Featured Touring Tour To The Schwarzwald

Day 1/5:
Today we started at 0600 our tour to the Schwarzwald in Germany. The route led through all of Austria and parts of the South of Germany. In sum we did nearly 800 kilometres in a riding time of 7:57 hours. With all our fuel and refreshment stops we arrived at our accommodation at 1600. The weather was nearly dry the whole distance, but we had lots of stormy wind.
Our bikes performed very well and we weren't really exhausted and tired after our arrival.
After our check in we went to the centre of our small town and enjoyed some coffee and cakes in a bakery.
Tomorrow we will ride to the northern parts of the Schwarzwald.
In the following some first impressions.

A short stop for some refreshments on our trip


Our "hometown" for the next nights.


First view of the lake "Schluchsee"


A huge flower decoration in the town.


View into a small park.


Some local bakery and great coffee.


The church of the town.


Flower decoration at the train station of the town.


Another view of the lake.


Our today's summary.

 

Day 2/5:
In the early morning we had to dry our bikes from the whole night hard rain which had disturbed our sleep.
Afterwards we started after a nice breakfast and refreshing 11 degree Celsius our today's tour through the whole Schwarzwald. We used mostly the B500 and B31 which cross nearly the whole area. We also rode the "Schwarzwaldhochstraße" which leads up to 1.034 m altitude. One of our stops was at a exhibition/shop for cuckoo clocks. Cuckoo clocks of the Schwarzwald were the first on the market centuries ago and are well known world wide today. This was a real funny place. On one side of the building of the exhibition/shop you can start a hudge cuckoo clock with a 1 Euro coin. Music plays and a big cuckoo shows up and some big wooden figures were moving around. On the other side of the building you can see and visit the biggest cuckoo clock of the world. This "clock" (building) is really impressive.
From there we went on through the Schwarzwald and ended up in the city Baden-Baden for some refreshments in a bakery. Delicious cakes, sandwiches, Brezel and coffee were offered there. On our way back to our apartment we partly used a German highway with no speed limit. - Naturally we tested the high speed possibilities of my wife's "Speedy" and my Rocket. She reached 215 km/h with her bike and I reached 225 km/h. And this completely legal!!! I checked both speeds with our additional navigation system, because the speedometers told some "high speed stories" with at least +10 km/h on both bikes. After this speeding sessions we rode again on A- and B-roads through nice villages and towns of the Schwarzwald. In most of those the speed limit is set to 30 km/h and massively controlled with modern radar systems. Therefore don't speed there!
Today we did in summary 384 km in nice weather with very little wind.

Some interesting things we found out about German car drivers on our rides the last two days.
- They love to speed on the highway.
- They follow slow moving trucks and other vehicles on A- and B-roads without overtaking them for a long period of time and distances.
- When they than get overtaken by you regularly the may honk.
- In towns and villages the drivers are not used to "professional city motorbikers", which use every possible hole to get in front between two lines, etc. They also may honk when you pass them.

The prices for fuel vary between €1,66 to €1,74.

For tomorrow we plan to do an additional international tour.

In the following some impressions of today.

On our way in the morning.




Always the "wing man".


Some "neighbours" next to the road.


A big cuckoo clock which you can start yourself.


The world's biggest cuckoo clock.


The dimensions of the clock.


Typical cuckoo clocks of the Schwarzwald.




A cold coffee with vanilla-ice called "Eiskaffee".

 

@Bikerman:
Many thanks to you!
I will.do so!