Category: 2007-2016
Austria
Ride with Claude Germany, Austria 1.190 km, 3 days, view track First tour together with a buddy – what an upgrade sharing the road! We met with friends in Styria and participated at a nightly traditional moon shine hiking tour in Oberhaag. Going from one Buschenschank to the next during nighttime while getting tons of…
1st tour South Tyrol
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Italy 686 km, 3 days, view track Very first tour with to the Dolomites on a motorcycle. Instantly got addicted. โ
Andalusia
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland 6.303 km, 10 days, view track That trip has a special place in my heart. Born as just a crazy idea, I ended up riding my bike all the way down to southern Spain to meet my wife for our annual vacation. Didn’t have much riding time…
South Tyrol and Austria
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Italy 785 km, 3 days, view track Joined my parents for a hiking trip in the alps and continued to ride to a friend’s wedding in Rauris, Austria. What a nice opportunity to combine Timmelsjoch, Jaufen Pass, Staller Saddle and especially the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. โ
Vienna
Solo ride Germany, Austria 967 km, 2 days, view track Just a quick trip to Vienna and back over a long Easter weekend. Kind of a highlight was a personal parking space right in front of the hotel in the middle of Vienna center. The hotel staff didn’t know where the next motorcycle parking was,…
Italy and Slovenia
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia 1.876 km, 5 days, view track Having found out that my 2007 Triumph Bonneville with a range of only about 200 km was not the ideal long-distance bike (surprise!) I bought a 1991 BMW R 100 R in 2009. Paralever and cardan shaft, 24 liters of gas, panniers and…
San Diego
Solo ride California 277 km, 1 day, view track Went to San Diego for a conference and was asked to stay over the weekend as the flight costs were substantially lower then. I would have agreed to a weekend there anyway – but finding out that a motorcycle rental was just around the corner really…
South Tyrol
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Italy 971 km, 3 days, view track Until 2009, I’ve only read about the legendary 48 hairpin turns of the Stelvio pass. To be honest: It took me some years and substantial improvement in riding skills until I began to like that pass. But landscape and view are spectacular anyway. โ
Cornwall
Solo ride (more or less) Germany, Belgium, France, UK 3.241 km, 6 days, view track After riding mostly in the Alps, I thought “and now for something completely different”. On the day before starting my tour to Cornwall, I went to the Technical University of Munich for the annual summer party of an institute I…
Madrid
Solo ride Germany, France, Spain 4.664 km, 10 days, view track Back to Spain! This time with a better plan than just to use highways and better riding dynamics on a BMW R 1200 R Classic. Culinary adventures in France followed by spectacular Pyrenees and (re-)visiting lots of bars in Madrid. โ
Barcelona
Solo ride Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy 4.110 km, 9 days, view track My last trip to Spain allowed me a first glimpse on the beauty of the Pyrenees. Did it again. Visited the Monastery of San Juan de la Peรฑa where the Holy Grail was kept for protection. It wasn’t there anymore of…
Highway 1 and Big Sur
Solo ride California 627 km, 1 day, view track When sending me on a business trip to the US the gods of motorcycling seem to favor me. Again a motorcycle rental in walking distance from a human-factors conference venue in San Francisco. Started very early in the morning and rode down legendary Highland 1 in…
San Francisco Bay Area
Ride with Daniela California 207 km, 1 day, view track No business trip this time, vacation was planned on purpose. On a motorcycle with my wife riding over the Golden Gate bridge felt like a childhood dream come true. โ
Krakรณw
Solo ride Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria 1.929 km, 4 days, view track Another human-factors conference taking place in an interesting location, Krรกkow. Why not heading east on a motorcycle? Well, after that trip I realized that it’s not really my cup of tea… โ
Marseille
Ride with Sebastian Germany, Austria, Italy, France 2.830 km, 8 days, view track Marseille might not seem like the typical location for a city holiday in Provence, but it is a very interesting place. Sebastian joined me for the first part of the trip through Austria and South Tyrol. Mendel pass and Tonale pass are…
(not) Barcelona
Ride with Sebastian Germany, Austria, Italy, France 2.864 km, 8 days, view track Well… how should I call this trip…? Intended to go to Barcelona on my reliable R 100 R. Sebastian and me rode via Black Forest (Highlight: “Hotel Lawine”) through the French Alps to Nice. On the way to the Verdon Gorge I…
Newchurch
Solo ride Germany, Austria 378 km, 1 day, view track The Triumph Tridays transformed the Austrian market town Neukirchen am Groรvenediger to a kind of British Motorcycle Embassy every year. With my Bonneville freshly (moderately) customized I felt it was finally time to visit this amusing event. First time seeing the breathtaking “Original Motodrom” Wall…
Great Britain
Ride with Marcus Germany, Luxembourg, France, UK, Belgium 4.534 km, 12 days, view track And now for something completely different again! As my good friend Marcus moved to London and re-engaged in riding motorcycles it was time for a tour together, this time taking my Triumph Bonneville “home”. The weather was mostly… British, but didn’t…
Lagos
Ride with colleagues Portugal 1.426 km, 4 days, view track Some years ago BMW offered an unbeatable deal to the motorcycle lunatics in their staff (if you qualify target criteria). We provide a week of spare time, they provide travel, lodging and preseries motorcycles for thorough customer testing. Riding was more ambitious than I assumed…
Eifel and Vosges
Ride with Marcus’ family and friends Germany, France 1.639 km, 3 days, view track This time it was me that joined a group, rather than the other way round. Marcus et al. started in Western Germany (Ruhrpott) and we met near Koblenz for a ride through the Eifel region, visited Nรผrburgring and went on through…
Pyrenees
Ride with Sebastian and for some parts Sabine, Hรคupi and Diego Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland 4.534 km, 12 days, view track That was the kind of honeymoon trip I’ve been dreaming of. My wife and me visited wonderful places in Northern Spain and the Pyrenees, had excellent Spanish and Basque food and on…
Berlin
Solo ride Germany 1.344 km, 2 days, view track At the end of 2015 I moved on from the car side of BMW to my new and always-in-my-heart home BMW Motorrad. Now talking about motorcycles the whole day long was no longer tolerated nerd behaviour but actually part of the job. When getting acquainted with…
Austria and South Tyrol
Ride with Matthias and Sabine Germany, Austria, Italy 896 km, 3 days, view track Getting acquainted with the BMW Motorrad product range part 2, this time with the S 1000 RR. Note to self: Hairpin turns are not the best spot for a first trip on a superbike ๐. I seem to have a talent…
Lago di Sauris
Ride with Falke Germany, Austria, Italy 1.020 km, 2 days, view track A trip with two motorcycles from 1992. Falke on his R 100 GS, and me on my R 100 R. Through the Allgรคu over the Brenner Pass, Wรผrzjoch, Valparola Pass, and Passo Tre Croci to Lago di Sauris. The tour was actually supposed…