Hatcho's Solo deTour of Europe

Overlanders have it very well sussed at this point and enjoy the support and faith their customers have in their operation. We're very lucky to have them.
Agree with that, I used Overlanders on my trip to Germany. They were happy to quote for a pick up in Lisburn and a one-way delivery to Memmingen and I rode the bike home.

 
val gardena from stelvio (or bolzano) worth a look too

(fek its been nearly 20 years)
 
Have a brilliant trip. Hope the weather holds for you. Pics of the bike, please.
Derek
 
Day 1 Memmingen to Eyrs

Got up early this morning as I needed to arrange a few bits on the bike before heading off. Plus it was forecast to get hot as f*CL and I wanted to be well out of dodge by then. After a quick brekkie and a good natter with the other Overlanders customers I geared up and hit the road.
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The first leg of the journey was motorway south towards Kempten. Nice way to ease into things. Gotta love German motorways, 120kph in the driving lane, anything up to 160 in the overtaking lane. I settled for 130 or so and tippled along. First stop was for juice and setup the camera bits...I always like the first stop to be a fancy spot 😊

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Back on the road for a bit longer then I pulled over to find a more interesting route.

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Avoiding the larger roads I soon found myself on the fun twisty stuff. Twas time to enjoy the tank of juice I'd just purchased 😎 This is happy me about to hit the twisties.

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Spotted these two and had to stop for a pic
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I was getting a tad peckish found this spot for some lovely bolognese and dirty big coke. Just what I needed,...
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Plenty of bikes rolling in which is a good sign... 👍
 
In a word, no.

I don't think they ever did, but post Brexshit it definitely won't happen. There's simply too much bureaucracy to make it viable.
For a small extra charge, they collected my bike from McCallen's dealership in Lisburn, but not much good to MikeS in SW England
 
During the course of the day shifting up through the gearbox had issues. Sometimes she wouldn't go from 3rd to 4th, or from 4th to fifth. I'm hoping it's down to my new boots and I just need to adjust the gear lever, we shall see. You'll see the bike lurch in the clip below as the quickshifter fails to work. When I try to then manually shift, the lever feels like I'm already in 6th with no travel.

 
During the course of the day shifting up through the gearbox had issues. Sometimes she wouldn't go from 3rd to 4th, or from 4th to fifth. I'm hoping it's down to my new boots and I just need to adjust the gear lever, we shall see. You'll see the bike lurch in the clip below as the quickshifter fails to work. When I try to then manually shift, the lever feels like I'm already in 6th with no travel.

Hopefully adjusting the gear lever will cure it.
 


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