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Can anyone recommend good routes to take in the Alps? like roads that are awesome and would be relatively free of cagers and busses and the like?

i found this sweet stretch around the Grossglockner, courtesy of Matthew Miles from Cycle World: Grossglockner High Alpine Road - Motorcycle Heaven

looking for similar, headed there on monday!
 
Jealous! Big place though so not sure where you'll be.

I used to enjoy the Alpine pass Col St Bernardo (all the traffic goes through the tunnel) but its really if you are travelling into Italy and the riviera.
Great St Bernard Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's been a long time though so could have changed. Basically anytime you see Col (means mountain pass) and there's a tunnel you should be good - they normally have a sign to say whether there's any snow but in summer they won't.

Just about every road looks good compared to what we have here ;)
 

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I did 8 days in the Alps last year and it was undoubtedly the single most amazing motorcycle experience of my life... Words cannot express.....
 
stw -- what bike did you ride?

what did any of you ride?

i think i will be on a k1300s, but maybe an s1000rr.
 
Rented a Diavel and a Speed Triple from Ducati Bern. Top notch service, reasonable rates and no cancellation fees if you get rained out.

The Diavel was a bit more work in the tight stuff but the power more than made up for that. The Triumph was an S with Ohlins and handled exceptionally well but had a very uninspired motor.
 
I would certainly recommend the 'Passo dello Stelvio'. 48 hairpins and a real blast to ride it.
I did the trip out of Belgium, through Germany, Switserland and Austria into Italy. More than 4500 km on a 998...
 

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I did an alps trip about 10 yearss back (on my 748 at the time), it was amazing. Try and find time to tale the evian route from Geneva up through St Jean D'Aulps and through to Chamonix, absolutely amazing riding and scenery! Just watch the police in Switzerland if you have Termi's......
 
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awesome -- i am heading down to Bologna !!! so i may take that!
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Amazing, I have family in Cesena, the other side of Bologna on the way to Rimini. I used to take the road down from Aosta to Novara and the pick up the Via Emila road down to Bologna.

Also I've never ridden across the Apennines but I've driven across down I to Tuscany and it was amazing, and you can start in Emilia Romagna.
 
The alps are my playground (living in Zurich)! I try to avoid the Gotthard (too much traffic and boring route). The old Gotthard route (tremola) certainly is great, but a bad road (partly cobblestones) - good luck with a sport bike! Defenatley not with the Pani!

I recommend the Susten - Grimsel - Nufenen route (my favorite one). Check out the link below:

Zürich nach Airolo - Google Maps

Plus you can also add the Gotthard, Ofen and Luckmanierpass, if you have time.

But pay attention. Most alpine passes are not yet opened due to snow! Some of them only open in June or even July! You should check the road report first.

Have fun!
 
Go buy the following book!!

'Motorcycle journey's through the alps & beyond' by John Hermann

He is amazing, an alps-expert and american citizen who arrived in the alps on bike in '67 and he returned every year. His book is a must have. I did all what's in the book the last 14 years, it really is motorcycle heaven. Corsica is amazing as well, aka mini-alps.
Will sleep on top of the grimselpass half july, do the famous eight, furka-nuffenen-susten then stelvio, dolomites, Zell am see and finally Vorarlberg.

as always panigali's have no problem getting free sleeping place in mostly any hotel :D
 
And be careful especially on the weekends, speed limit in Switzerland is only 80 kph on all country roads including the passes. Even if you go e.g. 20 kph over the limit, it becomes really expensive, not talking about speeding in the regions of 120-140 kph were you get really easy with superbikes! In Austria the general country road limit is 100 kph, as in Germany. Speeding is in those countries is far cheaper than in Switzerland!
 
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