Alpine Adventure Touring
By BLAKE CONNER
have a list of things that I would like
to do or accomplish in my lifetime,
and a couple of them involve motorcycles - especially fortunate considering that my job ere at Cycle New
bas opened the door to quite a few of
them. Thanks to a recent tour
through the Alps, I've just been able
to scratch another item off the top of
my list.
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now, I thought I had neither the time
nor the money to go on such a trip,
but I now know what a mistake that's
been. Until you experience the Alps
firsthand, you can't even imagine
what it's like to ride in such a motorcycling paradise. The roads, the
scenery, and the food can't be
matched anywhere in the world; this
is a must-do for every serious motorcycle enthusiast.
I was invited by BMW Motorcycles
to attend the Intermot International
motorcycle show in Munich, Germany
(see Cycle News issues #41 and 142
for coverage), and then stay for an
additional week to tour the Alps with
a group of American journalists and a
few of the guys from BMW. I knew
from the second, accepted their offer
that the trip was going to be something special, and I hope it doesn't
turn out to be a once-in-a-Iifetime
experience.
We spent a day at the massive
Intermot motorcycle show - like five
tfmes the size of any of the domestic
motorcycle shows - checking out all
of the new offerings from every company that matters in the indust"ry. It
was really cool, but I think all..of us
only had one thing on our minds,-and
that was starting our Edelweiss
Alpine adventure. Edelweiss has been
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