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Cycle News Issue 44 November 6

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EDELWEISS MOTORCYCLE TOUR P104 Feature The village at the top of the Stelvio pass included several food stands and shops. You could sit their for hours watching the parade of people cresting the summit. How do you pack for an Edelweiss Motorcycle Tour The weather is very unpredictable in Europe and especially in the Alps. The weather apps on our phones prior to leaving showed 80-plus percent chance of rain every day and relatively cool temperatures as we packed, and, in the end, we only had real rain on parts of two of the six days. Fortunately, only one brief thundershower at the end of one day was extreme. With the large variances in altitude during the route, the temperatures changed dramatically but were generally warmer than the weather apps said it would be. Godfried told us several times to ignore the apps and said, "if you want to know how the weather is going to be today, just step outside and you only know how it will likely be for the next 30 minutes." So you have to pack for warm, cold, wet and dry conditions.

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