Arrived back home on Sunday after 9 days away with some friends. Although I've toured Europe 6 times before this was the first time with a group, luckily I know them all pretty well. Plan was to head down to Folkestone Sat 8th July, Eurotunnel over to Calais, 2 nights in France then 4 nights at a beautiful place called the PostHotel in Pfunds. Sort of similar to Grizzly's basically. Then 2 nights in France again on the return leg. I was on my 2022 GSA, 3 of the lads were on Kawasaki Z1000SX's, one on an S1000R and one on a ratty 2011 ZX10R which has 90,000 miles on 
We had a couple of days of thunder and lightning and some rain so on one of the days we didn't get out unfortunately but we managed to still do a day trip over Stelvio and another doing the Timmelsjoch. I did both last year and wasn't that fond of Stelvio to be honest.
The ZX10R spent most of the trip overheating and spitting water out of it's expansion bottle due to the waterpump being on its way out but some how he managed the entire trip. The lad on the S1000R, his battery went just as we came across a beautiful dam coming back into Switzerland from Italy, tried to jump start it off a van that was driving past but didn't work, tried bump starting, didn't work so in the end the guy on the ZX10R put the battery in his bike, did some laps to try and get some juice in it which worked and we got the S1000R started and back to the hotel.
Then we missed the Eurotunnel on the way back as our tour leader was a little optimistic on timings, but it only delayed us by an hour. We managed to do part of the B500 and onto the B317 as well which was quite nice, the local guys on GS's don't hang around though!
Anyway here's a few pics.
We had a couple of days of thunder and lightning and some rain so on one of the days we didn't get out unfortunately but we managed to still do a day trip over Stelvio and another doing the Timmelsjoch. I did both last year and wasn't that fond of Stelvio to be honest.
The ZX10R spent most of the trip overheating and spitting water out of it's expansion bottle due to the waterpump being on its way out but some how he managed the entire trip. The lad on the S1000R, his battery went just as we came across a beautiful dam coming back into Switzerland from Italy, tried to jump start it off a van that was driving past but didn't work, tried bump starting, didn't work so in the end the guy on the ZX10R put the battery in his bike, did some laps to try and get some juice in it which worked and we got the S1000R started and back to the hotel.
Then we missed the Eurotunnel on the way back as our tour leader was a little optimistic on timings, but it only delayed us by an hour. We managed to do part of the B500 and onto the B317 as well which was quite nice, the local guys on GS's don't hang around though!
Anyway here's a few pics.
