
Hairpin heaven
Riding my motorcycle and planning motorcycle trips is my passion. This site contains the most recent trips I have made alone or with my motorcycle friends. Next to some nice photo's and video's, I have also shared all GPS routes. These routes can be used or altered as you like. Have fun with it!
Trips
Europe:
Wales
The Swiss Alps,
Norway,
Drôme & Provence (FR),
Germany,
Ireland,
The Alps & Dolomites,
Lake District (UK),
Scotland,
South England
Non-Europe:
New Zealand and
San Francisco
A 7 day journey through
A seven day motorcycle trip through Wales, starting from the ferry in Hull. Passing Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons national park.
Pure wilderness
An eight day trip from june 2022 with my friends, covering the south of Norway. Routes are mainly onroad, but also cover some offroad routes (TET).
Hairpin heaven
A 9 day solo motorcycle trip through the Swiss Alps, starting from the Netherlands. Next to 13 passes, I also rode parts of the Swiss and France TET.
Europe's best mountains
A six day trip with my friends in the Alps & Dolomites with Innsbruck as starting point. The journey to Innsbruck was done by night train from Dusseldorf, including the motorcycles.
A legendary quote by Jeroen C. when asked what we were doing in the UK
All starting in the netherlands, the weekendtrips below are short 2, 3 or 4 day trips for a weekend of fun!
Friesland (the Netherlands)
Belgium Ardennes
Luxembourg
Eifel (Germany)
The User Manual for the Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT is pretty thick, so I created a two-pager Quick Reference Card to tape under the hood of my top case.
You are welcome to download it. Availible in English and Dutch.
Year | Motorcycle | Model | Driven |
---|---|---|---|
2004 | Suzuki GSX 600F | 1995 | 2.500 km |
2012 | Honda NC 700X | 2012 | 24.500 km |
2015 | Suzuki V-Strom 1000 | 2015 | 74.400 km |
2019 | KTM 1050 Adventure R (rental) | 2018 | 6.700 km |
2020 | Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT | 2020 | Counting |
Convert your gpx to a breadcrumb of POI's you can import into your TomTom (to be able to go offroad).
Use this tool if you want to create a nice travelplan from your GPS route, including absolute/relative time and milages, overnight stays, gas stations and other usefull information.