Across the hills of Norway

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Tippie

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Did a weekend ride across the mountains from east to west Norway and back. The Norway Britbike club has their annual rally type meet at Eidfjord and as numerous of my classic racing (TZ500, Rob North triples etc) friends ride BSA twins all over the place (e.g. IOM last year) in their holidays or pensiontime, we were invited along for the ride on our two SFs. Magnificent scenery, roads to dream for, weather to make you weep either with joy or pain, and fantastic company thrown in for good measure.
We left in close to 30deg sunshine which followed us over Hardangervidda to Eidfjord, a full two day ride for us, with lots of breaks for coffee and snacks to stretch out the fantastic riding on roads of corners and more corners, far more relaxing from the normal "gotta get there" pace I usually hold,. Lots of interesting standard and modified britbikes at their campsite, and a group ride up a steep switchback dirt track to a little lookout point. Then the rain came in the evening and we returned over Hardangervidda in teeming rain, blasting side wind and fog, with my thermometer getting down to 2.8deg at one point - you pay well for the good days here in Norway. An overnight stop just a few hours from home, and fine weather in the morning for a great swing through the twisties back towards home, with a big heavy downpour to wet us down on the way. Our summer can be pretty short, and the solstice being on this ride, only 6 months until midwinters day.
 

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What a fantastic trip, thanks for sharing it with us 8)

It's many years since I rode my RGS to Norway, but I remember it well - very little traffic, good road surfaces, great people - and bloody expensive beer and wine! :o Happy days :D
 
LJ-2 said:
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Jim
 
Looks like I have to push Norway a fair bit up on my bucket list.

Would really like to take a Laverda to the North Cape sometime, less than 3000km one-way... :D

piet
 
sfcpiet said:
Looks like I have to push Norway a fair bit up on my bucket list.

Would really like to take a Laverda to the North Cape sometime, less than 3000km one-way... :D

piet
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Friend did it from Paris, two up, on an SF2, with points.  :D

Paul
 
One friend did it on an RGS,30+ years ago,& the friend that wrote the book,skied from Oslo,to Nordkapp ,then having a Kayak delivered there,canoed back around the coast,took 9 months, and wrote another book on it.Me ,I only lived in Oslo ,a little while, she was a nice girl though. :D.
 
Paul Marx said:
Friend did it from Paris, two up, on an SF2, with points.  :D

Paul
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I can imagine taking the GTL, without points...

Understand there are long streches of gravel roads, GTL is easier to handle than the RGS, which would be quite a bit more comfortable though.

piet
 
I don't think there is any more gravel, they bitumened it and installed pay as you go tolling even for motos, friends told me the tolls cost almost as much as fuel. Also most of the fantastic roads are south of Trondheim due to all the steep geography around the fjords, the further north you get the boringer and straighter they get apparently. Nordkapp is "the" goal though for a lot of people. I was there on Hurtigruta coastal ship (and taxi to the cape itself) in?88 first time I visited here, could be a good road trip with mates though.
 
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