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Germany gets my vote.

TR I'm guessing that it would be for best..?

Best: France, but only because Croatia, the whole of Scandanavia, Morocco etc. take longer to get to.

Worst: Austria: tolls, tolls, tolls, carnets, tolls, pass charges....

Andy

Best - anywhere not the UK
Worst - UK ( car drivers can't see motorcycles )

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Regards Tim

Learning my craft for the big stuff, it won't be long now and it's not that far anyway

Worse Greece


Best. Spain/Portugal


John933

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To buy petrol in Europe. Pull up at station. Wait. Get out a 20 Euro note, then ask someone to fill up the bike. Give person money. Ride away. Simple.

Some hard decisions to be made on this one, but boiling it all down:

Best - Overall, France (particularly towards the south), but pushing it a close second is Western USA

Honourable mentions go to "West" Africa from the Atlas mountains to Senegal and the Balkans

Worst - SE UK or LA (take your pick), but a tie between parts of Southern Italy, Switzerland / Austria, some bits of East coast USA for third place. All are either too busy or too bureaucratic. The Toyko region of Japan just avoids the drop zone as the "charm" hasn't worn off yet.

OTOH, in the UK we have the RFL but it does seem to me that the Austrians actually spend their road-related income on the road infrastructure, probably in recognition of the value of such tourism (and, anyway, those high passes need good roads).
e.g. the GrossGlockner highway.
Other roads among the Austrian tolled system are privately owned; in a simillar manner to here in the UK where we have privately owned bridges spanning key river crossing locations but the Austrian tolled private roads tend to lead to the high ground only i.e. there is no compulsion to travel that route.

I have been wondering how this may be affected by the introduction, reported to be next year, of driverless cars into the UK.

I am reluctant to nominate any particular country for best or worst on the basis that many physicial attributes don't change significantly across national borders (geography, geology, flora, fauna, even road surfaces in some cases).
It seems that only the people change.

I was pondering on this while recently returning to the UK and observing numerous Sunday riders "at full chatter" on the passes of the Vosges and a few other roads, pillions hanging off the back and the forks fully compressed into downhill hairpin bends.
Registration plates were French, German and Swiss in the main.

My tentative conclusion was that the UK may not be one of the worst places to ride a motorcycle (that also depends on why the riding is taking place) but it can't be up there with the best.

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Dave

Austria may have sorted themselves out in the digital age, to be honest I've gone round forever. The annoyance is that they'd let you stop to buy the carnet then 200 yards up the road stop you again for the road charge, then five miles later for the pass. Very much a feeling of local roads for local people.

To anyone from the Austrian Government; you've lost 20 years of fuel, , food and hotel duty to the Czech Republic and France because they probably make the same charges in a more convienient way.

Andy

Agree!

Austria has Great Roads, but their highway-robbery is awful.
Vignette, then add Tolls + Tolls + Tolls....