Czech Centre SOC "Invader Rally" 2022 - Plan B

Plan B is the less riding and more riding on a train route to the Rally.  As I have previously posted, the motorail seems very expensive when you look at the fares.

Then you add together the fuel costs of riding around 1200 miles, factor in the hotel costs for two or more overnight stops in each direction. It mounts up.

The problem with Plan B is when the train to Vienna actually runs. It's also when you can book it. I have emailed in the hope that someone will get back to me and I can start to think about it more seriously. Midweek to midweek would be best for me, but I have the awful feeling it will be weekend to weekend.

Watch this space.

Czech Centre SOC "Invader Rally" 2022 - Plan A

"Plan A" is the ride across Europe plan. I expect to be Billy No-Mates on this trip.

As I don't know where the rally will be held I have hedged on it being back in Chudčice. It wouldn't take much of a change to the route if it was in Vernirovice. But "Plan A" is the A3 route across Germany

So this far in advance I had booked a single room at the Youth Hostel in Hagen in Germany.  This looks pretty decent and is quite cheap. But in the end I cancelled it on booking.com and looked further south towards Frankfurt. 

I settled (for now at least!!!) on an area I know quite well and like in the Rheinland.  A hotel in Bingen, Hotel Krone, was booked on the usual free cancellation and no prepayment term. This will give me a longish day in the saddle on the first day.

The second night is planned for nearer the Czech border.  Germany is a big country. I have a hotel booked in Königstein in der Oberpfalz. It's not that expensive for a single room. That will also be a longish ride but mostly on autobahns!

That's the current Plan A.

Plan A

I'll probably need to take a can with me in case I need an emergency top up.

Czech Centre SOC "Invader Rally"

I have been looking at this as an event for the last few years but with Covid stopping any idea of going in 2020/2021 I am looking to 2022.

Currently Suzi is still "running in" the new engine components and needs to be treated a little gently.  The mpg I got from the first tank refill was a shock as I was expecting with careful  riding around 40mpg or even more.

So planning a ride across Europe on a 45 year old bike might be a step too far. Okay. I rode to Brno in 1992 but then the bike was 30 years younger!

Economics would really put the trip in the hands of a four stroke. Given that the two other vehicles I have access to, the Rocket III and the Nissan Juke only return a few mpg more maybe I need to re-assess the "No Suzi Triplo" trip!

Or plan a journey with shorter days in the saddle?  Or maybe the holy grail... The motorail!

Currently I have a planned trip on the Rocket III blog..... https://rocket3man.blogspot.com/2021/06/czech-2022.html

It's still a few days short of a year away and things might change.  

Just to prove "I Was There" in 1993 at the rally site at Pod Horkou in Chudčice here's a couple of pix mined from the Czech SOC website. Nice Back Street Heroes t-shirt.

Me on the right....

Suzi Triplo in her silver tank days. NB Tow Bar....