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A not very successful trip...... Sat Sep 21, 2024 4:41 am
The doctor
active member
Hi all
Just back from 11 'interesting' days round Europe.
The intention was to ride the Stelvio both ways, byt of course, the best laid plans turn to s**t very quickly.
Day 2, my riding buddy on his R1250 picked up a puncture in his brand new rear tyre, meaning we missed our meeting point. We both made it eventually to our first stop in Germany. It was late but we tried a puncture repair to allow us to get to a tyre supplier.
Seemed tobe holding so thought it was worth pushing on. Bad move - we ended up in Samnaun Switzerland with nowhere open till the following Monday.
At this point my oil lamp kept flickering on. Obviously stopped immediately but light stayed off on restart. Did this several times until we sussed it came on when we hit a rough bit of tarmac.... at night I did a search on here and found a few comments about dodgy/corroded connections which reassured me.
We never got to the Stevio - 95% chance of snow was forecast for the day and a slow puncture didn't sound like our idea of fun!
I ended riding down to Chamonix the next day on my own and the oil light never came on once on the smooth motorways.
My mate had to order a tyre with overnight delivery to Pfunds in Austria (nearest place), so he lost two days waiting on this.
Finally met up again in Sarrebourg France for last two days of the trip.
K75 returned over 60mpg every tankful and even managed to do 250 miles on the last tank back in the UK - should be around 62/63mpg when I get round to filling her up again.
Just a run of the mill 11 days and2250 miles!
Roll on next year
Just back from 11 'interesting' days round Europe.
The intention was to ride the Stelvio both ways, byt of course, the best laid plans turn to s**t very quickly.
Day 2, my riding buddy on his R1250 picked up a puncture in his brand new rear tyre, meaning we missed our meeting point. We both made it eventually to our first stop in Germany. It was late but we tried a puncture repair to allow us to get to a tyre supplier.
Seemed tobe holding so thought it was worth pushing on. Bad move - we ended up in Samnaun Switzerland with nowhere open till the following Monday.
At this point my oil lamp kept flickering on. Obviously stopped immediately but light stayed off on restart. Did this several times until we sussed it came on when we hit a rough bit of tarmac.... at night I did a search on here and found a few comments about dodgy/corroded connections which reassured me.
We never got to the Stevio - 95% chance of snow was forecast for the day and a slow puncture didn't sound like our idea of fun!
I ended riding down to Chamonix the next day on my own and the oil light never came on once on the smooth motorways.
My mate had to order a tyre with overnight delivery to Pfunds in Austria (nearest place), so he lost two days waiting on this.
Finally met up again in Sarrebourg France for last two days of the trip.
K75 returned over 60mpg every tankful and even managed to do 250 miles on the last tank back in the UK - should be around 62/63mpg when I get round to filling her up again.
Just a run of the mill 11 days and2250 miles!
Roll on next year
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