Yamaha Tenere 700, KTM 790 Adventure & Honda Africa Twin offroad auf Westalpenklassikern (with e...

There are real classics for enduro and touring enduro riders. Old-fashioned routes, which don't lose their charm over time and are worth a detour again and again. Like the gravel roads in the West Alps. You think of names like Colle des Hommeliers, the Asieta Kampstraße, or the Mont Jafferot on its 2,800-meter-high summit, which we are currently climbing. In addition to Alex Schönborn and Thomas Nagorg from the Touratech headquarters, traveltime editor Andreas Reimer, photographer Claudius Vasilescu and filmmaker Stefan Klabunde are also on this tour, on which we want to see if there is still something going on in Pyrmont. Yesterday we arrived here. We have a total of five motorcycles, including the Adventure Counted Effects. This is a club that takes care of opening off-road tracks in Europe, where you can ride touring enduro again. That was this year in Italy. There we recorded the motorcycles and are now going to a big touring enduro meeting in Barcelonet. But we are lucky that we still have three days in between. Of course, we take advantage of a few nice pictures, a short video and some great impressions to make in the West Alps for you. You can say what you want, but the panorama at the Mont Jafferot is simply impressive. And with a little luck you get to a time when there is not quite as much going on on the busy track. There is definitely no shortage of motifs on one of the, as we find, most beautiful places in the West Alps. In the evening we want to go up to Asiettakampstraße and choose the way over the Col de Finestre. From the valley we only look up into a dense cloud cover and ask if it is worth it at all. But when we get to the top of the Finestre, we are fully rewarded with the most beautiful view of the day and make our last recordings there for today. On our second day we want to take the further south of the Vareita Maira and Maira Stura Kampstraße under our wheels. So it's time to get up early and pack our bikes, because we still have more than an hour of asphalt ahead of us. Ready to get the next share of dust. This morning we drove on to Maira Stura, also an old classic, one of the most beautiful routes in the West Alps, i.e. gravel routes. We are a little unlucky at the moment, the fog is picking up. Hopefully, when we drive up further, we will have about 800 meters of altitude left, which will clear up and we will have beautiful sun again. The ascent to the Vareita Maira Kampstraße is not without many large stones on the narrow path and dense clouds in which we are stuck. Even if we can't enjoy the view, it's a lot of fun for us to drive the big touring enduros up here. And unlike on the many paved slopes in the Susartal, we are lucky today to be almost completely alone on the route. On our connection stage over to Maira Stura, we take the opportunity to get out of the setting rain and find out about the weather forecast for the rest of the day at Ofenfrischer Focaccia and Natasse Cappuccino. The Alpenverein writes that mountain weather on Friday, June 6, 2019 in the region here is inconsistent and mostly strongly affected mountain weather with longer visibility and is to be expected. In addition, there is a resurrecting shower after a short downpour in the day. The nice thing about it is that it is not very dusty, like yesterday at Chavarot, for example, it was very dusty. We don't have this problem today at all, we freeze a bit, but you can never always have everything. So you have to live with the circumstances. We don't give up hope of still being able to capture some nice pictures somewhere and continue on our route as planned. Of course, it doesn't clear up and that a lot can go wrong in the planning of the tour in advance, we will soon notice when we land in the Sackgasse, from which only a narrow path leads on to the summit. This was just another example of a pattern when you blindly rely on digital navigation. The program simply calculated a mountain bike track for us. We didn't even bother to look for ourselves on the way, now we're up here. But thanks to the good old Denzel, we have now mapped the right route again and we will now attack it. We have marked the point on Stefan's navigation system where we have turned wrong. We are now navigating back to this point. And then hopefully, without further mistakes, we will get up far enough that we can break through the cloud cover again. With the right branch in the GPS device, at the end of the day, we finally go to the last gravel road for today. The route is now correct, but we are still not lucky with the weather and we want to use the few gaps in the clouds at least for a few last shots on the Myra Stoura today, before we look further south for an accommodation for the last night on the way to Barcelonet over there in France. Now we have screwed up some peaks from Fort Malamont towards Tete de Vires. This is really, really thorny. These peaks are too narrow, we had to reverse. This is really limited with this heavily loaded motorcycle. Yes, it will be our third and last day, but first back to the beginning. We made our way across the border to France and want to try one of the less well-known routes here, the Col de Malamont. And with sunny weather in our bags, we make our way to the small gravel road from which we only know so much that it should have more and more in it with increasing height. We just test what works and, except for a few donkeys, sheep and hikers, we are on our own today. After about half of the route, we notice that it is getting really thorny today, with narrow, steep turns and increasingly coarser gravel. It is only just under 8 km to the top of Fort de Malamont at a height of about 2,500 m and with the fully loaded motorcycles we increasingly have something to do. And while Alex, Andreas, Thomas and Claudius continue to work their way up, Stefan prefers to take the rest of the way on foot with small camera equipment and leave the 12 GS further down. Somewhere you will meet again, as we plan. We have now reached a point where there is a road junction, the expectation is that we have a little more space and we will now turn around. We still really want to go up there, but reason tells us that with the crates it is simply over here. Yes, that's how it is. Andi, Alex, Thomas and Claudius still wanted to go up to the gate. Now over two hours ago, for a distance of over four kilometers. Yes, four and a half kilometers maybe. The last radio contact was about an hour ago. So, I'll go towards it now and then let's see what's going on here. I think they are really in the ----, because it just started to rain heavily again and it doesn't look any better over there. All the way over, very carefully. So, still no radio signal from the guys. I just tried to call them, but no cell reception from them. It continues to rain. I sat down here for a short breather and then I'll go on right away. The good thing is, there is only one way up and only one way down. That means I should find them at some point. Yes, let's see. There are a few funny guys here. They drove off the tracks to support us, so to arrange and help each other. Team-building measures. If necessary, I will now hail a little. It will probably turn into rain and then the wet stones will lead us into the valley. I found them. They are up there. We make a small modification to the trunk. It got stuck here on the rock in the hard terrain and was torn off by the motorcycle rain. Nothing happened to the driver. He didn't fall down the slope. Now we just have to attach it again and straighten it a bit. Then it will go down again. You can do that so easily. Such an aluminum case can be fixed again and again. That's not a problem at all. I have a clamp so that everything is bent straight again. Then the thing is back on and maybe even tight again. An aluminum case is a great thing. Yes, something. It was a dream. It was wonderful weather and how it is in the mountains. You can see that when you look up there. Within a quarter of an hour, it turned so upside down that it started to hail. The hail stayed down. We were on our way to the upper front, but thank God we broke off before for reasons of reason, as Andi says so nicely. That was totally clever. Otherwise we would really have a problem now. The way down through the serpentines of the Geröllfeld does not get easier in the rain. And so it will take a while until we get out of the bad weather again. Further down we pick up speed again and make our way to the last stage, which will lead us over asphalt to the Alp Adventure Moto Festival. We are glad that we took the last detour today and have now all arrived together at the destination in Barcelonet. Our conclusion? There is definitely still something to do in Piedmont. And the complete report with many impressive pictures and a few helpful tips for the best travel time can be read in the Travel Time edition 2.