Probably better than my mates employee who got pulled in France took all his cash with no receipt, about £1200 in francs early 90’s. Copper just held out his hand until all the cash was his…..
Ouch. Mine was 700 euro I think from memory. It was that of get impounded. 700 euro for 150ish mph is not good track time maths
I have been four times now, last time in 2020 for about 3 hours. It was 3 hours too long. Cant relax, cant enjoy the roads, it just feels like they have sucked fun out of life. Really enjoyed my first visit, where we did speed, a lot. Ignorance is bliss though as I definitely could not have afforded how much the fines would have been. As has been said, Austria, Italy, less draconian. A real shame when you have Susten pass, Grimsel, Furka etc. BUT just not worth the hassle unless you you ride like driving Miss Daisy. Avoid it, go Germany, Austria, enter Italy via Timmelsjoch. Have a blast, head back the same way.
Plus remember if you do go into Switzerland, you have to pay for a sticker to allow you to use the motorways. Its CHF40 or £33GBP. If you're caught on the motorway without one, its CHF40 plus CHF200 fine or £165
i spent about 4 hours in St Mortiz nick in the early 2000s .. we used to stay in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a week and ride the local roads before heading down to the Superbike races at Monza, got pulled by an undercover police car, and they arrested all of us ( 9 if my memory is correct), took passports, and licences and drive us to the local police station... i think we pissed them off when we said we were looking for a McDonalds .. we only have restaurants in St Moritz.. never been back since as it cost me well over 700 euros for a nothing too dramatic on other EU roads.. everyone avoids like the plague going to CH on bike tours nowadays
My brother is adamant he doesn't want to change, I was looking at different parts of the Alps, France into Italy but nah he is set on it. So I better save up for some fines. If 1 kph can do it what chance do you have.
Take the back roads and dawdle around at 10mph below the marked speed. Remember they bust you on each infraction on a speed cam (like here) so you can rack up literally tens of thousands in fines in an hour.
The world record for a speeding fine was in Switzerland the gauntlet is down my man, bring it home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230.amp
The French Alps are > The Swiss Alps. The roads are better and the people are hugely nicer. I got a 750E fine and a 6mnth ban for 136mph in France, yet the Gendarme commented on how good our peleton was. You got to love the French. Its easy to bypass naziland, do it via Jura's. Great roads too.
Wow, that is some fine that. When me and my brother was in Switzerland in 2013 there was a Ferrari 360 Modena, me on my VFR and him on his ZZR. I won't incriminate myself about what happened. Safe to say, glad we never got caught.... This time though, I'll be less enthusiastic.
Tis why I like the Italians. They’re not overly bothered. my experience of the Italian police is that they’re more likely to pull you for speeding in a crap car than they are anything cool or Exotic. Regarding your brother. Make sure he leads on the trip … thank me later.
I would rather wear lycra and take a pineapple up my arse than sit under a speed limit where it isn't due to traffic or road conditions. Whats the point of going?! Swiss if firmly off my touring list reading all this: camper or walking trips only!
the commenting cop has no idea either - stoping distance from 300kmh is 880ft (I googled it), so just over half what he states... and there lays the issue with ,modern speed lints. Seems people still thunk cards had wooden brake pads and slide forever
Kinda happened to my old mates few back in his Ferrari, got stopped for D&D, roadside came out positive so off to the station with a WPC driving his car to the station for him. Station reading came out under.
I know what you mean -well not about the lycra nor pineapple per se- but its not as though the UK is not mobbed with similar problems. Obviously our fines are smaller! The general speed limit in Switzerland is 80 km/h (50 mph) out of towns & villages and 50 km/h (31 mph) in urban areas. On the motorways of Switzerland the limit is 120 km/h (75 mph). The limit on the similar autostrassen is 100 km/h (62 mph). So if you've never seen the spectacular views from Furka, St Bernard, Grimsel etc its still worth the trip as long as you can keep the throttle hand under strict control.
This, exactly. From Dijon to Divonne (N5) across the Jura, then around Geneva (staying carefully outside of Switzerland), get to Thonon les Bains on the southern shore of the lake (that’s in France), and right there begins « la route des grandes Alpes ». North to south across the Alps, right to the Italian border near Nice. It’s something like 13 passes. You need new tires when you start this trip! https://motorcycle-diaries.com/en/blog/la-route-des-grandes-alpes-gpx-file Édit: that’s 18 passes…
