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This is not edited part of my ride down the Stelvio (footage is from bend #4 to bend #19, so 1/3 of whole Stelvio). I was driving within speed limits (that is why on straight stages you can realize I do not run full throttle all the time) however you can see it was not slow ride at all and it was on public road. That is why I respect if any moderator will close it because someone may have a feeling it is on the edge of forum rules.

Few bends from Stelvio...

note for SwissFerdi: I bet your ride down the hill with Paul was bit different smile.gif

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Awesome footage, martin.
loved the in-vid commentary!

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Very nice footage.

I also liked the in-vid commentary. Priceless.

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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 7, 2010 - 8:25 AM) *
>note for SwissFerdi: I bet your ride down the hill with Paul was bit different smile.gif


Quite a lot different! Not because he has an ST, but because of the stupid traffic. This was the vid where you drove ahead of us right? And also...where's the vid of us driving back up, and the ones right before Stelvio? I'm super anxious to see those.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Aug 7, 2010 - 10:01 AM

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wow. Im really jelous you have such nice roads and scenery there haha.

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I feel enormous envy towards you. All I have over here are s***** suburban roads and straight freeways.

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what a fantastic road. nice video. car sounds awesome too.

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Thank you Manny and Luke smile.gif. I appreciate that...

I have already heard in the US you have mainly straight roads. No down hill and uphill, no bends. I can not imagine that.

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QUOTE (SwissFerdi @ Aug 7, 2010 - 4:59 PM) *
>Quite a lot different! Not because he has an ST, but because of the stupid traffic. This was the vid where you drove ahead of us right? And also...where's the vid of us driving back up, and the ones right before Stelvio? I'm super anxious to see those.


You are right. Since we have been there twice I have footage from:

Stelvio (more funny side or let's say Italian side) - on snow up smile.gif
Stelvio (Italian side) - sunny day down (vid you have above)
Stelvio (Italian side) - sunny day up (vid with Fredi, are you sure you wanna share with that on public? smile.gif)
Stelvio (Swiss side) - on snow down smile.gif
Stelvio (Swiss side) - sunny day up

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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 8, 2010 - 6:18 AM) *
>I have already heard in the US you have mainly straight roads. No down hill and uphill, no bends. I can not imagine that.


Not at all true. Just in some areas its not too great. The renowned "Tail of the Dragon" has 317 curves in an 11 mile span. It's quite twisty. Not a consistent drop in altitude though. In the western areas of the states, there are plenty of mountain roads that are fun to tackle. smile.gif Awesome footage though.
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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 8, 2010 - 2:18 AM) *
>I have already heard in the US you have mainly straight roads. No down hill and uphill, no bends. I can not imagine that.

Stelvio (Italian side) - sunny day up (vid with Fredi, are you sure you wanna share with that on public? smile.gif)


When I said that, I was talking about FL...not all of US. wink.gif

And I surely want to see the vid. But 6gc.net, be aware that most of the audio is me giggling like a little girl. You have been warned.

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QUOTE (SwissFerdi @ Aug 8, 2010 - 6:57 PM) *
>When I said that, I was talking about FL...not all of US. wink.gif

And I surely want to see the vid. But 6gc.net, be aware that most of the audio is me giggling like a little girl. You have been warned.

Oh Florida... now I understand why Homer Simpson said what he said about Florida wink.gif

btw.: here you have video clip I have made today. I have used just 25% of footage so I definitely make another (and definitely better wink.gif) later smile.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=228zHZUhEtY

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^ Damn man, true artistry. Great video. I can see part of my face at 2:10! laugh.gif A bigger video sounds great, you've got a pretty damn good eye for photography and videography. thumbsup.gif


This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Aug 9, 2010 - 11:59 AM

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0.27-0.32... OMG biggrin.gif That's great music to go with the view! Makes it feel very foreboding tongue.gif

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Great vids Malpaso!!

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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 8, 2010 - 8:18 AM) *
>Stelvio (Swiss side) - on snow down smile.gif
Stelvio (Swiss side) - sunny day up



Mate,
i'm curious as I didn't think there was a Swiss side of the Stelvio!

Strada Statale 38, so the road that goes to and from the Pass, is all in Italy! wink.gif

Or were you referring to Umbrail Pass?

http://maps.google.it/maps?q=passo+stelvio...219727&z=13

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QUOTE (Wolf_tm @ Aug 11, 2010 - 3:46 PM) *
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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 8, 2010 - 8:18 AM) *
>Stelvio (Swiss side) - on snow down smile.gif
Stelvio (Swiss side) - sunny day up



Mate,
i'm curious as I didn't think there was a Swiss side of the Stelvio!

Strada Statale 38, so the road that goes to and from the Pass, is all in Italy! wink.gif

Or were you referring to Umbrail Pass?

http://maps.google.it/maps?q=passo+stelvio...219727&z=13

Yes in the google maps is that my "Swiss side" as Umbrail Pass.

This picture is from crossing that is 1km from Stelvio Pass



To the left you can ride that my "Swiss side" because I just have not found any sign with name of another pass there... (note: that road is very interesting because part of it on dirty road so you can feel like real rally driver smile.gif

This picture is view from that side (top is the Stelvio, houses bit lower is that crossing mentioned before)



...and this is part of the road it self:



Really recommended to ride it wink.gif

This post has been edited by malpaso: Aug 11, 2010 - 9:49 AM

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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 11, 2010 - 4:45 PM) *
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QUOTE (Wolf_tm @ Aug 11, 2010 - 3:46 PM) *
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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 8, 2010 - 8:18 AM) *
>Stelvio (Swiss side) - on snow down smile.gif
Stelvio (Swiss side) - sunny day up



Mate,
i'm curious as I didn't think there was a Swiss side of the Stelvio!

Strada Statale 38, so the road that goes to and from the Pass, is all in Italy! wink.gif

Or were you referring to Umbrail Pass?

http://maps.google.it/maps?q=passo+stelvio...219727&z=13

Yes in the google maps is that my "Swiss side" as Umbrail Pass.

This picture is from crossing that is 1km from Stelvio Pass



To the left you can ride that my "Swiss side" because I just have not found any sign with name of another pass there... (note: that road is very interesting because part of it on dirty road so you can feel like real rally driver smile.gif

This picture is view from that side (top is the Stelvio, houses bit lower is that crossing mentioned before)



...and this is part of the road it self:



Really recommended to ride it wink.gif



Ah ok thanks Martin, now it's clear... worth driving there!

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haha! quality video Martin biggrin.gif you've got real skillz smile.gif

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Stelvio (Italian side) - sunny day up (vid with Fredi, are you sure you wanna share with that on public? smile.gif )

I really want to see that one biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (Rusty @ Aug 12, 2010 - 8:28 AM) *
>Stelvio (Italian side) - sunny day up (vid with Fredi, are you sure you wanna share with that on public? smile.gif )

I really want to see that one biggrin.gif

Fred already has it smile.gif so ask him for link to download wink.gif

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Looks hella fun, but i kept watching and it looked like he was like inches from hitting everyone from the camera angle ! That road looks so tiny.
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QUOTE (malpaso @ Aug 12, 2010 - 2:26 AM) *
>Fred already has it smile.gif


*Ferdi wink.gif

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QUOTE (Rusty @ Aug 12, 2010 - 1:28 AM) *
>I really want to see that one biggrin.gif


Here's the link. Click me.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Aug 12, 2010 - 11:50 AM

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Hi Ferdi! Congrats to your safe return from Genova to Switzerland biggrin.gif

Nice video! You were lucky, I got to the "slow cars" a few moments after you, but they were moving like one - minimum space was left between them. No way to overtake them kindasad.gif Only with the last SUV I was lucky, but the memory card in my camera was full at that moment frown.gif

thanks Swiss, but have you got it on photobucket or youtube??

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QUOTE (Urputus @ Aug 13, 2010 - 5:55 PM) *
>Hi Ferdi! Congrats to your safe return from Genova to Switzerland biggrin.gif

Nice video! You were lucky, I got to the "slow cars" a few moments after you, but they were moving like one - minimum space was left between them. No way to overtake them kindasad.gif Only with the last SUV I was lucky, but the memory card in my camera was full at that moment frown.gif


Oh chit, it's Pavel! Thanks man. Took a while for me to get a ticket, but other than that, I did get back safely.

Of course I was lucky, I was in a GT-FOUR. biggrin.gif But I did notice that Martin was always much faster than us when I was in the car with you, probably because he can overtake those kinds of people. Our fault for buying slow ST models, right? wink.gif I assume you and Martin got back to CZ without any problems?

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QUOTE (Rusty @ Aug 13, 2010 - 8:27 PM) *
>thanks Swiss, but have you got it on photobucket or youtube??


Not yet. If you can't download it, I'll put it up on youtube or photobucket later today.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Aug 14, 2010 - 3:50 AM

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QUOTE (SwissFerdi @ Aug 14, 2010 - 4:49 AM) *
>I did notice that Martin was always much faster than us when I was in the car with you, probably because he can overtake those kinds of people. Our fault for buying slow ST models, right? wink.gif


A perfect time to start some engine project smile.gif

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QUOTE (SwissFerdi @ Aug 14, 2010 - 4:49 AM) *
>I assume you and Martin got back to CZ without any problems?


Well, in Italy we met Wolf, which was great as always. We spent the last night of our trip in the same hotel, where the PECM 2007 started - in Pilastro.
For the transit to Czech rep. we had pretty good weather and as we were talking a lot, we were not thinking about time much. And we spared some time on German highways biggrin.gif
As soon as we crossed the German/Czech border a heavy rain started and was pursuing us almost to Prague kindasad.gif
UAAAAA biggrin.gif. Who is that in front of you in that vid? I have feeling that is the same color as my celi has smile.gif

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QUOTE (Urputus @ Aug 24, 2010 - 4:24 PM) *
>A perfect time to start some engine project smile.gif


Actually no, I'm going to stop spending money on the Celica...I'm looking for an MX-5 project. biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (Urputus @ Aug 24, 2010 - 4:24 PM) *
>Well, in Italy we met Wolf, which was great as always. We spent the last night of our trip in the same hotel, where the PECM 2007 started - in Pilastro.
For the transit to Czech rep. we had pretty good weather and as we were talking a lot, we were not thinking about time much. And we spared some time on German highways biggrin.gif
As soon as we crossed the German/Czech border a heavy rain started and was pursuing us almost to Prague kindasad.gif


I bet that Martin was faster than you on those highways as well eh? wink.gif

Good to hear you guys made it back safely. I'm back in America now as well. frown.gif

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Sep 9, 2010 - 8:51 AM

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