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Can anyone point me in the direction of a good website for information (general costs, recommended kit, tried and tested routes, recommended B&B's) for making the trip to the Nürburgring on a motorbike?

I'm involved in the organisation of an annual car based 'Ring Trip as it is, but making the same trip on my ZXR in exactly the same fashion as in a car, wouldn't work - my back would be agony after the 500 miles of motorway, fuel stops would need to be planned much more finely, and 500 miles of M-Way in one hit is going to do no great good to the tyres on a bike.

All those things mean that the trip would more or less have to be re-planned to make the trip on a motorbike, particularly a super sports.

I haven't yet had a good look about Ben Lovejoy's website to see if there's much regarding bikes on there, and I'm about to go and do that, but while I am, can anyone point me in the direction of other good sites of similar ilk?


On a related note, if I sort out a trip to the 'Ring, based around super sports motorcycles, sometime next year, would anyone from here be game?

Vard66 wrote:On a related note, if I sort out a trip to the 'Ring, based around super sports motorcycles, sometime next year, would anyone from here be game?

Hell yeah!

This is site i was browsing when i was trying to organise my trip a few years ago (no other bugger wanted to go so had to knock it on the head )
http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/
Dunno if its any good to ya?

Me and my mate were planning on going this year too but i got fired and he "forgot" to take his DACS test and doesn't have enough money to buy that and a bike. we worked out alot, ill get the info off him if i can, there's no special route, we were going to motorway it but i can give you a couple of cheap hotel/b&bs in the area

Realistically, I'd rather spend the whole first day riding and stop in Dockweiler rather than a B&B en-route. I'd just rather avoid motorways almost exclusively, to avoid squaring, boredom, and massive back ache from sitting in exactly the same position for nearly 5 hrs of riding.

SOILZX wrote:This is site i was browsing when i was trying to organise my trip a few years ago (no other bugger wanted to go so had to knock it on the head )
http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/
Dunno if its any good to ya?

Vard66 wrote:I haven't yet had a good look about Ben Lovejoy's website to see if there's much regarding bikes on there, and I'm about to go and do that

hire a van .. a big one.

no shagged tyres and spine on arrival, a way of getting everythng home if the worst happens.

LWB sprinter size thing would carry 4 bikes + kit easy, the cost would be negligible if shared.

Ive heard a load of good stuff about this dude and his BandB.
he aint slow around there himself either
http://www.slidersguesthouse.com/