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Lanzo - VIU - Lake Malciaussia - July 25, 2008

I know that many Viu, a town of Lanzo and which gives its name to one of the 3 valleys (Val di Viu), but perhaps few know what a wonderful place there is a few kilometers and a bit of trouble .

Once in Lanzo (from SP1 which is the road from Venaria and borders the Herd or by combining Caselle Lanzo SP2), take the road to the valley (there is a point that combines all three) and then you turn left on SP32. The road leading from VIU is very beautiful, it combines slow and fast stretches, where for much of the asphalt has just been rebuilt.

It 's a pleasure to drive on this road. especially in weeks when there is virtually none, whereas during the weekend, as happens on many other streets, is mistaken for a circuit where riders go to let off steam.

The road is dangerous if you do not know (There are some steps on narrow bridges and many blind spots), and is carefully monitored by the Police (attention to the piece in between the start of the Lanzo valleys, velox there is always at home). If you accept a piece of advice, enjoy the road and the landscape, without overdoing it too ... it tells one that was stopped for a trifle, but they wanted to tear up the license on the spot. Then it is solved with a "pull" of the ears, but they do not know how to face the barbarian hordes that invade the valleys and villages.

Viu Once in there is not much to see and do, take a coffee, you are chatting with other bikers, but much more there is not and then goes on to a place of great beauty but has some danger in driving.

Viu After you go almost straight on the main road (also SP32). We pass the junction to the Col del Lys and go on and on. Road less exciting but also more "quiet" for other points of view. Going forward there are towns and villages, to be honest I have never stopped and I do not seem to be very interesting. It is up to Usseglio, the country's largest Viu after we meet on the road. I always do a stop here, there's not much here either but I relax before "climb" to the destination.

Attention there was once a gas station after Usseglio, but for a while no longer exists, and the last is just before Viu, if you empty the tank that sounds, remember to fill it, because then you have to make about 50 / 60 km round trip.

Let Usseglio, at some point there is a sign indicating Malciaussia 6km, here begins the most delicate. There are pieces of almost alternating one-way street (there are two machines together), but instead when we are we bikers is not as if we had space and the cars sometimes do not even slow down a bit to get us through.

Shortly after the climb begins, very particular, full of tight hairpin bends, but especially with a significant slope to climb (a bit like the "staircase" to ascend the Mont Cenis, but that comparison is a highway in !!!). What is challenging, you can not see who is behind the curves and above the road is not a joke. Fortunately (or unfortunate, because now I enjoy it) lasts only 2 / 3 km with some pieces of straight. At the end of the climb, opens before us one of the best views of which I can see in the valleys of Lanzo from a road open to traffic, moves me every time I go back and do it several times a year when The road is open (passable only in summer).

The road ends at Lake Malciaussia, articiale a lake created by a dam. Not very extensive, but has the great advantage of not being a place so busy also view the road (more than a car does not come at the end) and is always pretty quiet. If you're lucky you get to see the Rocciamelone, and anyway the place is very nice to spend a quiet day in the sun maybe in the mountains. There is a bar / restaurant with some rooms even for mountain lovers thought starts some trails but since I am very pelandrone I never suspected ... ;)

After relaxing it's time to go home, the road is one of the progress, but time is winding down, and you see very well you climb, because of bends if I see 3 or 4 all together! Do not want to scare anyone, but a bit of squeezing is normal, especially if it is not very practical for mountain roads. Let's just say that it is not the most recommended place to learn ... ;)

As you can see from the photos I found a pretty gray day, but still worth the ride even though I would never find the rain.

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Hill Nivolet

are on vacation, I very nearly made me a ride ... but not too far away for now and later. Sissi, who do I go to Nivolet, the sun and there should not be surprised as other times that I tried (cold polar wind, road closed ...).

To be honest the way I'm not mad, indeed, but the places are beautiful. For those who do not has never been any info and map:

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I put Rivarolo as a starting point for those arriving Turin think it is a necessary step, from Pont onwards there are no more doubts, there is only one road and there is no danger of being lost ... ;)

As you can see the map for a long ride along the Gran Paradiso National Park, then to go in reaching Ceresole Reale. Ceresole deserves a quite ride, many times is the goal, especially in summer days. The main feature is the lake, artificial reality as is the reservoir of a dam (such as the Mont Cenis). Peaceful, formerly part of the park, there is never too much confusion (I've never found at least) and it is truly a blessing to spend half a day out of the city. Just after

Ceresole is the road that goes to the park and leads to Nivolet. Be careful, the road is closed for summer holidays, during which we are obliged to come up with a shuttle. Weekdays but the road is open (it is closed in the winter from October to May, but the weather can I give up, even in summer!)

The first stage is the dam Serrù at an altitude of about 2200 meters, this view of the road (actually well before the dam, but was stopped because had closed the road for 10 min):

Then you start to get really, and you meet another dam, and some natural lakes:

A very special step is highlighted by the arrow, on the one side of the street there is water ... but on the other there is nothing to prove!

The photos were taken from the highest point of the road (of nearly 2700 meters above sea level), but you can go ahead some more, where there is a refuge and another lake:

The peak is seen at the end is spectacular, as is was colored, I do not comment about him (I think the Gran Paradiso), here's a detail:

The road ends here, if you want you can continue on foot. Continue the way we might arrive in Val d'Aosta (in reality we are just on the border). Heard today that some foreigners were also convinced that we can get this far in Courmayeur, their maps were not detailed enough and probably do not realize that a missing piece of road.

If you want to do a lot of curves (forget the guards at the roadside) and see spectacular scenery, the Nivolet for you, if you come in the area is definitely a place to visit.

And then there are animals that are always happy to greet:

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Monginevro / Galibier / Mont Cenis - Sunday, June 22, 2008

Finally the day has come, are not available at work, the sun came out after more than a month of rain and the bike new paws in the garage to go for a ride (yeah, because it is the paws that bike, not me ...).

I lose part of the morning to figure out how to mount the tank bag, crazy, I have all the bags in the world but I have yet to mount the brackets, then this tank is plastic and magnets, bags not keep! In the end I can and I'm ready to go, destination Lake of Mont Cenis, one of my favorite roads.

Parto, the heat is already unbearable and they are only 11.30, who knows what will become in the afternoon, but as I go into the mountains (I think to me and me), I lie in the sun A little bit, I and two photos of the day is done ... relaxing and out of this world and the problems which seem to me recently targeted.

Arrival at Susa, a town which I attended for perhaps too long, instead of going directly to the Mont Cenis decide to do some running in the tires, it seems that the previous owner just did not want to use them if not on the highway, and decide for the curves of Gravesend, the place I know of that comes closest to keeping a track (and many unconscious on Saturday and Sunday shows that they know too). Convinced to take advantage of the tires to 100 percent (as is an enduro, which ever it takes to bend?) to start a ride, but to my surprise, the bike has tires that have more than me (a lot). I decide not to overdo it, and I head towards the Mont Cenis (SS 25), but to my surprise I find a sign ban on driving, without too many comments, only the ban on driving on my favorite state! The day starts wrong ... my plans are already in smoke.

are here now, the only alternative is to go Ulzio ... which I do very calmly and without overdoing it, my morale is not the best now, I do not see how the day will change fold ... have been around only makes Sahara is a warm and on a road I do not like and I never liked it, but as always I try to stay positive ...

Ulzio Stop in, coffee and pit-stop and decide to go on a piece, then, is my first outing after years in solitary, a little bit of me time I can also take . I decide to get to Montgenevre ...

Surprise at Montgenevre everything has changed, no longer passes through the village, I was stopping to turn around, instead of a tunnel entrance that leads beyond me up area .. . Not bad, not bad, there should be a road over the Montgenevre, I decided to get to Briancon and maybe go back to Bardonecchia, I know that there is a way but do not know where to get it ... find something ... I also spend

Briancon, I'm not going to stop in town, I stop at a roundabout where there are two guys with a Guzzi (350?) Browsing the map. I ask where is the road that leads to Bardonecchia and I say "It 's on, there is a sign for Valle Stretta, take that and go to be sure, we do too, do not go back to the Mont Cenis you can because it is closed "

What, I trust, have the map, they seem knowledgeable in the area, and go ahead! The road continues, if no signs I see, but the ride is pleasant, I do a leg to follow a GS1200 laden, and I remain impressed by the fact that for me is not easy to keep up with him. Okay, it's my first release, but I was a GS a quiet move more ... and instead ... I am surprised.

The road continues, and losing all hope to turn to Bardonecchia, go ahead ...

A road sign, or rather two, attract my attention: "Col de Lautaret", "Col du Galibier ... I think there are close to the steps you've always dreamed of and I can not do, will make cold will be far, not on my way ... and but no! The road was just one of the Galibier, climbing and climbing, following the first-Guzzi, the streets still surrounded by snow at the top, at 2625 m. above sea level, a paradise! ! !

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exceptional road fantastic and amazing bike, and now I am happy the day he took the "fold" right ... : D

Like other major peaks, this is very popular with cyclists

just a problem I do not know how to get back in Italy! One guy said to me, I must go on, follow Modane, and then taken to Lansleburg Mont Cenis, says that is not so much a problem because the bikes can go ... I trust him too, I hope to get better

I place myself in the saddle, get off the Galibier, do the Telegraph, I take direction Modane ... how nice run in France, the roads are well-maintained and clean, there are infrequent but the police are reported to be arriving in the face ... along the highway leading to the Frejus, the state seems a highway is so wide and smooth.

Arrived Lansleburg I am in front of a sign where it says that access is interrupted due in Italy broken road (forgive my loose translation from French). I decide to go anyway, and even convinced two Scottish guys to follow me, they stopped in front of the sign thinking of going back to the Frejus, but I reassured them by saying that it could pass.

I go to the Lake of Mont Cenis, on the contrary there is a surreal landscape of the Galibier, there are low clouds, fog and almost cold, but the most incredible thing is the road & # 233; totally deserted, there is no one! Well, almost empty, having regard to the tranquility of a groundhog decides to cross the road just as I'm passing, we scared them both (and especially thank San Brembo), but both happily continue our tour.

the former French border I'm back in front and blocked the road with other bikers, this time the Germans, who do not know what to do. A They were told that the road is impassable and come back, I decided to go and go and see.

After 3 km the road blocked again, and pass the obstacle I am facing the river of sheep that are going up to the Mont Cenis, I can only stop and wait.

went on, finally arriving in Bar Cenisio, site of the landslide ... and discover that you can not go! During the day, the riders have gone a little too far, and the police have decided to remedy by closing the small passage that had been created. And now? Some say to turn back, who they say take a dirt road with my bike so that I can, who says (with common sense) that you just wait, sooner or later they're putting in place Operario the way they will go and then there will be no more problems. And meanwhile there's the Scots who trusted me.

Wait, I speak with the workers and they tell me clearly that they are leaving and that after we pass, their problem is they can not work while the bikes pass him on the head as he's wrong?

After a while they go, move the log that blocked the road and get a group of bikers who find the work already done, lucky them. Somehow it goes, whoever has the enduro is certainly an advantage, but eventually all the bikes can get through, we can finally go back to Italy (especially not having to go back and take the Frejus or revise from Briancon.

I'm going home which are now 8 o'clock, time to watch the match of the Europeans who unfortunately lost on penalties, but it was definitely a beautiful day ... : D

Here is the map of the tour, with arrival and departure from Susa, for a total of 209 Km

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Considerations on the bike after the first baby walker? And 'comfortable but not calm, I think the wheel tire 21 on the road very twisty, will likely need to tweak my driving style and remember that when entering the turns with the front brake is challenging enough with this bike. Consumption reasonable, I did practically a full 300 miles, and not going for a walk, so I can not complain, as I absolutely can not complain of engine performance, exceptional.

negative points that I found, and that everyone is familiar with the excessive heat it generates, and delivery is not too soft bottom, which helps riders with little experience.