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The Dolomites Trippinar ia a week long trip to grow your riding and travel skills in the Italian Alps (The Dolomites). Break into small groups of 3 to 4 riders according to desired speed. FREEDOM OF PACE. No being frustrated by following some slow tour guide or being pushed beyond your limits trying to keep up. Every rider gets a radio com unit and a GPS with an array a great local routes. Trip package includes access to Yamaha Champions Riding School Champ U online course to help you prepare. YCRS certified coaches join the trips to give you live feedback on the road. Your skills grow exponentially here as you take on challenges no parking lot drill can offer and no race track can replicate. You'll learn but more important...it's so f@cking fun!
You'll learning routing, navigation and secrets to picking a good hotel in Europe. You'll pick up cultural tricks, how to deal with the language barrier and how EU roads are different. The point of the Tripinar is to give you the skills to be able to ride Europe on your own. You are a motorcycle rider, international travel should not intimidate you.
Leod Escapes has partnered with our friends and Yamaha Champions Riding School and our friends at the Motorcycles and Misfits Podcast to give you a trip that is more than a vacation, at a price you can afford, in a time frame that's easier for working schedules. You learn how to travel by motorcycle. You grow your riding skills. You get to feel the road at a pace you enjoy. You will get faster and safer with experience. Leod doesn't cheat you by charging an exorbitant price if you want to bring a passenger. You get to ride, eat and experience Europe like a European on vacation not some ignorant tourist. So join us and "Ride the Dream".
Your arrival and departure city is Munich, a destination for festive Germans and anyone who enjoys a good Hefeweizen. An array of low mileage, well maintained BMW motorcycles are waiting for you across from our hotel in Northern Munich. Reserve the model best for you early. Arrive a few days before to enjoy Munich as there is a subway station right next your hotel. Munich is also a great place to shop for motorcycle gear.
The Italian Alps are a motorcycle theme park. It's a resort area that draws Germans from the North, Italians from the south and the Swiss from the west (Fun is not allowed in Switzerland). Your 4 star Chalet is family owned and perfectly located. You'll eat like a local in this resort area that wants you to come back year after year. Our special dinner spot on top of the Alps is particularly astounding. Fabulous included breakfast every day and the passes and valleys are teaming with little cafes to tempt you at lunch time. We give you a wide selection of amazing routes that comes from 15 years of riding these roads. They are all listed in your road book. Talk with your Squadron and make a plan... or assemble your own custom route.
These hotels are all about clean comfort in the right location.
Hotels in EU included GOOD breakfast well and you should take advantage of it.
Leod Escapes wil provide you with a Chatterbox X2 Slim Radio. Our preferred method of group rider communication.
This is an online course offered by Yamaha Champions Riding School. It normally costs $50 and it's worth every penny. You'll ride safer and faster in the EU because of it. Do it.
Spiral Tank Bag sized guide with routes and way points for some great day rides. Learn how to make your own.
Be sure to get some time with one of the coaches for real time feedback on your riding. It really helps.
Leod Escapes can pass on their tips and principles for getting good deals on flights.
You'll learn to eat like a local not like a tourist
Pull out the phone and translate the menu and order what you want. It's a low cost adventure.
Partner up with a fuel buddy and learn the ins and outs of automated gas machines in the EU
Learn how to use cabs and subways like a local to save money.
Munich Airport is organized and efficient with lots of local services. Take a 45min train ride to your hotel or partner with another fellow rider and take a cab. This is the capital of the wealthy region of Bavaria, home to BMW, great beer and a fiercely good football team (soccer). If you have the time we encourage you to arrive a day or two early to walk/eat/drink off that jet lag before you ride. Your hotel is near all things motorcycle with plenty of gear shops. There's grocery, pharmacy and some restaurants nearby our hotel but most importantly it's next to a subway station so getting around Munich will be easy and cheap. In the afternoon attend the riders briefing and get your helmet com unit installed. Tonight join your teacher Cat MacLeod for a Döner or walk down to the local Beer Garden.
Today class begins and it's pretty much hands on fun all day. Today it's watching EU traffic, learning how to use the GPS routes and getting a feel for your front brake for the days ahead. Your route will take you south through Bavarian farm country, to a surprise lunch stop that will showcase how EU is different, up a alps pass and down into the city of Bolzano before heading to our hotel deep in the Dolomites. Learn why this location was chosen, check in like a pro and navigate your way to dinner for another delicious lesson in local food and see first hand why a resort area is your friend.
It's time to learn to ride like a local, pass like a local and hunt for the best strudel. Today you hit the "Sella Round" for the first time a collection of the most scenic passes in the Italian Alps. Get your video cameras set right because this is the good stuff. Learn the standards of "top of the pass" services and how to ride Alps hairpins. Break up into small groups and ride your pace but meet everyone at the top. Watch for buses and cyclists as this is one of Europes most popular playgrounds.
There's an array of routes but If you're ready for a challenge it's time to ride Passo Manghen, the riders pass. It's narrow, it's twisty, it's insane and it's fun. Learn the rear brake trick to bringing in your line tight on hairpin exits. At lunch time learn how to fix a flat on the road. Your abilities are starting to pick up and you'll really start enjoying the roads. Remember your front brake rules on downhills. We finish up in Canazei with some interesting dinner options.
It's a bit touristy and it's a long ride but for some people riding Stelvio is a must when they go to the Alps. Get up early and take the main valley road across Italy and have breakfast on top of Stelvio. Then return via Gavia Pass and the Alps town of Bormio. Beware of wet tunnels and the occasional mountain goat. Getting a sausage at Bruno's at the top is a common tradition for local riders. Get some extra stickers to make your friends envious.
We'll head a bit further west on our way back and ride over the Austrian toll road of Timmelsjoch. By now you've learned how to get your alps stickers and sample the goulash. After a run through some Bavarian canyons we'll hit the autobahn on motorcycles and use our learned autobahn etiquette with our throttle hand. Tonight who'd like to finish the tour in the old city center of Munich at a proper beer garden, no not that one it's for tourists, a real one.
Hopefully you can arrange an afternoon flight as you'll probably want to sleep in. More important than all the fun you had is you've learned the lesson that riding in Europe isn't that hard and you can do it yourself.
