Will she make it?

[PocketFighter]

Yeah, they're easy enough to work on for the most part - if you can strip and rebuild a bike you shouldn't have much difficulty I wouldn't have said. There's the odd gotcha and example of questionable French engineering, but that's par for the course really.

Plan sounds good, and if you're planning on going through Switzerland you can cut down quite a bit of the toll road mileage in France - indeed, you can avoid it altogether by going through Belgium which doesn't add much onto the journey distance/time wise.... although the roads are poorer and often more congested during the day.

I would say that you're going to be hard pushed to make it to Pescara in a single day though unless you're particularly hardcore or sharing the driving - that's got to be something like 18 hours solid driving! Much better staying somewhere near the Alps I'd say and making it into a two day journey, particularly if you're going across Switzerland. Frankly, it's almost rude not to spend a good few hours enjoying those Alpine roads if you've gone that far...

Yeah that's good if they are easy to work on, give me basic servicing and I'm fine, anything heavy duty and I'm a bit stumped when it comes to cars, same with Italian engineering, can always expect something niche.... Let's add a little pasta sauce to that and hope it works sort of thing or it's looks good but not practical lol

I'd love to take the long way round, go through Spain and just touching France.... Millau viaduct more to the point! But it's those alps, the views and the air... It's a must!

I've managed Croydon to Florence in a day on the bike, that was hard, cross winds and what have it, felt more like a chore towards Florence, my bum hole felt like it healed over in the end, the ride back was a lot more fun as had a bigger bike (ZZR1200) more speed and space, luxury is an understatement lol

i went out to the nurburgring last year with a group from here with my std GTI6 i did whole trip door to door used
183ltrs i did 1273.6 miles works out to 31.63Mpg

we took loads of spares didnt use any of it except for some cable ties to secure some loose arch trim

oh dont forget to take loose euro change as all the service toilets are 20-50 or 1 euro via turnstyles

That's not bad, good to know they are pretty solid then! Even after a battering round the ring.... Lol dirty mind!