1953 Bike Ride Through The Alps.

[hehehoho]

Nice pics and story.

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

[seedy]

Nice one. Thanks for posting.

Ah - the days when you could fix your own bike with some haywire and chewing gum !!!

Modern incarnations of course have more performance, and are all-around better machines, but some of the magic is missing.

[Garry]

Thanks, I really enjoyed reading that and viewing the photos.

[ib1b4]

Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful trip story and photos.

[aitch52]

Tremendous thanks a lot for posting

[eljeque]

I have an 82 y.o. friend who always talks about biking through Europe in 1950

Now I can see what he saw.

[DLock]

Fantastic photos.

It must have been a real adventure doing that trip in the 50's.

Two things surprised me - that they drank so much tea and that German people really wear those leather pants and suspenders....not that there's anything wrong with that.

[JSixpack]

Wonderful! Enjoyed that, thanks.

[Thaifan2]

Great story and pictures ,thanks .

[Lickey]

Great story and pics, unless the riders criss-crossed Austria,Bavaria,Switzerland, many times, the destinations on the the pics dont make much sense,

The alps and Austria,Yugoslavia [as was] Bavaria, North Italy [dolomites] Switzerland has been a biking holiday destination for me since 1976, and managed every year till 2001,

[JonnyF]

Wow what a great story.

Also liked the sub-plot about his 70 year old father taking the Ducati 888 160mph - by accident - classic

[Lickey]

Unless that Ducati was highly tuned, the 888sp4 was tested by many mags at 142 mph, so 160 is a bit off the mark, but heyho, it all makes for a good story,,,