Ideas for motorcycle jaunts and hotels South Tyrol - Dolomites - Trentino

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I tripped over this by chance.

https://www.kurveneldorado.com/motorradregion-suedtirol-dolomiten-trentino

Here is a sample, using the website’s 14 DOLOMITE PASSES MOTORCYCLE TOUR

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The pdf and GPX files both download well.

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It is worth just tapping around in the website to see what else comes up.
 
I have done a few similar routes myself, here is one I have as 10 passes (but I sometime miss some minor little pass when planning so it could possibly have another 1 or 2.

https://www.myrouteapp.com/route/open/217708

We tend to find this is a nice day with stops, and about 5 hours riding, the highlighted route with 14 is a fair bit longer and I would of thought closer to six hours than the quoted five, most Dolomite passes are very twisty (even by Alps standards) and some can have a fair bit of other tourist traffic to slow you down, and ever decreasing speed limits! so I would say few folk will average much above 30mph.

A mate of mine clocked up 22 or 23 a few years back, but he has been there so many times (and lived that way there for a few years) so would just ride all day on his own with just a few short stops, whereas we stop for photos, coffee, lunch, more coffee so this would be a 8:00 - 15:00 / 15:30 day for us (early start / finish as it gets bloody hot and humid in the afternoons in our experience, often accompanied by Thunderstorms)
 
Thanks, Rasher.

I agree that the time estimates are very variable, depending on individual preferences. I guess the best way is for bods to look at the total distance and (based on their own experience / abilities) work out their own timings. The only reasonably reliable truth I find is a rule of thumb that says: “An hour lost in the morning, becomes two hours in the afternoon”.
 
For about a decade now I have just reset the bike trip / sat nav on trips which gives me a great idea of my / our pace.

In the UK I can do a day out on a mix of mainly B and unclassified roads and always average over 40mph with the Mrs or a mate or two, sometimes closer to 50 solo if I am on a mission to get from A-B....

...A day in the Alps and it is always in the 30-35mph range, so I always work on 30 and between 5 and 7 hours riding = 150 - 210 miles in a day without it turning into a rush, with a group of 4 or 5 bikes I would stick to the lower end as you will stop a lot more and for a lot longer.

Two-Up also makes a difference, when the Mrs started touring on her own bike we found we could go a lot longer between stops as we both had more space and the ability to shuffle about a lot more.

I also allow 15 mins per hour for a stop in nice areas, heading out I can ride 2 hours to the tunnel in one hit, then 2 hours on French Motorways the other side, but once in the nice areas your likely to stop a lot more, and in a group there will always be a guy who cannot last more than an hour, or a bike that only holds a thimble full of fuel and needs to stop every hour on the motorway.
 


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