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twinge of frustration as you come to the pass and
find that just about everyone with a caravan or
he Alps have some of the most amazing
motorhome has had the same idea as you. An
roads in all of Europe and Austria has its share of
overtake (a safe one anyway) can be a long time
them running through there. They are without doubt coming as these passes are also working roads and
bucket list rides for any biker wanting to see the
often there is an 18 wheeler coming the other way
amazing and dramatic impact that nature can have
down a 20% decline gradient – he couldn’t stop
upon you. The problem can be that we riders are not because of a bad overtake if he wanted to and you
the only ones that love a fun road and amazing
end up the proverbial bugsplat on his grill.
views! Just about everyone else does too and they
go there in droves.
While I would never suggest giving main routes a
I’ve done most of the passes across Europe and they
never fail to inspire – the big names that we all now
well and have no doubt flicked through in
magazines or drooled over in google. There can be a
miss – I still miss Interlaken, as busy as it gets – there
are some beautiful passes that are not as populated
and I wanted to give you just one example of this...
the Nokalm Road in Austria.