Fun ride on R1200GS following Speed Triple in Italian Alps 2011 

You just cant beat Southern Germany /Austria / Italian Alps, best roads ive ever been on, cant wait to go back!! great video, i dont know if i could cope with living somewhere like Australia, like the chap above says, twisties are few and far between...

Nice Vid.........and those italian roads WOW!! I have ridden around the italian lakes, Maggiore, Como & Garda.....fantastic. Also the 'Route de Grandes Alps' from Menton in the south of France to Lake Geneva was superb, as you say its a 2 day hike on some boring motorways to get there, but when you do.............its worth every mile.

Man, I could watch that for hours.

Nice work MrEunuch :) I would probably have to ride 6 - 8 hours before i could get to a place where i could record a 14 minute clip that didn't need all the boring places edited out! very jealous. Great riding, great clip. Ride safe.

very comfortable way! nice overtake:)

@MrEunuch Thanks! I spend half my time in the Alps, just south of Simplon pass in Switzerland. Have found several very interesting streches of winding and scenic roads, Posted a couple here filmed with the gopro. But I'm always on the lookout for new ones. Yours is super. Cheers!

R 1200 GS king of touring motorcycles!

se ven muy vacanos sus videos por la posicion de la camara el tipo de moto y las buenas carreteras pronto mas videos porfa gracias!!

aaah oke! that clears it all! i love to own a GS ones! The KTM 990 is a sick bike hope to see some footage of you on it later ! ride on!

Hi. I've had 6 great years on GS's covering 50K fun miles (no commuting or work) and at some point I'll go back to them, but I just wanted something with a little more sparkle for a while. In reality there's very little between them in the twisties BUT the KTM smacks a great big grin across your face every ride. Feels more like the kicks I got when I was 18. BMW is more polished and I have yet to test what the KTM is like on a 3K mile tour of the Alps - time will tell. New baby is 990 SMT ;-)

Dude! i love your vids! you've got to make more ;)

@timothemad Thanks. A great stretch of road and was about 40 mins in total. Bit of a jaunt to get to the real fun bits across the Alps from the UK but well worth it, especially when you're there for a week. Some of my local haunts are pretty challanging but they aren't as empty and these remote places midweek. In Italy 'progressive' riding/driving is actively encouraged .. I've even had a passort control guy ask me to do a wheelie as he handed back my passort. Yes really.

@hazelwoodmtb Thanks. And I hear ya about having to travel to find the fun .. no pain, no gain ;-). We take best part of 2 days to get from UK to the heart of the Alps where you can ride roads like that day after day. Makes a 9 day trip worth it. If it wasn't already a really long day (8-10 hrs) to get to the next hotel I'd want to go back and do some of them again and again. BTW, I have hours of boring video I never load up too.

Many thanks. All I wanted to do at the time was go back and do it again. I could have spent the whole 10 days just doing that!

awesome video brother!!

NIce vid bro. I'm feelin like a parrot who seating on your shoulder :D

@MrEunuch :-) oh no, just a clever use of the pause button... I actually don't know the northneastern portion, but i have always heard rage reports and now your videos, will definitely have to plan a ride there sometimes next spring or summer. What part of the UK are you from?

This is just magic. Whats the best way for me to do this coming from Australia? I mean who is the best company to hire a bike from in Italy?

Hi, great video! Could you tell me what road were you guys riding on here? Thanks!

@MrEunuch I rode to UK in 2008, visited Wales and Scotland and London to see friends, unfortunately only passed quickly through the south, will come again. I live in Rome but work west of Milan towards the lakes, and when i'm up there for work I stay just south of Simplon Pass near Domodossola. I try to take advantage of any spare time by riding around discovering new roads, and there are plenty! Should you plan a visit around here, definitely give me a shout, will show you around.

@JohnDoeNext Thanks Dude! More on their way ;-)

LOL. Yea, I didn't think of it like that, but you've got a point :-).

hey why did you buy a ktm instead of the bmw? and what model did you get yourself?

@biziomd11 Yes, that's it. Thanks for the pointer. You obviously know the roads there well. Would love to have them in my back yard ;-)

@biziomd11 I'm conscious a few people have asked about this road and I'll have to dig out Garmin route maps to check (bad memory). Will get back to you.

Oh, quite good video, where in Italy is this road?

@biziomd11 Hampshire on the south coast. Getting over to France is pretty painless so better roads (not too bad here, just poor surface and not a lot of hills/mountains unless you go to Wales or Scotland) and the mountains not too far away. Whereabouts are you?

@biziomd11 Hey. You live in a great part of the world, and my Ducati owning friends will be very jealous ;-). Have been to Italy maybe 5 or 6 times and apart from skiing there with the school once everyone otehr time has been by bike. Only really in the north and around the lakes otehrwise distance starts clocking up. Very beautiful area. Thanks for the offer to see some loacal roads. May well take you up on that kind offer some time :-). Cheers, Darren

Hi! Really nice video! I ride a bmw gs 1200 triple black 2011 and I'm looking for a same teinted windscreen as yours. Could you please give me the reference of it? Thanks in advance!! Best bikers regards! Ben

dont know what you on about nothing dangerous about that ride,yes using all the road when no car coming other way which is fine,corners all fine with no running wide into other lane, i have been riding for 15 years and that seem fine to me and i am fire service driver

LifeReportage Get a life..pleeease....

A "fun ride" can be had also by not braking every rule in the book. Your riding style would be much more appropriate in a racing circuit; definitely NOT on a public road and your hands would be much better off holding the handlebar, rather than gesticulating "OK" and thumb up signs to yourself in the mirror. Your riding is highly inappropriate and I think that to display that sort of riding style you should go to a racetrack where you can't hurt anyone.

hahahahahaha lololololol