Beaufort
02.07.2005 - 06.07.2005
Destination
Biker, who participated in last years SunTour know about our survey. Goal of the survey was to find out whether we should go for new destinations or favorise already known areas in favour of a shorter journey.
According to the result of this survey, and paying attention to it, we selected a destination in the nothern part of the Maritime Alps in France. To be more precise, the village Beaufort in the region Savoy.
Beaufort
Beaufort, 2036 inhabitants, 2486 feet above see level, well known for it's cheese and as a skiing resort, serves Beaufort as a pretty central location for our tours. As usual we are offering two day trips and a Rally on the third day. These tours are going through narrow gorge, perfect windy roads, over the second highest pass in the Maritime Alps and to brilliant off-road paths ( which is only an option for those cowards as we are ). In other words, the highlights of the nothern Maritime Alps and a magnificent sight of the white mountain.
Schedule
We made up our mind to shift the date of the SunTour 2005 one month later as we are going over the second highest pass in the Alps. It happend to us several times encountering snow blocked passes in June which let us decide for this later date not jeopardising our trip.
The journey to Beaufort will be on Saturday 2nd of July 2005. The departure will be on Wednesday 6th of July 2005 as we are planning to have three trips. A extension of your stay in the hotel to the end of the week is possible. Also to shorten your trip to a minimum of three days if there is no other way around it.
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Offroad Special
This time we took care and selected some perfect offroad paths away from the beaten track as an alternative for the bored macadam cowboys. They can be driven on with any offroad bike no matter what type it is.
Photos
If you want a glimpes of what you will encounter on the tour, please have a look here.
You will find photos shot by Uli, Gisbert, Chris, Guenther, Martin, Werner and Andre here.
If you want get paper copies and need the original picture files! Here we go but please be aware of the file size 360Mb!!.
Movie
This is the first year were a movie has been shot about the SunTour (thanks to Alec) which is available for download in two sizes. Enjoy . small 23MB and large 166MB
Weather
Hotel
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This time we selected a small cosy hotel located in the centre of Beaufort. The hotel offers 24 rooms equipped with telephone, shower and or bath, WC and TV. A private parkinglot is behind the hotel and offers enough space. Unfortunately the number of rooms is limited to 24. Hence, please register as soon as possible (and pay!). |
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Journey to Beaufort
The trip to Beaufort is temporary selected and will be adapted the closer we get to the actual SunTour date.
From Sun's main Office in Zuerich:
- Via Motorway Zürich - Berne
- Motorway Berne direction Thun, Spiez
- direction Zweisimmen, Saanen, Chateau-d Oex
- continue direction Aigle, turn off right in La Lechette onto an old military street
- Motorway Aigle - Martigny - Col de Forclaz
- Charmonix, Megeve, Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe, Beaufort
Hints
- We prepare a road book for all three tours. So no maps are needed. In case you haven't got a tank rucksack you may take a plastic cover and fix it with adhesive tape onto your fuel tank.
- Yellow lines alongside the pavement means that parking is prohibited.
- Fines, especially because of speeding are usualy higher as they are in Germany.
- Drunk driving is particular expensive and may easily exceed your travel budget. So please take care. The legal alcohol level is 0.5 !.
- Speeding limits are as follows: City 50km/h, otherwise 90 km/h, expressway 110km/h, motorway 130 km/h. The listed speed limits will be declined by 10 and 20 on motorways in case it is raining or wet.
- European plugs will fit french power outlets. UK guys need an adapter!
Telephone numbers
Please note the following numbers in case of an emergency
- Hotel Doron +33 4 79 38 3318
- Cell Phone of Werner Kiefhaber: +49 175 29 26 140
- Cell Phone of Uli Klar: +41 79 400 6002
- French emergency police call: 17
- French ambulance: 15
Prices and Registration:
the prices are per person, half board:
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| Saturday - Wednesday (4 nights) | EUR 220,- | EUR 250,- |
| Saturday - Tuesday (3 nights) | EUR 175,- | EUR 200,- |
The registration will close on Saturday 30st of April 2005.
Please transfer the money not later than Friday 14th of May 2005. The details about the bank and account numbers will be mailed to you after a successful registration. We can't guaranty or even reserve a room for those being late transfering the money to our accounts.