I am thinking of spending a week in Austria in 2013 retracing some of the routes used on the ill fated 1939 ISDT. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if there are any issues or regulations which are likely to cause me problems as I intend to use a pre-war Matchless. Can I just turn up and ride where I like? Cheers John

John, Austria is excellent for touring, as long as you stay of the motorways!

Best to contact Mark Upham from Britishonly, he lives there, and even had a cottage for rent, but this has been sold now I believe.

Here a little film that some friends made there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7O9OZa0TJM

Have no idea if his place is anywhere near the 1939 ISDT course?

Cheers,

Lex

email (option): welbike@welbike.net

Hi John

I seem to remember you had to buy a special sticker to use the motorways but it didn't cost that much.

There are a lot of very long tunnels so having good lights would be helpfull, my M20 headgasket went about 3km into the Arlberg tunnel which was rather inconvenient.

And I was advised that I should have altered my jets for the high altitude?

When are you planning to go?

Rob

email (option): robmiller11@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks Rob and Lex for this very helpful information. We are thinking of going from 30 June to 7 th July but not fixed yet.

Cheers,

John