A Roadbike Tour

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our bike vacation: 27th of August through Sept. 4th 2011

Stelvio bike day: 3rd of September 2011

Participants:

Heide, gardener, age 47

Iris, age 66, retired

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Road bike Tour to Lana (Italy)

Review of the bike Tour

The Stelvio road is known as a pioneer effort of making mountain roads. The road has been built in only 5 years, from 1820 to 1825 by the Italian engineer Carlo Donegani. During the times of the Viennese congress the cities Spondinig and Bormio have been established in order to allow regular horse change for the usual post lines touching this route.

The road is in total 49,24 kilometers in length. 48 serpentines (needle curves) leading up to the highest elevation of 2.763 meters. The road connects three valleys: Vintschgau valley, Müstair valley and the Veltin valley.

The Stelvio road is known as the ‘crown’-section from the Giro d`Italia.

Presently the road is partly under construction as it is planned to establish a European panorama road.

Lana has been our domicile.

Our travel to Lana: by train and bicycle.

Leaving Vienna by night train, which arrives very early in the morning at Innsbruck: 4:17 hrs.

Still dark!

We ride in night time the old Brenner road.

Just beautiful.

We experienced a lot of traffic from people sparing the toll for the freeway…

But, we earned our award on the downhill of the newly erected bicycle path at the Brenner road down to Vipiteno (Sterzing).

Continued riding down the Eisack valley to Bolzano on the bicycle path.

Arriving at Lana with a lot of day kilometers: nearly 160.