Only the hotel bookings and the preparation of the tour documents as well as offers for the individual day programme are taken over by Harry’s Bike Tours. Ride individually, meet other participants in the evening and enjoy an exclusive evening programme if you are interested.

For all participants, there are also daily offers of various stops for speciality tastings, guided tours of Alpine museums, World War II bunkers, guided tours of the city…

The “Alpen-Marathon” continues to be offered over different time periods and distances. As an alpine marathon, as a “half” alpine marathon, up to day tours.

Further information, details on dates such as programmes and direct booking are available on the website of Harry Pucher’s “Harry’s Bike Tours”.

Als Einstimmung haben wir auf unserer Motosite, To get you in the mood, we have compiled videos of Alpine passes on our Motosite, on the video platform “motomovie.de“, and are adding to them from week to week after our tours. In addition, you can also see the TV reports from SnapShortFilm, which also present entire regions under the title ” Alpen-Marathon – Motorcycle Travel Reports from the Alps). In addition, because it has been asked again and again: Yes, the tours can of course also be done with suitable cars or small campers. More information is also available on our landing page at motomovie.de.

So a motorbike tour was devised, leading through 6 Alpine countries over 50 passes in 7 days. A strenuous tour, that was clear, so the term ” Alpen-Marathon” was created – knowing full well that this title had already been used several times. But the term captures the essence of the tour. The passages that were put together could not have been more different. Gentle hills in the very east, partly densely forested, narrow, partly single-track roads, over the high Alps with gigantic distant views above the cloud borders, down to the Maritime Alps, where gorges dominate that feel deeper than the mountains high. New highlights every day.

In order to develop the best possible route for this tour, an overview map was needed – which was not available. So without further ado, they developed their own map. From about 300 detailed views, an “Alpen-Marathon” Alpine Passes map was created that shows all the important passes and now also spur roads, including altitude information. It’s hard to believe how many unknown passes can be found in the Alps besides the few common ones.

In 2019, the starting signal was given for the first official “Alpen-Marathon”. At that time, the start was in Villach | Austria, the first pass was the Wurzenpass. From there, the route continued via Slovenia to Italy, Switzerland and France to Germany. The last pass, the only German pass in the tour, was the Riedbergpass. In total about 2200 kilometres. In the meantime, a few modified tours have been ridden. The most recent, August 2022, led again – in the footsteps of the original “Alpen-Marathon” – from Villach via Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland to France. This time, however, it ended in Monte Carlo. So some rather unknown passes of the French Maritime Alps have been added to the Alpine Marathon.

As always, the tour was filmed by a team from SnapShortFilm. So there will be more video clips on passes, as well as a double episode of “Alpen-Marathon” on TV. To be seen from spring 2023, on the TV channel “Motorvison TV” and via the link “alpen-marathon.com”.