BIKE PACKING THE STELVIO PASS! | EURO VELO BIKE TRAVELS | CYCLING ADVENTURE | CYCLING
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2022
- Bike packing the Stelvio Pass, Italy as part of my euro tour! Fully laiden bike with camping kit… beautiful views and a wonderful feeling of achievement at the end.
See my ride / route here …
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That was incredible....
Oh thank you so much! I am quite proud of this!
Well done Lucy. That was seriously impressive. I could feel the lactic acid building up just watching this. Your channel is worthy of so many more subscribers. 😊👍👍
Ah thank you so much :)
Amazing what a great ride lovely video can't wait to see what you do next
Well done. That was brilliant True grit!
Thank you so much!
Fantastic well done, i did it while touring last summer and its every bit as incredible as its reputation suggests. My top tip is to descend to Bormio then theres a continuous cycle path all the way to Lake Como which is just a joy to ride, then you can climb Passo dello Spulga (if stelvio is the king of climbs, spulga is the queen) 30km long and 51 hairpins, not quite as steep but very unique and less known so way less traffic.
you're the breve woman I've ever met, huge respect, hope to meet you again,this is so inspiring,incredible!
Great video!
At 7.57 the round building is the "Tibethütte" where we stayed after riding up from Tirano on our recumbents in 1994. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Of course, the next morning we woke up to 15 cm (6") of snow and an absolutely miserable descent back down the way we'd come until we turned towards Santa Maria...
Oh wow! That sounds like a bit of an epic trip!
@@SturgecyclingAll in all it was a great trip. We met up in Bern, me coming by train from Sweden and Richard flying in from D.C. We quickly decided to aim for a "tour around Switzerland on the outside" since everything was so expensive on the inside. So we went southwest, crossed the southern end of the Jura mountains, then south past Annecy before heading east to Beaufort and the first serious pass - Cormet De Roselend. Then down to Bourg St Maurice and then an attempt at crossing into Italy via the Petit St Bernard pass. Except that this was late May 1994 and that pass was not yet open! But we heard that they were going to open it by the next day so we decided to gamble and climb up anyway. It wasn't yet open but the snow clearing machine was going back and forth so we pushed our bikes through the slush as the machine was turning around for another pass.
So we were in Italy and down in the Aosta valley the cops stopped us, thinking that we'd somehow ridden our bikes through the Mt Blanc motorway tunnel (bicycles absolutely not allowed) and they couldn't believe that we'd come across the pass - "that's closed!" The crossing of northern Italy started out nice but when we hit the roads north of Milano, it was the first lovely weekend of the summer and the all the Milanese in their cars were on their way towards the big lakes and the traffic got quite unpleasant, despite us often being able to go faster than the cars (or BECAUSE we could go faster!). So we headed towards the Alps. I had an idea to go up the Bernina pass from Tirano towards St Moritz but Rich wanted us to aim higher, so we rode up to Bormio (where we had lunch of two pizzas each!) and then continued up the Stelvio from the "off" side. We made it to the top just as the sun (and the temperature!) was dropping really low and Rich insisted that we go to the very highest of the hostels - the Tibethütte. And next morning, we were snowed in!
The ride down in snow, sleet and eventually just 0 degree rain was absolutely miserable. And a bit down after the Umbrail pass, we saw the Alpenrose gasthaus where we had lunch and thawed out before continuing. If we'd known about that place the night before we could have just dropped down to there in the evening and not seen any snow.
The rest of our "loop" had to be cut short because all the fun high passes were closed again! We got on buses and trains to Andermatt but both the Furka and Gotthard were closed so we dropped down the Teufelsbrücke and rode until Wassen where the traffic got too heavy so we jumped on a train and looped back via Luzern to Interlaken where we finally could do some riding in nice weather back to Bern.
A total of about three weeks. Late May and early June. That big snowstorm actually hit us in June! Don't trust the weather in the Alps.
@@TorstenLif ah this makes me want to get back out on some travels! I also found not to trust the weather in the alps! Great stories and memories :)
Brilliant that looks Fantastic. Loving these videos. So inspiring
Thank you!
Fantastic. Dunno why but you made me all emotional. Great effort. An inspiration.
Ah thank you Graham - are you a cyclist? If so maybe you understand and can appreciate how these big rides can feel… it’s an amazing feeling! Happy cycling!
@@Sturgecycling yes and it's helped me a lot. Lucky enough to live in Galloway SW Scotland (great MTB, Gravel and roads. You'd love it). Also had an Albanian cycle tour this year.
@@grahampollitt1548 oh wow the Albanian tour sounds amazing!
@@grahampollitt1548 and yes that’s an amazing area to live for cycling 🥰
Great effort Lucy, well done. After all that hard work I hope you were able to enjoy freewheeling down the other side, weeeeeeeeeeeee.
Thanks
Well done Lucy, great job and you done it on a real bike, not a feather weight aero foil designed simply for speed. Your achievement is order's of magnitude better than the racing bikes
Thank you!
Wow thats some effort! Huge Kudos for doing it 👏 🙌
Thanks Eric! Happy cycling and hope you have a lovely Christmas 🎄
Absolutely fantastic very well done you must be so proud 👍🚴🏽♀️ and I’m still looking out of the window at snow🥶
Ha! This was back towards the end of the summer :) thank you I was proud of that one 🥰
Well done! 😊
Thank you ❤
Total R E S P E C T! 🙌 Well done you! Love your fun videos - thanks for ‘taking us along’ with you 😁
Oh thank you so much!!! ♥️😃 happy cycling to you !! 🥰🥰🥰
Fantastic stuff Lucy. Love the video, and definitely on my bucket list 👍
Awesome riding Bravo 👏 what a achievement well done. What spectacular views from the top, how long dis that take you 😊
good job, that is a long tough climb
Thank you!