[diavelbadboy]

It's this time of the year again.

More to come! Just hit Innsbruck today.

I hope they dont fire me from the office job.

 

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Enjoy - I'll be there this time next month

 

[hedgehog of death]

Lived in Zurich for 8 years. Fantastic roads. Very keen police.

 

[diavelbadboy]

ha, I'm trying to avoid Swiss at all costs. Let them boil in their own bowl.

Lets continue.

Krimml waterfall - Highest in EU

Zell Am See - a quite Austrian city that is full of Muslims in 21st century

Glossglockner panorama

 

[diavelbadboy]

Defreggental Landesstraße

Lago Di Anterselva

Cortina

 

[albymangled]

Looks brilliant.

Nice pics indeed.

In some of the quieter spots or have the tourists got a bit toey after all the troubles?

 

[diavelbadboy]

Thanks! It's packed here in August, the busiest time of all. Im just trying to keep ppl outside of photos

Anyways, spent the whole day in Dolimites juggling in triangle between Cortina, Corvara and Canazei.
Some of the most finest Alpian mountain passes here: Pordoi, Giau, Falzarego.

Agordina

Passo Falzarego

If you have a single day to ride in Dolomites, dont hesitate and go to Pordoi. That's the best mountain pass for Diavel. Both sides (from Cortina and towards Canazei are super fast and feature lots of hairspins).

Passo Pordoi

 

[diavelbadboy]

Piz Boe and the road towards Corvara

Lago di Fedaia

Moving to Val Gardena, German speaking side of Italian Dolomites

 

[teecee]

You have serious photo skills dude. Pics look like they are from a high-end travel brochure.

 

[Devil Boy]

I was thinking the same thing. What camera are you using?

 

[diavelbadboy]

Thanks guys! Nothing special, just common knowledge and this guy:

 

[diavelbadboy]

3rd day started pretty much as a crap.

It pissed all way from morning. So I decided to experiment and took a small Strada Provinciale road to hide from the rain. The road led from Dolomites into Trento region. You can say that Dolomites are Austrian, but once you start moving into mainland Italy, you see the changes. The architecture is becoming more traditional Italian.

You can even find European Kangaroo here

The weather was pretty shit today

Still, Diavel scored some good looks

Dolomites are just awesome

San Pellegrino mountain pass - pretty average

Cant remeber the exact sequence of events, but Passo Rolle is awesome and you should defo try it out.

 

[diavelbadboy]

The gem of the day turned out to be Passo Manghen. It's a single file road that you gotta know how to ride to make it alive (fuck yea, I love EU for the fact that if you're not careful enough you gonna die and no one will give a damn)

After Dolomites I took a head towards Como via Trentino. Thats a completely different set of sceneries.

So Im staying tonight at Riva Del Grada.

 

[diavelbadboy]

So Riva Del Garde turned out to be an extremely boring touristy town (in addition to be packed by German tourists) so I deicded to head north towards Passo Di Gavia and Stelvio.

Cursing along the lake

Passing Lago Di Ledro

Madonna di Campiglio

Passo Di Tonale just before the Gavia

Passo Di Gavia climb is a single file road. All local Italians make 2-3 beeps going into the turn on the cars

Road on the top is pretty shit and unrideable on high speed, but the scenery is awesome

 

[diavelbadboy]

Next was Stelvio Pass. I dont know why so many people crazy about it, but most famous 48 switchback climb has extremely bad tarmac condition.
You basically dont enjoy it much on a motorcycle. But, the climb from Bormio side, even though doesnt have same nnumber of hairpin turns, is much faster and has better surface.
So I went there instead.

This part is scenic and stuff, but the road surface is shit.

Bormio is a nice little town. If you ever bump into a crappy weather at Stelvio, stay here for a night.

Next was a Tax Free town Livigno. Pretty big town, filled with clothes and cosmetic shops at altitude of 1800m.

Near by lake

Next was Como region. Lake Como

Got to Varenna to take a ferry to Belagio

Belagio from the lake

 

[diavelbadboy]

Next morning going westwards into the Switzerland. Ferry to Cadenabbia.

St Gotthard mountain pass has 2 roads. An old stone road that hasnt been resurfaced since ancient times (it's literally made of stone) and a modern highway.
A modern one is basically a race track high up in the mountains, extremely wide. So, decided not to take the old road to save the tires. It's unrideable beyond 20mph anyway.

Old stone road

St Gotthard lake

After that went towards Davos area. Surprisingly enough discovered there two very good mountain passes:
Flüela Pass and Fuorn Pass. Excellent surface, high speed roads.

Back to Italy via 3.3km long Munt la Schera tunnel.

 

[Devil Boy]

Again, trip inspiring photos. What lens or lenses do you use?

 

[diavelbadboy]

Again, trip inspiring photos. What lens or lenses do you use?

Thanks !

Sony FE 16-35 f/4. Some photos are taken with a smartphone.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

 

[diavelbadboy]

So the journey ended on top of Stelvio Pass (3rd ascent on this trip) . Decided to hit it on the weekend to see the fun and people.
It's extremely crowded place on Saturday provided the weather is good. About everyone tries to get to the top.

After that I turned towards Jaufenpass, which I forgot to photograph. It's extremely fast mountain pass and a gateway to the Alps from Austria and Germany. Lots of inbound motorbikers on the weekend.

Then was Innsbruck and a trip back in the van to a rainy flat London.

 

[diavelbadboy]

Ok, last ones are photos from a Foto Stelvio guy, who spends whole day sitting mid-way up to Stelvio pass photographing every passersby and charging them 10 euros for a photo.