2025 Grand Tour General Discussion

[Lapchik]

General discussion thread for the 2025 Grand tour. Post pics, wild speculation, and general harassments here.

Questions and answers for the GT are a different thread.

I have a spreadsheet with about 30 different themes on it, and have shared it with Steve. He was going to work on the GT after getting back from an extended holiday.

[DownUnder]

Wild speculation you say, OK, I'll bite.

Seeing that 01-Jan has already passed, I am now hoping for a 01-Feb start date to get some late Summer riding in before the cold Winter months of June/July/August.

However, that said, I suspect that it will more likely be 01-March start date so as to tie in with the start of the Northern Hemisphere Spring/Summer riding season.

As for the Rally theme, I hope it is not big "city / town" orientated. To my mind, obscure out of the way places with "hard to find" bonuses makes for enjoyable touring.

Asbestos underwear on, flame away . . .

[Lapchik]

Historically it's never been anything that requires large size cities.

If it's a naming convention thing, like get a town name with G, L, M, or C as the starting letter, there are town signs from the outskirts all the way to downtown. You can pick and choose your adventure and how far you choose to go into the city.

Other themes we have done were specific location based. Sure, there were a few of them in large cities, but most of them were in small towns or out in the country.

Scenic byways tour was zero towns. A lot of stopping on the shoulder of the road which I didn't much care for, but it was nice not having to go into town at all.