12-02-2015, 07:03 PM
Yeah, they're easy enough to work on for the most part - if you can strip and rebuild a bike you shouldn't have much difficulty I wouldn't have said. There's the odd gotcha and example of questionable French engineering, but that's par for the course really.
Plan sounds good, and if you're planning on going through Switzerland you can cut down quite a bit of the toll road mileage in France - indeed, you can avoid it altogether by going through Belgium which doesn't add much onto the journey distance/time wise.... although the roads are poorer and often more congested during the day.
I would say that you're going to be hard pushed to make it to Pescara in a single day though unless you're particularly hardcore or sharing the driving - that's got to be something like 18 hours solid driving! Much better staying somewhere near the Alps I'd say and making it into a two day journey, particularly if you're going across Switzerland. Frankly, it's almost rude not to spend a good few hours enjoying those Alpine roads if you've gone that far...
Plan sounds good, and if you're planning on going through Switzerland you can cut down quite a bit of the toll road mileage in France - indeed, you can avoid it altogether by going through Belgium which doesn't add much onto the journey distance/time wise.... although the roads are poorer and often more congested during the day.
I would say that you're going to be hard pushed to make it to Pescara in a single day though unless you're particularly hardcore or sharing the driving - that's got to be something like 18 hours solid driving! Much better staying somewhere near the Alps I'd say and making it into a two day journey, particularly if you're going across Switzerland. Frankly, it's almost rude not to spend a good few hours enjoying those Alpine roads if you've gone that far...
1990 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1991 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 16v // 1992 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1999 Peugeot 306 HDi Estate