Ligurian Border Road
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This is part of the section the LR tour company use and was the part I was referring to about being closed off out of season.
The company use recce riders with walkie talkies to inform of oncoming traffic on the downhill route. Downhill riders/drivers have priority of way.
It's a slow video but at the section of 4:45 of the 'Via del Sale' you will only get one chance to get it right!
This appeals to me in a Land Rover, not so much on two wheels. I'm not sure my balls are big enough!
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The company use recce riders with walkie talkies to inform of oncoming traffic on the downhill route. Downhill riders/drivers have priority of way.
It's a slow video but at the section of 4:45 of the 'Via del Sale' you will only get one chance to get it right!
This appeals to me in a Land Rover, not so much on two wheels. I'm not sure my balls are big enough!
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muppix
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When I was there last year there was a barrier next to the no entry sign at 4:40 and you had to go down the little dip to the right and up again in order to round that famous bend, just 1/4 mile up the trail.
Ordinarily this would have been quite easy, had it not been snowing for the past hour. I made this short video shortly afterwards.
If you're riding South-to-North then by this point you're pretty much home and dry, just the Col de la Boaire up ahead and down that zig-zag road, the Passo de Tenda. The hardest bits are the previous 2 or 3 miles, specifically heaving the GS over rocks the size of babies heads while riding up a staircase. Scared the carp out of me at the time- I think there's a very brief clip in the vid on this page (and a map of the best bits on this one)
Ordinarily this would have been quite easy, had it not been snowing for the past hour. I made this short video shortly afterwards.
If you're riding South-to-North then by this point you're pretty much home and dry, just the Col de la Boaire up ahead and down that zig-zag road, the Passo de Tenda. The hardest bits are the previous 2 or 3 miles, specifically heaving the GS over rocks the size of babies heads while riding up a staircase. Scared the carp out of me at the time- I think there's a very brief clip in the vid on this page (and a map of the best bits on this one)
Muppix, sorry mate but you're not all there! 
I think there was more ice on your helmet than on the ground ..........brrrrrrrr... don't fancy that!
Thanks for the links, the webbie looks fascinating and so I'll peruse at my leisure.
I think there was more ice on your helmet than on the ground ..........brrrrrrrr... don't fancy that!
Thanks for the links, the webbie looks fascinating and so I'll peruse at my leisure.
muppix
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Hehe, cheers. I'd never have gone up there had I known what was in store, the prospect of something going wrong up there made for a proper scary ride. Just goes to show ...
muppix
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... that some people never learn. Went back there earlier this year, and I'm not sure you'd get a 4x4 along there now. Maybe next year we'll be lucky to make it on foot?
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