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Love, love, LOVE this town square!
2 years agoIt’s certainly worth visiting once. Combine it with a ride through the Eisacktal and the Bikeline recommended route up on the Ritten. Those two rides are fantastic. There are some spots around the Seiser Alm that are actually friendly enough for a touring bike. The Radweg from Wolkentein to St Ulrich is paved well enough. There are the SS and LS roads up there as well, but I’m not sure about traffic. I didn’t ride those areas. The roads do tend to be pretty narrow and might be a little dicey with busses. Lots of hiking routes though. Easy bus transfer from Bozen to the Panorama Bahn. You were planning to ride through Italy to Rome. This is sort of on the way....
2 years agoBased on my previous experience with disc brakes and my experience on some prolonged quite steep descents today with disc brakes, I find disc brakes have much better stopping power than rim brakes. I don’t like how fussy discs are as far as avoiding excess noise, but I just am not impressed with my rim brakes. I’m more inclined to push discs to the limit than rim brakes. I tend to stay under 20mph descending so I would notice a drop in braking power and could stop before they dialed I think. With rim brakes I’m not so sure I’d get a warning pint before things blew. In my case I’m more worried about the tube popping than I am about the tire blowing off the rim. Again, I had a tube pop just sitting in the hot sun in my driveway. I’m risk averse as a general rule. I’d rather err way on the side of caution than have my vacation end on a very sour note that I could have prevented. We all have our own levels of acceptable risk.
2 years agoThe Seiser Alm is such an incredible place. We came here in the winter on a cross country skiing vacation some years ago, taking the Seilbahn up from Ortisei. Amazing in the winter, and overtouristed or not I’d love to see it again but in the summer.
2 years agoRim brakes and disc brakes.
Yes you can overheat rims under prolonged braking resulting in tyres blowing off the rims with potential dire consequences but rims, even your 20 inch ones provide a much better heat sink than a 140 to 180mm disc rotor which means that a disc can easily overheat and provide no braking whatsoever which is another problem.
IMNSOHO rim brakes are just as effective as discs in the dry.
In the wet you do have to allow for extra braking distance but for old timers who started off on steel rims this is an instinctive reaction.
Hey Ben - my tip is to put the code into the address book on your phone. Safer than writing it down in case your wallet is stollen.
2 years agoThere’s a first for everything. It was also the last one I saw between Brixen and Bozen.
2 years agoWow! You actually found a toilet.
2 years agoThank goodness yes. When you have the chance someday, make sure to do the ride from Klausen to Bozen. It’s spectacular and largely downhill.
2 years agoCongratulations, You made it!
2 years agoI think this might be the Rathaus
2 years agoOk. Actually this is a circus. I was clearly tired when I wrote this.
2 years agoTurns out this is a monastery
2 years agoWhat cuties! I look forward to having cats again when we aren’t on the road all the time. Fortunately, we got our cat fix when staying with our nephew and his wife.
2 years ago
Spectacular beauty!
2 years ago