RBEmerson
Kein Nasebohrer
The camera is an SJCam SJ7 Star. It's the same size as the GP's and accepts, aside from the case, much of the GP "session gear". I shot in 1080p mostly because it let me use a chip a day. 4K would have left me changing chips far too often. As it is one SD, two 50,000 mAh battery packs, and I can shoot non-stop for a day. I turned off the camera for lunch, but that's about it. I lost day #1, from Munich to Mittenwald, and Sustenpass - both because I missed that the battery cable had loosened up. A poor connections shuts the camera down. Grrrrrr...
Agreed the K1600GT was just flat the wrong bike for the hairpins. The lines, though, aren't the bike's fault. There was almost nobody else going in either direction. Literally, the number of cows I saw far exceeded the number of people I saw. So I grabbed the easy line. Why not? [/grin]
Nufenenpass was busier, Grimselpass (in either direction) and Sustenpass, too. But the roads were wide enough to take almost any line. Furkapass... going up, from Grimselpass, was more easy riding. Coming down, towards Andermatt, not so much.
My basic strategy is to delay the turn a bit (good look into what's coming) before rolling in, typically at steering or the grey area between steering and counter-steering speed. I try to put my weight on the outside of the turn, putting the bike on the side of the tread. If all goes well, the turn almost makes itself happen. Which isn't to say I didn't always get it right. Oh my no.
Unfortunately, as the week went on, I just didn't feel as crisp as I did at the start. A lot of it was dealing with a bike that was in a place it shouldn't have been. The biggest problem was not getting anything like the rev.s I wanted, even in first. Some people disagree, but at least the KGT I was on had no guts below 2000-2500. It was a '17 with not a lot of miles/km on it (a couple thousand miles???). It should have been loosened up some. I pulled a couple of passes where it was basically "hang on tight" and I'd wind up in the 80-90 mph range, so the motor could run. In the hairpins, it just was not ready.
Agreed the K1600GT was just flat the wrong bike for the hairpins. The lines, though, aren't the bike's fault. There was almost nobody else going in either direction. Literally, the number of cows I saw far exceeded the number of people I saw. So I grabbed the easy line. Why not? [/grin]
Nufenenpass was busier, Grimselpass (in either direction) and Sustenpass, too. But the roads were wide enough to take almost any line. Furkapass... going up, from Grimselpass, was more easy riding. Coming down, towards Andermatt, not so much.
My basic strategy is to delay the turn a bit (good look into what's coming) before rolling in, typically at steering or the grey area between steering and counter-steering speed. I try to put my weight on the outside of the turn, putting the bike on the side of the tread. If all goes well, the turn almost makes itself happen. Which isn't to say I didn't always get it right. Oh my no.
Unfortunately, as the week went on, I just didn't feel as crisp as I did at the start. A lot of it was dealing with a bike that was in a place it shouldn't have been. The biggest problem was not getting anything like the rev.s I wanted, even in first. Some people disagree, but at least the KGT I was on had no guts below 2000-2500. It was a '17 with not a lot of miles/km on it (a couple thousand miles???). It should have been loosened up some. I pulled a couple of passes where it was basically "hang on tight" and I'd wind up in the 80-90 mph range, so the motor could run. In the hairpins, it just was not ready.