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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2024
- After a much needed day off in Slovenia to recharge and fill up on cheese and pasta, I am heading home! But first I get to enjoy Slovenia, a beautiful country that so far has only provided good experiences. I know about the Vrsic pass from back in June when I rode to it with the Can Am F3S and so I was happy to use it to get to Austria. I didn’t zoom in on the map enough to find out that it’s closed today, but everything worked out…
Somehow I managed to skip from 32 to 40 in my hairpin count up, but I also missed several, so hairpin count on the pass is probably around 45 which could round up to 50, although on google it looks more like 40. Numbers are hard. If I include the other hairpins of the day it’s definitely 50. This will bother me forever.
Im a biker for more than 25 years now. I rode all over the europe and north afrika but I always like to ride on weekend in Slovenia and discover new hidden places in our beautifull country.
And Soca river is this beautifull colour all thru the year only after stormy weather it changes colour
Safe ride out there "sister" 🏍️
Hello from Slovenian biker
Slovenia❤
Great job on vršič👍
good evening Liz, that was great riding, 💐🏴😎👍
Amazing scenery and I’ve finally seen the Vrsic albeit through your eyes, thanks for sharing
@@norriemasson4080 yes its nice but you have still so much nice passes to do the one to italy its nice to and soo on ...if you will visit in 2025 ...we can meet and ride 😀
I’m lucky enough to live in Karnten , Austria , not far from Italy and Slovenia , it really is biking heaven , safe travels
I’m very jealous! It’s such a beautiful part of the world everywhere you look, even the motorways have views 😅
@ next time you’re in this neck of the woods , give us a shout , we’ve always got the kettle on ! 😃
❤❤❤❤❤ Riding... Cross county.. Good luck and careful Riding.... God Bless You my friend....❤ From North Borneo
Loved this section of your journey and have added the area to my list!
Gorgeous rider ❤ 🏞️🏍️ - watching from Tokyo
Have fun it is a beautiful country and fantastic roads
High concentrations of calcium carbonate ( and other minerals ) in the water, gives it it's blue-green tint. :)
That river looked the colour of the Lithium Carbonate pools. Passes take me ages as I need to stop at every view. So, to get past closed passes all I need to take with me is a blond wig and some lippy? Cool. Every video is a winner 💜
That looked very hairy on those hairpins with cobbles. Well done you for completing the pass.
Hey Liz love your videos I am the delivery driver that dropped the benelli press bike off to you the other week.
Best vid of the trip ... twisties, bee rescue, fishy villages (you need to try Cullen Skink), blue water and the 'Pretty Girl Pass' ... 👍🏻👍🏻
Cullen skink is my favourite 😍
@@R1_Liz 😋
What a beautiful area! Cobbles looked a bit unnerving though. You lucked out getting through!
Very lucky, very very lucky
Cobbles are made of granite stone, better gripp than tarmac even in wet. The whole northern side was mad of them by an Russian war prisoners.
You made that look a doddle👍. Used to love the schnitzel (veal or pork) at the local gasthaus when I was living in Stuttgart for a while a very long time ago. Hope you got to try some 😋
Vršič cycling paradise
‘Oh no, they didn’t get through. 😢 I’m special 😈’ killed me
this video is a pandora’s box full of treasure
‘You’d think lorries would do good offroad. Like what’s gonna happen? Ooh little rock? No.’ 💀
Hi liz. I was told a few years ago by a local that there is some movement in the mountain on that side. They use the cobblestones as they can re-lay them as opposed to tarmac which would break up.
Noticed a few videos back you got the ratchet strap the right way on a ferry. I hope it was my tip 👍
That S1000RR looks so beautiful ! :)
Back home we called those bugs Stinky Martin. 😂
Great pass to ride you really need to go to the Lake District and do the Hardknott Pass it is very short after doing that one but the corners are tight and steep. Thats not a big bug I woke up with one above me in my tent I'll have to find you a picture.
Love that you helped the bee, I would do the same. 😊
Great video, great ride!
No gloves though ?!🤔
I know that exact road, can even see the bush i had wee behind. when im older im gonna get a one way ticket. Like how you almost started an international intendent with road workers.
Definitely a pass to do, i'm adding it to my list right now.
Scotland smells of smoked haddock because they burn turf or peat as we know it. A sort of sweet farmyard smell which you get in Ireland too!
Hello
Soča is always like this ...but you should come back in summer its fantastic.
Be safe
I felt like I had the perfect experience the days I was there, it was gorgeous
Yes we always ride in summer or spring is very warm and the tarmack is warm to...we have great great tarmack and nice ways ,turns etc welcome❤
@@R1_Liz this is Triglav National Park which is gorgeous. A lot of films were filmed there among others also Chroniclea of narnia.
Most likely glacial water in the river, Liz ...
Nice video. No need to count the hairpin bends. They are all marked and numbered, with blue signs at each bend.
My country is beautiful and thank You for showing that. River Soča is ice cold even in summer. Have a good trip!
Think the 4 cylinders helped, if it was less would've probably overheated!
Cool
What did I just watch "she's hot, she's tight, she's wet, she's got ruts" what? 😂 Great road aside from where it wasn't. My ugly bearded mug would have been turned back in that pass for sure, and honestly I might have turned back voluntarily, my bike does not do well on gravel. Bikes do indeed have issues with heights but fuel injected ones can usually compensate better than bikes with carburettors, they may require manual changing of the mixture when the air gets thinner.
At the 7:06 there is a sign in red that translates Closed. They should write it in english too. Its 25 hairpins on each side. You missed a beautiful wooden Russian Chapel from WWI on descend. Cheers!
I noticed it a few times but didn’t get a proper look, I could see ‘vrsic’ was crossed out but sometimes you can push a bike through a closed bit of road and I wanted to at least do some of it so that’s why I kept going. I visited the chapel the first time I came here earlier in the year so I didn’t stop this time which was a shame 🥲
Hi Liz, you should do the Pico’s if you’ve not already…
awesome!
Hi can i ask, how is the shoei gt air 3 together with the Sena SRL 3? What’s your review of it
What did you think about Croatia? I've been to the so called Serbian Krajina area by motorcycle around 3 years ago and I found it depressing. Lots of houses with bullet holes, abandoned homesteads in the woods etc. One house had Tito's red book lying inside. Outside were abandoned fruit trees and vines. For me it was impossible to ignore the sad history with the wars there. It was a relief to get to Slovenia on the way home. So beautiful. Anyway, I admire your energy. Cheers:)
You were in Croatia, in Lika or Dalmatinska Zagora! Serbian Krajina is only by Serbian , so dont call it like that, and that you have seen and was depressing for you, its traumatic for US, and you can thank that "picture" of Lika to Serbs! Come in Summer time, and it will not be so depressing i promise ;)
I enjoyed Croatia and I’m sad I rushed through and didn’t spend more time there. If I’d hand found the ‘depressing’ area I probably would have enjoyed it - I like seeing old and abandoned looking things I find it fascinating. For me, I enjoyed the mountain route from the coast into Slovenia while it was getting dark, so I experienced sea views instead, it was great!
welcome
E da si bila u CRO i naletila na naše radnike, ne bi se oni tebi micali s kamionima, odletila bi s planine dole lagano! Imaš sreće da si u Sloveniji! LOL
I don't know for sure why the water is turqoise where you were, but in mountain passes glacial flour stays suspended in the water and reflects light, creating the turqoise hue on the water's surface.
It is because of calcium sediment on the riverbed.
Awesome
Soča river :D
No more challenges for the rest of the year? Which ends in a few weeks…..lol
I timed it perfectly 😀
@ yes you did, but then again there are still 3 weeks left to exceed all challenges for the year.
Which country are you from?
I'm not sure Haribo 'counts' as 'breakfast' if I'm honest ...🤣
As for those mountains... Actually it was just the other way around, Italy and Austria took some of them away from Slovenia, because history is a b*tch and the more powerful usually "take's the cake"....
And if I remember correctly, each hairpin used to be numbered.... I think those blue signs on each are for that.
That doesn’t seem fair considering Italy and Austria already have plenty of mountains ☹️ someone else mentioned blue number signs but I clearly was not reading or looking at any signs that day so I missed everything.
@@R1_Liz Well, that happens when you're surrounded by larger nations....
And I believe the correct count of (proper.full) hairpins is 50! 26 on the Trenta side and 24 on Kranjska Gora side
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hahaha use your queen privilages
hi where are you from
that is not color blue
Everyone knows you can't possibly go touring on an S1000RR...... 🤔 🤣
Well you can if you're young, fit and enjoy a bit of pain.
All the time had a feeling youre not comfy and settled with the bike...But then i saw no gloves on the pass... What happened to your self preservation instinct?
Gonna go find a video explaining bike choice...
Good luck finding reasonable explanation for any of this. Took my gloves off at the top of the pass when I went to speak to the road workers, didn’t put them back on on my way back down (max speed like 20mph) because I kept stopping, they went back on at the bottom
No gloves dude
I had an accident once while wearing no gloves. Just slid on the road at 20 km/h but oh boy, what that rough asphalt does to the skin.
Does it actually redeem you to say "don't be inspired, be better"? Quite the empty phrase, considering you said something to the effect that you shouldn't have, but you don't care, as you did it anyway. Clearly, you do not live in the mountains. Or you might have shown significantly more respect for the road works, many miles earlier, when you chose to ignore the sign. Which prerogative makes you decide to do so, I wonder?
Just across the border from where you were, a closure sign means a closure. The fact that you could pass, anyway, is due to the requirement that we execute road works such, that ambulance, fire engines and mountain rescue can pass at any time. You clogging up that road doesn't help, does it? Very inconsiderate, really.
Thank you for pissing me off, both as a mountain resident and a lorry driver working in those conditions.
So I saw the signs and chose to keep going on the off chance that I could get a bike through anyway (and also because I wanted to at least do some of the road) - sometimes you still can, sometimes you can’t - normally if a route is visibly blocked at roadworks I turn around, but I thought if walkers were going through I could at least push - the men said I could ride slowly. Didn’t consider it to be that deep, ultimately I’ve asked permission and they’ve made a decision to let me go.
Wow, you take life way too seriously. Liz simply asked and was given access...I'd have done the same as I'm sure most folk would.
@@R1_Liz Certainly, you did ask permission. But the German couple's request was rightfully denied. Which proves that the permission given to you was perfectly arbitrary. And not a correct decision to begin with.
Given the friendly nature of the people in Slovenia, and the wider Alpine region, it can be expected that they will grant you access, if asked. But that doesn't give anybody the right to ask. What surprises me is that it apparently never occurred to you, which are the implications of such attitude on roads of the alpine region. Signs are never posted without a reason. It is not for a motorist to doubt their validity, least of all a tourist without urgency.
@@chr11sf Do I take life too seriously? Really? On a daily basis, I have to contend with people who consider a lorry a nuisance, first and foremost. Do I also have to deal with co-workers giving the odd motorcyclist access where they shouldn't have? Don't think that happened only there and then.
You saw how the lorry had to move, the car had to reverse, only to let the motor bike pass. Each of these manoeuvres invoking additional risks, on multiple levels. What's the purpose?
My comment was about the inconsiderate attitude from the start. The sign said: "Vršič pass is closed". Why then try to push on? From Bovec, @R1_Liz had a perfect opportunity to take the road to Predel Pass, into Italy and cross the Austrian border at Arnoldstein (45km, and a lovely road, at that). Which would have been half the distance she did on Vršič pass. That fact alone invalidates the argument of having to make such a detour. In fact, it would have been shorter, quicker, and safer for everybody.
Nothing she did was simple, everything was unnecessary, as it was in defiance of clear instructions, with a potential for unacceptable consequences for other people.
@@momaassen2516it is easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission.