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20 Apr 2010
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Roads in Austria?
Colleagues,
I plan to do 7-10 days tour to Austria this year as I kinda always went around and never came in to see more of (I think) very beatiful country.
I do not have much details yet, but we plan around first half of July and plan to avoid at all costs big roads, or let say big motorways.
Here is question. I have 2 bikes and can't decide which one to take.
One is touring-setup VTR1000F honda, another Suzuki DR800 that setup to use supermoto wheels when paved roads planned, also touring setup but quite better for bad roads of course thou slower a lot.
I want to take VTR, but question that bothers me is - are roads in good state in Austria, e.g. mountain passes or I shall expect same level of deterioration as you see on Norway backroads often (for example), e.g. badly damaged surface, deep roots etc.? Will I feel good on VTR there or...?
I been to French, Swiss and Italian side and those seemed OK, but I prefer to ask. For example in Belgium where I live you may find suprisingly bad roads for such small and rich country
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21 Apr 2010
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Hi
Me and my husband offer gone to Austria, for lunch we live in Slovakia and the roads in Austria are much better then where we live. We have a BMW GSA 1150 and my husband really enjoys riding in Austria as the roads are so well maintain. As for country tracks and going off road have yet to try that on our bike. but you have to be careful where you ride as Austria, as it does have stricted laws about motorbikes going off road.
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Julie
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21 Apr 2010
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Thank you! This is now decided then  I will take VTR.
Glad to hear my expectation for Austria to be good rideout confirmed!
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21 Apr 2010
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Hi there,
We were also in Austria last year for part of our trip and we found the roads to be fantastic... even the mountain passes showed no signs of the cold winters.
Maybe the U.K. could learn something from them!
Beej
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21 Apr 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Beej
Hi there,
Maybe the U.K. could learn something from them!
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We could start by learning to charge Austrians to use our motorways?
I'd head round the far end, Slovakia, Croatia, NE Italy etc. Same countryside, half the cost, dont meet little booths with cash registers every 200 yards along any road with an incline, more than 2-lanes, street lighting etc.
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21 Apr 2010
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Very true Andy... we especially liked the way that they always put the toll booth inbetween the 2 tunnels that your being charged to use... you can't really say no then!
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25 Apr 2010
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The road's in Austria are brilliant ... And at less then 50p a day to ride them where can you go wrong ...
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