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Sunday morning was time for me to say goodbye to another incredible group of CouchSurfers.

Last breakfast

The famous one is leaving

Getting dressed

So I left. Since my Garmin Oregon 550 was a little confused, because I turned off motorways and so he kept on calculating I decided to ride for a while to the South. After some time of easy cruising I saw this sign.

France?

That's not Germany anymore! Now I just realised how close to France we were all the time, and now I know, that I entered mainland France at their most eastern point in Lauterbourg, Alsace. It was time to turn on the motorways on my Garmin, and soon I was riding east. In Ulm I decided to return to preferred direction, South, towards Tyrol, Austria. I was already tired of long highways and riding without a mirror didn't help either. In Austria I rode on side roads and I passed two roads with more than 1500 meters altitude, Gerlos pass and Felbertauernstrasse with Felbertauerntunnel.

 

Price was 4.40€ for me, because they didn't accept Maestro card and I was out of cash

Gerlos Alpenstrasse

Krimml Waterfalls

Tunnel near Krimml Waterfalls

Slovenia was closer and closer and after 860 kilometres and 12 hours and a half of riding I was finally home. My back wouldn't bend even for a soup in a prison floor anymore.

3 days, 1900 kilometres

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And here it is, finally. Video from our CouchSurfing Invasion to Germany 2011.

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Morning came soon and also the time for breakfast with our big family.

Bernd and our breakfast

Markus and Wilhelm joined us in the morning

It was time for our tour, that Rudi planed over the night.

Our diesel atendee, Sommer, 462cm3, 8kW

Preparing for the ride

Honda Valkyrie

First we filled our horses

Our first stop, the beginning of the wine road

Handsome in front

After some riding I tried to overtake Marc's Ducati. I was successful, but only till the first corner, where I slided into the grass. I had a big luck and my stupidity was not punished as it could be, only some dirty clothes, broken mirror and bent clutch lever. Lesson learned, never overtake a Ducati.

Yamaha without left mirror, with Raf's Ducati Monster and Rudi's BMW

We stopped to finish the wine from this 1.700.000 litre wine barrel in Bad Dürkheim

Sonya and her niece Vania

Me, Thilo and Raf

We continued with our riding also on prohibited roads

He wouldn't be sleeping if the engine was on

Back in the house

Susanna and Marc

 

Valentin, Vania and Thilo

 

Rudi and Iryna

5 beers, then bedtime

We ended the evening with the movie, Pulp Fiction

Cinema

Winners received the badge

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Today I had a very short day at work, because my evening destination was Germany, Frankenthal, RUUUDIII's place, also known as Casa Imperfectus. My plan was to attend 3rd Germany Invasion, which is a CouchSurfing event for motorbikers.

CouchSurfing is great

So I started at 10 o'clock and there was more than 700 kilometres of roads ahead of me. I rode over Ljubelj to Austria, where I decided not to use motorways. Near Salzburg it started to rain, but I waited too long to put my rain clothes on, so I was already wet a little. Nevertheless I put my yellow clothes on and after 15 minutes the rain stopped. It's nice to see Murphy in action, especially if you are a little bit in a hurry and you can almost smell  food from barbecue, which is still more than 400 kilometres away. So I removed the clothes and soon I was in Germany, on their highway towards Munich. My friend Murphy decided to have some traffic jams there, but I was still quite on schedule, since if you are with motorbike, you just ignore standing vehicles. And the same story was also near Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe and in the end I finally arrived to Rudi's place in Frankenthal and I immediately saw my welcome drink was ready. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

764 kilometers to get a beer?

Soon, I met some very nice people, saw some nice motorbikes, drank some beers, ate some food. It was a great evening. You all rock boys and girl.

Rudi, our host, the boss, the organizer, ... You're the man!

Our bathroom

Starting the fire for barbecue

Rudi, Milton and our steak

Never tasted a beer in his life, that's Graham

 

Fireworks

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Today, my Yamaha FZ6 S2 Fazer got new shoes after only 7000km. I guess if I am riding alone, the tyres are more under pressure.

Dunlop Roadsmart 120/70/17 and 180/55/17

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Order is for idiots, genius can handle chaos.

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Going back is always the hardest thing, but we managed it. On our way back we stopped at Gostilna Ankele, where we ate and then we all went home, where we arrived safe and sound.
Total costs per person were 160€ (65€ ticket, 35€ hostel, 60€ for the van, gas, vignettes and sandwiches) + what each of us drank and ate in those 3 days.

Thank you

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Race day in Masaryk Circuit. Driving with trams 2 and 1 and bus 400 to the circuit can quite long sometimes, but we were not late.

Tram ticket, that we never used

Weekend ticket

 

 

125cc race (start, fall, Cortese and Zarco, burnout)

Start of Moto2 race

Rossi fan

MotoGP start, Yamaha in front of 3 Hondas

The winner, Casey Stoner

Dovizioso, Simoncelli, Lorenzo and Spies

Another Rookie race

Races were over, so we decided to drink one more beer. Then we took a taxi to the bus station, where we were only 15 minutes before last bus to Brno.

The last last beer on the track

Back in the city

Čuri and his new friend

 

Pork ribs and a leg were fantastic

Final results of

CARDION AB GRAND PRIX CESKÉ REPUBLIKY

MotoGP Race Classification 2011

1	25	27	Casey STONER	AUS	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	164.8	43'16.796
2	20	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	164.4	+6.532
3	16	58	Marco SIMONCELLI	ITA	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	164.3	+7.792
4	13	1	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	164.2	+8.513
5	11	11	Ben SPIES	USA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	164.1	+10.186
6	10	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	164.0	+12.632
7	9	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Ducati Team	Ducati	163.3	+23.037
8	8	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	163.3	+24.189
9	7	7	Hiroshi AOYAMA	JPN	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	163.2	+25.202
10	6	8	Hector BARBERA	SPA	Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP	Ducati	162.5	+36.566
11	5	24	Toni ELIAS	SPA	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	162.5	+36.679
12	4	14	Randy DE PUNIET	FRA	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	162.5	+37.109
13	3	65	Loris CAPIROSSI	ITA	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	161.7	+48.911

Moto2 Race Classification 2011

1	25	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Speed Master	Suter	157.3	41'13.255
2	20	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol	Suter	157.3	+0.161
3	16	65	Stefan BRADL	GER	Viessmann Kiefer Racing	Kalex	157.3	+0.407
4	13	15	Alex DE ANGELIS	RSM	JIR Moto2	Motobi	157.2	+0.870
5	11	12	Thomas LUTHI	SWI	Interwetten Paddock Moto2	Suter	157.0	+4.225
6	10	40	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Pons HP 40	Pons Kalex	156.4	+13.636
7	9	34	Esteve RABAT	SPA	Blusens-STX	FTR	156.4	+13.647
8	8	77	Dominique AEGERTER	SWI	Technomag-CIP	Suter	156.4	+14.365
9	7	3	Simone CORSI	ITA	Ioda Racing Project	FTR	156.4	+14.617
10	6	54	Kenan SOFUOGLU	TUR	Technomag-CIP	Suter	155.9	+21.383

125cc Race Classification 2011

1	25	11	Sandro CORTESE	GER	Intact-Racing Team Germany	Aprilia	150.3	40'59.229
2	20	5	Johann ZARCO	FRA	Avant-AirAsia-Ajo	Derbi	150.3	+0.397
3	16	23	Alberto MONCAYO	SPA	Andalucia Banca Civica	Aprilia	149.6	+10.773
4	13	55	Hector FAUBEL	SPA	Bankia Aspar Team 125cc	Aprilia	149.6	+10.794
5	11	33	Sergio GADEA	SPA	Blusens by Paris Hilton Racing	Aprilia	149.6	+11.144
6	10	25	Maverick VIÑALES	SPA	Blusens by Paris Hilton Racing	Aprilia	149.6	+11.473
7	9	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	CZE	Ongetta-Centro Seta	Aprilia	148.8	+24.720
8	8	15	Simone GROTZKYJ	ITA	Phonica Racing	Aprilia	147.9	+39.982
9	7	63	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	MAL	Airasia-Sic-Ajo	Derbi	147.7	+42.887
10	6	53	Jasper IWEMA	NED	Ongetta-Abbink Metaal	Aprilia	147.7	+43.023