Free Motorcycle Touring Routes – Nine Day Geneva

Tour Guide
November 25, 2020

On this page, you will find links to our free motorcycle touring routes for a nine-day ride across Italy, Croatia and Austria to name only three of the countries the route covers. The 2,000-mile loop starts and ends in Geneva, Switzerland, which presented the first problem – how do we get to Geneva?

The obvious way would be to cross the English Channel by ferry or use the Channel Tunnel and then ride the motorways. From Calais in France to the centre of Geneva is 480-miles. Allowing an additional 150-miles to get to Dover to catch the train or the ferry and we were looking at a 600-mile day, just to get to the interesting roads.

For me that is two days travel out and two days back. Yes, I could do it in a day each way, but I want to enjoy the journey, not just hang on the throttle watching the miles tick past, while I square off the rear tyre.

BikeShuttle

BikeShuttle was a specialist motorcycle transport service that offered a weekly bike transport service to Geneva and Toulouse, during the summer months.

The idea was epic. Rather than two days on the motorway, I would to the BikeShuttle assembly point near Luton, drop my bike and catch a plane to Geneva. Early the next morning, my motorcycle and all of my gear will be outside the hotel, and I can get to riding the interesting roads rather than motorways. Geneva, done in one day.

It would have been the same process in reverse for the return journey. I’d arrive back at the hotel in the late afternoon, drop my bike and fly to Luton the next day.

Sadly Covid mixed in part with some missed regulations in the Brexit agreement relating to the transportation of a motorcycle without the owner being present, put a dent in the business that it was unable to recover from.

The Routes

The routes, however, remain the same. They start and loop back to Geneva. Take you across the top of Italy and into Slovakia and Slovenia. Back through Austria and the epic Grossglockner. Through Garmish and back to Geneva.

When importing GPX files, your GPS or Phone navigation app will recalulate the route based on your navigation preferences. We add waypoints to hopefully minimise any differences, but it is always worth double-checking.

If you have a route that you would like to share, get in touch and with the Editor, and we will do our best to include it. Download, ride and enjoy. What could possibly go wrong? All the motorcycle touring routes are GPX 1.1 version files.

All of the motorcycle touring routes are provided “as is” without guarantee, liability or any assurances. The lawyers said we had to include that sentence. All we can tell you is that we had an excellent time planning and riding them.