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I've always had a hate-love affair with Italy: the food is delicious, the people are great to watch (a very important aspect), there is plenty idyllic mountaineous landscape, there isn't another site on earth where you can finc as many historical buildings together as in Italy, but on the other hand, it's crowded in many places, it's a rather expensive country, and, when you are blonde, Italians can become intrusive in a very unpleasant way. However, all in all, it's a great motorcycle country, if possible on an Italian bike, of course.
In the end of may, beginning of june 2001, Ernst and me rode from the Ardeche,
through the French Alps, to Tuscany, where I had to
attend a working group meeting for my work, in San Miniato.
The Alps are fantastic during that time of the year (just open
or still closed, with plenty of snow), the Appennines are
a real motorcyclists area, and Tuscany has, I must say, very much that is very beautiful.
To 
Tuscany...
In may, 2000, we rode up and down towards Rimini, Italy, in order to have Bimota check the Mantra. The Mantra showed severe jittering when braking.
Ernst didn't take many photographs during the trip itself, so I did put photographs of the Bimota factory throuhgout the page.
A beautiful, small factory: I was very sorry when I heard that it would be closed. Fortunately, at the end, a buyer has been found, so the factory is
functioning again. Anyway, we were very lucky to have been there, that's for sure.
To Bimota...
