"tour de swisse 2007" from kbf, germany

[Kuzzimuzzi]

friends & neighbours,

just came in to report about the annual tour of the german kleine-boxer-forum in switzerland. We started on sunday, may 20th in Remscheid Autobahn-truckstop with three bmw-bikes way south. In Koenigswinter (@the river Rhine) a fourth beemer joined us. On the first day we headed down in the Odenwald-Area and met some more colleages from the "chapter" *g* at the home of Thom (who is a forum-member of kbf too). There we had a friendly arrival with good food, drinking and a comfortable rest to sleep.

The next day we encountered a wonderful trip through the vogese-mountains (?) in france as a starting ramp further down south. We reached near our aim at Realp at about ten in the evening. Only had to cross the Dammastock-massive via the Furka-pass (el. 2436m o.SL on the top; 46°34[ch8242]22[ch8243]N, 8°25[ch8242]00[ch8243]E).

On top we were gathered by Sebastian (who is swiss-resident) to our refuge in Geschinen, upper Goms-Valley. We had an extraordinary superb week round abouts! Let the pictures speak.



(click on the photo)

have a good time! Cheers,
Stefan

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[size=8]top any sandwich with garlic cheese [/size] 8-)

[MrRiden]

Just started looking. Great photos! question, Did the bike with the large silver fairing brake down, is that yellow car & trailer road service in pics 063-065? crackeed rotor in 015-016?
rich

[Kuzzimuzzi]

Hi Rich,

the crack on pict. 15/16 by Sebastian showed up on the brake-disk of Benedikt (RanGer), a single front-brake on a '86 R65 Monolever. The crack didn't proceed any further and was regarded as "safe" for the endurance of the tour (what -of course- turned out to be so). New disk is already ordered.

The bike with the delta-fairing encountered a burn-through of the ignition-coil. The original ignition-setup was altered some a year ago due to problems with the fixing of one of the single-coils. The replacement was a S&H double-coil. Because of some reasons (that are not apt to mention ) the coil overheated and "spit out" the metal kernel. For that guy the tour was over; replacement was not available in any bmw garages in the vicinity. Luckily Hachi was well covered by insurance  

bye, Stefan

[MrRiden]

Man
Still going through the photos! Loving them! Absinthe eh? I hear it has some special qualities.
rich

[Kuzzimuzzi]

Hi Rich,

I'm happy that you like the pictures. Yes, Absinthe is decent
There was a prohibition until a decade ago. But they re-legalized it,
because the inauthorical stuff had certain dangers (e.g. becoming
blind, cutting off ones ear).

take care, Stefan

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

As the cleaning lady here at work would say:  "Muy bueno!  Mucho bonita!"  

(My Spanish is better than my German...)

http://photo.redeker.net/showimg.php?file=/2007%20Tour%20de%20Suisse/Sebastian/007_Furka_07-05-20_web.jpg


I wonder if dogs have different languages?
http://photo.redeker.net/showimg.php?file=/2007%20Tour%20de%20Suisse/Wilfried/Schweiz_2007_0005.jpg

[Kuzzimuzzi]

I wonder if dogs have different languages?

I don't think so, Rob. Our American Bulldog never did what we wanted him to do. So I tried to adress to him in english because I thought it was his native language an it might be easier for him to understand. ...it wasn't.  


regards, Stefan

[SCJJR65]

Wow, Stefan!  Those are some excellent photos!  Especially the ones taken high up in the mountains with the bikes posed agaist the sky and snow capped peaks!!  Hervorragend!!   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]