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The Alps and why they are a great ride
On 3 Dic, 04:17, "Ken Roberts"
wrote: Those are very nice photos, but the majority of those scenes are _not_ visible from a road bicycle tour In this regard I cannot but recommend Mike Perry's photo gallery. Mike, a bike shop owner in Maryland, is an old time rider of the Alps; in fact he was the one who escorted me up the Grosse Scheidegg the first time I did it and he also suggested me to visit Sanetsch. His photos, for sale at his shop as I undestand, are beautiful in one special way. They are taken from the road where you would pass along and there is always a bicyclist in view, never in the foreground but somewhere in sight. A very discreet presence, as it always should be for a bicyclist or anyone else for this matter. Sergio Pisa |
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The Alps and why they are a great ride
On 3 Dic, 07:23, sergio wrote:
beautiful Again! As you see I have no authomatic spelling machine. Sergio Pisa |
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The Alps and why they are a great ride
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"Ken Roberts" wrote: (btw - I was a little surprised that several photos in this show recommended by Jobst actually _showed_ the ski lift. Which doesn't bother me, but _some_ participants on this newsgroup claim to find ski lifts abhorrent. Especially strange is showing the Männlichen ski lift near Grindelwald, since it _might_ be possible to pedal a bicycle to the top of the lift -- maybe I'll get to try that some time.) In fact easily possible--there is a paved road from Grindelwald to Männlichen. I rode up that way a couple of years ago. We then walked our bikes over to Kleine Scheidegg (along an unpaved track that would be easily ridable, but forbidden for cyclists because of the many people on foot), and finally rode down to Wengen and Interlaken. We had ridden from Meiringen over the Grosse Scheidegg to Grindelwald on the previous day, and all in all it was a very scenic two-day tour. Regards, Ned in Zurich |
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The Alps and why they are a great ride
sergio wrote
Mike Perry's photo gallery . . . They are taken from the road where you would pass along and there is always a bicyclist in view, never in the foreground but somewhere in sight. Well that's a rather high standard. He either shot lots and lots of photos over many years so he could select so carefully, or he had partners who were very agreeable to helping set up the shots. Unfortunately a quick web search shows no sign of Mike Perry's photos, or his bike shop. Anyway I gladly spend days in the Alps _not_ bicycling -- instead hiking or climbing -- and the places in the originally posted slideshow offer some ideas for pretty places to spend a non-riding day. Ken (just think, somewhere there is a similar series of photos of the roads of the Alps, only with a motorcycle somewhere in every shot) |
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Ned Mantei wrote
there is a paved road from Grindelwald to Männlichen. I rode up that way a couple of years ago. We then walked our bikes over to Kleine Scheidegg (along an unpaved track that would be easily ridable, but forbidden for cyclists because of the many people on foot), and finally rode down to Wengen and Interlaken. Great idea. In that photo slideshow I noticed they visited Lauterbrunnen, and I was thinking that I had never ridden to there -- but your way is so much better. (and long ago one of Sharon + my first successful adventures in Switzerland was to scramble to the top of the Tschuggen, then some non-obvious way to the Lauberhorn) Ken |
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The Alps and why they are a great ride
On 4 Dic, 01:32, "Ken Roberts"
wrote: sergio wrote Mike Perry's photo gallery . . . They are taken from the road where you would pass along and there is always a bicyclist in view, never in the foreground but somewhere in sight. Well that's a rather high standard. Yes, indeed. I have a selection of them that I treasure very much. As I said, Mike is a long time, and frequent, tourer of the Alps. I remember his claim, over rec.bicyles.something, that he had been the first U.S.citizen to have riden over 'all' the Swiss passes. And I recall some dispute over it. Last time I heard from him, this past summer, he had just gone over the Grimsel and Furka, mainly to commemorate a fellow rider who had just passed away, after demanding that his ashes be spread over the Rhone Glatscher. His present @-mail address should be . Sergio Pisa |
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OT - Spelling
Sergio Servadio of Pisa wrote:
On 3 Dic, 07:23, sergio wrote: beautiful Again! As you see I have no authomatic spelling machine. Firefox has a spell checker for Google Groups users, and Thunderbird [1] has a spell checker for people with traditional Usenet feeds. Both are free downloads. http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html [1] NOT this Thunderbird! http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html -- Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007 LOCAL CACTUS EATS CYCLIST - datakoll |
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