bikes and a true “rider” at the helm who really seems to love what he does. We were pretty tired after the overnight flight, [...]

Running the passes of the Alps

We took a trip recently to Milan to rent some BMW f650′s and ride the alps in Italy, Switzerland and Austria. I’ll be posting up photos from various points along the way – but to start, here are a few from the Splugen Pass…