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The Italian Scallion
The weather forecast for this past weekend was eccellent here in Italy and 3 of us left on a quick tour of Tuscany. 2 FJR riders and a friend with a Ducati ST3 that made a hell of a racket but somehow failed to fall apart...
The map shows our itinerary as a circular tour from the city of Bologna. And we truly did all of that, but we actually left from Milan (130 miles further to the north) and made our way back there just before a downpour that had been brewing all day put an end to a sunny 3-day spell.
We visited the world-renown Montalcino area, where the outrageously-priced Brunello wine is produced. We stuck to the more modest but still very acceptable Rosso di Montalcino (heck, at $25 a bottle it was almost cheap).
Roads here are wonderfully twisty with breathtaking views of the Tuscan hills, with their rows of cypress trees standing guard to old stone buildings. Unfortunately the road surface is generally mediocre to bad, with the pavement worn shiny or sagging badly. The succession of tarmac patches, dips and bumps can throw you off in one of the countless curves, but if you slow down some you’ll enjoy the views and get home in one piece.
Some stretches of the old Highway 2 ( the ancient Romans’ Via Cassia) are still well preserved and wonderfully devoid of traffic. A new bypass has made them obsolete and a bonus to the motorbike crowd. Here you’ll also find that not-so-rare breed of young dudes who know these roads like the back of their hands and race like bats out of hell on their tuned-up crotch rockets,h34r: passing you with millimeters to spare. This has earned them the nickname of “paint removers” and also a list of less complimentary definitions .
But a post without pics is worthless, so here we go.
Enjoy
Stef
The view from Montalcino
Twisties unlimited near Pienza
A glimpse of old Tuscany
Old stone and wrought iron
An old spa at Bagno Vignoni
Our rides against a typical Tuscan landscape
A clump of cypress trees near Montalcino
The map shows our itinerary as a circular tour from the city of Bologna. And we truly did all of that, but we actually left from Milan (130 miles further to the north) and made our way back there just before a downpour that had been brewing all day put an end to a sunny 3-day spell.
We visited the world-renown Montalcino area, where the outrageously-priced Brunello wine is produced. We stuck to the more modest but still very acceptable Rosso di Montalcino (heck, at $25 a bottle it was almost cheap).
Roads here are wonderfully twisty with breathtaking views of the Tuscan hills, with their rows of cypress trees standing guard to old stone buildings. Unfortunately the road surface is generally mediocre to bad, with the pavement worn shiny or sagging badly. The succession of tarmac patches, dips and bumps can throw you off in one of the countless curves, but if you slow down some you’ll enjoy the views and get home in one piece.
Some stretches of the old Highway 2 ( the ancient Romans’ Via Cassia) are still well preserved and wonderfully devoid of traffic. A new bypass has made them obsolete and a bonus to the motorbike crowd. Here you’ll also find that not-so-rare breed of young dudes who know these roads like the back of their hands and race like bats out of hell on their tuned-up crotch rockets,
h34r: passing you with millimeters to spare. This has earned them the nickname of “paint removers” and also a list of less complimentary definitions .But a post without pics is worthless, so here we go.
Enjoy
Stef
The view from Montalcino
Twisties unlimited near Pienza
A glimpse of old Tuscany
Old stone and wrought iron
An old spa at Bagno Vignoni
Our rides against a typical Tuscan landscape
A clump of cypress trees near Montalcino
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